Capt. Mark DeBlasio and Capt. Joe Miele with mates John Timken and Ryan DiBaggi took the Paul Pedretti charter offshore Friday into Saturday. We did not head back south as we felt strongly the fish we were catching had moved out with the water. Instead we knew good water was moving into the Hudson/Dip area so we headed in that direction. We were right about the water.

As soon as they got just north-east of the 100-square had the nicest water we've seen so far and had two 15# mahi in the boat within 10 minutes of fishing. The water got up to 69 degrees but the warmer it got the less life they had. However they decided to shark up in that nicer water hoping for a mako.

What they got was over 20 blue sharks and then lost count but no makos.

Up on the troll in the morning they moved down to the west wall of the hudson without a touch so they started drifting for tiles and put the chum back out. They picked away at 16 tilefish up to 8 pounds but no more sharks.