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Angler Name : Joe Vandergeest
E-Mail : JVander139@AOL.com
Boat Name: Goose's Gander
Date Fished: 8-31-97
Location: Baltimore Canyon- 500 Line
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50
Bait or Lure: Bally & Split Tail Mullet
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 77-79.5
Information : Had 1 nice yellowfin as soon as we got there around 6:30am Raised 2 whites around 10am - released 1 white -- Trolled inside the tip and picked up some dolphin around some gear. overall was a pretty good day with the seas calm

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : snowdog911@aol.com
Boat Name: Dixon Dinghy
Date Fished: 08-31-97
Location: 8 miles out of Ocean City
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Atlantic Bonito
Size: 10lb
Bait or Lure: bucktail
Water Depth: 65 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : tried drifting just outside the inlet (bouy GE) with little luck , then decieded to take a run out. There must have been 2 dozen boats trolling and so we followed suit. It turned out to be lots of fun catching bonito. As long as the weather holds up, I will surely be out there next week.

Angler Name : Jeff & Joe
E-Mail : FshHk@aol.com
Boat Name: BONE DOCTOR
Date Fished: 8/31/97
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 3#-10#
Bait or Lure: Zukers & Tuna Clones
Water Depth: 190-240
Water Temp.: 74-77F
Information : Fished in calm warm waters, had steady action with dolphin, throwing the smaller ones back, had some very strong run-offs (most likely tuna) and released a skipjack at the boat. Action was consistent all day until the wind started blowing around 3pm. on the way in. Highlight was what looked like a 20-30# dolphin slam a lure and put on an awesome aerial display until throwing the hook!

Angler Name : John Deno
E-Mail : denojohn@lanmail.shu.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/31/97
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"-24"
Bait or Lure: Sandworm
Water Depth: 25'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Went out by buoy 16 again around 7 am. Within minutes my Dad had hooked into a 5 pounder. Caught 18 in about 3 hrs and headed in early to catch the Giants game. Fishing slowed down anyway by 10 am because of the holiday boat traffic.

Angler Name : John & Bob
E-Mail : jkolias@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Reef Fun
Date Fished: 8/31/97
Location: Chapel Hill Channel
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Legal
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 42-28
Water Temp.: n/a
Information : A couple of run-offs, but nothing boated...should have gone to the Reach early. Tried drifting for fluke with squid/spearing. A few nice keeper fish..but once again quite slow. I stay in, and the fish are out. I go out, and the fish are in.....bad timing, I'll get it right yet. Last years fluking MUCH better than this year's..where the hell are they...in Bogan's nets?

Angler Name : todd luyber
E-Mail : luyberto@UMDNJ.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 31AUG97
Location: barnegate
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: upto 20 inches
Bait or Lure: squid/killie
Water Depth: 56-60 ft
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Ran out of the inlet about 6:20. Got into a bunch of small bluefish about half mile in front of north jetty. We kept a few for the table ran out to the coast guard station on island beach. Boat about 12 keepers upto 19 inches in a bout 58 feet of water before the wind died around 10:30 when we called it a day.

Angler Name : Alex Chamessian
E-Mail : alex@ucs.net
Boat Name: Golden Eagle
Date Fished: 8/31/97
Location: inshore
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1 to 6 pounds
Bait or Lure: butter fish, and jigs
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : In the morning the whole boat got a lot of taylor sized blues on jigs. we moved around.Then around 11 o'clock we went back to our first spot, and got bigs blues. Everyone got one, I got two. Then our trip was over. It was good.

Angler Name : john smallwood
E-Mail : jpma@exit109.c0m
Boat Name: Blues Brothers
Date Fished: friday-08/30/97
Location: southern mud hole-
Fishing Method: trolled and chunked
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: none
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 240
Water Temp.: 70,s
Information : 11 hours of trolling nd chunking, nothing - not even blue fish- there had been a storm the night before - checking back I don't think I have ever caught fish after a storm. We arrived at ther Lillian around 7am and were meet by lighting and funnels,Big storm. we trooled for 5 hours and moved along the slough -nothing. Then tied up to chunk on the arundal. No fish but lost a beautiful anchor. a tough day can,t wait to go again

Angler Name : BOB MISZKIEWICZ
E-Mail :
Boat Name: STO-LAT
Date Fished: 8/30/97
Location: LILLIAN
Fishing Method: TROLLING
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 25 INCHES
Bait or Lure: CEDAR PLUG
Water Depth: 104
Water Temp.: 72
Information : LEFT DOCK AT 9AM TROLLED LITTLE ITALY TO THE LILLIAN AND HOOKED A SHORT BLUEFIN ON A GREEN-BLACK CEDAR PLUG - NO OTHER HITS OR RUNS....

Angler Name : Al Sica
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Octafish
Date Fished: 8/30/97, 8/31/97
Location: Outside Hereford Inlet/North Wildwood NJ
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Atlantic Croaker
Size: To 15"
Bait or Lure: Squid/Minnow
Water Depth: 45-50 ft.
Water Temp.: 72
Information : 2 of us on boat Fished Both Saturday and Sunday 9am - 1 pm just outside Hereford inlet 1 mile from beach, southern drift from Stone Harbor beach to North Wildwood beach, looking for Weakies/Fluke caught mostly nice size croaker ( 19 Sat. , 6 Sun ) also picked up 4 fluke/ 4 weaks on saturday, 7 fluke 1 weak on sunday.

Angler Name : TOM MULDOON/GEORGE KOWALSKI
E-Mail : MAKO6950@AOL.COM
Boat Name: LAUREN MARIE
Date Fished: SAT., 8-30-96
Location: CAPE MAY RIPS
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"+
Bait or Lure: BUCKTAILS & RIGS w/ SQUID
Water Depth: 14'
Water Temp.: 75
Information : STARTED SLOW WITH ONE 20" FLOUNDER & 2 THROWBACKS. AT SLACK TIDE DRIFTED THE RIPS PICKING UP 17 BLUEFISH TO 2LBS AND 14 KEEPER WEAKIES. HAD OVER A DOZEN THROWBACK WEAKIES AND STARTED THROWING BACK THE BLUES. ALL ACTION OCCURRED IN 2 HRS AND STOPPED AS FAST AS IT STARTED.

Angler Name : Dewey Oxburger
E-Mail : danpatjo@erols.com
Boat Name: ROJO
Date Fished: Aug 30th
Location: Island Beach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14 1/2 - 19
Bait or Lure: killie squid combo
Water Depth: 49 - 53
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Ran northeast out of the inlet @ about 6:30 up off coast guard station. Had about 10 keepers in the box by about 8:00. The rest of the fleet showed up and the wind died down about 10:00 -10:30. headed home with 13 had them cleaned and showered and still caught the Giants opening kickoff.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 29, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Blue Marlin
Size: 500+ pounds
Bait or Lure: Zucker
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie took the Mike Mazzucco charter out to the Hudson Canyon for a one day trolling trip on the Canyon Runner on Friday. A slow pick of longfin put 5 in the boat, however, the excitement came when some ate a purple zucker trolled from the short rigger and proceeded to dump the spool on the 50W International. Backing down hard to prevent the loss of what was believed to be a Big-Eye, Captain Dulanie saw a 500+ pound 13 feet long Blue Marlin exit the water. Once realizing what really ate the Zucker the battle ensued and the fish was whipped in 30 minutes and laid alongside the boat. The hock was removed and the fish regained its strength and swam away to fight, and hopefully be released, another day.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-29-97
Location: Sandy Hook Rips
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 19-27 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 10-17 feet
Water Temp.: 71.4-71.6
Information : Due to time constraints today only able to fish 3+ hours from 6AM-9:30 AM,but in that time I landed 13 bass and 1 weakfish.....Just before I was about to leave a few birds started to work the head of the rips and I noticed that there were some nice sized fish breaking water...not sure if they were bass,blues,albies or bonito.......

Angler Name : JOHN PACKOWSKI
E-Mail : JUMBOCRAB@JUNO.COM
Boat Name: BLUE CLAW
Date Fished: 8/29/97
Location: BARNEGAT BAY
Fishing Method: TRAPS,HAND LINES
Specie: Crab
Size: LARGE MALE CRABS
Bait or Lure: BUNKER
Water Depth: 8
Water Temp.: 78
Information : WENT CRABBING WITH MY SONS IN THE GOOD LUCK POINT AREA OF BARNEGAT BAY. WE CAUGHT A FEW DOZEN NICE SIZED CRABS AND SOME SNAPPER BLUES.

Angler Name : charles fleishman
E-Mail : chaspe@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: sea devil
Date Fished: august 29, 1997
Location: point pleasant
Fishing Method:
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 25 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : THIS WAS THE WORST BOAT I HAVE EVER GO OUT ON. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THE SEA DEVIL TO ANYONE. THE CAPTAIN IS CUTTING COST AND DID GO MORE THAN TEN MINUTES FROM PORT. HE SAID CLOSE TO SHORE. HE LEFT LATE AND CAME BACK IN AN HOUR EARLY. THE FISHING WAS LOUSY. I WONDER WHY.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 27 & 28
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunck
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30 to 130
Bait or Lure: Butters/Green Machines
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Mark Caplin charter out on the Canyon Runner for an overnight trip to the Hudson Canyon. Once again the bite on the chunck was uneventful, however, on the troll 6 longfin and 2 yellowfin were boated. The yellowfin hit on the West Wall and both were over 100 pounds with the larger close to 130.

Angler Name : Joe Baskinger
E-Mail : Fluke97
Boat Name: Billyjo
Date Fished: 8/28/97
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 11.75 Pounds
Bait or Lure: Killies
Water Depth: 27 Ft
Water Temp.: 73 Deg.
Information : Started fishing at 7am in my boat and following me in his boat was Clyde Daut with his friends. We fished in the same area together. About 10am Clyde got an 11.75 pound Fluke. I've heard of large Fluke being caught, but this was heaviest Fluke I have ever seen.

Angler Name : kennyandfrank
E-Mail : dletts@Juno.com
Boat Name: n/a
Date Fished: 8/28/97
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1 to 3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: cut bunker & silver metals, small
Water Depth: 1 to 7 feet
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : We got to the beach about 8:00 and the water just started to show some action, by 9:30 a huge school of cocktails hit the beach. We followed them for over an hour. We each kept three and released about ten or more before they dispersed. Had a great time with those little guys.

