Angler Name : tommy cohen
E-Mail : shortycohen
Boat Name: hooked to sea
Date Fished: 7/26/01
Location: ambrose channel
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 inches
Bait or Lure: fluke belly spering combination
Water Depth: dont know
Water Temp.: dont know
Information : Right when I dropped the line i walked over to get something to eat and when i got back there was a fish on the line the only one of our 2 hour fishing trip

Angler Name : PJC
E-Mail : Peter00090@aol.com
Boat Name: -
Date Fished: 7/26/01
Location: The Reach
Fishing Method: bottom dunking(wouldn't call it drifting)
Specie: Fluke
Size: 14 to 24 in.
Bait or Lure: killies and squid
Water Depth: 10-55 ft.
Water Temp.: warm, around 70
Information : Windy early in the morning until 11 am when the water became dead flat and a wind of less than 2 knts kicked in. No drift whatsoever, especially with wind against tide situation. Fluke are extremely scattered but there are plenty of "schools" of decent fish. About 2 miles west of the Ammom pier, we hit a nice 6 lb. fluke...that was our second large fish of the week, with me catchig a whopping 6.5 lb. fluke. You won't catch many keeper fluke, but there's plenty of large fish around to keep it real ineresting.

Angler Name : Reynaldo and Friend
E-Mail : IEZRU@AOL.COM
Boat Name: Beats Work
Date Fished: 7/24/01
Location: Raritan Bay/ Stinkin Island
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18+
Bait or Lure: Fluke Belly/Killies
Water Depth: 15-20'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : Fished bouy #28 off stinkin Island drifting fast but were able to net 8 keeper fluke (Largest was 24") and two unusual large blues 12 and 14 Pounders. Great hot day we enjoyed ourselves. BEATS WORK!

Angler Name : Eusebio and Dick J
E-Mail : DJJacobus@msn.com
Boat Name: Long Overdue
Date Fished: 7-24-01
Location: Raritan Bay,Bouy #14
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 20-33 in
Bait or Lure: bunker
Water Depth: 20-30-ft
Water Temp.: 74 deg
Information : We got out about 9am and had a smooth cruise out to #14 bouy on the NY side.Caught a few sand dogs,sea robins but no fluke.High point of the day was a 32in and a 33in blue fish.What a fight on such a hot day.Wind kicked up about 1 pm,and the catching stopped,so we headed in.Stopped in front of Morgan Creek to catch a few more cocktail blues under some working birds.Brought home 8,lost many more.Other than the heat,a great day.Have fun out there.DJ

Angler Name : Capt Sal Guttilla
E-Mail : sgisland@att.net
Boat Name: Jackie Too
Date Fished: 7/23/01
Location: Ollies Lump-Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: Various Trolling lures rigged with Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 100-275'
Water Temp.: 71-73
Information : Started trolling at Ollies Lump, water 72 but green. Trolled from eastern tip of Ollies towards the Resor, then picked up and ran to Glory Hole from within five miles of Resor. Good looking blue water at Glory Hole, only had two bluefish hit the lures. Had one knockdown about two miles inshore of Western edge of Glory Hole, but never saw what it was. Seas calm and a beautiful day to be on the water. Hope fully we'll see some tuna next time.

Angler Name : Joan Beebe
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 07/23/2001
Location: Mud Buoy
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Up to 8 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 60 Ft.
Water Temp.: 73 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Joan Beebe charter on board and ran the Bounty Hunter up to the Mud Buoy. With the recent hot spots cooling off the Mud was the best report we had. Unfortunately a late start held us to a slow pick on the Blues. The bite ended for us when the current started to run into the wind and all the lines ran up to the bow. On the way home a brief stop on the Rocks netted us another 2 dozen fish.

Angler Name : Tom, Mike, Steve
E-Mail : Moneypit46@aol.com
Boat Name: Hell Raiser
Date Fished: 7/22/01
Location: Toms
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: plastics and bally
Water Depth: 300+
Water Temp.: 72.5-75.5
Information : Arrived at the Tom's around 6am and started to troll, no great signs of life and no great reports heard on the radio. Around 8:30 we found a weed line on a 1.5 degree tempature break, birds everywhere, but sitting on the water mostly, some picking, figured we would be covered up and headed home early this day. Not to be, no tuna, several whales and beautiful water. No Tuna. Picked up 5 mahi mahi around some pots to avoid the skunk. Still shaking my head.

