Blues also scarce at Nantucket

NY/NJ Bight isn’t the only place where bluefish have been generally scarce this summer. Mike Monte reports from the island that with a tournament coming up, there are very few blues around — and most of those are very small. Fortunately, the bonito run has been very good — and little tunny just moved in with a solid showing. Sand eels are the attraction.

After enjoying three days of good fluking after the storm swell dropped out, Capt. Ron Santee was surprised by fluking he described as a grind aboard his Fishermen from Atlantic Highlands Sunday. The ocean was nice. and a 5 13/16-pounder took the pool.

The Manasquan River Marlin & Tuna Club’s Offshore Open is over, but I haven’t been able to download anything from their site all week.

Capt. Chris DeStefano was in the crew on Crisdel as they boated a 151-pound bigeye during an overnighter, but noted that they only finished fourth. Trolling was good, but there hasn’t been a good night chunking bite as yet.

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The forecast is for northeast winds at 10 knots before switching to east in the afternoon