Angler Name : Joe Nunziato
E-Mail : nunz@exit109.com
Boat Name: vera lee
Date Fished: 8/28/97
Location: manasquan ridge
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2-5 lbs
Bait or Lure: killie& fluke belly
Water Depth: 56 feet
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Began early, slow drift, tried a 1 oz bucktail with a strip and killie with my 8 pound test shimano bull whip (very light rod) as soon as bucktail got to the bottom, I had a bite, only it was not a fluke as the line was singing off it began to come to the surface, it was a six foot mako shark, with no wire leader I knew it wouldn't last long, but I was able to get 8 jumps before he cut me off. after that thrill it was back to fluke fishing in earnest. we boated 17 keepers and stopped fishing atr 10:30 am

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-28-97
Location: Sandy Hook Rips
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18-28 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 9-14 feet
Water Temp.: 72.4
Information : Fished the Sandy Hook Rips with and outgoing tide against a SE wind made for a somewhat bumpy day....did manage to boat 6 stripers with one being a keeper ( released )...finished the day by decking 2 weakfish alittle further back inside of Sandy Hook

Angler Name : Bill Zoda
E-Mail : WZoda@aol.com
Boat Name: Arkansas
Date Fished: 8/27/97
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 71.3
Information : Arrived at the East Wall around 7:30 am and trolled there until 11:00..no knockdowns. Saw a few boats hooked up. (Tenacious, First Light, a few others.) All seemed to be big fish. Trolled to the West Wall then to the Tip. Nothing. Highlight of the day was the Submarine hanging around out there. Sea conditions were great for our 25' GradyWhite.

Angler Name : Dave Poedubicky
E-Mail : Davidpoe@earthling.net
Boat Name: Beach
Date Fished: 8/27/97
Location: Island Beach SP
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1-3 pounds
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: warm
Information : Load of blues in the surf, also a couple of fluke.

Angler Name : melanie boytos
E-Mail : strprr@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: seaduced
Date Fished: 8/26/97
Location: barnegat inlet
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 3-5lbs
Bait or Lure: belly and sand eels
Water Depth: 22ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : about 1030 started drifting from mouth. within 2 hours had limit all 2.5 to 5lb.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 26, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 125 pounds
Bait or Lure: Green Machines
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Gary Vianos charter from Brick, NJ out on the Canyon Runner Tuesday and put together a good catch of yellowfin and albacore at the Hudson Canyon. Out for a one day trolling trip the charter boated 7 tuna, 6 longfin between 25 and 50 pounds and 1 yellowfin tipping the scales at 125 pounds. In addition, a white marlin was drop after a short battle and even more disappointing was the loss of a large tuna after it dumped 3/4 of a 50W and was fought for 30 minutes.

Angler Name : Pat Russo
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Lisa Marie
Date Fished: 8/26/97
Location: 2mi. out Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14-22in.
Bait or Lure: kelies & squid
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Boated 8 Fluke 1 small 1-1/2 lb. blue fish. Many throw backs

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 25, 1997
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 10 to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Reel Seat Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 150'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Hunter Holtzheimer charter form Manhattan out on the Canyon Runner Monday to get in on some inshore tuna fishing action. While the tuna did not turn on until late in the day, the charter was kept busy in the morning with bointa and false albacore. After 12:00 however, the Bluefins cooperated and we boated and released 5 within a 2 hour span.

Angler Name : Howard Bogan
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: 8/25/96
Location: 16 miles NE of Brielle
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3 - 6lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 62'
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Bluefishing on Tuesday was good in the afternoon. Anglers boated from 3 to 12 fish each. Fishing on Wednesday was fair. Some anglers did very well and some caught only 1 or 2. Night fishing has been good. We will sail every night this week and only Friday and Saturday nights after this weekend. 3/4 day trips will continue everyday except when we are on special tuna trips.

Angler Name : GREG SIGNORE
E-Mail : ELM DODGE
Boat Name: TINY BUBBLES
Date Fished: 8-25-97
Location: OFF OLD BARNEY
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: BELLY
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: W.F.K
Information : BEST FISHING IN YEARS, CAUGHT 5 NICE ONES IN 2 HOURS

Angler Name : CHUCK
E-Mail : ckoller@disc.dla.mil
Boat Name: MAKO I
Date Fished: 8/25/97
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13-20 inches
Bait or Lure: Squid/Minnow
Water Depth: 36-38 FT
Water Temp.:
Information : Drifted from the Cape May inlet (ocean Side) south. Picked up about 80 nice Fluke by 2PM. Kept 30, the limit for me and my sons. The key seemed to be the water depth. At 40 FT - no hits, at 35 FT - just Sea Robbins. At 36 - 38 Ft all the Fluke you wanted to catch. The Royal Flush passed by my 25 Footer at about 15 FT. Needless to say everything in the boat went flying, destroying a new tackle box. Sure would like to meet that CLOWN or dry land. Great day for fishing.

Angler Name : Chuck Faust
E-Mail : groove2@webspan.net
Boat Name: Beast
Date Fished: 8/25/97
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: largest 3 lbs. 10 oz.
Bait or Lure: killies and chartreuse tease
Water Depth: 23-27 ft.
Water Temp.: 61
Information : Fished Orchard, Buoy 1A, Buoy 1 Keyport, Staten Island early. No drift. Moved around. Fished with fleet. Decided to move. Found good drift and nice fish at buoy 18 Raritan Reach. Drift was from south to north. Worth a try. Weakfish plentiful buoy 16. Will fish again "Wed. Chuck

Angler Name : Steve Oravets
E-Mail : Steve4Beth@aol.com
Boat Name: SUPER CHIC
Date Fished: Aug. 24&25
Location: Barnegat Light
Fishing Method: Chunk & troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: to 80 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butters, Green Mach. feathers
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 71 to 73
Information : Capt. Les Osborn, with Capt. Steve Oravets, and mate Chris, sailed the charter boat SUPER CHIC, from Lighthouse Marina. With the charter aboard we let go lines at 5:30 pm and set course for Toms Canyon. On arrival we found some bait and decided to start a drift.It took about 45 minutes of chunking before the first strike. After a brief struggle our first yellowfin was on the deck. The action was sporadic all night. Quiet times with explosive attacks by squadrons of yellowfin. By sunrise eleven Yellowfin were on ice. Started trolling the area and managed to coax six more longfin into the box. We had one strike when six rods got bent at once. The group landed two of those longfin. Set course for home by 10:30 am with calm seas for the entire voyage.

Angler Name : John Pochinski
E-Mail : Sandpiper@litenet.net
Boat Name: The Sandpiper
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Manasquan
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20 to 40lb's
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 100 ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Caught five Bluefin tuna, with the largest pushing 40lb's,and one 20lb Dolphin. Only took home one tuna and the dolphin for the dinner table.When are all you fishermen going to wake up and start making some more noise about this stupid one fish limit on bluefin!!!!!!!

Angler Name : John Flanagan
E-Mail : jfla0106@webspan.net
Boat Name: Super Chic
Date Fished: 8/24-8/25
Location: Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 90 pounds
Bait or Lure: butters, fresh caught spearing
Water Depth: 500'
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Like Capt. Steve said, good fishing. I caught the biggest, 90 pound yellow fin. Squid jumping out of the water, and tuna jetting thru the slick. Never seen the Canyon water so calm. Great trip. 10 men, 16 fish in all. Miss Barnegat Light only 500 yds away, 30 men on board, only 4 fish. Hope you guys don't read this!

Angler Name : Peter Bossow
E-Mail : pbossow@comcat.com
Boat Name: Two Putt
Date Fished: 8/24 8/25
Location: Sea Isle Ridge
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12-13 lbs
Bait or Lure: green machines and ponytails
Water Depth: 80 Ft
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Sunday and Monday all the bluefish you wanted about 1 mile north east of the SI Ridge. There were also some reports of bonito and false albecore however did not catch any of them. Biggest blues I've seen or heard about so in close to shore all year.

Angler Name : John Deno
E-Mail : DENOJOHN@lanmail.shu.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16"-23"
Bait or Lure: Sandworm
Water Depth: 23'-45'
Water Temp.:
Information : Me and Big Lou Takacs got out by Bouy 16 by 6am. Drift started off extremely fast with good action till the incoming tide changed against the wind around 8am. Even though there was little drift, the action was incredible at times, with 3 fish on at once in my 12' yacht. All the fish were above 2 pounds with two in the 5-6lb class. The little bottles of sheddar crab oil sold in most tackle shops makes a HUGE difference. In about 5 hrs we had limited out, in addition to lsoing about a dozen fish while trying to fish 4 poles in a tiny boat. Once again I got outfished in my own boat.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 23-24
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking/Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 30 to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/Green Machines
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Tom Strong Charter from Philadelphia, PA out on the Canyon Runner for an overnight tuna trip on Saturday and Sunday. With the weatherman blowing another forecast, the Canyon Runner and 250+ other boats spent Saturday night and Sunday in much higher than forecasted seas. To top it off, the presences of so many boats proved detrimental to the fishing. While a handful of boats, maybe 10, out of the 250+ had fish at night all others were shut out. On the troll on Sunday we managed to pull 4 longfin put still ended up with a disapointing catch.

Angler Name : Al Musico
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Linda's Mink
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Manasquan
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 28"
Bait or Lure: Zucker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Began trolling Little Italy at about 8 AM and immediately had 3 takedowns with a 28" bluefin in the boat. With action like that, we released him hoping for something larger. Big mistake, that was the last fish of the day. Headed back to the dock about 11:30 with motor problems. #$@*% Merkury's

Angler Name : JOHN IZZO
E-Mail : hooks@lightnet.net
Boat Name: WATER TORTURE
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: MANASQUAN RIDGE
Fishing Method: BOTTOM
Specie: Fluke
Size: KEEPERS
Bait or Lure: SQUID & KILLIES
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : DESPITE ROUGH CONDITIONS AND A FAST DRIFT , MYSELF AND ANGLER , GENE GATENS , MANAGED A GOOD DAY OF FISHING. WE CAUGHT TWO DOZEN , KEEPING ONLY EIGHTEEN , FLUKE AVERAGING 20", AND HIGHLIGHTING THE DAY WITH TWO FISH OF THREE POUNDS AND ONE SIX POUNDER. ARRIVING BACK AT THE DOCK BY NOON.

Angler Name : Sam, Mark, and Bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Trophy
Date Fished: August 24, 1997
Location: Absecon Inlet- Coast Guard Station and Green Bell Buoy
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-18 inches
Bait or Lure: squid, squid/minnow, crippled minnow rig
Water Depth: 8-20 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Hit Weakfish at the green bell buy about 2 hours before high tide using only squid as bait. Also got dogfish and some nice skates (wings are excellent eating).

Angler Name : Dave Poedubicky
E-Mail : Davidpoe@earthling.net
Boat Name: Beach
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Island Beach State Park
Fishing Method: Surf
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 inches
Bait or Lure: Mullet and Clam
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: Warm
Information : Caught 3 fluke on Mullet! No blues, but to many sea robins. Fisherman on both sides of me also caught fluke on mullet and clams. Going to bring sandworms next time.

Angler Name : COS
E-Mail : bcosgrove@intersearchcorp.com
Boat Name: Barbara Ann
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Sea Isle Ridge out of Sea Isle
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 32"- 36" slammers
Bait or Lure: clark & bunker spoons
Water Depth: 60-75'
Water Temp.: 71.5
Information : Killed 'em.

Angler Name : John & Wilbur
E-Mail :
Boat Name: ROI RAT (Lanoka Harbor)
Date Fished: 08-24-97
Location: Barnegat Ridge
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 5 - 10 lbs
Bait or Lure: Feathers & clarke spoons
Water Depth: 60 - 75
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Started trolling 4 miles from the north ridge with hopes of Bluefin. Trolled mainly east of the ridge and picked up 9 Little Tunny. All hit clarke spoons on the flat lines. Nothing hit the feathers, green machines or cedar plugs on the outriggers. The only surprise was a 10 pound King Mackeral also on a clarke spoon. Still have yet to hook or boat any bluefin. Maybe next time.

