First Bluefin well over 100 lbs plus Yellowfin, Mahi & White Marlin on the Hooked Up II

[Caveman Sportfishing]

We found a big Bluefin just inside the 40 fathom line very close to where we boated a 40 lb Yellowfin on Saturday’s trip late in the afternoon trolling on our way home from a northern canyon. We lost the tuna when it chewed through the 100 lb mono leader but it dumped over 200-250 yards of spectra on a 50 class reel with 16-18 lbs of drag. It was no 40-50 lb BFT like we were catching last week down south. It ate a green 9 inch Ilander tracker with a ½ oz weight in front of a large Ballyhoo fished on the short rigger about 250 yards back. We were trolling at 5.2 knots when the we got the BFT bite and coming off a lump in 196 feet of water which was 74.8 degrees. My estimate on this BFT was around 62-64 inches which would have made it too big to keep but it least there are a few bigger ones around now if you travel up to the north. We also had Whites & Mahi plus a few Wahoo bite offs on this trip to a northern canyon and there were a good number of Big Eye's as well as Yellowfin bites for many boats around us early am Saturday and a few had all 9 rods go down with Yellowfins and this is the best Yellowfin fishing by far that we know of the last few years. Very good fishing overall for most boats but the fleet was far too large for my liking so we moved inshore and trolled a good percent of the day inshore of the 100-150 fathom lines were the best bites seem to be at.

We suggest doing an overnight trip now to a northern canyon as we know of some awesome Yellowfin fishing all trolling later in the afternoon and in the early am which seem to be the prime times to catch a bunch of these in the 40-60 lb range plus if you are lucky a big eye. Now it the time to go and we are ready to take anyone group or a small party make-up trip as well.

[Caveman Sportfishing]

Boat out of mid-Jersey port fished for BFT inshore of us and had one 58 inches at 101 lbs and that would be what everyone would be looking for in any upcoming tuna tournament. Possibly a 58 inch fish should weigh a little more but still bigger than the ones we caught down south last week as the biggest we had in 4 trips was around 52 lbs.

[jawz12]

nice john !!

tough break on the line popping