jersey bluefin

[Capt. Brian Daley]

Get out there and dont miss the action

[sportfishingusa]

Get out there and dont miss the action

what brian forget to say is that he was in a dry suit with a damn spear gun.. he is a maniac..

but i think that is more than your limit.. lol haha just playin..

nice catch bri!!

[gradyfish265]

Giants in NJ are not an easy catch in the fall. More then 50% are caught by striper fishermen by mistake and broken off. The ones that are landed are usually by seasoned fishermen who put in a LOT of time for very few fish. Simply chumming doesnt work very often. These fish are on a fast move south and are not looking for your chunks, and when they feed it is on sand eels or rain fish, both very hard for many to simulate. Both can be done on topwater, but down 30-60ft in often rough conditions is another story. You want to sue a small hammered jig or crippled herring, I mean smalla nd figure out a way to get it down with added weight somewhere, or use slug gos with a weight somewhere and slow jig them to make it look like a sand eel shooting in and out of the sand on the outskirts of a ball of sand eels being blitzed. Last season we saw 150-300lb bft jumping within 2 miles of the beach and we jigged them for 2 weeks, not one hit, just some stripers, which is what we planned to target until we saw the bft and hopef for a miracle. I hooked one the seaosn before bass fishing drifint peanut bunker in a peanut bunker school about 2 miles off the beach off sandy hook but was spooled in minutes....not sure how I would have gaffed that fish and boated it alone...the harpoon was at home and I was single handed....now that would have been an epic tale if I pulled that one off. Good luck to those who try I hope you hook them but its not easy. Your more likely to catch one in the early summer in the canyons...the fish move from the MD waters and work offshore about 80-100miles and clip the Hudson Canyon typically, its just knowing when to make that run and where exactly the fish are each day, but you'd be more likely to get one then then now in NJ waters. I hope someone gets lucky this fall and lands one.