Saturday witnessed a big fluke caught inside Manhasset Bay aboard Captain Steven Laura Fallon’s charter boat, Swedish Princess (www.fishswedishprincess.com.) Fallon had set up to dunk bunker on the drop-off at Plum Point when Phillip Aurfielo sank the hook into the 29-1/2”, 10-pound doormat. The big summer flattie inhaled a bunker chunk and is one of the largest to come from inside the bay in recent memory. Fallon’s fares also accounted for a dozen stripers to 20 pounds during the outing.
Speaking of the bass, Fallon noted that big bluefish had driven the stripers and bunker out of the bay a few weeks ago, but both the baitfish and linesiders have returned. “The bass bite is solid right now,” he noted, “my fares have decked approximately 100 stripers over the past week.”