NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports

Had Captain Vinny C., Steve and his 2 brothers, and Rich (I will have another Miller Lite) out for a day of bottom fishing. Fluking has been pretty decent recently and that was the target species. On our first stop, Steve hooked and landed a decent keeper,  a few shorts made the deck as well. Rich did set the hook quite nicely on the sticky stuff but never was able to land it. Thats when the wind picked up and we had to make a move. The west wind made the beach very inviting, unfortunately the abundant shorts were not chewing, but the skates were!! Thats how the trip ended, a cooler full of skates, 1 keeper fluke and some dogfish.  Lots of laughs, great weather, a real bunch of good guys just looking for a day on the water. They did go home with some white meat (skate wings), but they don’t count in my book……….