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NJ Saltwater Fishing Reports and Information => NJ Offshore Fishing Reports and Information => Topic started by: hareball on July 01, 2011, 11:26:59 AM

Title: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: hareball on July 01, 2011, 11:26:59 AM

Thursday 3am Capt. Mike and I met up with Capt. Joe and Johnny Oz at Reel Time. We loaded her up and set out for Chicken canyon. Ocean was snotty and the closer we got the worse it got. 8'-12' and a few 16' walls...biggest I've seen ever. Our spreader bars were being flipped over, the fish box loaded down with 500 pounds of ice got up on 2 legs and almost flipped. It was crazy so after awhile we switched to jigs and chunks. The seas did lay down and Capt Joe reeled in the first BFT. We finished the day with 2 BFT and 1 YFT.
bluefish were all over, big gator blues destroying gear, this was a problem for the whole fleet. Many switched over to snarling but heard no reports. Many who stuck it out were rewarded with tuna.
When we first got to the area big whales were all around playing in the high seas! The water was a deep dark blue and clean 75 degrees.
Great job and teamwork by the crew and good times as always.

I tried a new app called map my tracks, it's free and worked great but drained my phone in just under 3 hours. It will actually play back your whole trip in real time and show how many knots you were going at that time. As well it has graphs of your speed and elevation. It shows a 13' spike, I assume that was what I thought to be the 16' wave lol!
www.mapmytracks.com/luger
Just make sure if you add the app to go in settings and switch to miles.

Title: Re: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: Hotrod on July 01, 2011, 03:04:17 PM

8' to 12'  thud  Better you than me fcp

Title: Re: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: Bucktail on July 01, 2011, 06:08:32 PM

 whs ;D

Great job guys!  Nice catch! t^

Title: Re: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: Pops Soul on July 01, 2011, 06:18:11 PM

Nice report Bob, Like Rod said better you then me with those rollers. Tuna steaks for the weekend t^ WHeres the pics  :headscra: 

Title: Re: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: hareball on July 01, 2011, 06:26:02 PM

The guys that were in the 18' Boston Whaler CC are better than me!! I've always liked rough seas but while under power, fishing in it sucks. I've never seen it as big as yesterday though. Waves picking us up and dropping us in another spot and taking spreader bars and tossing one 6' over the other. Just glad it layer down after that and was nice all day.

Title: Re: Reel Time Tuna
Post by: hareball on July 01, 2011, 06:28:06 PM

We never had the chance to get many pics, I think Johnny got a short video of Joe fighting his BFT and a few pics back at the dock.