On the chunk they had squid around the boat all night and picked away at the yellowfin putting another 5 in the boat during the night bite and losing several more.
The morning troll did not have any action with tuna but that was more than made up by marlin. First came a white marlin that tried to eat a ballyhoo trolled deep off the bridge and missed. Capt. Mark dropped the bait back and we were hooked up. A quick fight, a tag and a quick release and we were back up on the troll. The next bite was a blue marlin under the same sceanario – missed the long bridge rod on the first shot – Capt. Mark dropped back the bait and the fight was on. This lasted slightly longer but the blue was finally brought boatside billed, hook taken out, great pictures taken and off she swam.
But the trip wasn’t over yet – feeling the need to find even more action the Canyon Runner Crew decided to run inshore and look for some Bluefin action. They found it! In 1 hour or so the boated 16 bluefin keeping a 56†fish and a 40†fish and tagging and releasing 14. Making it a total of 29 tuna for the trip – not bad guys but not 30!!!!
By the way - that makes it our 5th blue marlin to be brought to the boat and officially released since July 7 – not a bad 3 weeks for New Jersey. Today’s blue was around 375-400 pounds. We caught blue marlin in that class, one 600 pounder and one 700 pounder. While today’s blue was caught on a ballyhoo 3 of them have been caught on new Canyon Runner lures we’ve been field testing and will introduce this winter – they seem to be working just fine.