Angler Name : Bob Melloy and TJ Beinert
E-Mail : Robert.Melloy@csfb.com
Boat Name: Lucky Me III
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Old Orchard Light House (SI, NY)
Fishing Method: Bunker Chunks
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Cocktail
Bait or Lure: Bunker Chunks
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Caught and Released a Sea Turtle!!! Could not believe a Sea Turtle was lurking about the bottom of Raritan Bay. Have pictures to prove!

Angler Name : Steve Rad
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Taurus I
Date Fished: 8/24/97
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: spearing - squid - worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Steve, Mike and Granpa Stan fished the Reach Channel near buoys 6 and 8. Got on the water at noon, started out catching fluke (3 keepers, 8 shorts). Late in the afternoon, drifting with worms caught 5 weakfish up to 20 inches, and 2 shorts.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-24-97
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: also fluke & weakfish
Bait or Lure: sandworms.........squid/killies......squid/spearing
Water Depth: 12-37
Water Temp.: 70.7-71.5
Information : Anthony,Casey & myself left the dock @4:30 AM and made for the Sandy Hook rips.we were taken by surprise by the lack of action and I could only manage to scrathc out a 27.5 inch bass after the sun came up,with no other boats catching anything..we made for Romer Shoal Light,which was a smart move as he combined for @ 20 bass in the 20-25 inch class in a hour before the tide died....next stop was Old Orchard shoal.where I got 4 keeper fluke to 20,5 inches and Anthony boated an additional 2 keepers.......I dropped Anthony & casey off at the dock @10:30 and I picked up the wife,daughter,brother-inlaw and hiw wife and headed back towards Old Orchard,but the tide changed and we could only account for an additional 2 keeper fluke and 3 'rat' sea bass......moved around some til I decide to try my honey hole which hasn't falied me for 3 years..once again it produced 6 weakfish and 4 cocktail blues...

Angler Name : Wayne Brown-nuteyes
E-Mail : king_t@ohm.com
Boat Name: PIGSNOOT III
Date Fished: 8-23-97
Location: Little Italy
Fishing Method: Trolling feathers and plugs
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 42 inches/25 lbs.
Bait or Lure: blue/white cedar plug
Water Depth: 119 feet
Water Temp.: 73.4
Information : Broke Pt. Pleasant Inlet at 5:15 am.. Located a good temperature break at Little Italy. Trolled Zukers off flatlines and cedar plugs off riggers. Non-stop action from 6 as to 8 am catching bonito, skipjack, 20-40 lb. bluefin and the highlight of the day, a 25 lb. mahi-mahi. All fishing shut off at approx. 8:30 am demonstrating the need to leave the docks early. 5-7 ft. seas made for good lure action to those withstanding the roughness.

Angler Name : Tony
E-Mail : dibbles@webspan.net
Boat Name: Sea Fox
Date Fished: 8/23/97
Location: Atlantic Highlands
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 0 inches
Bait or Lure: squid, killies
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Man I didn't catch squat. I did get a nice cruise out of th deal.

Angler Name : bob lawrence
E-Mail : rlawrence@fir.fbc.com
Boat Name: regina sea
Date Fished: 8-23-97
Location: slough and little italy
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 35-40 pounds
Bait or Lure: zukers,cedar plugs
Water Depth: 120
Water Temp.: 71
Information : we hit the grounds sat at 5:30. seas were bigger than forecast about 4-5 feet we trolled with the wind and had fish on before all the lines were in the water all skipjack. we then trolled to little italy and picked up two bluefin both hit outside riggers with blue and white zukers

Angler Name : Alex Chamessian
E-Mail : alex@ucs.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/23/97
Location: Belmar Marina (Dock)
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 inches
Bait or Lure: squid strip, and a killie
Water Depth: 9-12 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : There also was a lot of sea bass on the muscle bed. Lots of nice fluke. if you take a party boat I heard they are getting big blues

Angler Name : Jim Drumheller
E-Mail : drumhel@njcc.com
Boat Name: Jamaica II
Date Fished: 8-22-97
Location: Manasquan to Seaside
Fishing Method: Drifting bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15" to 2.5 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid - Sandeel
Water Depth: 40-60
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Little or no drift so we started slow. I landed 2 keepers on morning trip. Afternoon began slow, then drift picked up last 2 hours and we really got into them. Most eveyone landed from 3 to 6 fluke 15" plus. I had six in the last 90 minutes including 2 in 2.5 lbs class. Pool winner over 3lbs.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 22, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 30 to 75 pounds
Bait or Lure: Green Machines
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner out to the Hudson Canyon on Friday with the Peter Bruno charter from Holmdel, NJ. Trolling the East Wall from the Elbow to the Mouth 6 longfin and 1 yellowfin were boated and a few others fought for their freedom. All the fish were caught on Green Machines and the bite did not turn on until after noon.

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Angler Name : Charlie Haws
E-Mail : charlie@webspan.net
Boat Name: THE ROAD
Date Fished: 08/20/97
Location: Slough
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 44 inches
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 110
Water Temp.: 73.6
Information : Fished the Slough area with Pete Vega. We caught lots of skippies and bonito. Than the reel trolling the Bally in the wake started to scream. After about a 45 min. battle and several backdowns on the fish Pete sunk the gaff. With only two of us on board we were lucky to get the fish Tuna steaks for friends and family.

Angler Name : Howard Bogan
E-Mail :
Boat Name: JAMAICA
Date Fished: 8/20/97
Location: 2 miles from Brielle
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 2-5lbs
Bait or Lure: A-47
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Good fishing for small bluefish and weakfish just a short distance offshore. Limits of blues and weaks were caught by most on board. We are still sailing day and night for bluefish. Tuna trips to the canyons begin on 8/24.

Angler Name : john smallwood
E-Mail : Jpma@exit109.com
Boat Name: Blues brothers
Date Fished: 08/20/98
Location: Shrewsbury rocks
Fishing Method: trolling umbrella's
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 31
Bait or Lure: lure
Water Depth: 20
Water Temp.:
Information :

Angler Name : Chris Hagen&Melissa
E-Mail : hagenspiel@enter.net
Boat Name: S.S.H.P.
Date Fished: 8/20/97
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: only 1 keeper
Bait or Lure: killies, fluke belly-spearing
Water Depth: 20-30'
Water Temp.: warm
Information : on the water by 6:30, fished last of incoming out at Chapel Hill Channel, beautiful drift. Had so much action between weaks, blues, fluke could barely keep lines clear. Action hot until slack tide, wind switched to SE, bay began to chop--BAD. Got a few more good drifts in near #5, lost a couple monsters! Headed in by 1pm, apparently just in the nick of time. See ya'll sunday!

Angler Name : Joe Bagels
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Sea Angel
Date Fished: 8/20/97
Location: Arundo-Lil Italy
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Atlantic Bonito
Size: 3/4 lbs
Bait or Lure: Green Machines-Feather
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 73.0
Information : Started the day out trolling the Arundo Wreck, We trolled south and pick up a school of bonito. We managed to land 3 fish all on feathers. Weather started to get nasty at 11am so we decided it was best to head home. There's alway tomorrow!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 20, 1997
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Wahoo
Size: 50 pounds
Bait or Lure: Zuckers/Reel Seat Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 180'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie took the Dave Hertz charter out for a day of inshore tuna fishing on the Canyon Runner and found fish east of the Slough. Four Bluefins from 20 to 40 pounds were boated and all but one were released. The highlight of the day was also one of the biggest surprises of the year. Trolling in absolutely gourgous blue water we raised a Wahoo into the pattern which promptly ate a zucker trolled on a flat line. Back at the dock, the Wahoo weighed in at 50.5 pounds. In addition to the Wahoo and Bluefins, numerous skipjack, bonita and little tuna spiced up the action.

Angler Name : David
E-Mail : Reelrkl
Boat Name: open party boat FLAMINAGO
Date Fished: Aug.20,1997
Location: out of sheepshead bay brooklyn
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-16lbs
Bait or Lure: jigging
Water Depth: 30-80feet
Water Temp.: 65o
Information : We left the dock with 40 peoporms as they would not hit at the jigges. A lot orweaks were caught from 4-8 lbs,After the tide changed the weak fishing stopped,So we went back to the blues on jiggs,A10lb bass was caught and a 16lbs monster blue was also caught Had a very good day, the weather held up until 1p.m/ Then rough seas and rain came we left for the day, the FLAMINGO is a family boat where all can have a good time. See you next week.

Angler Name : Gene Karlson
E-Mail : Cliffwood Beach, N.J.
Boat Name: Miss Patty
Date Fished: 8-19-97
Location: Raritain Bay
Fishing Method: Bottom fishing
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: Spearring, squid, killeys
Water Depth: 20' - 30'
Water Temp.: 70 degrees
Information : Gorgeous day to be fishing, a little breezy in the morning, but calmed down quickly. Fished Chapel Hill for fluke, 1 keeper 15" then died out. Moved around Raritan Bay for a while with no luck. Went around to Verrazzano Bridge caught 2 more keepers to 18" and 2 shorts, nothing fat. Bay looking much better than last week, hopefully the fishing will start looking better also. Keep the faith!

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 19, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 30 to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Bars/Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Jim Pertusis charter from South Planfield, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon on the Canyon Runner for some excellant tuna fishing. The day began with a brief but exciting battle with a 125+ pound Blue Marlin which eventually spit the hook. Thereafter we went 2 for 2 5 for 6 and 5 for 5 on longfin for a total of 12 longfin tuna.

Angler Name : DOUG
E-Mail : CHILLER714@AOL.COM
Boat Name: ALYCE NICOLE
Date Fished: 8/19/97
Location: DELAWARE BAY
Fishing Method: DRIFTED
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 22INCHES
Bait or Lure: SQ /SHEDDERS
Water Depth: 35
Water Temp.: 72
Information : LOTS OF WEAKS BY CROSS LEDGE LIGHT GOOD SIZE 12 KEEPERS 1 THRO BACK 2 -19"FLUKE 3 -15" CROAKER

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Susie-G III
Date Fished: 8/19
Location: Manasquan Rv, Atl. Ocean
Fishing Method: drifting, jigging
Specie: Fluke
Size: also blues
Bait or Lure: AVA27, squid/killies
Water Depth: 40; 5-15
Water Temp.: 70ish
Information : Tried to drift for fluke outside, but the winds and the swells, (3-5 footers) made it difficult..Jigged some small blues until 10 o'clock, the went into the river to catch the outgoing tide..Caught a half dozen fluke, no keepers..

Angler Name : marc
E-Mail :
Boat Name: beach buggy
Date Fished: 8\18\97
Location: island beach s.p.
Fishing Method: surf fishing
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18''
Bait or Lure: redfin
Water Depth: 5ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : caught one weakfish one fluke 20" had striper on drag me down beach about 150' hook pulled out no bait going to try tonight

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 17, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 30 to 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: Green Machines
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie of the Canyon Runner had the John Reily charter from Cherry Hill, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon for a one day troll. The action was late in the day and included 6 longfin to 60 pounds, one 20 pound dolphin and a white marlin release. All of the action was centered around the East Wall between the elbow and the 100 square and all the fish hit green machines.

