July 2 - Capt. Phil Dulanie left Manasquan with the Richard Suth charter at 1am Monday morning and ran out to the Carteret Canyon with the thought to finally keep it close to home (80 miles) and start beating the grounds looking for fish to show up. He worked the 50-100 fathom line inshore of the tip down to the Lindenchol and out to the northeast corner of the Lindenchol where is got his first bite and put a 50 pound yellowfin in the boat after reading a pod of bait down very deep our or Northstar recorder just off the bank at 8am. Conditions where a bit sported out there with 10 footers rolling in once they got into the deep but it did lay down later. After working the northeast corner for a short while they headed off to the break which was on the 1000 Fathom Line but there were no fish in on the break. By the time they turned around and trolled into the 8-10 footers it took them until Noon to get back to the corner where they got a three banger putting 1 in the boat and then working fish they were reading at 140 feet got two other bites putting one more in the boat. Every fish came on a ballyhoo skirted with moldcraft little hookers and Islanders all in blue/white and were in the 40-50 pound class.
Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Shawn Noonan charter from Center Morichise out on the HU2 Monday July 2 for a day troll and decided to head back out to the 71 degree water off the 1000 fathom line of the Carteret where he had been fishing. Working that edge and deep into the hot water produced nothing all day. When Phil got his second fish in on the Northeast corner of the Lindy Capt. Mark picked 'em up and ran 20 miles into Phil and saved the day with a nice yellowfin on a ballyhoo.
