Posted on 08/19/2007 10:39:03 PM PDT by Coleus
As noted in yesterday's Star-Ledger, a potential IGFA All-Tackle world record summer flounder was boated Friday south of Shrewsbury Rocks by Monica Oswald of Neptune. The 38 1/4-incher weighed 24.3 pounds at Scott's Bait and Tackle in Bradley Beach. Scott Christiansen said Oswald was fishing on her 24-foot Answer center console with William Norris when the catch of a lifetime was hooked on a 4-ounce Spro jig in Glo color, tipped with a strip of squid. She was using a Lamiglas boat rod and an Abu Garcia 7000 filled with 65-pound Power Pro braid. At first she assumed that a cownose ray had been hooked, but they managed to get the huge fluke in their landing net.
Oswald, a nurse, is a veteran angler who caught an 18-pound, 1-ounce weakfish last year, and just missed out on the state record for stargazer recently with one of over 8 1/2 pounds. She also leads The Fisherman Dream Boat Contest in winter flounder with a 4.6-pound entry.
The present IGFA summer flounder world record is a 22-pound, 7-ounce fluke boated by the late Capt. Charlie Nappi at Montauk on Sept. 15, 1975. I was fishing there that day and took photos of Nappi's catch that was made off Montauk Point on a live snapper. He brought that fluke in alive and kept it in the live bait tank at Montauk Marine Basin, but took it out because he worried that it would jump out. That was a shame because an aquarium would have undoubtedly bought it for display.
Another outstanding catch on Friday was the 77-pound wahoo caught by David Schoeller of Brick while trolling alone, out of Manasquan Inlet, in the Glory Hole from his Wasp.
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A friend of mine caught a flounder like that up in Alaska. They grilled the fish whole over a bonfire. When the flounder started to warm up, a mass of parasites burrowed up out of the top of it.
I prefer to eat younger fish.
I caught and brought in a 15 lb 4 oz flounder in Corpus Christi in 1990 It was good eatin’!
He must have lost his way....I've never heard of Wahoo off NJ.
Must be global warming..../s
I caught a summer cold this year.....it too was a whopper!
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