Jim Vanator Tuna

Had Jim Vanator and the Alaska boys out today. Had his nephews Steve and Mike and newcomer Travis. Made the long slow ride out to the grounds. Got there and the massacre bite was over. On our first drift we were able to get a bite in first 5 minutes and pop Travis tuna cherry. Rest of the evening/night sucked going 1-7, ugh?!!!  Fortunately next morning we were able to land a few more tuna before heading home.

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Mario Florentini Mahi Bluefin

Had first timer Mario Fiorentini out today with sons and uncle Bernie. Started out on pots and the bigger ones had lockjaw, but the peanuts were ready to eat. Decided to chum hard with live peanuts and found the life I needed getting the schoolie bluefin in a frenzy releasing fish up to 50 inches.

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Tom Mallon Tuna Mahi

Had Tom Mallon and son out with guest appearance with Jay from Sushi by Sea. Started out am trolling for bigeyes, unfortunately our ticket wasn't punched. So we packed  the box with light tackle mahis. Changed gears and went on the hunt for yellowfin, found them but they wouldn't bite the jig after crew fishing hard for a few hours. Put in the purple tracker mini bullet and had an instant bite.

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Joe Mihalyi Canyon

Had first timer to offshore Joe Mihalyi and the boys for a mixed bag trip. Boy was it ever! Started the trip jigging yellows on the UVT jigs, then we ran to canyon to load up on mahi and tiles eating the UVT jigs. Came back to the scene of the crime for a great top water bite on the UVT poppers!

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Rich Walsh Tuna Mahi

Had Rich Walsh and the boys out today. Started out on a crazy bonito bite, things then slowed, got a bluefin on UVT jig to pop Garrets cherry. Went looking around and found Log loaded with mahi, nailed a bunch of them. Finally found some great life with Rays and chicks and the boys went to work with the UVT jigs. William got in the action popping his cherry!

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Mike Inzetta Tuna Tiles

Had regular Mike Inzetta and the boys back. Got to the tuna grounds and found the life but no action. Chased the porpoise for a while still no luv. Found a log and able to  pull some mahi off of it. Decided to hit canyon for some good tilefishing for both blues and goldens. Went back on the hunt and able to load up on bonito and pop Keith's tuna cherry.

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Nathan Birthday Stripers/Fluke

Had Nathan out for his birthday trip. Started with stripers but decided to call an audible mid morning given the conditions after catching one. Went fluking and had some solid action boxing some keepers with the biggest going 24". Beautiful weather and a nice crew! 

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Andy & Jeremy tuna

Had regulars Andy and Jeremy back today. Ran offshore and found the life, took a while to connect, but when we did it was solid fishing for hours. Chatter purple mini and purple squids got all the bites on the troll with mix of yellowfin and bluefin.

Later in day marked them deep while mahi fishing a log, and had a nice BFT to 44 inches on a UVT jig!

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Vince Concina Tuna

Fun intro to the offshore scene for my new Andreas Toy Captains Vince Fernandini and Tyler Davis putting our new offshore customer Vince Concina on his first tuna 72 inch bluefin. 

The guys then decided to go offshore and put yellowfin in the box, ended the day with some nice gaffer mahi!

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Shio Family Summer Stripers

Capt Greg and Lucas had Henry Shio with his son and grandson out for summertime stripers. Netting bunker was easy and the fishing was good as well. We got our limit fairly easily and had many other releases- steady pick throughout the day. First time striper live bait fishing and they picked it up with ease. A great day with three generations of the Shio family and friend Gabe. 

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Open Boat Summer Stripers

Capt Greg and Shane had a summer stripper open boat trip. Slow start only catching a couple and we landed on them and went to work releasing a lot and boxing our limit. The highlight was the last fish of the day- a 47" tank caught by Baqir. 

Call/text 201-421-8653 to get your fill of summertime stripers sailing out of Perth Amboy, NJ. 

