10/8-9
We fished friday night several miles east of the hudson in some tough conditions.
Prior to setting up for the night we trolled up a few dolphin and had some nice tuna marks in with the draggers.
We didn't want to get cut off so we headed up the line to spend night.
We went 1 for 2 on yellowfin before 10pm and then released a small sword. We had great tuna marks and tons of bait but a tuna bite didn't materialize.
Around 1am the bluesharks moved in and we spent the rest of the night trying to weed through them for a tuna bite. we ended up releasing 18 blue sharks and broke off at least that many. Needless to say our tuna gear needed some help after that.
10/11-12
We spent last night in the Toms and tried to do a little daytime swordfishing. Never really marked any deep bait so we ended up tilefishing.
We put 12 tiles in the boat and then got on the troll. Trolled up a few dolphin before setting up for the night.
Our first fish of the night was a 90 pound yellowfin that hit a live squid around 9pm and we had a quick little flurry of bites. ended up 4 for 7 on fish between 65 and 90 pounds before the bite died.
around 11pm we had sardines behind the boat and a small swordfish followed them up. It hit a live squid down 60 feet and jumped before we even knew we had a bite. we released it and waited...
Around 2am it happened. Literally all the fish you could handle until 5am. The fish weren't picky but we stuck with bait mostly because i feel it's much easier to release the fish. we boated 7 more and released another 20. the fish were big and they were taking a toll on our anglers so for a while we just watched the fish streak through the balled up sardines and squid.
We ended up with 12 tiles, 3 dolphin, 31 yellowfin and a small sword.
