We're supposed to take a 40-footer out of LBI this weekend. We were supposed to go last weekend but Bill got in the way of that. NOAA is forcasting 6-10' swells for Saturday. Is this a result of the system churning north of Puerto Rico? What are the chances we go out?
And has anyone heard reports in the canyons since Bill swept though?
Save your money and wait until after this weekend's blow and see if it shakes thing up some offshore. Still most of the whole area where we fish of Southern NJ is covered with green hot ugly water. Not much in the way of tuna anywhere at least in the southern canyons but there is a decent White Marlin bite and lots of mahi on the pots with a few scattered Wahoo mixed in but only a few. We had a nice one on yesterday's trip just inside the 30 fathom line but that was the only bite inshore for us as the water quality stinks.
I am only commenting on where we fish and do not know how the bite is up in the Northern canyons but I did not see any improvements in sea temperature or water quality at all from that resulted from Hurricane Bill. It is still is pretty much a dead sea with green ugly hot water at least where we fished yesterday.
I do know of two nice tuna caught yesterday in the Lindy but that was it and everyone else at least that I know did not catch any that fished in the Wilmington closer to Cape May. There was a real good White Marlin bite at the Tip of the Wilmington that produced lots of action for one boat I know but no tuna ane we were the only boat that caught a Wahoo yesteday but it was inshore and that was the only bite we had all day except trash fish.
We are have currently rescheduled 4 offshore charters that want to target tuna and have little interested in White Marlin or deep dropping ect. We will be Wahoo trolling and inshore shark fishing next few days but not running any day or overnight canyon trips until we get some better reports from our local canyons.
Pictures of some pretty decent size sharks from a recent charter. I give our charters the oppurtunity to reschedule or if they cannot then we offer them a shark trip ro refund their deposits but all have opted for some shark fishing and honestly every trip turned out okay as the charters really enjoyed themselves from what they told us. I realize it is not canyon fishing but if it makes the charter happy it is all good.
On our way to catch some False Albacore for shark bait or small Bluefish which the sharks love
I would not put my hand in one of these sharks and they do pull as well as some being up close to 350-400 lbs.
Like all big fish they can get quite nasty when along side the boat and this is all catch or tag and release fishing only and we leave it up to the charter if the want to shark fish, reschedule or get their deposit back[/B]
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