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Larry Canyon Tuna

Had Larry and Scott back out with there sons for some offshore fishing, first time tunafishing for most of them. As soon as we got to the grounds had instant action, all the boys got to bend the rod on the smaller bluefins till the yellowfins showed up. Ended the morning with 3 yellows and 2 blues. Decided to give them the full offshore experience. Ran to canyon, tilefishing conditions horrible only getting small blueline, pots were barren from mahi, so made decision to head back to tuna grounds, got some yellows and bluefin to end the day on a high note.

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Family Bluefin Trip

Had the family out yesterday for a few hours of fishing, The boats name sake Andrea herself reeled in the first tuna. Everyone got a chance to reel in some tuna, great family day!

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Open Boat Canyon

Great day with the regulars today, started on the yellowfin grounds, had half a dozen  to start the day on the new Chatter Purple Mini Bullets, knew they would kill it! Had a few opportunities casting but couldn't connect. Did some mahi and tiles getting only 1 nice mahi. On the way home ran into a slick with tons of chicks and again the Purple Bullet crushed the yellows and under limit of Bluefin to fish of 42 inches.

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Canyon on 44FA

Had a morning session on my old 44FA with a bunch of friends. Ran out to the canyons not much happening, ran back inshore where we saw the life and had a pick up yellowfin and bluefin. Did see hundreds of tuna on surface but wouldn't eat anything. Back at dock early today after a fun day with the guys.

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Vinny T Stripers

Capt Greg and Shane had Vinny T and the boys out for stripers. Got on them right after getting our bunker but that fizzled and we bounced around for while with a lull in the action waiting for conditions to align. Got on a good bite to end the day and put in a little overtime to get the guys five keepers to take home. 

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Bluefin and Tilefish Canyon

Had the regulars out for a mixd bag canyon trip. Started out in some  nice feeds,  no luv. Made the run to the edge, got our tuna limit and released a bunch on Purple Chatter lures. Changed up gears and got our limit of blueline and goldens on UVT jigs. On way home got into great surface feeds with Bluefin crushing the UVT stick-baits and surface poppers.  

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Charlie Bush Stripers

Had Charlie Bush with 9 people out for stripers so did a joint trip with dock neighbor Morning Dew. Yvette led the charge with a 40" fish right off the bat and then we managed to a few keepers in the box. Great way to beat the heat was being on the water! 

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Kelly Leach Blues

Had Kelly Leach and son and his buddies out today. All Kelly wanted was the boys to have rod bending action all day. Started in ocean on blitzing blues, had dozens, then hit some wrecks for ling, just tons of throwback seabass. Tried fluking, not much happening so went back to more blues to finish a fun day!

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Dan Albanese Stripers

A couple days ago had Dan Albanese and crew out of stripers. Odd drifting conditions but put together a solid catch boxing a limit of stripers and plenty of releases up to Kevin's 36" fat healthy fish. The bass are starting to fill into their summertime habits and it's shaping up to be a great summer of striped bass fishing! 

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Sam Angelo Stripers

Had Sam Angelo back again for stripers. Bankers hours trip we left at 9am but had a slow start. Finally found some fish to work on and put the live bunker to use and fell one short of the crews 5 person limit. 

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Frank Moran Stripers

Had Frank Moran with the Crowleys out for stripers. Gave them the option to go sea bassing and they said they wanted to get on the stripers. Made our bunker easily and picked away at the stripers. Had a nice couple of drifts that made the day getting our limit and releasing a few more for another day. 

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Evan Refvik Sea Bass

Had Evan Refvik out today and the guys elected to target sea bass. We caught 40 keeper sea bass with some ling and even a mackerel in the mix. Good fishing on both the jigs and bait. Snagged some bunker on the way in to try and top the box off with a striper or two but our bites didn't come tight. Great day with beautiful weather! 

Sam Angelo Stripers

Had Sam Angelo for stripers- bait took a little while but once we got our bait it was game on. Never hot and heavy but easy limit with some doubles and plenty of releases. Beautiful weather was the cherry on top! 

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First canyon trip - First Tuna

Had our first canyon trip today. Conditions weren't ideal. Not able to cruise at optimal speeds to canyons, but made it happen. Got to the grounds and got our first tuna of 2025 on our favorite @chatterlures Purple Wingman. Dropped down to jig tiles and @uvtfishing jigs got the job done on golden tiles. 

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