We decided to put together a day trip this past Monday to break the cabin fever with the great weather this past weekend. We tried tuna trolling around daybreak but with the reports and weeds so bad we switched over to bottom fishing which more than saved the day for us. Towards the end of […]
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I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the Hooked Up II for the season and let you know what’s to come! It’s been an unpredictable tuna season to say the least when compared to last year when most of the tuna fishing was in the Washington Canyon. We have seen ourselves fish […]
Never seen anything quite like this in my 30 years of canyon fishing where a Big Eye ate a jig down 450 feet in the middle of the afternoon in the Wilmington Canyon Friday. I know last summer plenty of Big Eyes were hooked up by anglers jigging around the whales but never down that […]
We kept approximately 20 and released at least 15 or more on the trip. Throughout the trip we had large schools of Yellowfins busting on the surface and all around the boat so most tuna were caught hand feeding chunks of butterfish on our boat. We did have live spots, chub minnows, frozen squid and […]
We fished back to back trip the last few days in the local canyon many of the South Jersey fleet has been fishing which produced some great fishing for us and quite a few other boats we know. It was not drop dead tuna fishing where you catch your limit in a few hours like […]
Spent the whole day from 5:00 am to 3:00 pm hammering the pilot whales in the Wilmington on Tuesday with one Yellowfin to show for it. Horrible tuna fishing is the only way I can describe it for us. Some of my friends are now arriving in the local canyons at around 4:00 pm to […]
Today we ran a last minute open boat day troll trip. Unfortunately it was a slow day during the day at the canyon for tuna. We did manage a hookup that we fought to the boat, but we lost it at the boat. That was our only shot at a tuna today. There was about […]
We had the pressure somewhat on our last charter trip as the group is one of our best customers and you always want to produce top results when these folks are on board. They charter us for a whole week during striper season and they send their employees and clients to Cape May to fish […]
We set out today with a goal in mind…to catch 14 year old Jack Rodberg his first tuna! Well, we succeeded and Jack and his father Derek were excited. The two chartered the whole boat for themselves and came all the way from Islamorada, Florida! Not only did we catch a nice 70 lb. yellowfin, […]
One of our captain friends was returning from a southern canyon Sunday July 13th and reported they had nonstop action chunking Yellowfins Saturday afternoon and night. This was confirmed by a second boat that was also down Saturday into Sunday. It was similar to last summer except the tuna are not the 25-35 lb. ones […]