Did an overnighter and all I can say is WOWWWW!!! We blistered all that has fins… I was in a mood and needed a soul purging smack down and got it this trip!!!
Jumped aboard Erics rocket and set sail for the hudson early yesterday afternoon… I had broght the kitchen sink and although I had planned to start with a few tile drops we didn't get there til "troll thirty"… Hit a color and temeprature break with skippies and porpoise and slid out a mixed spread…
In the first half hour there was the tell tale zig zag shadow of a medium sized blue hanging behind my one big bait I had opted to run in the shotgun position… No touch or take though. I had kind of paired up with Buddy H before we left and joined them after hearing better conditions where he was…
Gettin there therfe was blue water, weeds, flyers… I felt like I was back home… He was getting yellowfin but I was drawing skippies until that same shotgun bait got the attention of a full growed blue… Bowed up screaming drag and the hook just flat tore out… The leader was chafed 31" up from the lure…
We shut her down at dark and switched tow 2 shark, 2 tuna and a sword bait… The night was pretty dead excpet for a slob hammer head…

We got on the troll while still dark trying to get back to the active area we had ended up the day before… Long before sunrise we got covered up with yellowfins. A 70 + fish was first to find the deck followed by a 50 class fish while a couple got away… A few minutes later we had another multiple… Before nine o'clock we had been covered up five seperate times with eight good fish to stuff our in deck boxes to the brim…

Deciding to keep one spot open to fill our limit we left the action to go try something I havn't tried in years… Tile fishing. First drift sucked but then we go in a slow but steady groove… With our pick we called Buddy H in his magnificent Prime Coat on her maiden canyon run over and we gang drifted the area…

We collected a dozen tiles and were in the process of cleaning up and readying to run home when Buddy called over… "Theres a nice mako swimming right etween us."
I couldn't see it in the lighting condition but in a New York second deep Deckhand and I had a shark bait rigged and deployed. I thought Buddy would burst as we bowed up!
Thirty minutes later we had the 160lb fish decked and were headed for the beach with an obscene amount of meat…