Mixed bag with the Andy Tamas charters

Had Andy back with brother Chris and cuz Mike
And Mike T. Made bait and went on the hunt for stripers,
No luck with them so we picked away at sea bass and ling
With way too many shorts. Ended up the day sharking
And busted off a nice thresher! Ugh!

Stripers/Mixed Bag with John Ryan and crew

Had long time regular John out with buddies Jeff
Mat and Joe. Made bait and went down the beach
Looking for the larger striped variety, no luck.
Hit a few spots for seabass/ling landing some nice sized
Ones of both species for the table. Shifted gears and went
Back on the chunk and landed numerous blues for the smoker
Before getting some stripers for the guys.

Overs Bluefin with the McFadden family

Had Chris out for the first time with Dad Dave and sons. Nate and Jake.
With the weather conditions took a different heading to avoid a beating, got to the spot And found some good friends, with the early bird doing the most damage,Nice job D! Worked it over and finally got our over with young Nate doing a great job on the rod landing his first tuna with it being 51 inches. Winds picked up A bit and decided to look for some Mahi, water temp and clarity was OK, but Just triggers on the pots. Decided to hit a wreck to put the whole family into action, getting a bunch of baseball bat ling.

Bluefin Midshore Trip with Derrick and Family

Had Derrick out for the first time with his son Chris, Brother Adam, and 
Father in law Andy. Plan was to head offshore for Bluefin, but Mother Nature
Altered those plans. 30 miles out the wind came on early and gusted to 20,
Looked around and found some life and set up on it, tried sharking for an hour
No bites so we went on the troll, just small bluefish, didn't like the water so we took a run to the south and water looked great but no life. Hit a wreck and loaded up on pollack,ling, fluke and seabass waiting for the wind to settle. Subsided a bit and made a major run to the east, found a scallop boat and went to work, landed 3 quick Bluefin and headed to the barn.

Tasty bottom critters

Mixed Bag Offshore Trip with Oscar Carillo

Had Oscar back for his first offshore trip of the season, brought along his 
Employee Sebastian to enjoy his first offshore trip. Started out to 1/8 mile visibility of fog from inlet all the way to the canyon. Made a stop at an offshore location And trolled up a 30'inch bluefin. With no visibility figured we were better off bottom fishing till fog cleared, hit a wreck and got a dozen baseball bat ling, then hit the tile grounds and landed a dozen golden and huge blue lines. Made a run to next Tuna spot inshore and fog finally cleared, a few minutes later we spotted thousands of bluefin tuna on the surface. The boys went to work,
Landing 2 unders and an over in no time and could have kept catching and releasing but opted to head to the barn since the boxes were full!

Sebastian with first tiles popping his cherry

Mixed mid shore trip with Tony Shalaby

Took advantage of a small weather window today to get out. Tony wanted
Some Mahi then some bottom fish. Went looking for Mahis and did not
Find clean water until we were 40 miles out, finally found the Mahi but it
Was slim pickings. Hit wrecks for the remainder of the trip landing a dozen
Ling, pollack, and cod. Glad we got out cause it's going to blow for at least a week!

Inshore Trip for Bob James Birthday

Second Birthday trip of the week! Had Bob up from Alabama with long 
Time buddy Bud and family members Scott and Collin. Started bottom fishing 
And had some ling to start the day. Made our way to the hole and started sharking, had some bites and the Brown sharks started with Bob landing the first
Around 4 feet long, had some more bites and looked for Mahi on the pots, water still Dirty. Hit some more wrecks in the hole and Bob got a nice lobster. Good guys To spend the day with!

Redemption Trip

Had Bill Poletti and son with Tim Drag. These are 2
Customers that had slow trips on the Toy and I wanted to 
Show them a good time. Told them todays trip would be
Captains choice only going for what made sense. Cleared
The inlet and saw conditions were fine. Ran east until I
Saw clean water found it 30 miles off. Talking to other boats
With no tuna action decided to drift wrecks for bottom fish
And sharks. Had Pollack, Cod, ling and seabass, when the Sharks 
Showed up Bill JR landed the biggest fish of his life, a 6 foot shark!

Midshore Trip with Oscar Carillo

Had Oscar out for a half day tuna trip, left 

The dock and had Dennis point me in the

Zone, had fish on right away getting our 2

Unders asap, soon we got a nice gaffer mahi

Then had a nice lit up White Marlin in the spread

One of my newer crew tried to feed a pitch bait

Whiffed badly, albeit his first time trying a tough

Task. Tried everything to get the over

Way backs and planers but no luck. Went chunking

And jigging no luck, finished off on a wreck with

A pick of pollack and ling.

Open Boat Midshore Trip

Hosted out first open boat offshore trip of the year.

Had regulars Jim Surmick and son Bret and Oscar 

Carillo. Left at first light and ran east to where there

Have been rumors of bluefin, got there and found the

Mammals and bait, but no tuna. After trolling for a while 

Decided to try sharking in the clean blue 70 degree water,

Nothing came in the slick after 3 hours. Decided to shift gears

And bottom fish to save the trip landed Pollack to 15lbs, and 

Over 2 dozen jumbo ling.