Angler Name : Rick
E-Mail : Sincker
Boat Name: HellCat
Date Fished: 8-17-97
Location: Chicken Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Wahoo
Size: 5' 42lbs
Bait or Lure: black and white feathers
Water Depth: 250'
Water Temp.: 77
Information :

Angler Name : CAPT.TONY HORLING
E-Mail : blackjack-fishing@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: BLACKJACK
Date Fished: 8/16-17/97
Location: HUDSON CANYON
Fishing Method: TROLL & CHUNCK
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 TO 75 lbs.
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH & LURES
Water Depth: 650
Water Temp.: 76.6
Information : FISHED WITH ANGELO, NICK, GENE AND WALT FROM PATERSON,N.J. THE TROLLING WAS EXCELLENT AS WE CAUGHT 8 ALBACORE, KEEPING 3 IN THE 50 LB. RANGE. WE THEN SET UP FOR CHUNCKING AT NIGHT, WHERE THE BITE, ON THE EAST WALL STARTED AT 7:40pm AND CONTINUED THUR THE NIGHT. ALL THE FISH WERE YELLOWFIN TUNA IN THE 60 TO 75 LB. CLASS. NUMERIOUS FISH WERE LOST, BUT THE CHARTER DID PUT 9 YELLOWS IN THE BOAT.

Angler Name : Rick Bolton
E-Mail : RB1200@aol.com
Boat Name: Kool Jul
Date Fished: 16th,17th,18th,
Location: Ocean City
Fishing Method:
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12" to 24"
Bait or Lure: FINGER MULET
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : (THE MULET ARE IN) BLUES ,WEAKIES,FLOUNDER, ARE BEING CAUGHT AT NIGHT AT THE BRIDGES IN O.C. AT NIGHT CAUGHT MANY THIS PAST WEEKEND . TIDE DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIF. USED MULET RIGS AND LIVE LINED ALSO CAUGHT 7 STRIPERS ONLY ONE KEEPER

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-17-97
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Also fluke & striped bass
Bait or Lure: sandworms.....squid/killies.....squid/spearing
Water Depth: 10-30
Water Temp.: 72.8
Information : Left the dock at 5:30 AM and made a bee-line for the Sandy Hook Rips which once again produced fantastic lightt ackle sport for stirped bass in the mid 20 inch class.after catching and releasing 10 bass...we moved over to the top of Chappel Hill Channel for a good steady action with 2-3 1/2 pound weakfish with a few 2 pound blues thrown in the mix.....put 15 weaks and 2 blues in the box before we headed off the beaches......made first drift off the state park and immediatlly got into a fat 23 incher as weel as 6 just short fluke..made a move furhter south to thr Mommouth Beach area and boxed another 3 keepers all around 16 inches plus another 15 or so short fluke

Angler Name : sam and libby
E-Mail : eavaughn@aol.com
Boat Name: family affair
Date Fished: 8/16-17/97
Location: keyport
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3 to 7 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 30-15
Water Temp.:
Information : went out saturday got nothing but one sea robin went out sunday had so many the cooler was over flowing made up for sat. the weather was great stood in one spot made a few drifts went back in around 2:15 ran out of worms .we were even cathing them on half a worm . had 3 on at a time.

Angler Name : arzew
E-Mail : arzew2@prodigy.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/17/97
Location: delaware bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 19 in
Bait or Lure: squid & minnow
Water Depth: 22 ft.
Water Temp.: 81 surface
Information : starting out inside the mall about 1 mile. got 1 weekfish 15 in. move round alot north & south mile or so. all boats were move around.the moonlight from the night before and the heat slowed the fishind down to almost nothing.moved to the mall and got 2 spike blues & 3ft shark. and a few junk fish. 1200 pm moved to 2miles north of the horseshoe. and got a pair of 19in fluke, 18in fluke and 15in fluke. i caught them on a perch rig,white with a small hook. they biting very softly.

Angler Name : JOHN, DAN&TOM
E-Mail : sternman@ameri-com.com
Boat Name: DESTINY
Date Fished: 08-17-97
Location: BARNEGAT RIDGE
Fishing Method: TROLL
Specie: King Mackerel
Size: 12 LBS.
Bait or Lure: RED&WITE FEATHERS
Water Depth: 65
Water Temp.: 75
Information : STARTERD TROLLING ABOUT 5 MILES OUT OF BARNEY. BOATED 5 ALBYS &6 BONITTO.GOT TO THE RIDGE BOATED 3 BLUE FIN, 2 SHORT PUT 1 IN THE BOX AND BOATED 3 KINGS .LEFT THE RIDGE SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE SOME KIND OF BILL FISH THRASHING AROUND IN FRONT OF US NO HOOKUPS

Angler Name : WAYNE A. REINA
E-Mail : KINGFA@MAILEXCITE.COM
Boat Name: KORMA K II
Date Fished: 08/17/97
Location: POINT PLEASANT "THE PIPE LINE"
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18" 2+LBS POOL WINNER MANY OTHERS 15-18" AND A SMALL SHARK
Bait or Lure: SQUID AND KILLIES/SMELT
Water Depth: 60-70' +
Water Temp.: 68
Information :

Angler Name : Keith & Guys
E-Mail : kaw@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: MISS FORTESQUE
Date Fished: 8/16/97
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15+
Bait or Lure: squid, sheddder, minnow
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Started fast and ended slow. Capt. Jim put us on fish all day, just not many taking the bait. Everybody on the boat caught fish. We ended up with 2 fluke 16", 8 weakies, and 8 blues. We got the pool winner ($125). Caught half a dozen short fluke, 20 or so short weaks, and a bunch of other junk (bass, sea robins,sharks, etc.) to make the trip fun. It's always better to have something on the line and throw it back than to come up empty handed all day. Good boat, good crew.

Angler Name : striper sniper
E-Mail : phooey@uscom.com
Boat Name: none
Date Fished: 8-16-97
Location: little egg inlet-- under bridge
Fishing Method: bottom- surf fishing
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13 lbs
Bait or Lure: live killie, and banjo minnow on bottom
Water Depth: 8-9 ft
Water Temp.: 72
Information : although rough seas from storm, fishing was incredible!! caught a 13 lb fluke on the banjo minnow. best fight ever gotten from a fluke. banjo works great in salt water. also caught 24 blues 13 weaks and 4 stripers 3over 37 inches

Angler Name : Capt Don Wechter
E-Mail : captfog@jersey.net
Boat Name: Katrina Princess
Date Fished: 8/16/97
Location: Delaware Bay, #s9&10 Bouy
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18 keepers to 21 "
Bait or Lure: Pro Cut Squid & Minnows
Water Depth: 36 - 42 Ft
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Bigger fish caught on falling tide. Had 20 throw backs and dozens of sharks and rays,

Angler Name : Troy Greenawald
E-Mail : TSGTAG@msn.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 08/16/97
Location: bug light/20ft slough
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14"-23"
Bait or Lure: squid with clam strip
Water Depth: 12-22
Water Temp.: 73
Information : TIGHT LINES ALL DAY LONG!!!! Enroute to the slough at 0600 and marked tons of fish around the bug light. Anchored on a good school and had steady action until sun warmed things up around 1000. LOTS of shorts with several in the box mixed in. With the heat, moved deeper south into the slough, 22.8ft, continued steady action with more keepers than at the bug light. Myself and partner eventually put limits in the box after 60 + fish around 1400. CAPTAINS OUT OF BIDWELL CREEK: Three hours after low tide, graphics read 1.5 ft through the inlet at the bouys. Two 20+ footers hung up on the sand bar. WATCH YOUR TIDES AND HUG THE RED BOUYS BOTH IN AND OUT!!!!!

Angler Name : Dom DiMento
E-Mail : Physchjam@aol.com
Boat Name: ALERT
Date Fished: 8/16/97
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-16 inches
Bait or Lure: squid and minnow
Water Depth: 32ft.
Water Temp.: 78*F
Information : Cleared the DB canal about 10 AM. headed staight for a set of td's from my list.On arrival we marked fish and began landing short weakfish.After drifting about 1/8 mile the catch changed to keeper sized fluke. We could see a large fleet fishing around 9 +10 bouy's, about 2 miles away. but decided to stay where we were, the pick was decent,and we were all alone.

Angler Name : Bill (Bucktail Willie( shillingford
E-Mail : Bucktail8@AOL
Boat Name: Bucktail willie
Date Fished: August 16,1997
Location: Corsons Inlet NJ
Fishing Method: Spining
Specie: Cobia
Size: 17 1/2 pounds 36"
Bait or Lure: 5/8 oz Bucktail--chartreuse
Water Depth: 30 ft
Water Temp.: 77
Information : Saw 3 on surface --cast bucktail in front of the 3 only to be hit as hard as I've ever been hit with fish coming completely out of water 2 tines straight up--25 minute battle on light action spinning rod and 12 lb test Fire line.... Also saw 3 huge Rays on surface

Angler Name : Bob Maloney
E-Mail : bmaloney@sensar.com
Boat Name: Reel Deal
Date Fished: 8-16-97
Location: Great Egg Reef
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16" - 22"
Bait or Lure: Squid, minnow, Fin-S
Water Depth: 60-70
Water Temp.: 72
Information : The fishing was excellent took in 16 keepers with only throwing back 3 shorts. Schools of rays were every where.There was a fleet of boats out there and all seemed to be catching fish.Only made 2 drifts each about 1 mile.The sea anchor helped out alot kept the drift nice and slow, only had to use 3 ounces.

Angler Name : Jorge Pacheco
E-Mail : jcp@monmouth.com
Boat Name: Evan-ger
Date Fished: 8-16-97
Location: Sandy Hook reach/northwest of BA bouy.
Fishing Method: drift/chum
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18-22 inches
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 30-40
Water Temp.:
Information : Started fishing for weaks about 7am caught 6 while drifting the edges of the reach channel. Then moved to the Sandy Hook reef for some Sea bass, but they were not home and caught none. Went Northwest of the Ba bouy and anchored up with a small fleet of party boats for some 4-7 pound blues, caught as many as you could handle, great fun.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-16-97
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-19 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 10-30
Water Temp.: 73.6
Information : Got our lines in the water at 10:40 AM at the Sandy Hook Rips..7 drifts produced 4 schoolie bass in the 22-25 inch class.made move to end of Sandy Hook Channel after jet-skiers took over the rips..this produced a fat 17 inch fluke in 3 drifts.made another move over to Chappel Hill Channel and in 3 drifts boated 4 weakfish..Headed home at 12:35 PM.not bad for 2 hours of fishing....