Angler Name : James Grasmeder
E-Mail : JamesGrass@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Last Call
Date Fished: 7/22
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunk/troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: varies
Bait or Lure: butterfish/lores
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 72-76
Information : We hit the Hudson around 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning. It was a tough few hours until in the middle of a gorgeous sunrise the 50 began to sing. We had just down-sized the leaders and it paid off with a 65 lb. Yellowfin. Soon after we pulled out the baits and started to troll some lures. At 6:30 we spotted a whitey playing with our spreader bar. Unfortunately the marlin whacked the speader bar before we could get it in and pitch him a ballyhoo. We got him in and released him. About an hour later, another whitey attacked our far-rigger. We were amazed how we were tricking the normally cunning white marlin on lures. After releasing the marlin we hooked two very large dolphin. I lost one at the gaff and recieved very harsh treatment from the rest of the crew. Later we landed three more very large dolphin. It was a great day thanks to our dolphin friends.

Angler Name : Ernie&Mike
E-Mail : pulcinim@aiov.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 7-22
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: i7in
Bait or Lure: squid &killies
Water Depth: 12-50
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished from 6:30 to 12 and only caught 2 keepers and a huge porgy.All caught at the east side of the ammo pier .Lots of shorts.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 7-22-01
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12-14 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Spearing,Fluke Belly,Spro Bucktail
Water Depth: 23-35 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Keys phrases for today were; lack of drift and very slow pick.First two drifts were made along the red side of the Reach slow slow pick albeit there were 2 nice fluke of 3.5 & 4 pounds taken. I caught my first short on the 3rd drift which was along the green side. Next was in front of the ammo pier-where there was a little more action with shorts and sea robins. I however had the great fortune of catching a 2.25 pound lobster. Subsequent moves to Chapel Hill, the upper reach and the Keansburg Bouy yielded a mixture of keeper fluke,shorts,sea robins and skates. I totaled 4 shorts and the lobster. Pool winner was a 6 pounder.

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Date Fished: 07/22/2001
Location: SEA GIRT
Fishing Method: DRIFT/ANCHOR
Specie: Fluke
Size: 26" - 5 &1/2 LBS
Bait or Lure: SPEARING
Water Depth: 55-65FT
Water Temp.: 70
Information : HEADED SOUTH AGAIN AND FOUND A SLOW PICK OF FLUKE. RAN OFF TO A WRECK AND CAUGHT 10 NICE SEABASS. THEN CAME BACK IN AND PUT TOGETHER A COUPLE OF MORE FLUKE TOPPED BY MY BIG FISH OF THE SEASON AT ABOUT 5 &1/2LBS. SOUTH WIND MADE THINGS TOUGH AGAIN. ENDED UP WITH 8 FLUKE & 10 SEABASS FOR 3 GUYS.

Angler Name : Joe Erace/ Yale Stiengard
E-Mail : Joseph.erace@wcom.com
Boat Name: Sancocho
Date Fished: 7/22/01
Location: Hot Dog
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75lbs
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 125
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Well we were out looking for the 200 pound bluefins we caught last week but came up short with only 1 yellow fin at 75 lbs. However there were over 150 boats in a fleet on the dog . some boats had several bluefin or yellowfin, while others had no run offs all day. The fish were not leader shy, as guys were catching them on 80lb flouro carbor. At first we tried to fish outside of the fleet but had no luck.. Well the 75lb fish WON 2nd place in the SPYC tuna Tournement.. See ya next week..

Angler Name : Ed Z.
E-Mail : Monmag31@aol.com
Boat Name: MONSTER MAGNET
Date Fished: 7/22/01
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: bluefish fillet &Mack's
Water Depth: 250
Water Temp.: 69.9 - 74.6
Information : Hit the ledge early Saturday morning to see if there were any Mako's hanging around the area.When we arrived there was no drift,green water and lots of bluefish.The water temp. was 69.9 early and warmed up to 74.6 at the end of the day.Made a move in the afternoon and found some clean bluish water in the mudhole.After drifting for a hour a pod of about 40 porpoises swam next to the boat.(they woke up the bored crew,real fast)After reeling in a few more monster blues we headed for the barn.I'll have to try again next week.

