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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.
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!
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!
Had regular Oscar who wanted to try out some extreme offshore bottom,
Boy did he slay them, filled up the Box in no time and back at home,
Had Seabass to 5 lbs, porgies to 3lbs, and 12lb pollack. Great job Big O!
Had regulars Anthony and Tony on the boat today, first wreck was
Drop on reel with limits of Seabass, half a dozen cod to 12lbs,
Half a dozen pollack to 15lbs, and tons of big porgies.was back at
The dock by lunchtime. Good fishing with a great weather day!
Did our first trip of the year with Bob, Mike,Ryan and Ed.
It was a beat down had our sea bass limit in
A few hours with fish up to 6lbs, cod to 15lbs
Pollack and tons of porgies. Fish were on the
Chew back at the dock early!
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.
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.
Had John on board with Paul his son Bryce and buddy Craig. Plan was to try for tuna, get Bryce his first shark and jig some cod and pollack. Found some life and started trolling, after 5 miles of no touches picked up and ran to another spot another 5 miles of no bites and I changed gears to keep the crew engaged. Hit a wreck and jigged up Pollack and nice Cod. Once we had a nice box of tasty treats we went into shark mode. Had a perfect drift and Bryce landed his first shark, the bites came every 15 minutes landed close to a dozen blue sharks, until the makos showed up. First one was a legal but small Mako that gave us 3 great jumps, tagged that one and waited for the right one. Next one was the one, John fought her for a while and tailroped a beautiful 83 incher. Scales were closed, but she was fat estimate 220-240.
Had Hard-core regulars Sam M, Ed-Eamon, and Bill. Plan was to run way offshore and jig Cod and Pollack, then hit inshore wrecks for jumbo seabass that haven't made the offshore wrecks. Made good time to the 70 mile wrecks while sun was coming up, tons of Humpback porgies that are not llegal and bluefish. Very few big seabass and Pollack or Cod. Hit a few more wrecks same deal. Went inshore and found some humpback seabass, more porgies and doggies. Hit another piece and ran out of daylight. Wound up with 2 dozen keeper seabass to 5lbs, over 60 big porgies. Want to thank the guys for fishing hard in tough sea conditions, NOAA, got it wrong, 20-25 knot winds in 4-7 foot seas. 
Had Mat out with Dad Al, girlfriend Colleen, and buddies Chris and Dave. Set sail in the dark for the canyon for night chunk and morning day troll. Made great time in full moon, set up near canyon and took drift right into it, had life within half and hour yellows to 30lbs, had fish swimming through light and fish ate from dark into first light once bite died, we had 7 yellows in the box. Did a little mahi fishing and the charter landed a couple. Rather than troll charter wanted to hit some wrecks for Pollack leaving canyon, saw some life and dropped the jigs and bait, flatlined sardine went off, and an hour later we had a 120lb 58 and half incher in the box. After that chartered had enough and made the run back to the barn. Great day of fishing with a great crew Mat, Al, doing great and Colleen proving she is one of the best fisherwomen I have witnessed, and Chris and Dave popping their tuna cherries!
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