N.J. fluke pro Dave Lilly was celebrating his 19th fluke tournament win well before noon today and with hours left in the Frank Thomas Memorial Tournament at Baker’s Marina in Highlands. He figured he was in pretty good shape with an 11.1-pound doormat to be matched with a 5.9-pounder to cover the various Calcutters. The four-man team on a 25-foot Release all limited and released other keepers while drifting offshore.. Dave’s son Jeremy was aboard along with Bryne Farmer, and Tony Olewynski ho hooked the doormat.

The Viking Fleet at Montauk reports on the Mon. June 10- 4 Day Offshore Jigaholic trip:

Capt. Steven Sr. reports an outstanding 4 Day Offshore Jigging trip. What we call our “Jigaholics” trip he called “Tileholics” with an impressive showing of beautiful large Golden Tile Fish. We saw the largest Tile fish coming up on the jigs on this trip, but we were lock and load from start to finish, with fishing half-days everyday. Dwayne Sherard took home the pool winning Tile fish with a 42.6 pounder. Nathenial Johnson took home the second prize Tile pool with a 37.5 lb fish and won the pool for the largest edible with a 14 lb. hake.

Capt. Ron Santee Jr. reported “Had a nice group of early Fathers day folks out with us on this beautiful day today.

Slugged away on every drop we fished with action on shorts & keeper Sea Bass along with several fluke.

Anthony had 4 Fluke and lost a beauty at the boat trying to lift it!! Another 3 pound Sea Bass took the pool beating out a 18 1/2 inch Fluke. Weather looks great for Fathers day, we will be bottom fishing.

The forecast is for northeast winds at 10-15 knots before dropping to southeast 5-10 in the afternoon.

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament is finishing up today. I’ll have a report after the scales close.

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