Angler Name : Harry Tanghare
E-Mail : tanghare.erols.com
Boat Name: DJ's
Date Fished: August 15
Location: Hot Dog/Ham Bone
Fishing Method: Trolling/Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 65 lbs to 80 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squidchain/Butterfish
Water Depth: 130 - 200 ft
Water Temp.: 77 degrees
Information : We started fishing at approximately 7:00 am amongst a fleet of 40 - 50 boats out on the hot dog. The chunking action was very slow so we decided to troll around the dog's edges until the chunking heated up. To our surprise, we hooked up with a nice 60 lb white marlin within an hour or so of trolling. Within 15 minutes, we had another white hit a flat line but it spit the hook almost immediately. Despite a tremendous bite the previous day, the fish never turned on the entire day. We heard reports of perhaps 5 - 7 fish in the entire fleet. We did manage to troll up a nice 65 lb yellowfin and a dolfin, however. By 3:30 pm most boats had pulled their lines and were heading in. We broke camp too and began the journey in however, we made sure to head towards the ham bone where we heard some reported hookups on yellows and lots of bait. Sure enough, our fish finder lit up with bait and fish marks about 1 mile north of the bone. Within 5 minutes of chunking, we were hooked up with a 75 lb yellowfin followed shortly thereafter by an 80 lber on a Penn 30. Unfortunately, a large tiger showed up on the scene as well and broke up the party. We contacted several boats who were headed offshore and they were able to pull in a few nice 70 to 80 lb yellowfin. We also heard reports of 3 - 4 yellowfin in the 150 lb range caught the previous evening (10:30 pm) at the hot dog but the bite turned off for the rest of the night (and following day!) Apparently, there has been a patern of hot bites at the hot dog every other day. Hope you pick the right one!

Angler Name : John Millili
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Bait Waster
Date Fished: Aug. 14
Location: Hooper/19 F. Lump
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 60#
Bait or Lure: Purple Squid Spreader Bar
Water Depth: 150 ft.
Water Temp.: 72'
Information :

Angler Name : Howard Bogan
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: 8/14/97
Location: 24 MILES SE OF BRIELLE
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8 to 14lbs
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 80'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Bluefishing was excellent last night and today. We were chumming and caught most of the blues on bait. Most of the fish weighed from 8 to 14lbs with the pool winner on the night trip weighing 17lbs and 18lbs on the day trip. There appears to be a good spread of fish in this area and I would expect to have good fishing this weekend. Canyon tuna trips will begin on August 24. For an updated schedule call 732-528-5014.

Angler Name : marc
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8\14\97
Location: island beach s.p.
Fishing Method: surf fishing
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14'' - 20''
Bait or Lure: castmasters with twister tail
Water Depth: 5ft
Water Temp.: 66
Information : three of us caught 46 weakfish 1 fluke 2 stripers up to 27" all after dark a lot of bait in surf sand ells rain fish squid almost nonstop action fished 5 holes caught fish in every one will fish tonight also

Angler Name : John Deno
E-Mail : denojohn@lanmail.shu.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/14/97
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"-18"
Bait or Lure: Sandworm
Water Depth: 25-44'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fishing really picked up for about an hour around the change of tide in the early afternnon. Managed 14 weakfish off of buoy 12 in about 4 hrs.

Angler Name : Greg Heminway
E-Mail : heminwayrc@aol.com
Boat Name: Stink Finger
Date Fished: 8/14/97
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Small
Bait or Lure: AVA jigs
Water Depth: 12
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Around 1:45pm decided to go outside & look for blues. Just as we entered the inlet there were birds. We followed this small school for about 20min. before they dissapeared. Managed to pick-up 9 fish (lots of fun).

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 13, 1997
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 15 to 25 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and Wayne Bushnell decided to postpone a scheduled overnight canyon trip due to seas which were forcasted to build to 8 foot in the canyons but were already 6 foot on the beach. Instead, the John Reily charter from Patriot Roofing in Cherry Hill, NJ spent Wednesday trolling Stripers in those 6 foot seas with an occansional 8 footer. Their decision to stay inshore not only paid off in avoiding an uncomfortable night in the canyon, but provided plenty of fish for the box. In only three hours of trolling 3 Stripers between 15 and 25 pounds were put in the boat, 5 shorts were released and a few dozen bluefish provided continuous action.

Angler Name : David
E-Mail : Reelrkl
Boat Name: open party boat Brooklyn
Date Fished: Aug,12 1997
Location: out of sheepshead bay n.y.
Fishing Method: bait
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3-10lbs.
Bait or Lure: heavy chum
Water Depth: 40-60'
Water Temp.: 60-70s
Information : We left the dock at 7a.m. Searching for fish to jig, they coud not be found.Capt. rode to the Mud Bouy and started to chum. Found fish up to 6-10lbs. but not to many after 3hours, we moved closer to the beach by sea brite, There were a lot of boats chuming but no fish!,We stayed there for 2 hours and then moved back to the mud bouy,and caught a few more. After a full day of fishing came home with 7 fish.Guess all days cant be good. The capt robert is very good also his mates are very helpfull and nice.

Angler Name : Unc. Jeff, Amanda,Ryan, Mogie
E-Mail : johnsoje@umd.edu
Boat Name: phoenix
Date Fished: 8-12-97
Location: reach channel,off of church steeples S.I.
Fishing Method: drifting, killie whit e attract.
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 in
Bait or Lure: killie white attractor
Water Depth: 17ft
Water Temp.: high 60
Information : Out of keyport, one hr. before high tide. action was steady for about 3 hrs. Caught 7 altogether, kept two for a nice mess with uncle Steve. Amanda had the giggles, Ryan won the biggest fish pool, Chicago's Greatest Hits accompanied a beautiful sunset/moonrise ride back in. looking for the skittish weakfish next trip. Any suggestions?

Angler Name : Brian Zemlanicky
E-Mail : bzemlani@ramapo.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/12 - 2:00 - 9:30am
Location: Spring lake
Fishing Method: Surf fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 18 - 26"
Bait or Lure: plugs and jigs
Water Depth: 3 - 8'
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Third cast of the morning I was into a striper. That was how the morning progressed. when the sun came up the bass slowed down and the weakfish picked up along with american shad. I wouldn't believe it myself but it's true they were there in 6' of water I caught four on a 1 oz. hopkins shorty. Altogether 15 short bass 6 keeper weakfish and four shad.

Angler Name : capt.dave merrill /bruce miller
E-Mail : captmarlin@aol.com
Boat Name: mirage
Date Fished: 8/10--8/11
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: rod and reel
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 to 70 lbs.
Bait or Lure: artificals /butters and squid
Water Depth: 450 to 980
Water Temp.: 75 to 77.8
Information : alternate capt.dave trolled the tip of the hudson before setting up for night chunking.he boated 1 longfin about 50 lbs.for the mike isel party from morris plains,nj.--on the chunk they boated 3 of 4 yellowfins and broke off abigeye in the eaerly morning hours.--once on the troll again at first light a 60 lb.white marlin was hooked,brought to leader,tagged and released.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 10-11
Location: Hudson/Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling/Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 100 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/Reel Seat Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie took the Canyon Runner to the Hudson Canyon and spent the night on the 43050 line chunking with the Joe Gajewski charter. While the fishing was not up to the standards expected in late September and October, a good time was had by all. During the night 5 bluesharks were released and 3 yellowfin were boated up to 100 pounds. In addition to the 3 boated on the chunk, 3 others were fought and lost during the night. Adding to the excitement was an estimated 200 pound swordfish which was fought for 1 1/2 hours until it frayed through the line. When the sun came up when went on the troll and once we hit the mouth of Toms Canyon were hooked 3 longfin and put 1 in the boat.

Angler Name : PAUL CHABALLA
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MY FOUR LADIES
Date Fished: 8-11-97
Location: SOUTH BEACH SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 " TO 18 "
Bait or Lure: SQUID AND KILLIES
Water Depth: 21 TO 24'
Water Temp.:
Information : DRIFTED AT THE SOUTH BEACH AND UP TOWARD THE FIRST MAIN BATHING BEACH BOATED 8 KEEPERS AND HAD 6 THROW BACKS. LOTS OF SEA ROBINS AND ONE SMALL BLUE FISH .HAD MY DAUGHTER MAURA AND HER TWO COUSINS OUT FOR THE DAY WATER WAS A LITTLE ROUGH WIND OUT OF THE SSE .

Angler Name : Michael Grogan
E-Mail : britusa@exit109.com
Boat Name: beach fishing
Date Fished: 11 Aug 97
Location: Sandy Hook, east side
Fishing Method: beach casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 35" - 24 lb
Bait or Lure: bunker chunks
Water Depth: unknown
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Off tip of Sandy Hook, ocean side. (Car park K). Caught at 10:00 am on an incoming tide.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : LK4H @AOL.COM
Boat Name: JO JO
Date Fished: 8-11
Location: Lanoka Harbor
Fishing Method: Bottom-drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-24
Bait or Lure: Squid & Killie
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Had to jump-around a bit to find the fluke. Found them 3 mi. south of Barnegat Light in 60 ft. of water. 25 Fluke 1 Sea bass Largest Fluke 4 1/2 lbs.

Angler Name : Charles Rivas
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/11/97
Location: Long Beach Island
Fishing Method: off beach
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36 in. 20lb 1oz
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information :

Angler Name : marc
E-Mail :
Boat Name: ultamite quest
Date Fished: 8\11\97
Location: glory hole
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 40 lb
Bait or Lure: zuckers feathers
Water Depth: 150
Water Temp.: 72.5
Information : hooked three tuna landed two up to 40lb released one 25lb caught eight skip jacks two bonito bar jack 5 lb action did not start till 10;30 am saw a lot of life no dolfin seen

Angler Name : Garry Koehler
E-Mail : garlind@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Impulse
Date Fished: 8/9-10/97
Location: Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: troll/overnite chunk
Specie: Big-Eye Tuna
Size: 25-100lbs
Bait or Lure: green machine& others
Water Depth: 400-800'
Water Temp.: 72-76
Information : Caught 2 yellowfin(65 & 75 lbs dressed)-1 on troll-green machine & 1 overnite on jig off the rigger. Caught 2 small(30 lb) big eyes on the troll-blue daisy chain & green machine-thought the eyes looked a little large for small yellowfin-sure enough striated liver of the big eye.8/9 -a longfin of 40lbs on the troll. Chunking bite at 4am-broke off 7 big tuna-some in seconds, one after an hour-100+ big eye or yellowfin. Good trip, the light & variable predicted was 15-18k West all nite-where is that weatherman?

