8/9/10

Star Island held their Mako Mania & Thresher tournament over the weekend, and the
results will give you an idea of how exciting shark fishing is right now. Fifty-one boats
fished for two days and weighed in four qualifying fish, three makos and a thresher. That
isn’t an accurate picture of how many makos are around. It’s just that the vast majority
are on the little size. The results are as follows:
1st place mako - RIGGER - 110 lbs
2nd place mako - REEL GAMES - 109 lbs
3rd place mako - REEL STEEL - 102 lbs
1st place thresher - MAIN SQUEEZE - 154 lbs.

The tuna report isn’t all that exciting either. Locally every once in a while someone lucks
across a bluefin, but it seems like the second person to do it is in a different place from
the first. And, it doesn’t happen that often. Yellowfins, longfins and a fair amount of
white marlin are out on the Edge, but not in very big numbers. And, for any real shot at
success you almost have to be there by dawn. Nothing much to report from inside the 400
line, so if you go resign yourself to run all the way. No stopping short and working your
way out.

Inshore is steady, with some nice size striped bass mixed in with the regular size ones,
mostly on big tubes or live bait. Bottom fishing is very good, especially for seabass and
porgies, but catching keeper size fluke is still difficult.


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