Tom Connell Canyon Trip

Had Tom Connell and the boys out today. Started out with a dozen mahi, not much happening with tuna so did a tile drift to spice up the box with close to 20. Shifted to tuna and got into a nice jig bite, had to weed through the skippies but landed yellows to 60lbs and broke off way too many.

Todd Craig Stripers

Had regular Todd Craig with buddies today, plan was to run for tuna/mahis but mother nature had other plans. Switched boats and did an exploratory Striper trip on the 31FA. Found some stripers and will hopefully start seeing some better quantity in the coming weeks.

Give us a call to get your fall striper dates on the books!  

Todd Craig Offshore Trip

Had Todd Craig back with the boys Nick, Tom and Mark. None of the guys had any saltwater offshore experience. Started the trip away from the fleet, by ourselves and had some fun,

once the fish came under the boat  game was on! Dropped the Nomad jigs in 120 and 80 grams and games was on. All the guys popped there tuna cherries! After that went jigging for tiles on the nomad jigs, all of them popped their tilefish cherries on Streaker and ridgeback in larger sizes. Got the trifecta on mahis popping all the guys tuna cherries on 20 gram ridgebacks. Ended the trip jigging juvenile bluefin on the 20 gram ridgebacks for Bluefin Collaborative fin clip study. Great day for the boys

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Jim P Bonito and Fluke

Capt Greg had Jim P with his dad and son on board. Decided to start with some inshore speedsters and caught some bonito with an Albie mixed in on Nomad Ridgeback Long Cast 20g and 40g jugs. Switched over to fluke and put a couple of keepers in the box including Barrett's 23 inch fluke. Not a ton of pics but put together a nice box 

John Vanator Offshore

Had John Vanator with brother Jim and son Joe with buddy Josia. Started out jigging and livelining on great life for tuna no luv. Went on troll same. Customers flew in from Michigan and wanted fresh fish. Switched gears to accommodate them, started with mahi which were cooperative, easily landing over 30. Switched to tiles and Nomad jigs to 420 grams was the ticket!

Tim Conway Offshore Mixed Bag

Had Tim Conway with family and friends today. Started out with a yellow to get the day started, was slow on troll. Decided to run and gun  under the skippies for yellows but no luck just landed skippies. Changed gears and had a tilefish beat down getting double headers bluelines and nice goldens. Went looking for more surface action on tuna but no life so switched up and had a nice bite on the mahi to end the day.

Tom Mallan Offshore Tuna, Tiles, Mahi

Had Tom Mallan out for the first time with us, with son Thomas and buddies Chris and Joe. Started out throwing poppers and soft plastics to nice 60 pound yellows getting half a dozen. Changed gears and landed 15 bluelines to 20lbs, Rasta 420 gram Streaker was the hot lure. Then got on some light tackle mahis. 

Todd Craig Tuna and Seabass

Had Todd Craig and the boys out today, popped the tuna cherries of Jesse, Alex and Rich, after some catch and release went looking for some cobia, no luck. Ended the day jigging our limit of seabass on Nomad Ridgebacks.

Brock Family Summer Stripers

Had Jay Brock and family out today before Nathan leaves for college in Florida. Started off striper fishing and saw a solid bite despite the lack of tide. Nathan caught his first striper and the rest of the crew as well. After they had their striper fill we switched over to fluking where the lack of drift really hurt us. Caught some shorts and headed home to round out a beautiful morning before this weather comes in tomorrow. 

Bryan Hahm and Family Fluke

Capt Greg and Jimmy had the Hahm brothers with their girlfriends for a day of fluke fishing. First time fluke fishermen but they got the hang of it. Had good fluke action with 7 making keeper size and a couple ling in the mix. The biggest fish was 22" and will be fluke sashimi tonight for the crew! 

Dr Gerry Offshore Mixed Bag

Had Dr Gerry with son Mike, and buddies Ken, Chad and Aaron, started on the troll and got 2 yellows to start the day. Decided to go light tackle and jig, after an hour of no luck decided to shift gears and tilefish, landed over 2 dozen with some quality fish, Gerry wanted to jig and he was getting doubleheaders. Hit the pots and got half a dozen to add to the box. Came inshore to find a big bluefin but no luv.  