Angler Name : Dennis Meloro
E-Mail : DMeloro@aol.com
Boat Name: Double D
Date Fished: 8/9 - 8/10
Location: 19 Fathom Lump + East Lump
Fishing Method: Troll + Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: est 65 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 115
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Chunked 19 Fathom had tuna run off 30 international for 25 min then broke off, then trolled back inshore after sea sickness set in in the rough 4-6 footers not 2 ft forecasted. saw no signs of life inshore

Angler Name : SAM,LIBBY AND ERNIE
E-Mail : EAVAUGHN@AOL.COM
Boat Name: FAMILY AFFAIR
Date Fished: 8/10/97
Location: KEYPORT
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-22
Bait or Lure: KILLIES AND SQUID
Water Depth: 12-15
Water Temp.:
Information : CAUGHT ABOUT 25 FLUKE WHEN THE WIND GOT UP. FISHED FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS HAD THE COOLER FULL STOPPED AROUND 3:00 WHEN THE BREEZE STOPPED HAD A GREAT DAY GOOD FISHING AND GREAT FRIENDS NOTHING BETTER THEN THAT. LIBBY

Angler Name : Scott Strausser,Chris Strausser, Lee Sieron
E-Mail : Leebo4u@AOL.COM
Boat Name: Denise
Date Fished: 10Aug97
Location: Little Italy, Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: no action
Bait or Lure: daisey chain, green machine, spreader
Water Depth: 120-230 feet
Water Temp.: 73 degees
Information : trolled at 5 knots with plenty of white water in the wake to no avail, 18-20 knot winds didn't help any either , otherwise a great day for a boat ride !

Angler Name : Neuweiler
E-Mail : dneuweiler@aol.com
Boat Name: AlAnn
Date Fished: 08/10/97
Location: Atomic Lumps
Fishing Method: Bottom drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14-20 in
Bait or Lure: Bucktails/Squid
Water Depth: 60 feet
Water Temp.: 70-73
Information : 10 good fish; only one throwback, which was unusual in itself, but the throwback was a fluke with two top sides -- brown protective coloration on the bottom. Two sea bass thrown in as well.

Angler Name : todd luyber
E-Mail : luyberto@UMDNJ.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 10aug97
Location: shark river inlet
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: up to 21"
Bait or Lure: squid/sand eels
Water Depth: 50-60 ft
Water Temp.: 69 F
Information : Ran out of the inlet early and caught many small 1-2lb bluefish. Left them and ran for fluke. Caught 7 keepers upto 21 inches. Fishing was difficult will the wind and water depth. Home by noon.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : Barney@aol.com
Boat Name: Knot-A-Wake
Date Fished: 8-10-97
Location: Sandy Hook area
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14 1/2" to 22"
Bait or Lure: Squid, Killie, Spearing
Water Depth: 22'
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 0830 to 1700 about 1 mile west of the Old Orchard Light, two men and two ladies, drifted the incoming and out going tide. Caught 31 Fluke, 1 Weak and about ten shorts, very good day and there wasn't another boat anywhere near me all day. The largest Fluke was a little over 4 lbs,

Angler Name : Mike Savage
E-Mail : msavage@alexbrown.com
Boat Name: Wreckless
Date Fished: August 9-10
Location: Lindenkohl
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 pounders
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 1000 ft
Water Temp.: 75.8
Information : I arrived at the canyon at 5PM and trolled till dark with "Chunkin" Chuck Huff and Kevin Odonohue. We caught one 70 pound yellowfin just before dark,we had 2 white Marlin hookups with releases. Chunked all night without a hit. Four foot seas with a 15kt. breeze,not the 5 to 10 and two foot seas forecasted. Caught two 80 pound yellowfin on the troll at 7AM about 8 miles northeast of the Lindy. Caught another trolling in at the 40 fathom line.

Angler Name : Kevin King
E-Mail : kking98303@aol.com
Boat Name: Carol Ann
Date Fished: August 9, 1997
Location: Slouth
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 25 - 30 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 71 - 73.5
Information : Trolled the east edge of the slouth, picked up one bluefin on a green machine. Went out to the Glory Hole, nothing going on, went back to the slouth without anymore hits.

Angler Name : John Deno
E-Mail : Denojohn@lanmail.shu.edu
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/9/97
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"-21"
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 45ft
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Tried to get out early before the armada of boat arrived, to no avail. There must have been a hundred boats out by buoy 12. Fishing was slow except for the annoying 1-2lb blues. Guess that's better than nothing. Eventually managed 4 weakfish by noon. Hopefully, it'll be better during the week when not as many boats are out there.

Angler Name : Lee Schwocho
E-Mail : tunacoot@aol.com
Boat Name: Skipjack
Date Fished: 8/9/97
Location: Mud Hole/Little Italy
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Skipjack Tuna
Size: 6-10 lb
Bait or Lure: Feathers and Spoons
Water Depth: 100-120 ft
Water Temp.: 73
Information : My buddies, Joe Litto and Pete Buzby, and I fished Little Italy early in the morning for a pick of skippies. Headed towards the Lillian hoping for some bluefin but picked up a couple more skippies instead. Passed a bloated floater (dead whale) being attacked by an army of stormy petrels on the way. From the Lillian we headed back north through the Mud Hole all the way to the BA buoy but only managed a pick of bluefish. Did spot a live whale east of Asbury Park on the way up. A finback I imagine but not sure. What whales are indigenous to Jersey waters?

Angler Name : Mike Thuman, Dan Mecco & Friends
E-Mail : danmar@compubell.com
Boat Name: DADDY'S LIL' BOY
Date Fished: 8-9-97
Location: Chicken Canyon & Resor
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: N/A No Yellowfin
Bait or Lure: Various Trolling Lures, Daisy Chains , Birds
Water Depth: 200 - 260
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Early had a good KNOCK DOWN but came to find out that the fish took & broke in half the FLYING FISH STYLE BIRD instead of the GREEN MACHINE behind it. Caught alot of SKIPJACK (Small) on feathers and Clark Spoons

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 9, 1997
Location: Shrewbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5 to 20 pounds
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rigs
Water Depth: 15'
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Gerry Carney charter out on the Canyon Runner for a day of Striped Bass fishing on the Shrewsbury Rocks. Once again the Bass cooperated and we caught 15 before 9:00 a.m. all on umbrella rigs. Of the 15, 4 were keepers with the largest tipping the scales at 20 pounds. Unfortunatly, once the boat traffic pick-up, which is always a problem on the weekend, the Bass turned off. However, moving offshore proved effective as we put a few dozen bluefish in the boat up to 14 pounds. The way the Bass have been cooperating all summer should indicate a banner fall and we should be into these fish through November.

Angler Name : John,Bob,Gerry
E-Mail : jkolias@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Reel Fun
Date Fished: 8/9/97
Location: Ammo Pier, Chapel Hill Buoy G3
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2-4 lb'ers
Bait or Lure: Killie/Squidd or Spearing/Squidd
Water Depth: 25-40'
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Was a contestant in the Fluke Masters Tournament looking for some money making fluke. Wind against tide conditions made for tough drinting down Chapel Hill Channel. 3 men fishing tally-12 keeper fluke (12.265 lb's total 5 fish weight) 5 beautiful 3-4 lb Weakies. Not a winner in the contest... but a great fishing day anyway. Tons of Weakies ou there around Chapel Hill green 3.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-9-97
Location: Sandy Hook Channel & Rips
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-24 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 10-49 Feet
Water Temp.: 71-71.7
Information : WEAKFISH,STRIPED BASS,BLUEFISH & FLUKE were all to be today in the Sandy Hook Rips area. My partner and I arrived in the rips area @ 5:45 AM and got into immediate schoolie striped bass action,this was followed by close to non-stop action with weakfish in the 2-4 pound class with some cocktail bluefish in the mix and a fat 19 inch fluke ..The action continued through the change of tides but died after the incoming became to strong..we then moved to the end of Sandy Hook Channel for a pick of another 7 weakfish...Total for the day 25 keeper weakfish,1 spike weakfish,3 cocktail bluefish,2 schoolie striped bass 1 keeper and 1 short fluke and numerous sea robins..

Angler Name : CAPT. PETE
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CLOUD NINE 111
Date Fished: 8-9-97
Location: OUT OF MANASQUAN
Fishing Method: DRIFT FLUKE / TROLL BLUES
Specie: Weakfish
Size: I6.5 INCH
Bait or Lure: KILLIE / SQUID
Water Depth: 45/69/74FT
Water Temp.: 74
Information : CAPT PETE AND TWO NEIGHBORS, DAN AND MIKE FISHED OUT OF MANASQUAN OFF SHORE UP TO 5 MILES. WE CAUGHT TWO FLUKE 16 INCHES, 5 SEA BASS ( NICE SIZE ) ONE SMALL BLUE AND ONE BONITO. NOT EXACTLY LIKE YOU READ IN THE ASBURY PARK PRESS. THEY SHOULD GIVE FIVE FISH RATINGS TO SKATES BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THAT IS OUT THERE. FUNNY ALL THE FLUKE ARE NORTH OF THE BEACH REPLENISHMENT. I QUESS THIS IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK FOWARD TO FOR THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS. WHENEVER THEY PUMP SAND IN YOUR AREA, FORGET FISHING THAT SPOT FOR A YEAR. BUT AS THEY SAY A BAD DAY FISHING BEATS A GOOD DAY AT WORK,

Angler Name : capt.bruce miller
E-Mail : captmarlin@aol.com
Boat Name: mirage
Date Fished: 8/8-8/9 and 8/9-8/10
Location: toms and hudson canyon
Fishing Method: rod and reel-troll & chunk
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 55 to 65 lbs.
Bait or Lure: artifical and butters-squid
Water Depth: 500 to 1,000 ft.
Water Temp.: 72.9 to 77.8
Information : fished the tos with lee hutchinson and party--had a nice catch of longfin pon the troll down in the flats.lost a sword at night on the chunk.weather was a little crummy.next trip chunked the hudson with the andy ryan party--had only a mako at night--no tuna--although the temp.was 75.2 it didn't help.seems to me that the tuna are running back and forth from the hudson to toms canyons and you have to be where the temp.break is to catch.hopefully things will pick up as the season go's on.

Angler Name : Al
E-Mail : Ozzie47@aol.com
Boat Name: Susie-G III
Date Fished: 8/9
Location: 5 miles off Shark Rv, Asbury
Fishing Method: Drifting/jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: AVA27, squid/sandeels
Water Depth: 45-60
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Started off fluking, fishing was pretty dead cause there was no drift..Caught nothing but skates..Found some blues and jigged them all morning between Spring Lake and Asbury, had a steady pick most of the day..

Angler Name : david
E-Mail : reelrkl
Boat Name: party boat flamingo
Date Fished: aug 9 1997
Location: sheepshead bay and areas
Fishing Method: only jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: weaks from 7lbs all keepers
Bait or Lure: only jigging
Water Depth: 30-60'
Water Temp.: 60s
Information : left dock at 6;30 20mins ride to the best blue and weak fish areas limited out on blues to 7lbs and weaks mixed in limit out on weaks to 7lbs the most weaks caught this year most on the boat also limited out on blues and weaks one of the best party boats so far a really god capt, and crew they were very helpful to all remenber flaminago capt bob and have your own fun day .we were back in the dock by 12noon

Angler Name : DRABBT
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 8/8/97;8:15-11:15 PM
Location: ASBURY PARK
Fishing Method: SURF/JETTY
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5X20-24"
Bait or Lure: BOMBER/TEASER
Water Depth: 1-10'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : ALSO CAUGHT 4X15-22" WEAKFISH,AND 1 BLUEFISH.ALMOST ALL OF THE FISH HIT THE TEASER.

