8/16/10

I’m losing touch lately. The owner of the boat I run has some back problems and as a
result I haven’t been out in almost two weeks.

It seems like offshore tuna fishing just isn’t worth trying. The local bluefins have all but
disappeared. Apparently there are still some south of the Coimbra hitting jigs, but that is
the equivalent of a canyon trip for us, so I don’t think any boats from Montauk are
considering that. Out on the Edge there are some yellowfins, longfins and an unusual
amount of white marlin, but the bite has been very inconsistent. The renowned Capt
Harry Capt Hump) Clemens stopped me and told of a canyon trip he did this past week.
They had two yellowfins and one longfin and dropped a big allison at the boat. But he
was fishing in five hundred fathoms, roughly eighty miles south of the point.

Shark fishing is OK, but reports are scarce as it seems like the economy has cut down on
the amount of offshore trips are being booked on the charter boats

Inshore the striped bass fishing has gotten a little dicey lately, with too many fish around
- blue ones with yellow eyes. The bottom fishing is still better for seabass and porgies
that it is for fluke.

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