Memories of a sad day

Unfortunately, sad memories last as long as the good ones. My Sept.11 started well as I joined Capt. Bob Pisano to fish a wreck area which had produced a few giant tuna hits recently. However, my last trip with hat greatest of N.J. tuna skippers was a short one in a hard northwest wind as we started hearing accounts of a plane flying into the World Trade Center towers. Though we should have been within sight of the resulting smoke, that northwest wind blew it so low that we never saw it until almost getting back to Belmar. The re was no reception on the TV that far out, but I got enough audio to assure us something bad was happening — and Pisano decided to head back.

Vinny D’Anton reports there are still plenty of small blues in the Monmouth County surf. He also managed a couple of small stripers among them yesterday morning.

Tuesday’s forecast is for north winds at a mere 5 knots before going southwest in the afternoon with a chance of showers.

Little tunny are also showing in the surf as well as for boaters such as Mx DeGennaro of Hi Flier from Barnegat.