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 8, 1997
Location: Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50 to 70 pounds
Bait or Lure: Reel Seat Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie of took the Jim Patterson charter from Abott Labs to Toms Canyon and put together a respectible catch of yellowfin tuna. Five yellowfin all between 50 and 70 pounds were boated and a few others were lost after a short fight. All the fish hit Reel Seat Spreader Bars but not until we decided to troll six bars.

Angler Name : Woody
E-Mail : Woodie@ibmus.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/8 & 8/9
Location: IBSP,
Fishing Method: Back of inlet & Surf
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Weakfish 5lbs, Fluke and Blues in surf
Bait or Lure: Squid & Sand Eel Combo
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Little Blues all thru the surf, fluke are there but the blues seem to get to the bait before them. Weakfish around the back at the bulkhead.

Angler Name : Jack Spoto
E-Mail : JSpoto6449@aol.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 8/2/97 to 8/8/97
Location: Lavallette to Seaside Park
Fishing Method: Surf fishing
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22" short
Bait or Lure: Bomber
Water Depth: N/A
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : Fished all week from Sunday to Friday. Caught (1) 22" inch Bass on a smoky joe Bomber plug in the trough at Lavallette's Ortley Avenue jetty. Fished every morning 2 hours before Hi-tide. Fished Fresh Clams, Sand worms, Bunker Chunks, Sand Eels, Mullet, NO GOOD!!! Blues were a few hundred yards off shore everyday, but would not come in. I did catch one blue in Seaside Park on a Yellow schoolbus bomber and another blue in Lavallette on the same Plug. Crabbing stunk this year, caught 3 dozen crabs all week, but very few throwbacks. Alot of 6 inch crabs across the back, point to point!!! But it was my worse year crabbing in 15 years. But like the man says, "A Bad days fishing is still better than a good days work."

Angler Name : Greg
E-Mail : listner@waksman.rutgers.edu
Boat Name: Knock on Wood
Date Fished: 8/8/97
Location: Off Bay Head
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15-16 in
Bait or Lure: killies
Water Depth: 20-30
Water Temp.: ??
Information : Fished from 1430-1500 caught one fluke in the first five minutes. Things were slow for about the next ten...just kept hooking sea robins. We moved and caught 2 bluefish and lost a prize winning fluke. At this point my guests began to get seasick so we headed back to the dock.

Angler Name : Gene Doebley
E-Mail : dapperjr@aol.com
Boat Name: Nevermoor
Date Fished: 8/8/97
Location: Cigar
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 13 lb and 9 lb.
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 126 ft
Water Temp.: 75
Information : strong SW wind made conditions rough. took 2 and had a 3rd throw the hook in a short period around 8 am. radio reports didn't seem to indicate much success for trollers.

Angler Name : Patrick McHugh
E-Mail : mchughp@algorithms.com
Boat Name: Patricias Dream
Date Fished: 8/7/97
Location: off Ben Davis Pt./Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15 inches
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 18ft
Water Temp.: 73*
Information : Among weakfish and bluefish, we were lucky to catch a a 15 inch " Lampry " ( not sure on spelling ). We were told that these fish attach themselves to whales or sharks. No one in this area claims to have ever seen one of these. They had a flat circular suction type area on the top of their head. Its head resembles a sharks head. We have put this in a glass gallon jar with some alcohol to save it to put in our local marina to show anyone who is interested.

Angler Name : Karl,Dan &Rob
E-Mail : sternman@ameri-com.com
Boat Name: Lisa-G
Date Fished: 8-7-97
Location: Little Italy to Monstar ledg
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 1 lbs
Bait or Lure: clone b&w feather
Water Depth: 125
Water Temp.: 76
Information : We trolled up Italy to the ledge and down looking for the big blue football fish . Small albys all over the place caught 1 about 1lbs saw big shark about 350lbs class.came home with nothing in the box & no food in left in the cooler.

Angler Name : Eddie Cos
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jena Michelle
Date Fished: 8/6/97
Location: Reach Channel
Fishing Method: Drifting Sandworms
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 12-22 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 45 feet
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Stopped by for the turn of the tide wednesday afternoon after trying unsucessfully for fluke at ambrose channel. Caught and released an even dozen nice weakfish in 40 minutes and went home contented.

Angler Name : BRANDON
E-Mail : MRMACK@1
Boat Name: GOLDEN EAGLE
Date Fished: 8-6-97
Location: OUT OF BELMAR
Fishing Method: CHUMMING
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-9 POUNDS
Bait or Lure: BUNKER CHUNKS
Water Depth: 50 FT
Water Temp.: 65-75
Information : STARTED OUT SLOW CHANGED LOCATION AND STARTED PULLING THEM IN LIKE CRAZY.i ENDED UP WITH 11 MYSELF. IF YOU LIKE BLUE FISHING I SUGGEST YOU TRY THE GOLDEN EAGLE IN BELMAR.

Angler Name : Ray Sanford
E-Mail : Katiesanford@msn.com
Boat Name: Mola Mola ( Ocean Sunfish)
Date Fished: 8/6/97
Location: DE Bay Elbow Cross Ledge Light
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-24 in
Bait or Lure: Ham and Eggs - Minnow/squid
Water Depth: 15-30ft
Water Temp.: 78 deg F
Information : We caught 10 nice sized weaks at the Elbow of Cross Ledge light using above bait - also a 4-5 foot brown shark on a fresh water rod/reel combo w 10 lb line - I was able to get all but the barb of the hook out at boatside for the release. Also snagged some bunker for blues but no bites.

Angler Name : Capt. Ken Probst
E-Mail : kenneth probst at ct24@admin.tc.faa.gov.
Boat Name: Miss L.B.I.
Date Fished: 8/6/97 Afternoon trip
Location: 1 mile out from B.I. bell
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 to 17 inches
Bait or Lure: squid & sand eel
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Fluke are finally in the ocean in good numbers. Good catch 0n Miss L.B I. Nice boat , Ken Nutt capt. Pool fish was 4lb. Capt. Ken Probst ( White Witch)

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 5, 1997
Location: Shrewsbury Rocks
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 5 to 25 pounds
Bait or Lure: Bunker Spoons
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Captains Phil Dulanie and Wayne Bushnell had the Jack Degolier charter from Tri-Plex Business Products Inc. out on the Canyon Runner to troll Striped Bass up on Shrewsbury Rocks. The rods were not out for more than 5 minutes when the first 2 of 18 bass were on. Of the 18 caught 6 were keepers with the largest weighing in at 25 pounds. In addition, 30 to 40 bluefish were also boated.

Angler Name : steve gabriel
E-Mail : sgabriel@csionline.net
Boat Name: jamica 2
Date Fished: 8/5/97
Location: asbury to sea bright off shore
Fishing Method: bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 1 1/2 to 6lb 13 oz.
Bait or Lure: green feathers.squid,sand eels
Water Depth: 40 to50 ft
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Left dock at7:30 am fished off shore from asbury to sea bright 3 fluke over 6 lb over a dozen caught over 5 lb. Returned to dock at 4:55 pm. Good day had by all on board.

Angler Name : W Parson
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Missy K
Date Fished: Aug 5, 1997
Location: Raritan Reach Channel
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 16"-24"
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : From about 6-7:15 caught 5 weakfish in the channel and a large bluefish. Had to leave the fish biting because of an incoming storm.

Angler Name : P CHABALLA
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MY FOUR LADIES
Date Fished: 8-4-97
Location: SHREWSBURY RIVER
Fishing Method: DRIFT&ANCHOR
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15"
Bait or Lure: KILLY
Water Depth: 5' - 8'
Water Temp.:
Information : STARTED OUT TO DO SOME CRABING IN THE RIVER AND ENDED UP WITH A COUPLE OF NICE FLUKE CAUGHT BY THE WIFE . CRABING WAS VERY SLOW ALSO PICKED UP 1 BULE FISH ABOUT 2 LB .

Angler Name : Mark, Drew and Chuck
E-Mail : ChuckyPete@msn.com
Boat Name: ABC
Date Fished: 8/3/97
Location: 15 miles north of the fingers
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 106 pounds
Bait or Lure: Green machine and a bird
Water Depth: 240
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Trolling from 8:00am around 9:30 there was a big crash on the bird out long. took almost all of the line of the Penn 30tw. After 1 1/2 hours, fish came aboard. First big fish caught on this boat. Water was calm, great fun.

Angler Name : Don Disque
E-Mail : ddisque@erols.com
Boat Name: The Disque Drive
Date Fished: August 3, 1997
Location: Avalon
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 3-5 pounds
Bait or Lure: squid, minnows
Water Depth: 23'
Water Temp.: 70 degrees
Information : Fishing with Charlie McNally and his daughter Jan. Charlie had a double on before he hit bottom. We were fishing off the Avalon fishing pier about 3 miles. Crowded conditions but everyone was hitting. Good day.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-3-97
Location: Sandy Hook Rips..Flynn's Knoll...Reach Channel
Fishing Method: Drift and chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 22-26 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms..bunker chunks
Water Depth: 16-42
Water Temp.: 69.7
Information : The Sandy Hook Rips are alive with bass....as we turned the tip of the Hook at 5AM.not only did we witness a glorious sunrise,but miles upon miles of birds working the water.....schoolie bass where EVERYWHERE. could see the swirls on top ....every drift resulted in a double or triple header of the fiesty fish....I even managed to jig a few on an AVA 007......after we got bored with this (did i really say bored? ) .we moved over to Flynn's Knoll to try and chunk a keeper or 2..although we did get a few run-offs..we could only scratch out a 16 and a 19 fluke.......then made a move to the Raritan Reach Channel and got into some fantastic weakfish action with 2-5 pound fish,also another fluke of 22 inches.....went out again later in the day to the Reach Channel for another 3 weakies plus a fluke.....

Angler Name : arzew
E-Mail : arzew2@prodigy.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 8/3/97
Location: delaware bay
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14 in to 18 in
Bait or Lure: sqiud,minnows,shedder
Water Depth: 23ft
Water Temp.:
Information : STARTED OUT 7:30AM AT SECOND DROP OFF BETWEEN EP TOWER & THE MALL. IT WAS ROUGH AT FIRST,BUT IT DID NOT MATTER WE CAUGHT FISH UNTIL 12:00PM THEN MOVED TO THE MALL GOT 1 FLOUNDER 16 IN. MOVED TO #1 BOUY GOT 1 MORE FLOUNDER 18IN. HEADED IN AT 2:00PM WITH THE BEST DAY OF THIS YEAR. 39 WEAKFISH.7 FLOUNDER,2 SPIKE BLUEFISH AND SNAPED A FEW PICTURES FOR THE SCRAP BOOK AND NON BELIEVERS......

Angler Name : capt.bruce miller
E-Mail : captmarlin@aol.com
Boat Name: mirage charters
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: R & R
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100 to 175 lbs.
Bait or Lure: butterfish/squid
Water Depth: 544 ft.
Water Temp.: 73.8
Information : Had the Art Mandel party out, what a night--8 to 12 ft seas and wind up to 30 knots, yet all not that bad tied up, caught a nice big tuna, which took 1hr & 40mins. Lost another at the boat and had 2 other run offs. Slow night chunking, but at least we went home with fish, better than some boats did.

