It was a beautiful day to go to sea, with such light winds that Mike Heaney of Allendale didn't take a bit of spray all day on his Sea Vee from Crystal Point Marina in Point Pleasant. Bob Correll of Bay Head and I joined Heaney for what was intended to be a mid-range tuna effort, but the water in Chicken Canyon didn't look good, and there were no signs of fish. Therefore, he kept going to the tip of Hudson Canyon. We found better conditions there in clean waters where two whales were spouting and there were lots of dolphins and storm petrals (tuna chicks). Yet, we never had a tuna hit while trolling in those lively waters. Only the dolphin fish bailed us out with two big ones of at least 15 and 20 pounds plus a much smaller one that still was hooked on a balao on the hook of a high-speed lure. Tuesday looks like it will just as good a day to head offshore. Capt. Russ Binns said Sunday's fluking on his Mar-Lin from Toms River was the best he's had in 25 years once he found the right drift at the north end of Axel Carlsen Reef. His crew boated 12 keepers, of which only one was 18 inches while the rest ran from 21 to 27 inches before he left them biting. The Golden Eagle from Belmar reported a very good day of variety bottom fishing with a boat limit of sea bass (two per man) up to 4 pounds plus some ling to 3 pounds, and a few fluke. Frank Huza of Aberdeen couldn't catch any fluke or sea robins while casting for them in the Monmouth Beach surf on Sunday morning, but got into a shot of cocktail blues at 7:30 by casting an Ava 007 diamond jig. Allen Riley of South Plainfield was on hand this morning hoping for the same action, but nothing happened. He did see lots of dolphins moving to the south. Matt Slobodjian reports from Jim's Tackle in Cape May as follows:The fluke fishing remains about the same, a lot of small fish and a few nice ones. We did the weigh in for the JCAA Fluke tournament in Cape May. The winning fish was 4.6lbs. and was caught in the backwaters by Bill Mullen of Lester Pa.. The kingfish slowed down in the rips' but small blues took their place. They can be caught trolling or casting small metal lures. We've even had some guys drifting spearing back behind the boat on a plain hook. The wind kept the small boats at the dock a pretty good portion of the week, but a few boats did the inshore troll. The small blues are on South Shoal, a few mahi have also been caught there and at Cape May Reef. Art Cranston of Mt. Holly was trolling the East Lump out to the 20 Fathom fingers. He had 2 dolphin, some false albacore, and a 35-lb. wahoo. The dolphin were 11 and 13.5 lbs.. Only a few boats tried for tuna this week at Massey's and the Hambone due to the wind, but some fish were caught at both places. The weather looks good for this week hope to have a better inshore report next week. Offshore, the white marlin bite has been excellent with some boats getting 20 or more bites a day. The water holding these fish was up between the Lindenkohl and Spencer canyons but is moving south and the last bite was closer to the Wilmington. The bigeyes are starting to show up a little better in the Wilmington as well. We are getting reports of fish in the 200lb. plus range on the troll during the day and after sunset. The surf is pretty much the same. Kingfish and small fluke are mostly what's out there. A few triggerfish have been caught on the rock piles at the Point. There have been a few spotty reports of croakers being caught at the Point, but no big numbers.