We spent three of our four trips this week combing some of the back bay spots for fluke. Early in the week action was a little slow with shorts dominating the catch both days, but by Thursday we had mostly keepers in the 19-21" range... nice back bay fish. The west side of the bay continues to produce, but it is taking several drifts to locate pockets where fish are holding. Double Creek and Oyster Creek Channels are still producing, but large mats of floating eelgrass can make for some difficult and frustrating drifts.

Yesterday we tried the ocean, and expectations were high when we easily filled the livewell from the pods of bunker running from the inlet all the way north to the Seasides. Hard as it was to believe with all that prime bait around, no bass or blues seemed to be on them. But with that much bait still around, it's only a matter of time until the big fish find them again.