Angler Name : Sam Adams
E-Mail : samuel_adams@smb.com
Boat Name: reel justice
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: chicken canyon
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: none
Bait or Lure: green mach.
Water Depth: 150+
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Trolled from Glory hole to Chicken Canyon and not one bite. On the way in someone thought it would be funny to give a false report of a big tuna bite. This person proceeded to block up the radio with profanity etc, making a bad day fishing even worse. We just got the FCC to losen restrictions on VHF radios, people like this are going to ruin it for the rest of us who use the radio properly.

Angler Name : Joe
E-Mail : joseph.toriello@boeing.com
Boat Name: Betty's Worry
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: East Lump/ 5 Fathom light
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 70 to 100 ft.
Water Temp.: 69 to 70
Information : Trolled from 8:00am until 1:00 pm did not have one hit. We used feathers and tube lures. Many people at east lump using butterfish to pick up yellowfin tuna. Idid not see one fish caught. Moved inside picked up one little "flounder" and 20 "sea robins". Better luck next week.

Angler Name : Guillermo Delgado
E-Mail : delgadgu@lanmail.shu.edu
Boat Name: Enterprise
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: Belmar
Fishing Method: Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12-20
Bait or Lure: Jig
Water Depth: 16
Water Temp.: 61
Information : We started out the day fluking. Flukes stopped biting and people started hooking blues. We switched over to jigging for blues. Ray Tiny Quintana won the pool with a 9.5lbs chopper. Bald head Rich left once AGAIN empty handed. Our trip was cut short, when FaFa Nelson Nieves atempted to unhook a chopper and got bitten on his thumb. Over all it was a good biting day.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : intl.gate@ibm.net
Boat Name: SOUTHERN MISS
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: S.E. 19 FATHAM LUMP
Fishing Method: CHUNKING
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 50-60 LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUTTER FISH
Water Depth: 20 FATH
Water Temp.: 74
Information : GREAT DAY!! HAD LIMIT IN 1 HOUR NON STOP ACTION!! COULD HAD ALL YOU WANT. BLUEFIN WERE THICK UNDER BOAT. TRIED A COUPLE ON LIGHT TACKLE. GOT THEM TO THE BOAT AND RELEASED THEM.

Angler Name : Mikey G
E-Mail : G Force 77@aol.com
Boat Name: The Instigator
Date Fished: 8/02/97
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-6 lbs
Bait or Lure: Umbrella Rig
Water Depth: 65
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Got to the Mudhole 9:00am. A few party boats were there but weren't hitting on live bait or jigs. Kept picking up spotty readings on finder. Party boats took off for Little Italy. We stayed,trolled and caught about 15 shorts one after The other. Later we changed to live bait but no luck.

Angler Name : DRABBT/BRIGANCER
E-Mail :
Boat Name: NA
Date Fished: 8/2/97;8:30-11:30PM
Location: ASBURY PARK
Fishing Method: SURF/JETTY
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 7X20-26"
Bait or Lure: BLACK/WHITE BOMBER/TEASER
Water Depth: 1-10'
Water Temp.: 70
Information : MUST HAVE BEEN SAND EELS IN THE SURF;WE FOUND ONE FLOPPING AROUND ON THE BEACH.ANOTHER INTERESTING NOTE:ALL OF THE FISH FROM THE JETTY WERE ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

Angler Name : Bob Maloney
E-Mail : Bmaloney@sensar.com
Boat Name: Reel Deal
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: Atlantic City Reef
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 10" - 14"
Bait or Lure: Squid , Minnow
Water Depth: 60' - 70'
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Picked up 6 nice sea bass, 2 fluke 16" and 18" and 2 - 3pound Bluefish. Early in the morning the sea conditions were 2-4 but calmed down around noon to 1-2. Nice day to be out on the water.Can't wait to see the weakfish back off the GE Bell.

Angler Name : Bob Lukowski
E-Mail : blukowski@bloomberg.com
Boat Name: Amy Beth
Date Fished: Aug 1-2
Location: Hudson Canyon, Triple wrecks and Chicken Canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 60 pounds
Bait or Lure: green machines and butterfish
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Chunked south of the elbow fri nite, no fish. Started trolling at the 100 square up to the tip with no hits. Anchored up at the texas tower Sat nite and hooked up with a 300 pound blue shark. Trolled Sunday to the Chicken Canyon. Caught two skipjacks and a 60 pound bluefin tuna.

Angler Name : Earl
E-Mail : LIGHTTACKL@AOL
Boat Name: RUSTY 1
Date Fished: 08/02/97
Location: Flynns Knoll Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 32-35inches
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 27 ft.
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Slow action chunking but did manage 2 keepers and 2 lost fish. Also some small blues mixed in. Moved to chapel hill and nailed 3 nice weakies before the boat traffic sent them scurrying. Went up the Reach but could not find the weaks although the radio was giving some good reports from up there. Later learned the big body of weaks was way up by buoy 14

Angler Name : Tom Stacy
E-Mail : TStacy1251@AOL. com
Boat Name: Lazy Bones
Date Fished: 8/2/97
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Blue Marlin
Size: 600-650 lbs Est.
Bait or Lure: ballyhoo
Water Depth: 60 fm.
Water Temp.: 74.5
Information : Fished Stone Harbor Invitational Tournament at Wilmington Canyon. Raised one white and broke him off.15 minutes before tournament ended raised LARGE blue marlin and fought him on 30 lb. tackle for 1hr. 45mins. stand-up before release. Fought him for another 11/2 hours before he came clear of the water. Est. him to be 13-14 ft. long approx. 600 lbs. Released in excellent condition.

Angler Name : Jeff
E-Mail : FshHk@aol.com
Boat Name: BONE DOCTOR
Date Fished: 08/02/97
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefish
Size: to 15#
Bait or Lure: Tuna clones, Zukers
Water Depth: 190'-230'
Water Temp.: 70-73F
Information : Fishing for tuna, but only big blues bent the rods---and ruined the tuna clones. Seas layed down after a bumpy ride out only to find dirty, green water. Garbage all over the surface from 15 miles on out.

Angler Name : Andy sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: SeaYa
Date Fished: 8-2-97
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 13 1/2-20 inches
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 33-37 feet
Water Temp.: 72-72.6
Information : My daughter and I dropped down our lines for our first drift @ 12:30 at the end of the Sandy Hook Channel and baoted 2 weakies of 18 and 19 inches within 10 minutes.....west wind couples with an outgoing tide produced perfect drift..we ended up boating 4 more weakies,with one being under the legal szie limit.as a bonus we also caught 2 keeper fluke of 15 and 19 inches......was back at dock @ 4

Angler Name : Adam LaRosa
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: August 1, 1997
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 to 100 pounds
Bait or Lure: Reel Seat Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dante Implicito charter out to the Hudson Canyon for a full day of trolling the edge. Unfortunately the action on the troll was not great and only two yellowfin were boated with one weighing 100 pounds. Two other fish were lost including one probably big-eye which nearly stripped a 50W International before the fight ensued. While the trolling bite was slow the chunking turned on for the first time this year as boats had up to 20 fish.

Angler Name : Bob Heaney
E-Mail : robert.heaney@citicorp.com
Boat Name: Sugarloaf
Date Fished: 8/1/97
Location: Glory Hole, Chicken Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: None
Bait or Lure: Assorted Lures
Water Depth: 180-250 ft.
Water Temp.: 70.5
Information : Trolled the Lillian Wreck. One slammer bluefish. Trolled the Glory Hole and got one small Bonita. Picked up and trolled the Chicken Canyon. No fish caught, but saw lots of life (porpoises). Reports from other boats on radio - SLOW DAY. Only heard of one bluefin and one dolphin caught.

Angler Name : Joe Vandergeest
E-Mail : JVander139.aol.com
Boat Name: Goose's Gander
Date Fished: 8-1-97
Location: Se 19 Fathom Lump
Fishing Method: Chunk-Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 51 & 49
Bait or Lure: Butterfish and Split Tail Mullet
Water Depth: 120-145
Water Temp.: 74.3
Information : First fish within the first 5 minutes, released 2 small bluefin trolled afternoon and picked up 1 yellowfin

Angler Name : Chris Johnson
E-Mail : cadets@hicom.net
Boat Name: Norma K 3
Date Fished: 8/1/97
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12-17lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, Bunker
Water Depth: 70?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : We went out for a night trip and we killed them. You could not go 2 minutes without having a fish on. They were pretty big to. The smallest one i had was about 10,lbs. The biggest was 15lbs. Everyone would have had their limit but a lot of fish were lost due to the ampunt of people on the boat. The mates did the best they could but every second someone was yelling"fish on" "gaff" "mate" or other things that are more appropriate on a boat and not on e-mail.

Angler Name : Joe Geraldi
E-Mail : seaangel@msn.com
Boat Name: Seaangel
Date Fished: 8/1/31
Location: Lil Italy
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Fished the Arundo early morning with NO results. Went to Lil Italy and started hooking up with some medium size blues. The day was very slow for most in the area. Will try again on Sunday.

Angler Name : Tommy Stehn
E-Mail : FrodoFolk@msn.com
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 8-1-97
Location: Sea Bright
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 1 - 2.5 lbs
Bait or Lure: Metal
Water Depth: 10-20
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Scott Major,Chris Parker, and myself all caught fish on Friday in the Sea Bright surf during a bluefish blitz at about 4:30 PM. The fish were 10-20 yards out and weighed between 1 and 2.5 lbs they were caught on metal, the fish were chasing spearing scattered along the beach. We had a combined catch of 15 fish and other anglers were also catching fish. Anglers should watch the areas between Sandy Hook and Long Branch surf because blitzes are happening frequently.

Angler Name : P CHABALLA
E-Mail : CHABAPV@NYTIMES.COM
Boat Name: MY FOUR LADIES
Date Fished: 8-1-97
Location: FLYNN'S KNOLL
Fishing Method: ANCHORED
Specie: Striped Bass
Size:
Bait or Lure: BUNKER
Water Depth: 27 '
Water Temp.:
Information : FISHED THE KNOLL FROM 6:15 PM TO 9:PM PICKED UP 1 BLUE FISH ABOUT 3 LB SAW 1 STRIPER BOATED NEAR ME AND NOTHING ELSE ALL NIGHT .THE WATER LOOKS GOOD SOME BAIT FISH IS IN THE AREA HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL IMPROVE .

Angler Name : Mirage Sport Fishing Charters
E-Mail : dover@vitinc.com
Boat Name: Mirage
Date Fished: 7/31-8/1
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunk/troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 25-60 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish live squid
Water Depth: 580
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Capt. Bruce miller and Mirage owner plus friends made a crew trip to the Hudson overnight thursday to friday 7/31. Set up to chunk south of the west wall in 74.5 degree water. Location chosen because of favorable temp chart from offshore sevices. Caught 6 yellowfin tuna to 60 lbs on butterfish and live squid caught in lights. lost 4 more. Trolled for a short time in morning and raised a large white marlin on a reel seat spreader bar but fish quickly threw the hook. Boats to the south and most to the north had poor reports and trolling was slow. Looks like good night chunking is begining. Submitted by Burt Greene

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