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:

[Old'sCool]

SWEEEET!!! We call it the tuna death spiral

[Michael Vezzosi]

Basspond, nice fish! I know we were not able to put anything together last year but I was curious if you fish during the week. I'll be in Fair Haven again this year and was wondering if we could hook up. Be home around Sept. 6th, headed into Brooklyn for 9-11 Memorials and available like Tues thru Fri following week. Saturday, 9-17, my brother and I will have our Jersey Speed Skiff at Long Branch Ice Boat and and Yacht Club for Thunder on the Shrewsbury. Could definitely get you out for a couple of hot laps! And I'll have cash for beer and gas chasing Stripers. No experience with BFT but have the basic concept of running a cock pit offshore. Let me know. Thanks. Michael.

[Basspond]

Vezo give me a shout when you are in the area.

Craig

[floorboy]

Nice!! That track looks like an average trolling line on my boat before I got an auto pilot.

[riptide]

Looks like you had a great trip with flat seas.
Thinking of making the run with the Seacraft.
We got a 170lbs Mako at the Ledge last Sunday with 6 blue sharks released.
How much fuel did you burn?
How many miles from the tip of the hook?
Thanks ,Jerry

[Basspond]

Jerry,

That's a nice mako! We had a nice one air out today on our way through the glory.

I passed you the other day rounding the hook and I saw you pulling out of wawa a couple weeks back on RT. 36...

The area we were fishing was 75 miles from the tip of the hook. We burned 86 gallons on that trip, the boat holds 184.

Today we went back to the same area, but this time with scallops to fish behind the scallopers. The bite was slow where we were, but we did get one shot and went 1 for 2, keeping a 65-75 lbs bluefin.

I have to check my trip log on the garmin, but I believe we were around 185 miles today round trip and we burned 85 gal per the garmin.







Craig

[seacraftks]

Nice fish too bad about the boat