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

Stripers-Seabass with Jason Grieco Charter

Had Jason back for their annual trip with Big Wilk, Paulie, Russel, Chris 
And Greg. Started out with stripers and had 4 to 20lbs, went hit a few drops 
For seabass just shorts, went back for stripers, bite slowed down, went back to
Seabass hit some more spots with lots of doggies, final spot we had a bite
With keepers.

Open Boat Bottomfishing Limits

Had Kamil and Buddy Jay, and John and his father Dean. Started out 
Looking for the 'Inshore Ghost', too rough to see anything, hit a few 
Wrecks and Picked some seabass. Made a move further to the east and
It was lock and load seabass to 5lbs getting our limit, Cod to 10lbs, 
And big porgies. On way home found 3 pods of school tuna that
We got casts to but no takers. Ended the day on the reef getting a quick
Limit of tog to 7lbs. 

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!

Bottomfish-Sharks with the Sciascia family

Had Joe with son Joe Jr and his buddies Julien and Mike and Nephew Jared.
Plan was to get bait and go from there netted our bait and tried for the elusive 
Stripers just blues which turned out to be bait for later in the day. Hit a wreck
For a couple dozen seabass and went into big game mode. Kids really wanted to see a shark, first drift Joe Sr. landed a nice 6 foot blue shark, kids were in awe.
Now Joe Sr. wanted to tangle with something real big, set em back out and we hooked a 200lb Thresher, Joe and Jared took turns on him till we got the release, the look on the kids face after seeing the shark priceless!

Shark-Bottom with Oscar Carillo

---

Had regular Oscar out for a mixed bag, got him limited out with seabass and then went on the hunt for sharks. After a long drift came tight on a 7 foot blue, wasn't what we were looking for, gave Oscar a good workout and got him ready for offshore fishing this summer!

Shark hunt & Seabass limit with the Prendes family

Had Louie out with his dad and plan was to pre fish for
Weekend tournament and do some bottom fishing.
Had a decent drift but only saw blue Sharks. Decided to
Bottom fish some offshore wrecks and landed cod to 15lbs,
Ended the day Inshore bagging there seabass limit in an hour.
Glad to be fishing offshore again!

Bottom Fishing with the Wilson Gama Charter

Had Wilson back with buddies Gary, John, and Rick x2. Plan was to venture to Mudhole and load up on Ling, had 80 with some cod. Changed gears to seabassing landing a dozen of those before south wind kicked in. Fun day with some good guys and lots of ball-busting.

Saturday Striped Bass with the Joe Mahan Charter

Sorry for the late reports. Saturday I had Joe and 3 of his friends for some striped bass and some bottom fish. Left the dock at 7am and got our live well full pretty quick. Headed north to the rocks and setup a drift on some rock piles for fluke and sea bass. Got a bunch of short sea bass there with a few keepers but not enough action so we left there and hit a wreck in 50 foot. Got a little pick on some sea bass but the fish were not chewing good so we anchored up on the rocks for some striped bass chunkin. Had wind against tide which sucks there so after 3 hours with only a few runoffs and the south wind kickin we headed for the barn. It was a pleasure fishing with these guys and they worked hard for 20 sea bass and a bunch of fat ling. Tough day. ~Capt Carlos