Man, I do love this time of year.

Free Spirit · 07-06-2005, 10:42 PM

I'll tell ya, this fishing is superb! Friday I had one man- 20 bluefin, not bad. Over the weekend we fished fluke and sea bass with mixed results. Keeper fluke were hard to come by but we did catch a load of near keepers in 68 feet of water. Go figure. Anyway, today, Steve Fannon and his son Sean and friends climbed aboard at the ungodly hour of 6:00 A.M .(The boys could not believe that they were actually up ) We ran off beyond the wreck and started to troll. We had been in the water for 10 minutes when 3 BFT climbed all over the lures. None of these guys had ever caught a tuna and on the light tackle I had out, they really enjoyed it. A short time later- POW!!! another BFT. We missed a few more, caught 5 or 6 more,broke a few off, and had maybe a dozen hits and I started home trolling toward the wreck. I was watching the thermocline on my digital sounder and could see an occasional BFT at 25 feet. The thermocliune was at 37 feet. I was telling a guy that sometimes we could see the fish on top pushing water, looked up and there was a school maybe 150 yds square just off the bow. A quick turn and all he-- broke loose as they ate everything in the water. As we fought the fish I happened to look down and there were literally hundreds of tuna swimming under the boat just above the thermocline. We could see them below the fish on the line- Un believable! We caught and released 5 or 6 then re-rigged the ones that were destroyed and moved on. Wait! There they were again up and pushing water! Yours truly, being a glutton for punishment made a turn and... you guessed it, it happened all over again. Again we could see the fish leisurely swimming under the boat as we fought and released their buddies. I then quit! We probably had 30 chances and caught somewhere around 20 fish keeping 2 of the larger ones for the table. A great day was had by all. Now bring on those big-uns! I do have 2 days open in July if you want to come out and play with the bluefins.

WAHOONBOX · 07-06-2005, 11:32 PM

NICE WORK DUDE! ........I COULD SEE THE SCHOOL AT 30 FT MYSELF WITH YOUR SO VIVID REPLAY!!!!!

HOPE YOUR CHARTERS ARE SAFE AND PROSPEROUS ! THANKS FOR SHARING.........

07-06-2005, 10:42 PM	#1
Free Spirit Hide- My Wifes Logged On Join Date: May 2005 Location: Egg Harbor Twp Posts: 149 Credits: 1,250.9 Occupation: charter captain	Man, I do love this time of year. I'll tell ya, this fishing is superb! Friday I had one man- 20 bluefin, not bad. Over the weekend we fished fluke and sea bass with mixed results. Keeper fluke were hard to come by but we did catch a load of near keepers in 68 feet of water. Go figure. Anyway, today, Steve Fannon and his son Sean and friends climbed aboard at the ungodly hour of 6:00 A.M .(The boys could not believe that they were actually up ) We ran off beyond the wreck and started to troll. We had been in the water for 10 minutes when 3 BFT climbed all over the lures. None of these guys had ever caught a tuna and on the light tackle I had out, they really enjoyed it. A short time later- POW!!! another BFT. We missed a few more, caught 5 or 6 more,broke a few off, and had maybe a dozen hits and I started home trolling toward the wreck. I was watching the thermocline on my digital sounder and could see an occasional BFT at 25 feet. The thermocliune was at 37 feet. I was telling a guy that sometimes we could see the fish on top pushing water, looked up and there was a school maybe 150 yds square just off the bow. A quick turn and all he-- broke loose as they ate everything in the water. As we fought the fish I happened to look down and there were literally hundreds of tuna swimming under the boat just above the thermocline. We could see them below the fish on the line- Un believable! We caught and released 5 or 6 then re-rigged the ones that were destroyed and moved on. Wait! There they were again up and pushing water! Yours truly, being a glutton for punishment made a turn and... you guessed it, it happened all over again. Again we could see the fish leisurely swimming under the boat as we fought and released their buddies. I then quit! We probably had 30 chances and caught somewhere around 20 fish keeping 2 of the larger ones for the table. A great day was had by all. Now bring on those big-uns! I do have 2 days open in July if you want to come out and play with the bluefins. __________________ Capt. Steve Bent Fishing from the Delaware Bay to the canyons on a custom built, fully equipped 34' Downeast vessel gotumon@comcast.net Free Spirit Fishing Charter Fishing New Jersey Phone-609-926-9017 Call for rates and dates

07-06-2005, 11:32 PM	#2
WAHOONBOX I'M SPEECHLESS Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: MOREHEAD CITY NC 28557 Posts: 15,307 Credits: 52,519.2 Boat: I AM A FREELANCER Home Port: MOREHEAD CITY, NC Best Catch: PONEYTAIL Occupation: OFFSHORE MATE VIDEOGRAPHER	PRETTY WORK SPIRIT! NICE WORK DUDE! ........I COULD SEE THE SCHOOL AT 30 FT MYSELF WITH YOUR SO VIVID REPLAY!!!!! HOPE YOUR CHARTERS ARE SAFE AND PROSPEROUS ! THANKS FOR SHARING......... __________________ I STRONGLY SUPPORT: DEEP DIVING AND EASY TRIPPIN' OLD SALTY PLANERS FINRAZOR RODS & THE ABSOLUTELY DEEPER ATTACK WEAPON: SNIPER PLANER RODS THE GIANT BLUEFIN TUNA HEART STOPPER: POON HARPOON

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