Tight Lines

With little drift to start with, the south wind against tide was a killer. Chef Lo killer, but Chef Lou boated a 6 pound. 13-ouncer

The Golden Eagle from Belmar once again had many limits of 4-10-pound blues by anchoring and chumming off northern NJ Some bonito, little tunny and sea bass were added.

Capt. Ron Santee reported a slow start to fluking on his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands due to lack of drift, but ended up alright with fluke to 6 2/3 pounds.

Yesterday’s school bluefin report from Andreas Toy was actually a recent one.

The Golden Eagle from Belmar got into limits of 4-10-pound blues today the old-fashioned way — chumming at anchor. Some Spanish mackerel and sea bass were added on jigs. The canyon trip produced an 80-pound yellowfin plus mahi.

Andreas Toy had a fine bluefin report as follows “Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Andreas Toy reports “Had Ilya and the boys out recently for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job gfirst time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.

Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.”

The NJ fluke season is almost over, but those fish remain abundant when the south wind isn’t howling. The Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands is going to try sneaking in a trip just before the wind comes up tomorrow.

Andreas Toyhad another hot school bluefin catch to report – “Had Ilya and the boys out today for some inshore bluefin. Loaded up the livewell and went searching, found an acre “of sardines on top, set up on them with peanuts and the magic happened. Had 2 on the whole time,for first time tuna fishermen. Great job guys.”

That summed up Capt. Ron Santee’s report — with a poor forecast for tomorrow

Fisher Price IV reports a red hot bite of school bluefins off NJ Bight with fish being released constantly

The Golden Eagle from Belmar had a boat limit catch of bluefish in the 2-5-pound class plus some little tunny on Friday as jigs with tails worked best.

Capt. Bob Pisano had invited me to fish for giant tuna as some had been spotted at an inshore wreck. We were greeted by a gusty NW and rough sea before hearing a radio report about a plane hitting the WTC. There was speculation that we might be at war; Even the dedicated Pisano was uncomfortable with that and we headed in. The giant plumes of smoke weren’t visible to us as the NW blew them down.

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We had some SPANISH MACKEREL and BLUES today, picking a couple to a few on the drifts inshore. We had some good readings at times along with some fish up on top in the bait.

The action slowed down as the wind came on, so we finished up the day targeting FLUKE and SEA BASS.“

NJ anglers will be able to fill bags with abundant sea bass when that limit increases.

Fluking was good today for those using enough weight to hold bottom.

Cat. Ron Santee of the Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands reports” Had to battle some current and crappy conditions today to get it done but in the end we put a nice catch together!

Couple customers with their 3 including Gary & Mark who also took the pool with a nice 5lb3oz Fluke. Bunch of doubles and Sea Bass around the boat. Like I said, it wasn’t easy fishing with 10-12 oz of lead.