We were fortunate enough to have 4 days in a row of great weather and managed to get 3 overnighters in.
9/19-20/09
We fished the East Elbow of the Hudson and got into a decent little troll bite on Saturday afternoon. We picked up 3 nice yellowfins, 2 big longfins and a handful of gaffer dolphins on the troll.
At night we had a couple of 25 pound yellowfin on the chunk early, we released a 40" sword and broke off a nice sword on light leader meant for tuna.
The group decided they wanted to give jigging for bluefin a shot so we ran in and set up on the drift on the bluefin grounds. We marked the fish pretty well but getting the bites was tough. Managed two bites but pulled the hook on both.
9/20-21
We headed back out to the east elbow and put a few hours in on the troll without any bites.
We set up on the chunk and did nothing until 11:30pm when we had a double header consisting of a 50" swordfish and a 25 pound yellowfin.
From then on we had steady action on 20-30 pound yellowfins until 2am. After limiting out on yellowfins we switched over to all sword baits. We had one more sword bite but didn't come tight and then ran home at first light.
9/21-22
We ran right back to where we were sunday night hoping for a repeat on the action. Unfortunately, the bite never materialized for us. we went 1 for 3 on yellowfin early in the night breaking a couple off on the trim tabs. We had blue sharks in the chunks around daybreak.
Finished off the trip doing some tilefishing and pot hopping and put 6 tiles to 20 pounds in the boat and 8 dolphin over 10 pounds in the boat.
