Capt. Phil Dulanie took the 60’ Ritchie Howell out on Thursday with the Damien Romeo charter from Forked River, NJ and Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the 48’ Viking with the Peter Schoels charter from Weekawkin, NJ. With the success the day before down south off they went again for a 130 mile ride to the Poormans area. They started north and each boat picked a couple yellowfin in the afternoon troll. Both set up for sharking on the drift with the 60’ Ritchie on the back in 100 fathoms by the Poormans and the 48’ inshore of the tip. Both boats had various species of sharks throughout the night including tigers, duskys, blues and the 60’ lost a 125 pound mako at the boat when the hook fell out.

Up on the troll in the morning the action was slightly better with 4 fish taken on each boat. Almost all the bites came in singles so it spread out the action but limited the quantity as we just couldn’t load up the rides. Our Canyon Runner Spreader Bars caught the most to the point where both boats had out 5 and 6 bars respectively. Mini-Green Machine Bars and 9” Purple/Black Squid Bars produced best. The fish were loaded with 9” squid. All the yellowfin were between 35 and 50 pounds. Nice fish on the troll.