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Author:
RobO
Date:
Jun 17, 2013
Subject:
Father's Day fluking on the Middlebank
Message:
I have only been out fishing for Fluke twice, and with the fluke bite picking up, I wanted to try it again. I also wanted to get my new Avet SXJ and Shimano Trevala S wet. So a buddy of mine and me convinced our wives that we wanted to go out fluking on Father’s Day. After seeing a few good comments about the Middlebank boat out of Bridgeport I decided to give them a try. So at 5:00am I picked up my pal in Manchester and we headed out to Bridgeport. It was a nice quite drive early on a Sunday morning with hardy any cars on the road. It took us a little more than an hour to get there. We parked and headed for the Middlebank. For those of you who have never been on this boat, let me tell you it is super clean. I was really impressed with the boat and their gear. They use fairly new ugly sticks rods and what looked like a Penn conventional reel. None of the gear was old or rusty like I have seen on some other party boats and even some charter boats. The crew uses a 3 way set up, without the three way swivel, and a 4 ounce bank sinker on maybe 40lb test mono with a new Gama like hook that was super sharp. The Mate (Mike with arms full of tattoos) was so down to earth, laid back, and friendly. He made sure we had everything we needed before the trip got started and he even hooked up my back up rod with all the gear needed, no charge. The mates worked well as a team and always made sure people had fresh bait and were right there as soon as you yelled fish on. Needless to say I am definitely going back and fishing on the Middlebank. The boat was packed and almost completely filled with people and it was nice to see a lot of father-sons and father-daughter teams. Hope my daughter will want to fish with me on Fathers day in the upcoming years. Well the trip started out and on the first drift I immediately hook up with a keeper. I was trying buck tailing for the first time and it paid off as I got the first keeper on the boat.. My buddy also hooked up but with a shortie immediately. The fishing was fantastic for me for the first 2 hours but then we were in slack tide and there just was no drift. The fishing basically shut down for the next 2 hours. As we got towards the end of the trip I was excited because I had the biggest fish and the pool was worth $180. The fishing had basically shut off and no one was catching anything but the occasional sea robin. Well wouldn’t you know it that with 15 minutes left in the trip a woman catches a door mat. It was a 5 lber. It was the big fish and of course it was bigger than mine. She and her friend were stoked. In a funny way I was glad to see either a woman or a child beat me for the biggest fish. [img:02ace02058]http://www.ctfishtalk.com/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=20799[/img:02ace02058] Oh yeah almost forgot. The guy next to me was having a hard day of fishing. He keep getting snagged since he would just let it sit there and never lift his rod and had to have his rig retied numerous times. I tried to show him what to do, but “no speak English”… Well right about when the slack tide came in he starts eating and the next think I know is he is eating a banana. He gets three quarters of the way through it and the young mate walks over and grabs the banana and throws it overboard, and tells the guy to spit out what he had in his mouth (the young mate was a tool, ALL the others were awesome). Well guess what…. When the guy started eating the banana, well that is when the fishing for me shut down and never returned. I ended the day with 3 keepers, 5 shorties, and 6 sea robins. Not a bad day on a party boat. I had a great time and like I said the Middlebank is awesome and hope to fish it again real soon. [/img]
Author:
Blackrockian
Date:
Jun 17, 2013
Message:
We were out there behind Penfield lighthouse and saw you guys pass through and head towards shore....figured they musta been jiggin.
Author:
catch&release
Date:
Jun 17, 2013
Message:
Nice, i'm going on The MiddleBank Weds. Hope to have good luck as well
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