Mako Mania?

[OffTheHookB&T]

Didn't the Mako Mania start yesterday, any reports?
Just had a customer tell me there was a 300+ Mako hung yesterday, anyone have info???

[Finesse]

Didn't the Mako Mania start yesterday, any reports?

No......But I think the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers Tournament started yesterday and runs through Sunday

Mako Mania runs today/tomorrow

[Green Machine]

Someone had a 368 or something like that yesterday... Top weight at Mako Mania is 201. Not sure how many qualifying fish were caught.

[livetofishnj]

didn't seem like the fishing was all that great. we had no drift in the morning but didn't leave since we had football tuna, bluefish and tons of assorted offshore life. Tide turned and the wind picked up so we got a drift but still no sharks. Saw one bluedog come window shopping but she just swam past the baits like they weren't even there. From the chatter, insults and threats on the radio and friends I talked to it didn't seem like the conditions were better north or east, or the fishing...

Was one mako in my area, but it was caught by the state's "fastest charter boat"... out of a slick that he set parallel to ours and about 200 yards off.
It's what makes tournament sharking unfun sometimes, 14 boats already in a tight area, spaced about 3/8's of a mile apart. Another boat comes in late and sets up 1/4 mile away and just off your slick, and catches a mako to boot.
There's no guarantee that we'd have caught that fish but without the closely competing slick, who knows. There just isn't enough room in tight spots and even though a boat tries to respect others, you still end up on top of each other's drifts. Then when a fish is caught you question what would have been if you weren't all packed in like sardines.

[gradyfish265]

201 won mako mania, only about a half dozen fish weighed between both days, second place was around 180. The 300lb fish was caught friday in Mako Fever touney. Horrible drift conditions this weekend..went in circles. Had Makos in the slick but they were very timid, they would follow baits to the boat but wouldnt eat anything we threw at them...and we had it ALL onboard.


livetfish....we had an idiot park about .25 miles away from us directly in our slick....you could see the slick for miles and then 10 min later hooked a small mako....found out later on he wasn;t in any tournament...some people just don;t have any class or courtesey out there. It is one thing to be parallel and close, but with moderate distance, but it is rediculous to go behind someone or basically try and make someone elses slick wider and connect it to yours or to stop directly IN there slick. Heard a few boats firing warning rounds near us over the weekend so it seems like this type of rediculousness was all over.

[sportfishingusa]

didn't seem like the fishing was all that great. we had no drift in the morning but didn't leave since we had football tuna, bluefish and tons of assorted offshore life. Tide turned and the wind picked up so we got a drift but still no sharks. Saw one bluedog come window shopping but she just swam past the baits like they weren't even there. From the chatter, insults and threats on the radio and friends I talked to it didn't seem like the conditions were better north or east, or the fishing...

Was one mako in my area, but it was caught by the state's "fastest charter boat"... out of a slick that he set parallel to ours and about 200 yards off.
It's what makes tournament sharking unfun sometimes, 14 boats already in a tight area, spaced about 3/8's of a mile apart. Another boat comes in late and sets up 1/4 mile away and just off your slick, and catches a mako to boot.
There's no guarantee that we'd have caught that fish but without the closely competing slick, who knows. There just isn't enough room in tight spots and even though a boat tries to respect others, you still end up on top of each other's drifts. Then when a fish is caught you question what would have been if you weren't all packed in like sardines.

guess he was looking for some "seafood"?

[Deep C]

For the lack of a better word the fishing was brutally tough. 6 qualifying fish for 300 boats... 201 on top 180 2nd and the bottom fish barely broke 150...