Angler Name : Dan McGivney
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 7/22/01
Location: 19 miles NE of Manasquan
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3 to 5 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 45
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fishing with the Steve Evanski group it was ladies day aboard the Megan Beth. The husband and wifes and a little "freindly" competition and at days end it came out to a close tie with a limit number of bluefish caught by all. At first we stopped at a spot inshore where we fished the day prior but only caught three fish as there was no tide and baits went straight to the bottom. After moving 4 miles to the East we read plenty of fish but they would not bite . We had to go down to no wire leaders only using mono and circle hooks we started catching non stop.At one point we had the fish so close you only had to dangle your line next to the boat and you would have a fish on .

Angler Name : Jon Murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Tunnelvision
Date Fished: 07/22/01
Location: Barnegat Ridge
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: spearing/squid
Water Depth: 58-65
Water Temp.: 72
Information : no fluke, skates & 2-4 lb. blues. heard there were 5 draggers there on sat.

Angler Name : Dennis Nieradka
E-Mail : Firstarr@aol.com
Boat Name: the Prowler
Date Fished: July 22 2001
Location: mud hole
Fishing Method: anchore & chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5 -10
Bait or Lure: bunker chuncks & finger mullet
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : A slow afternoon to night went magic time 3:30-9:30 was fun and interesting about 30 people . A few 0 for the night. A few 7 high hooks . Only 1 15 person ( ME) . GOT A LITTLE WINDY BUT SMALL FISH .A LITTLE DISAPOINTED . All other boats were there. Tight lines Guys& Dolls . ( Salt Water Anglers Bergen County

Angler Name : John
E-Mail : Punkrocker1773
Boat Name: hook em and cook em
Date Fished: 7/22/01
Location: the b-2 wreck
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 20 "
Bait or Lure: squid snapper bluefish and live minnows
Water Depth: 74 feet
Water Temp.: 75
Information : fished late in the afternoon boating two fluke right off the bat. The rest of the the day we had a slow pick with 1 more short fluke and 3 keeper sea bass. we also caught 1 short mako a dosen sea robins and a SQUID??

Angler Name : alex
E-Mail : almac128@aol.com
Boat Name: friend
Date Fished: 7-22
Location: hot dog
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 75-125
Bait or Lure: butterfish-squid
Water Depth: 200 ft
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Fished a few miles E of the dog outside the fleet.took our limit home by 12.00.Us and a friends boat went 6 for 9.Stay on the hook (did not get a run off drifting).

Angler Name : Jimmy Mac
E-Mail : jfmacks@aol.com
Boat Name: FAT CAT
Date Fished: 7/21 to 7/22
Location: east wall hudson canyon
Fishing Method: trolling/ chuncking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100lbs.
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 500 fathoms edge
Water Temp.: 72 to 78
Information : started on the west wall trolling with no luck we moved to the east side by the 100sq. saw some life there. We stopped trolling and started chunking and had lots of mahi around the boat. Around 1am. we had lots of bait(squid) and tuna, the bite lasted till about 5am and we where 2 for 10, not great odds but the bite was funny,lots of lip hooks and break offs, we even had about 90lb yellowfin to the boat on a tld15 that we where using for mahi. trolled that blue water in the mouth of the hudson producing 5 mahi- mahi bulls around 30lbs, lots of action and can't wait to go again this weekend Jimmy Mac

Angler Name : Jason
E-Mail : Jayman63@aol.com
Boat Name: Lindsay Marie
Date Fished: 7/21 7/22
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling, chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 to 85 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, spreader bars
Water Depth: 450 ft
Water Temp.: 73
Information : 25 Miles shy of the Hudson, a piece of wood was spotted and we picked up 1 mahi, 1 triggerfish from underneath it. When we arrived at around 4:00 we picked up a few mahi by the pots. Trolling from 4:30 to dark we had 1 knockdown and 1 Yellowfin about 65 lbs. We began chunking the west wall on the drift. At about 11:00 3 yellowfin to 85 lbs. were boated. The next shot of fish came at around 3 where 1 was lost and 1 was boated. The tuna were swimming all around in the slick. All in all not a bad first trip to the canyon.

