Projo Fishing: HotBytes

"Colin Kennelly caught this 7.5-pound fluke yesterday," writes Ray Thimes. "He was aboard the Seven B'S V in the waters off Green Hill."

"Fluke fishing just gets better and better," says Al Conti of Snug Harbor Marina. "I have never seen so many big fluke." Fishing with his son, Matt, Conti has been catching huge fluke in 50 to 70 feet of water off South Kingstown.

Thom Pelletier, skipper of the charter boat Thomcat, agrees. "Fluke fishing remains phenomenal," he writes. "Yesterday's first fish of the day weighed in at 7.6 pounds. As I was bleeding that one, the rod went off again. I set the hook and knew right away it was a corker. When I finally go him up and was sliding the net under the fish it shook its head and put the hook into the net at the frame. Couldn't get him in and the next time he shook the hook came out...I can't say how big but it was easily the biggest fluke I've ever had a hook into...Continued a steady pick all morning, mostly south of the Nebraska Shoals."

Bass fishing has been holding up on the reefs off South Kingstown, particularly off the Five Cottages and Green Hill, says Conti.

Tautog fishing is also good. Shore fishermen have been catching blackfish at Deep Hole and in front of the Ocean Mist in Matunuck.

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Comments

joey jackson said:

biggist fluke he has ever seen. amazing how it got away. I am not to inclined to trust a guy who gets paid to take people out fishing

Link | July 18, 2008 7:24 AM
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