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Bluefin Bust!!! Reef Donkeys NJ Style
First Offshore trip of the season. Jeff, Dan, Neil, Brian, and I made up the crew.
With fair weather forecasted for Sat on the offshore grounds, we decided to take a trip and look to make a report on the bluefins rather than read one online. We left the dock at 3am and had a nice trip out to the grounds. God how I love watching the sun come up while running offshore, it really takes you away from any troubles that may await you when you get back to the dock. We are truly blessed to be able to be part of the experience that is offshore fishing.
The plan was to run to the place that the BFT were last year and see if we could make something happen. We had lines in around 6:30am and proceeded to get mauled by bluefish after bluefish. The water was cold (61-62deg) and grey. They were nice sized fish in the 15lb range but not what we were looking for, not to mention that they weren’t much of a challenge on our tuna gear.
We trolled around, working our way east with the plan of going to the west wall of the Hudson for some tiles so we could have some meat in the box. While we were trolling we decided to go over of couple of wrecks in the area to see if we could come across any life. The wrecks were alive on the sounder so we dropped down some squid and butterfly jigs to see if they were hungry.
As it turns out, there were some nice sized Pollock on the wrecks that thought they were amberjacks by the way they were fighting. I have never caught one of these before and must say that they will be on our target species from this point on. What a blast! The jigs turned out to be the ticket as they were out producing the squid 7/1. Hookups were abundant but I must admit that we dropped a lot of fish on the way up. Oh well, I guess we will just have to practice, practice, practice….
We had some meat in the box (7 pollock up to 30lbs and 3 cod up to 16lbs) and the wind was picking up a little so we decided to run for the barn around 2:30pm. On the way home I get a high temp alarm on my Port motor. Open up the hatch to see a bunch of water in the bilge. Neil jumps down in the engine compartment and discovers that the raw water cooling supply hose has a split down the middle and is filling up the boat with water. Shut the sea cock… look around for a hose that will fit but couldn’t find anything in my bag of tricks that would work. Well that leaves the generator to become our spare part stash, we cut the air intake hose off of it so we could make it in. Back up and running after about 30 min delay and all was good. Thanks Neil.... your the man.
Another great day on the water with good friends, meat in the box and a new found fishery for us that will help us bail out our tuna trips (we need all the help we can get) I’m thinking that we should start targeting tiles and Pollock… that way we can always catch some tuna to save the day
Below are some pictures from the trip.
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