Angler Name : Bernie Jay
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July 22
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-50
Bait or Lure: everything
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 70-72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Dr. Bernie Jay charter from Greenwich, Conn. out on the Canyon Runner on Sunday for a day troll at the Hudson Canyon. Not looking forward to fishing with the crowd we were pleasantly surprised to see the fishing produce a slow but steady pick of yellowfin between 25-50 pounds. No lure stood out as a favorite but by 1pm the charter was satisfied and we headed home with 5 nice yellowfin in the box.

Angler Name : THOMAS THOMASIAN
E-Mail : THTHOM@COPELCO.COM
Boat Name: TOMAHAWK
Date Fished: 7/20/01
Location: BUG LIGHT SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 5 KEEPERS 50 SHORTS
Bait or Lure: SEA ROBBIN
Water Depth: 7-50
Water Temp.:
Information : WE DRIFTED FROM 6AM -2 TO PUT TOGETHER 5 KEEPERS BUT IT WAS A GRAT DAY ON THE WATER.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kper@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 7/20/01
Location: Sandy Hook shore line
Fishing Method: Cast and retrieve
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16"
Bait or Lure: Fin-S-3/8 oz. jighead
Water Depth: 3-5 feet, Oh Yes!
Water Temp.: 68-70
Information : Caught many fluke but only 3 keepers at high tide in the early AM. NE wind and rough surf did not prevent fluke from attacking almost every cast for about an hour. As tide changed fish stopped biting.

Angler Name : Chris Connolly
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 7/20/2001
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Up to 13 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 150 Ft.
Water Temp.: 73 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula Ran the Bounty Hunter up to the north end of the Mud Hole and got into one of the better Bluefish bites in recent days. Toughing it out thru a nasty 6 to 8 ft. northeast sea in the morning the charter got into the fish as soon as the chum bucket hit the water. By 1PM we had 26 fish in the fish box and called it a day.

Angler Name : Richie
E-Mail : ricksplace296@cs.com
Boat Name: SexyLexy
Date Fished: 7/20/01
Location: Great Kills Bug Light
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: Babies
Bait or Lure: Killies/squid
Water Depth: 8-16ft
Water Temp.: 71 degrees
Information : Started bottom fishing 10 am at Great Kills Bug light, caught a couple of shorty Fluke. 10 Sand Sharks, 3 Sea Robins, and 12 small Bluefish. No keepers in the bunch. Where are all the Big Fluke? At 1pm called it a day. A lot of action, but nothing in the bucket.

Angler Name : BARRY,BRUCE AND DICK J
E-Mail : DJJACOBUS@MSN.COM
Boat Name: LONG OVERDUE
Date Fished: 7-19-01
Location: RARITAN BAY,KEYPORT
Fishing Method: DRIFT,BOTTOM
Specie: Fluke
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: SQUID,SPEARING
Water Depth: 15-20-FT
Water Temp.: 73 DEG
Information : GOT OUT AROUND 5PM AFTER WORK,HEADED OUT TO KEYPORT AREA AGAINST STRONG INCOMING TIDE AND STRONG EAST WIND.FAST DRIFT WITH 5 OZ SINKERS.NETTED 1 KEEPER FLUKE,3 SHORTS,3 COCKTAIL BLUES AND ABOUT A HALF DOZEN DOG FISH.CAME BACK IN ABOUT 8 PM TO THE HIGHEST TIDE I EVER SAW IN MY MARINA.WE'RE GLAD WE WENT.HAVE FUN OUT THERE.DJ

Angler Name : Richard Steer
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July 17
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Blue Marlin
Size: up to 400 pounds
Bait or Lure: ballyhoo
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 70-72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Canyon Runner back out on Tuesday with the Richard Steer charter from Connecticut and found the tuna to be a little more responsive on the troll. Starting on the West Wall again the fishing once again was slow. By noon we had only 1 nice longfin in the boat. However, we got a nice pick going later in the day and went 4 for 4 on 30 to 40 pound yellowfin and put one more in the boat over 60 for a total of 6 tuna on the troll. With only 30 minutes left for the day we encountered our third Blue Marlin in 4 trips. Unlike Friday's Blue which broke-off immediately, this one, which attached a ballyhoo run on the short-rigger, put on a great battled with over 20 jumps over 30 minutes of fighting. However, the Blue bested our "light" tackle as rough sea condition did not allow for more aggressive boat tactics. She eventually broke off when one her last jump she got tail wrapped and we did not get the official release.

