It's summertime here in RI, a poor time of the year to fish for striped bass from shore along the mainland oceanfront I was looking for the best bet in daytime fishing, so my brother and I decided to head out to the south shore and fish the bottom from his boat. We were after the Big 3 of summer....fluke, black sea bass and scup. We found a lot of black sea bass and fluke.We landed about a dozen black sea bass with several keepers in the mix. My brother was using a jig spiced with a squid strip while I was vertically jigging a Kastmaster XL. Both were working.
Fluke were tough to come by at first, and then we hit a real hotspot where we landed at least 50 of them in an hour. Of those fifty we had several keepers in the 20+ inch range. He got his fish on bucktail jigs spiced with squid strips, and I got my fish on bucktail jigs spiced with a plastic curly tail.
So, if you have a boat, the bottom fishing is very good right now along the oceanfront. As for stripers and bluefish, we found none today. We also saw no bait and no birds working.
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| The bottom fishing was good today for fluke and black sea bass. |