July 14th Stripers- Open Boat Report

Capt Greg and Shane had an open boat today for some summer striped bass and it did not disappoint. Great fishing on live bunker with a boat limit of keeper sized striped bass many oversized releases. Multiple fish on at one time! After the guys fill of stripers we did a little fluking but conditions didn't align and we only caught a handful of shorts in the short time fluking 

We have some availability this summer- call/text 201-421-8653 to get on board! 

Bush Family Stripers and Fluke

Capt Greg had Charlie Bush and family out for a summer combo trip this morning. The crew chose to brave the rain in the morning and glad we did! The sun came out and it became a beautiful day on the water. Striper fishing was a touch off but we caught some and then switched over to fluke. Added some keeper fluke to our box with some short life to keep the crew busy. 

 

Tiritilli Family Stripers and Fluke

Had the Tiritilli family out today- saw the bunker thick so one throw of the net and we decided to make a few striper drifts close to home. Caught a couple overs and a couple keepers then went fluking. Very good action with plenty of short life with a handful of keepers mixed in. Biggest fluke went 24" and 5lbs on the scale caught by Matt on a @shadlifebaits ball jig. 

We have two spots available on Sunday for our striper/fluke trip departing at 6am ($180 per spot). Call/text 201-421-8653 to jump on 

Su Kwan Canyon

Had Su Kwan and the boys out for a tilefish trip yesterday. Told them we should try some tuna as well, they agreed, horrible fog conditions made for impossible fishing, so after a few hours pulled the plug, glad the tiles cooperated. Saw a few mahi that wouldn't cooperate.

Bluefin and Tilefish Regulars

Fun day today with the regulars, started the trip with a 5 banger of tuna. Switched up gears and landed two dozen tiles to 20lbs, went on the hunt for popping/jigging fish in afternoon and found the mother lode, getting a bunch more. Cool thing was did some BFT finlet sample for the Bluefin Collaboration.

Open Boat Summer Stripers

Capt Greg and Rich had an open boat striped bass trip today. Good group of guys got the hang of live lining with Tyler getting the biggest fish at 38" and young Elijah having the high hook despite never having caught a striped bass before! 

More Cobia!

Had another decent day on the cobia grounds, hook up ratio not great but landed a beautiful 38lb cobia on a Nomad Squidtrex. Tons of action and can't wait to get back out there- give us a call if you want to target them

First NJ Cobia June 22nd

Great day, had this species on my bucket list for New Jersey and finally got it- 45lb Cobia on the certified scale. Great job with Darren Guarino on the rod! 

NEW JERSEY COBIA

Great day today, had this species on my bucket list for New Jersey and finally got it- 45lb Cobia on the certified scale. Great job with Darren Guarino on the rod! 

Vinny T Stripers and Blues

Capt Greg had Vinny Thurston with his dad and friends out today for Father's Day. One throw of the net we had 120 bunker in the well and by days end we ran out of bait. Loads of bites landing our boat limit of keeper stripers along with some blues to round out the box. When we ran out of live bunker we put the chunks down and caught some as well. Fished until we ran out of bait and headed home. 

We have availability for striped bass charter next Saturday June 22nd morning sailing out of Perth Amboy, NJ. Call/text Capt Greg 201-421-8653 

First Bluefin Trip

Did our first bluefin trip, got the bite we wanted but pulled the hook on a nice fish, within leader of the boat!🤬 Ended the day with some pick  wreckfishing.

Dave Frankel Stripers

Had Dave Frankel and buddies out today. Bait took longer than expected but we got it and managed to catch some. Wish fishing was better but got a couple for the guys to take home to eat. Thanks Dave and crew! 

Dave Rivera Stripers

Had the Rivera family out for the afternoon. Made bait easily. Went on the search and found what we were looking for. Wound up with a decent pick

Nick Izzo Birthday Stripers

Capt Greg and Jimmy had Nick Izzo out on a surprise birthday trip from his mother. Picked and plucked with the live baits putting a catch together with some nice keepers for the guys to go home with. Not an insane bite by any means but I'll take it. Happy birthday Nick! 

Kevin Barbalet Stripers

Had Kevin Barbalet and crew out for stripers in the afternoon. Steady action all trip with bluefish mixed in- Tobi had high hook of 6 stripers plus some gator bluefish. The other 3 guys did well also with many bites and fish! 

We are available for charter on Sunday June 2nd AM sailing out of Perth Amboy, NJ