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Well we went from 58 yellowfin on the chunk in 2 nights to very hard fishing. Who knows what it is – who knows what is was but we had some of the best fishing ever this year and it was bound to slow.
The slow down started after the Northeast blow we had early last week. On our first trip out with the Tom Mallen charter on August 26-27 Capt. Mark DeBlasio and Capts. Deanne Lambros and Ryan DiBagio went right back where they crushed them 3 nights earlier and had nothing. Nothing on the troll, nothing on the chunk – it was heart breaking – it was at the southwest corner of the Hudson.
So on August 27-28 (Friday-Saturday) with the Carl Bloomfield and Mike Greenberg charter the boys went down to the Toms Canyon and just didn’t see the life they needed to see and were lucky enough to nail 2 longfin on the troll right before dark but that was it.
So Sunday-Monday’s trip with the Tim O’Conner was a trip where we had to start pulling out all the stops to make a happy charter. There was a boat or two that had a decent chunk bite back up in the Hudson Canyon on Saturday night so Capt. DeBlasio ran up that way again and did not do it on the troll but at night started to put together a catch. The problem was a lot of fish were lost. They had a total of 9 yellowfin on during the trip but only brought 3 to the gaff. They then ran 40 miles inshore and north – not exactly on the way home – and found the Bluefin. Again though they fought 5 with only bringing 1 to the boat.
On Monday-Tuesday’s trip on August 30-31 with the Dick Steer charter Capt. Mark pieced it together again. Trolling the Hudson Canyon produced 1 for 2 on longfin before the night, the night produced 2 makos with one killed and 1 released and with not much else going on Capt. Mark gave the boys from Connecticut and extra hour on the trip and what an hour it was – they hooked a nice big-eye on a blue/white Ilander and 45 minutes later they boxed up a 186 pounds eye-ball.
They finished up a stretch of 5 overnighters in 7 days with an open boat trip and had another very slow one just ahead of Hurricane Earl. They were 1 for 3 on yellowfin, caught a few mahi and stopped to add 10 tilesfish. But unfortunately that was it.
One thing for sure – the Canyons were churned up by Earl for the last 2 days so hopefully the fish moved back up on the bank from wherever they swam to. If not – we’ll be mixing in a lot of Bluefin action on these trips to spice things up as that has been great about 60 miles out of Manasquan.
These are pictures from the 2 great chunking trips we had last week and the Dick Steer 186# Big-Eye
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