Angler Name : Bob Garrett
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 07/17/2001
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Up to 10 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Bunker & Butterfish
Water Depth: 180 Ft.
Water Temp.: 72 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula returned to the Bluefish grounds on the east side of the Mud Hole with the Bob Garrett charter. As was the case yesterday, the bite started with 3 to 5 Lb. fish. A few hours later the bigger fish moved in to the slick and provided some good action. The charter took all the Bluefish they needed and we then finished the day drifting for Fluke. A lot of shorts were released with only 1 keeper going into the box.

Angler Name : Ken Andersen
E-Mail : ksasp@aol.com
Boat Name: Fish Magnut
Date Fished: 7/16
Location: Off Red church
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 to 24" 2 to 6lb
Bait or Lure: Spearing squid
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Left the house late, got the first rig on the bottom around 1:00 pm had a decent pick all afternoon had a limit by 6:00 1) 5 lb and1) 6 lb fish to clean when I got home. Best Fluke day this year for me.

Angler Name : Capt. John Pfeiffer
E-Mail : captbigjohn@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Sea ++
Date Fished: 7/16
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40lb
Bait or Lure: Butters/Plastic and ballys
Water Depth: 500-700ft
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Left the dock at 9pm on the 15th and arrived at the West Wall at 1:30am. As usual we stayed away from the fleet and found abundant bait in 500ft. We stared chunking and had first run off at 2am. We boated the first fish and lost a large fish estimated at 80lb at the boat. We had several other opportunities but stuck out. On the troll in the morning we noted lots of bait but the fish were not biting. Went to 100sq and marked some fish but no takers. First trip offshore this year with poor trolling results.

Angler Name : Peter Vogel (Pirate)
E-Mail : pevsrmrbea
Boat Name: SEABURT
Date Fished: 7-16-01
Location: S.Rocks,S.H.Channel,Ambrose Ch.
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 5lb-8.5lb
Bait or Lure: Plastic Squid/Fluke Belly/Squid
Water Depth: 45 plus
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Started off in the Ambrose Channel,two keepers,Went down to the Rocks, two more keepers,caught the 5 pounder in this area, back up to the SH Channel, got the 8.5 pounder on the west side of the channel. You have got to go deep for the big one's. If you don't you are going to catch a lot of shorts.

Angler Name : John Silva
E-Mail : jrsilva@optonline.net
Boat Name: No Brakes
Date Fished: 7-16
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12 - 19
Bait or Lure: Squid / Killie
Water Depth: 9 - 65
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished just off the tip until the tide changed. Then went over to nude beach and finished at the bug light. In the 4 hours we were there, my buddy and I caught 23 fluke of which only 4 were keepers. 2 dogs, many sea robins, and 1 skate. Nice day on the water.

Angler Name : Bob Anderson
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 07/16/2001
Location: 20 Mi. N.E. Of Manasquan
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Bluefish
Size: Up to 12 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish & Bunker
Water Depth: 180 Ft.
Water Temp.: 72 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula ran the Bounty Hunter up to the Bluefish grounds 20 Mi. Northeast of Manasquan. The Bob Anderson charter started the day with a slow pick of Bluefish ranging from 3 to 5 lbs. When the tide changed the big fish moved in and we finished the day catching Blues in the 8 To 12 lb. class. At the end of the day we had 46 Blues in the box and missed to many to count.

