Capt. Mark ran the Gene Croddick charter to the Baltimore canyon but left very late Friday afternoon so did not get set up at the tip until 9pm and missed out on the bluefin chunking Adam was into on Massey's gettign there too late. The crew chunked one yellowfin at night and trolled 2 in the morning but had to leave very early to get home or would have ran inshore to get in on some of the great bluefin action on the lumps 15-20 miles inshore of the tip.
Capt. DeBlasio and mate Ty McGowan took the Andy Weil charter for an overnighter Tuesday to Wednesday and decided to run south to put him in a position to catch both yellowfin on the troll in the Wilmington and bluefin on the jigs and bait on the inshore grounds. The charter put two 48 bluefin and 46 bluefin in the boat and released another 15 bluefin for a total of over 20 tuna for the trip.
July 7-8 - Capt. Mark DeBlasio took the Jeff Porello charter out for an overnighter Friday to Saturday and decided to head all the way down south to get in on the bluefin fishing that has turned on down there. On Friday afternoon he trolled 2 nice bluefins down around Massey s Canyon on purple black 9 inch squid and a ballyhoo with a moldcraft little hooker in blue white.
Working everywhere within, inshore, offshore of the Lindenchol canyon and 5 miles north and south had produce all of one bite for the Hooked Up 2 on 40 pound yellowfin caught off the 500 fathom line just north of the Lindenchol by 9am. Trolling the rest of the morning and deep into the afternoon produced one more bite of 3 yellowfin and all of those were put in the boat.
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. 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.
Capt. Mark DeBlasio went back out late Saturday night with the Jason Broke charter and ran back out towards the water between the Toms and Carterat on the 1500 fathom line. Looks like tomorrow we will be looking back in on the 100 fathom line down by the Carteret and Lindencohl and try to find a better concentration of fish inshore of that water out on the 1000 now.
Up on the troll in the morning they stayed in around the 1000 - 1200 fathom line in 68 degree water and did not have a touch all morning. They worked down from the 1000-1200 fathom lines of the Toms to the Carteret and struck out.
I had good bait readings immediately in 100 fathoms and quickly had a shot of fish come up and boil on our lures with only one staying hooked. There were times we would see the fish come up behind the lures and track them for a few seconds before exploding on them.
The fish that morning ate ballyhoo and Green Machine spreader bars and all the action moved over to the west wall of the Baltimore in 100 fathoms. And one last thing we 've don 't often see - when they had the bluefin along side to release it they slowed to a stop to pull the fish out and when the waked cleanup they saw a school of 100 tuna down 20 feet under the boat following the tuna which was hooked on a green machine bar which the lures on the arms probably attracted the tuna.
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