The difference for Skinner is the weight of the bucktail and the stiffness of the rod.

Hopefully that water clears and warms up soon!

They in season?

@@arthurmcmahon3220open all year

@@arthurmcmahon3220always in season i believe

Long has to be eaten the same day, they freeze terrible because the flesh is not as firm as fluke

Bass bite north jersey surf slow also and fluke decent. I decided to take fluking more seriously, 7' rod hi lo rig with 6"gulp grub & 4"mullet & 2oz sinker. Or bucktail & mullet teaser. After 2 whole days only 1 short. Could you please elaborate on what you said about wind and current effect and please any tips greatly appreciated. Wind has been shifty but mostly se or sw with waves always moving nw. Thank you

Fluke much like bass like moving water, they sit on the bottom behind a piece of structure(drop offs in the sand, rocks, ledges) and out of the current and wait for the water to push baitfish over them and than pop out for an easy meal, while the current is moving at a good pace the fishing is the best, too fast and the bite slows, too slow and the bite slows and the right pace tends to b different for every spot lol. What I was saying in the original comment was that the wind blowing the opposite direction the current was running and the current slowed down too much to b productive anymore (wind against tide slows it down, wind with tide speeds it up) My advice would b to shrink the profile of the gulps ur using, biggest I tend to use from shore is 4” grubs, I’ll do a 3-4” mullet top hook and a 4” grub bottom, if I notice one is doing better than the other I’ll switch to that one for both, also if fishing ocean beach or back bays the 4” gulp shrimp can do great. I prefer plain jigheads to bucktails on bottom from shore just cuz if I snag it on something I feel slightly less bad about losing it lol, also try slightly lighter weight so it pushes in the water more naturally, I typically use 3/4-1oz jigheads, if the water is really pushing and I can’t find bottom I switch to a 1 oz sinker with a single dropper loop about 8-12” above with 1 hook and gulp, if u still can’t feel bottom than go heavier but I’d start light and slowly increase the weight

Great beach fluke!

Wow that's cold!

All of this wind gave me time to go to the barber shop!

@@JohnSkinnerFishing 😆

Lmaooo

I think the cold water depressed the fight of the biggest one.

I have one for my boat that I use sometimes, but not as much since getting a trolling motor.

We don't have sandeels here like in the Sound.

Real easy. In the smaller waters, like Long Island Sound and Shinnecock Bay, I often use just a plain hook. In the ocean and Peconic Bay I use the silicone skirt for the larger profile. It's just a matter of where I expect larger fluke on larger baits.

Not my engines so I really don't know.

60

60-90'

I like salmon red in the ocean, although it's never impressed me elsewhere. Besides that I want glow white and blue fuze.

I'm in South Jersey. I've tried salmon red and blue fuze and it wasn't as good as regular white. I wonder if there's a difference in the bait from the Atlantic City area to Skinner's area.

@@sd0753 i’m in south jersey as well, good to know you think white works better… i always have as well. thanks for the comment

@@andrewgaroh9538 every so often chartreuse works better than white. We usually have 3 people on the boat so one of us starts with one chartreuse gulp on

Nothing against offshore, except that it's something I don't have the means to do on my own. Plus I'm so busy with the other stuff.

Absolutely! I've had many positive reports on fishing California Halibut exactly as we fish for fluke - bucktail and teaser and Gulp.

@@JohnSkinnerFishing perfect thank you!

Dip in egg, roll in panko bread crumbs, fry in peanut oil.

The bigger ones definitely are more prone to shaking off when you swing them.

My thought as well. I assumed early on they didn’t have one when they used a drift sock.

When we first shut down the current was so strong (2.7-3mph) it didn't make sense to stay there. Then we had around 1.3mph, which was OK. That also went up to 1.8 and had us scoping. Had we stayed there we would have used the motor. Instead we moved back to the original spot because of the tide change. Perfect drift there the rest of the trip.

Synthetic hair is absolutely fine for fluke. I'm not sold on it for bass.

Thanks .. what size swing hook are you using on jigs .. 3-6 oz ?

5/0 and 6/0 depending on hook model.

keep a pair of good snippers in your car and cut tails off roadkill deer. Any good tackle shop that has fly fishing gear will sell deer tails as well.

plenty of fluke in the north east.

Eastern LI, NY.