NJ Bluefin

[Basspond]

Hope I am still allowed to post since I sold my SeaCraft!

Broke the new to me 23 Reg in right Sunday, first trip to the blue water and we had a great time. Couldn't take reading all the great bluefin reports from the chicken canyon so we made the run there Sunday morning out of Sandy Hook. Had myself, my dad, and my neighbor Karl on the boat.

Lines in at 7 am, first fish on in literally 10 seconds on the first spreader bar dropped back, finishing up at 11:30 am going 6 for 9 on bluefin, with the largest, and one we kept, going 57" and 105 lbs.

All of the fish came on green or zuchinni sterling tackle spreader bars and green machine bird chains. The big fish had 8-10 similar sized bluefin swimming with it as it was in its death spirals. When we got that fish in the boat and went back on the troll we couldn't get a green machine chain out from the prop wash before a bluefin came out from under the boat and hammered it.

Later in the morning we had some big pods of bluefin up on top pushing water. Some real nice fish mixed in those pods, but they seemed to be on the move and not on the feed.













Doing loops fighting the big one: