Hooked UP II report on Yellowfins, White Marlin and Wahoo yesterday out of Cape May

[Caveman Sportfishing]

We just found the fish and had the right spread out thanks to my crew for such hard work and experimenting on what brought up the fish on a very slow day on Yellowfins for just about everyone from the Lindy to the Baltimore. In all honesty we could not have had the day we did yesterday without the super hard work of my crew and to them a big thank you from me and the charter.

Almost everyone I talked to that slammed them on Sunday struggled yesterday on tuna. It seemed like this one small area almost exactly where we have fished for the last two weeks still is holding Yellowfins, Whites and now Wahoo and for us and a few other boats around us it continued to produce decent catches but yesterday was far from red hot. My captain friend that had 17 tuna bites on his Sunday day troll trip only had a few tuna bites all day yesterday and they fishing exactly the same location as where the boat fished on Sunday. This is how it has been overall so far this canyon tuna when targeting Yellowfins in the southern canyons as every day things change somewhat and you can be red hot one day and struggle the next fishing the same numbers. We raised almost as many White Marlins yesterday as we had tuna bites which lends to some additional fun for our charter as we played the drop back and bait-switch techniques to enhance those finicky son of guns to eat. Never seen an offshore fish that can steal ballyhoo quite like a White and for this reason the challenge of hooking them will always get the red blood flowing when we see one come up in the spread. As most readers know this bill fishing has not been my thing in the past but I am starting to embrace it as long as we can provide some meat for our customers and I look at it as just another challenge and opportunity for our customers to experience something that most have never done before plus my mates love it when a Marlin comes up in the spread. We probably had almost just as many Whites come up yesterday and ate ballyhoo as Tuna bites and this was with fishing an all tuna spread. My guess the total Whites we saw or ate ballyhoo would have been somewhere around 6-8 and maybe more plus the tuna and Wahoo bites on yesterday trip. Lots of great action throughout the day plus some fine tuna meat for our customers but we truly were one of the lucky boats yesterday as the TUNA bite was just not there in the big numbers like the previous few days.

Overall it is light years better than the previous few summers on Yellowfins and I do believe it will only get better and if this trend continues and I am really getting excited on the potential of having a great late summer and fall overnight canyon tuna bite hopefully in our local canyons. It may rival the old days when we were done chunking or jigging by 9:30-11:00 pm and either left for home or did catch and release the remainder of the night. Let’s all hope this develops in the coming weeks and right now I am absolutely thrilled to see these Yellowfins showing up in our local canyons even if it is not always red hot on every trip it still is light years better than last year.

For some reason possibly the economy we have far more open dates than previous years in July, August and Sept. Usually by now are booked 100% in July and most of August give us a call or e-mail and I am certain we have a open date that will accommodate most groups Presently I am very thank full for every trip we have run or booked so far this offshore season and quite frankly regardless if it was way south down to the Washington-Poormans, inshore on the Bluefin grounds or up towards the Lindy-Carteret they all have produced excellent trips so far for us this season on a mixed bag of offshore species far better than in recent years. It really has been fun so far.

[Mucho Clams]

It was one Helluva Great Day out there with you yesterday Capt. Jon. We put a Whoppin on those YellowFins
Nothing rides like that Big 55' Carolina boat, and That boat Raises Fish like no other

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

thanks for the report Capt. John. Hope all is well.