Looking outside this morning, I noticed the winds are calm again. Between the thunderstorms, July offers a lot of flat water to probe. While that may make for an easy ride to the fishing grounds, those hazy, hot and humid days - when the surface of Long Island Sound looks like a sheet of glass - can make it difficult to drift with enough speed to interest fluke.
To cover more ground, and get your baits hopping fast enough to turn on the summer flatties, time trips to match mid-tide stages when the current pushes hardest. You can also look for areas where the current is pinched, forcing it to move faster. Harbor and inlet mouths are good examples of where the current runs strong. The waters in front of prominent points present additional possibilities.
More to come later. Check back.