Angler Name : DINO
E-Mail : BONZO615@AOL
Boat Name: TRACY ANDREA
Date Fished: 7-16-01
Location: SANDY HOOK BAY
Fishing Method:
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-25
Bait or Lure: KILLIES AND SQUID
Water Depth: 47 FEET
Water Temp.: 65 TO 70
Information : WENT OUT 7A.M. TO THE TIP OF THE SANDY HOOK. CAUGHT 10 SHORTS IN 20 FT. OF WATER, MOVED OUT ABOUT 10 A.M. TO 47 TO 53 FT. OF WATER. I HIT A FOUR POUNDER AND A 3 1/2 POUNDER. BY 1 P.M. I HAD 5 KEEPERS AND 15 THROW BACKS. I CALLED IT A GOOD DAY...

Angler Name : Chris Hempstead
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July16
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-50
Bait or Lure: Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Chris Hempstead charter from Connecticut out on the Canyon Runner Monday. Trolling was not up to what is was last week as we did not have a bite until noon. Trolling the West Wall from the tip to the letters only produced a few bites after noon and we ended the day with only 2 yellowfin between 30 to 40 pounds.

Angler Name : steve no here
E-Mail : nj555nick@aol.com
Boat Name: TRIPLE NICKEL
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: HUDSON CANYON
Fishing Method: TROOL
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75LBS
Bait or Lure: GREEN MACHINE/BIRD COMBO
Water Depth: 600 FT
Water Temp.: 70.8
Information : FOUND THE YELLOWFIN TUNA B-4 WE REACHED THE TIP, SEEN LOTS OF BOATS AROUND LOOKED LIKE NY CITY. USED GREENMACHINE WITH BIRD COMBO. FISH WENT 75 LBS. HAD NICE RIDE HOME SEEN DOLPHIN,WHALE SUN FISH,WHATS UP WITH THE CHUNKING?? CATCH THEM UP!!!

Angler Name : Bob, Eric, Corey & C.J.
E-Mail : cjnesti@home.com
Boat Name: Tail Chaser
Date Fished: 7/15/01
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50#
Bait or Lure: Green Machine
Water Depth: 350
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Clean water and a lot of life only produced 2 longfin and 1 yellow fin.Green seemed to be the color of choice.

Angler Name : FPecht
E-Mail : FPecht@aol.com
Boat Name: Keeper Seeker
Date Fished: 7/15/01
Location: Barnegat(Doublr Creek Channel)
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: <16"
Bait or Lure: squid Killie
Water Depth: 8-12'
Water Temp.:
Information : Great conditions.. plenty of Fluke...only 1 keeper in 25. I figure around Sept 12th these fish should grow to be 16". "Always wanted to be a catch and release fisherman".....NOT!!!

Angler Name : giantpete Thrombone
E-Mail : mjspell@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Floater
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Chum drift
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size: N/A
Bait or Lure: whole mackeral/blue fillets
Water Depth: 240ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Set up drift, got multiple run offs. A few baits bit clean off right below the belly hook, a few completely mauled baits that got spit out after a quick 3-5 sec. burst (the reel sounded like a 125cc dirtbike getting pounded). Doubled up the hooks, w/in 5 min had a strike. Not a shark, it really didn't run, but something relatively big, too big to be a bluefish, that fought really strangely. Got it to the boat, it was an 8 lb. bluefish on one hook, & a 15lb. bluefish on the other. Pretty neat. Also saw a large brown colored shark playing in the slick, maybe 10-15ft. off the stern. Alot of life out there, counted 4 decent, hard runoffs, but couldn't set the @#$% hook!!!

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail :
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: July 13-14-15
Location: Various spots in Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Praying and Dreaming
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-17"
Bait or Lure: The works
Water Depth: Various
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week. Friday we went to the rips, then McCries and managed 3 small flounder. That was the highlight of the weekend. Saturday we tried the Yellow stakes for weakies, and managed a dozen sharks, a skate, and a 12" weakie. Sunday brought a beautiful day. Fished a new spot in shallow water. We caught 3 small sharks and that was it. I did break off one of my light rods on a snag. That snag provided some brief excitement, and I marked the spot. As bad as Del Bay fishing has been, I'm going back to that snag with a stand up tuna rod just to get some 'action'.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: Sandy Hook Area
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 8-16 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Spearing
Water Depth: 15-35 Feet
Water Temp.:
Information : My son Jason and I combined for 25 fluke with all but 1 shorts.First drift was off the ammo pier where the boat caught 90% shorts & sea robins.Next drift was along the edge of Flynn's Knoll where the action was slower but there were more keepers.We next made two drifts in the ocean across Sandy Hook Channel where there was a good pick of keepers. Our final drift was along Officer's Row which yielded close to a 1000 fluke all from 8-12 inches with 1 lone keeper among them.Low point of the day ( & possibly summer ) is when I slipped on some bait on the deck and broke my custom fluke stick.

