Nearshore Pelagic Crew Trips

Hey guys this past week we have been doing Maintenance to get ready for the Manasquan Marlin Tuna club tourney. In meantime been Making runs to the nearshore lumps to see if There is any life. Been pleasantly surprised to Find schoolie Bluefin in sight of land. Running The Canyon Runner, Mini Mamba bars in purple/black Have been the ticket, bar closely resembles sandeels the tuna have been on, nice size Mahi are around as well and eating the bars!

Canyon Chunking-Jigging Trip with Andrew Lin Charter

Had Andrew out with kids Harrison and Corina And buddy Rich. On way to canyon made a pit Stop at inshore spot, got an under Bluefin and Yellowfin. Continued towards Hudson and Stopped for some mahi, landing Corina's first. Trolled square till dark no bites. Got set up for The night and began chunking, had a mystery fight For half and hour on a tuna rig, might have been a sword Chafed off the leader. Had a couple of sharks then At 4am all hell broke loose, fish schooled up under The boat and had them on jigs as well as sardines. These Yellows were the nicer jumbos making them difficult to Land for my inexperienced crew, did manage to get 3 to the boat to 60lbs losing many more. In the morning Crew had enough and came home. Andrew had been Planning on this trip for a while, Glad he got to see what canyon chunking and jigging is all about!

Bluefin Lunch Express with the Jeremy Ingle Charter

Had Jeremy backout again for bft with buddy Angel

Took advantage of the weather window and got to the 

Grounds early. Looked around and found what we 

Needed, went 4-4 quickly and got our 2 unders and 

Went into release mode. Soon after the guys wanted a

Shot at mahi, no luck, hit a wreck for cod no luck, we 

Decided to get home for lunch to grill the fish up!

Canyon Trip with Adam Conley's Crew

Had Adam with buddies Mark Sr and Jr 

And Dan Payet. Made ourway to the southern

Canyons, went on the troll and found the life

Right away, had mahi, skippies and yft bites into

Dark. Set up at night and had thousands of tinker

Mackeral in the lights. No bites on sardines so sabiki'd

The macks and livelined them, had some good bites

Losing a few, then got sharked up for a while, landing

A hammerhead. In the morning had fish on the troll

Right away, bite lasted for a few hours landing half a

Dozen yft, mahi, and our first white marlin of the season.

Midshore trip with the Bob Hewitt Charter

Had Bob with three generations of The clan, son Rob

And Grandson Dillon. Made our way to the bft 

Grounds and bad nothing on troll, was marking fish

Deep so decided to chunk and jig, had action

Right away with some nice mahi. After

A few hours went back on the troll and was

Uneventful for us, had one knockdown on a 

Way way back bally. Good fily to fish with and 

Busted some mahi cherries.

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.