Striper limit- bottomfish with Adam Conley Crew

Had Adam back again this week, with Pat,Mike and Larry

and had Another stellar trip. Really raised the bar 

Today. Started out trolling plugs to start the 

Day had over a dozen bites landing half a 

Dozen. Changed gears and made bait getting

All we needed and headed down the beach to find

Some aggressive bass to liveline. Found them

On the first drift hooking 8 and landing half of them,

Then going into release mode. Ended the day bottomfishing landing

2 Dozen ling. another stellar day with the crew!

Open Boat Tuna-Mahi-Bottom

Had regulars Dan the Jigaman, Ed Eamon and newcomers Paul with his son Jack. Made our way to the grounds and looked around a bit, heard it was pick. Ran over some nice marks and began jigging had a fish on right way, Dan did a great job and we had a nice 46 incher on the deck. Looked around again and found some more marks, and hooked up again, this time young Jack went to work and landed his first tuna of his life in short order, which we then tagged and released for the Tag-A-Bluefin foundation. After a while the crew decided to look for some mahi, where Paul landed one, then went bottomfishing, that was slow with only ling to show for it. Made a run inshore and worked bunker pods for sharks, but wound up jigging our first Bonito of the year and blues.

Mudhole Trip with the John Ammeraal Charter

Had John out for his bachelor party with buddies Anthony, Ron and John. Orginally they wanted to fluke fish, told him if weather was right we should move off a bit further, he agreed. Left the inlet to flat seas poked around some inshore lumps but all it was all Hammerhead and Brown sharks which were fun on spinning rods, after a morning of shark action we hit some wrecks getting over 30 Ling and Cod. Good luck on your marriage and had fun fishing with your crew.

Open Boat Mixed Bag Offshore Trip 7/30

Had newcomers to the boat John, Jeremy, Fran and his brother Tom. Left the inlet in the dark to get to the spot early. Half a dozen boats there and thousands of tuna chicks! Was going to troll but the machine had lots of good marks so we started jigging, had one on right way, nice job John. Decided to troll to find some bigger models, Jeremy was up next popping his Tuna cherry. Went back on the jig and the Foley brothers landed theirs, tagged and released some more. Since everyone had landed one we decided to look for mahi, found a pot with a bunch of gaffers but only landed one and losing the rest. Hit a few wrecks on the way home to nail a dozen cod and ling. Lots of fun with a bunch of new anglers to the TOY!

Bottom Fishing Trip with the Farkas Family Charter

Had Bob Senior, Junior, brother Glen, and daughters Daisha and Jennifer. The crew had won a 4 hour trip through a raffle to raise money for Breast Cancer through Clarks Landing. Loaded the crew and went to the first wreck, divers were there which made us have to switch gears, next wreck had a lot of life, was getting a steady pick going of seabass and lots of ling with Jennifer getting a doubleheader when a storm started heading our way. Made the decision to head inshore and fish the river for fluke, that was a bust. Had a great time with a fun family!

Overnight Canyon trip with the Pat Barr Charter

Had Cheryl call me to give her husband Pat his 50th Birthday Gift, he brought his son Mike and buddy Joe. Left the inlet in search for Bluefin, no luck, made some drifts on wrecks for Cod and Pollack no luck, made a run for the canyon, got there and found all the life we wanted, whales, porpoises and bait but no tuna. Changed gears and started tilefishing, had a fast drift that made it tough but nailed half a dozen goldens and bluelines. Went back on the troll still no luck, set up for the night, no bites until 330 when we had a monster on a jig, fought the beast for half an hour making no head way till hook pulled, damn. Went on the troll but again life but no tuna, changed gears again and went light tackle mahi fishing, had plenty of bites with many fished miss but all of the guys got in on the action. Picked up and ran inshore to look for bluefin, greeted by big nasty bluefish. Ended the day getting Seabass and ling. Fun day with all of the guys catching their first tiles and mahi.

Mixed Bag Offshore Trip with the Adam Conley Charter

Had Adam out for the first time offshore after numerous Striper trips. He had is usual buddies of Mike, Pat and Andy. Due to hectic shedules we made the run today in less than favorable conditions, got to our spot and saw lots of life, birds,whales, turtles, marking bait and fish. On the troll we had knockdowns but big seas made it tough to troll. Hit a wreck and bagged a dozen nice Cod and Baseball bat ling. Went on the drift chunking and jigging, the Brown Sharks and Bluefish made getting the baits to tuna impossible. On the way home hit a wreck for 20 keeper seabass and ling.

Offshore Mixed Bag Trip with Oscar Carillo

Had Oscar back again this year for his first trip offshore this year. Started out trolling for tuna but not a lot of life, hit a wreck and began jigging, got a few cod and decided to try some sharking, no wind and calm conditions made it difficult to get a good shark drift, nonetheless Oscar still battled a 10 foot Blue Shark. Shifted gear and went to another wreck, had good action landing another half dozen cod to 15lbs, and monster ling, great ending to a beautiful day!

6/3/13 - Andrea Caporele SeaBass & Ling

6/3/13... Left our inlet and we were met by a 15 degree drop in temp. also fog and 20mph. wind's, made a slow run to our bottom fishing grounds.
We had great action before the storms chased us in.

45 Keeper SeaBass and 10 Ling.... The crew toughed it out in less then favorable conditions and were rewarded for their efforts.

Memorial Day Mixed Bag Trip with DJ Palathinkal Charter

Had DJ out with Father in Law Mat, and brother in Law Terhan with buddies Lamar, Don and Walt. Made bait in no time and where off to the striper grounds, marked some fish but fish would not chew. Bounced around deep and shallow no luv, tried chunking just big brusier blues. Changed gears and went bottom fishing, got some ling and seabass. Went back on the hunt for Stripers for the rest of the afternoon and could not get a bite.