Angler Name : Captain Bill
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fin Fun
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: off Mantaloking
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17" - 22"
Bait or Lure: teaser over spearing
Water Depth: 60-65 feet
Water Temp.: 70.3
Information : Our family had a good pick of seabass and fluke two miles off Mantaloking. As the tide slowed the seabass cooperated more. We had a mixed bag of bottom fish including a small red hake (ling), we even caught a squid. The biggest fluke was 22" with another dozen keepers. Double spearing did the job with a small plastic squid teaser over them. Also in the catch was a four spotted flounder. With no one else anywhere in sight we spotted acres of bottlenosed dolphin balling bunkers. The dolphin were spread over an area covering at least 1/4 mile. We watched them free jump, tail slap and torpedo through the water. At one point several pods were swimming in circles until the bunker were tighly balled and then they turned the water white as they crashed through. This went on for at least 30 minutes. What a great show. People pay big money to see things like this in places like Provincetown and we had it for free just two miles out. There were so many dolphin that if the Canyon Runner were headed out to the Hudson, Mate Mike would have dropped a speader bar out looking for tuna. What a great sight! It does have me thinking though, the only other times I've ever seen so many dolphin is when the tuna are around.

Angler Name : Bill S
E-Mail : BillScharf@go.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 7/15
Location: Klondike/Lumps off Asbury
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17" - 22"
Bait or Lure: Squid/Sandeel & Spearing
Water Depth: 42-55
Water Temp.: 71-74
Information : Fished Sunday morning. Picked fish, disappointing performance after good fishing Thursday evening. Fish hit on tops of lumps primarily. I caught several seabass of 2 lbs. I brought up what looked like a small cod, maybe 12".

Angler Name : Rich
E-Mail : randres1@swarthmore.edu
Boat Name: Sawdust
Date Fished: 7/15/01
Location: GE Reef off OC
Fishing Method: bottom drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-19
Bait or Lure: squid/minnow combo
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Got to the reef around 9:00AM; by 9:30 we had 4 in the box. Spotty the rest of the day- ended up with 7. Seemed to do better than most though. Cut the trip short due to swarms of flies 10 miles off shore. The entire boat was covered- I have never seen anything like it.

Angler Name : DICK + JUDY JACOBUS
E-Mail : DJJACOBUS@MSN.COM
Boat Name: LONG OVERDUE
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: KEYPORT
Fishing Method: FISH FINDER
Specie: Fluke
Size:
Bait or Lure: SQUID,BUNKER
Water Depth: 15-20-FT
Water Temp.: 74 DEG
Information : GOT OUT AFTER WORK ABOUT 5 PM AND BOTTOM FISHED OUT BY KEYPORT.AT FIRST,NO DRIFT,AND ATTACKED BY GREEN FLIES,USING 1 OZ SINKER.AROUND 6PM WIND KICKED UP CHASING FLIES AWAY,SWITCHED TO 5 OZ SINKER CAUGHT LONE SAND DOGGIE AT LEAST 3 FT LONG.AT LEAST I GOT OUT AND CAUGHT SOMETHING.ON VACATION NEXT WEEK,HOPE THE WEATHER AND FISH COOPERATE.HAVE FUN OUT THERE.DJ

Angler Name : Jim Cawthern
E-Mail : Cawtehrnj@capitol-environmental.com
Boat Name: Miss Shelly [21' Mako]
Date Fished: 7/13, 7/14 & 7/15/01
Location: Sandy Hook Bay
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12 - 29 inches
Bait or Lure: squid & killie
Water Depth: 20 - 70 feet
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Managed to catch at least 6 fluke over 5 lbs. during a three day fishing expedition in Sandy Hook Bay. The highlight of the weekend was my brother, John. He manged to catch a 23 incher that weighed 5.5 lbs. along with a 25 incher that weighed 6 lbs. on Saturday. He followed up this performance with a 29 incher that weighed 8.4 lbs. on Sunday. This fish placed 3rd in the Sandy Hook Bay Fluke Tournament. The bay and the ocean from Sandy Hook to Monmouth Beach is absolutely full of fluke. You have to pick through a lot of shorts, but there are a lot of fish.

