Photo Gallery: Fluking Towards The Finish Line - The Fisherman

Photo Gallery: Fluking Towards The Finish Line

New Jersey’s summer flounder season is coming down to the wire!

On September 25, 2025, fluke season in New Jersey will come to a close.  By most accounts, the early season action in the bays and salty rivers was terrific in May and June, while the migration to nearshore ocean waters had fluke biting throughout the month of July into early August.  Surprisingly, the passing of Hurricane Erin in the middle of August seemed to push a lot of the flatties back inside the inlets, where anglers had another good shot until the Labor Day weekend when the wrecks and snags off the beaches turned on again.

Good luck to all in these final days of Jersey Shore fluking, until we meet again in May of 2026!

mike-bryan
Mike Bryan caught a 6-pound, 12-ounce fluke aboard Capt. Mike Smith’s Nev R Enuf out of Avalon captained by Mike Smith in early August jigging the ocean rubble piles alongside Macen Williams, Ryan Robison, Robert Meissner, and Kim Robison.
Dave Fazio
Dave Fazio got into the ocean wreck bite on June 21 outside of Manasquan Inlet, snaring this 10-pound doormat on a single, 1-1/2-ounce jig tipped with 6-inch Gulp Grub in 80 feet of water.
CJ Quaile
CJ Quaile this 19-inch keeper summer flounder on a floating jighead fishing out of North Wildwood in early August. He caught 12 shorts to this one keeper.
SKYLARKER
If you’re going to work the Monmouth County snags for big fluke, be ready to lose a few rigs. But the rewards are worth the sacrifice as Philly’s Bill Scott would tell you with this 7-1/2-pounder aboard Capt. Steve Spinelli’s Skylarker out of Belmar.
Samantha-Dupee
“My daughter Samantha Dupee went on her first fishing charter out of Ocean City, NJ on the Reel Fun boat and caught a 22-inch flounder out performing her dad who caught several flounder but none of them keepers,” said dad Craig Dupee.
Kevin-Ingram
Freshwater fanatic and designer of Shadillac Lures, Kevin Ingram, had a great on the fluke grounds in Cape May aboard the Miss Chris out at Wildwood Reef scoring a 19-1/2-inch keeper along with a sea bass and bunch of croakers.

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