by Capt. Ron Santee Jr. was able to do two videos of the amazing striper action on his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands today. It’s not going to last forever, so get in on it while it’s hot.
The Queen Mary from Point Pleasant had similar action over the weekend, with Saturday being the best.
The forecast is for northwest winds at 10-15 knots.
Vinny D’Anton found the Monmouth County surf to be full of peanut bunkers this morning, but there were no stripers on them in the calm waters. The air was frigid, though water temperatures remain relatively mild.
Capt. Monty Hawkins has put a twist into his sea bass trips on Morning Star from Ocean City, Md. as bluefin tuna have been abundant in the same area.
“Troll up a tuna – a for hire trip..
Didn’t skip our reef blocks. Big Jon sent a twenty block unit by the rail atop Capt Bob Gowar’s Memorial Reef. That makes 4,938 blocks at Bobby’s. Hit 5K there and it’ll be time to pick a new spot to broaden.
Still had a good ways to go after we’d built a tiny bit more reef. Put lines in sooner than I thought though when we happened upon gannets plunge diving on bait 3 miles inshore where we’d left em Friday.
Worked a few hours with tuna often sighted busting the surface – had one short bite and one topshot knot fail.
You get zero mistakes with these big sons of a guns..
Once I thought every tuna in the area had seen our lures and chose not to partake I moved on off a bit further.
The same rod we’d lost one on earlier, & now with a new topshot(!) got bit again.
One hour and fifty six minutes later a 69 inch, 211lb bluefin was in the boat.
My anglers all took several turns at the reel – a true joint effort.
Clients got most of the fish. The boys & I kept dinner too.
I’m now confident we have this fishery somewhat dialed in. If interested in such a tuna trolling trip I’ll announce the next one in a ‘FIsh Report’ from morningstarfishing.com ..
They sure put everything to the test!
Cheers,”
Tight Lines 
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