Angler Name : Dan McGivney
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 7/15/01
Location: 15 miles NE of manasquan
Fishing Method: chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 10 to12lbs
Bait or Lure: Mackeral/ Butterfish
Water Depth: 150
Water Temp.: 68
Information : It was non stop action for the Terry Fernoff group from Bethlaham PA aboard the Megan Beth. The blue fishing was very good just on the East side of the Mud hole.Filling two coolers of mixed size fish. The first two hours produced large fish 10 to 12lbs then small fished mixed in as we broke out the spinning tackle to have some fun land the 3lb fish.

Angler Name : Gary
E-Mail : micco@blast.net
Boat Name: Tamra II
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: Barnegat Reef
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-27"
Bait or Lure: various
Water Depth: 55'-75'
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Caught 10, kept 6. Slow day on the reef. Largest was a 27", 6.5 lb. flattie that fought like a big blue. Lots of fun. other than that, we probably set a skate record.

Angler Name : AL&Rob
E-Mail : afasano@att.com
Boat Name: salty dog
Date Fished: 7/15
Location: shrewsberry rocks
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 6lbs
Bait or Lure: squid/spearing
Water Depth: 38
Water Temp.:
Information : Capt Rob nailed 2 6pounders on the same drift. I had 2 around 3lbs. Had about a dozen keepers. Beautiful Day.

Angler Name : Mike Kirkup
E-Mail : kirkups@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Betty K II
Date Fished: 7-15-01
Location: Glory hole
Fishing Method: chunking
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 13 lb
Bait or Lure: spearing
Water Depth: 250 ft
Water Temp.: 69.1 F
Information : Reached the glory hole at sunrise and started chunking for blufin. Within an hour we had bluefish (8-12 lbs)hitting the lines and we could't get rid of them. One of the fish was followed in by a big bull mahi. I quickly rigged three spearing on a bluefish rig and tossed it over. The bull darted out from under the boat and inhaled the bait. The fight was on. This fish immediately started dancing on the water, putting on the most beautiful display I've ever seen, all within spitting distance of the boat. After we got him into the boat I rigged up another "tripple spearing delight" and within seconds had his mate on the line. She was smaller (4-5 lbs.) but put up a good fight. We left at 2 pm releasing blues and even picked up a few as we trolled for tuna to the Mud Hole (which was empty).

Angler Name : SCOTT MCLACHLAN
E-Mail : SCOTTM@ZIPPAK.COM
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 7/9/01-7/15/01
Location: ORTLEY BEACH, PT PLST INLET
Fishing Method: SURF,INLET,BAY
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16
Bait or Lure: RED,YELLOW,WHT TEASER
Water Depth: SURF
Water Temp.: 68
Information : FISHED THE SURF, PT PLEASANT INLET, BAY AREA'S FOR THE WHOLE WEEK. NOTHING HAPPENING ALL WEEK EXCEPT SMALL FLUKE. HAD SOME WEAK FISH ACTION IN THE INLET AFTER DUSK A FEW DIFFERENT TIMES BUT VERY FEW FISH. ON MY LAST DAY OF VACATION STARTING NAILING GOOD SIZE FLUKE IN THE SURF USING A TEASER RIG WITH A 2OZ JIG HEAD AND A FINESS LURE. FLUKE WERE JUST KILLIN THE TEASER!!! ONCE THE ACTION STARTED IT WAS NONE STOP. LANDED SEVERAL NICE KEEPER FLUKE. BAIT FISH JUMPING EVERYWHERE FROM THE FLUKE CHASING THEM IN THE SHALLOW SURF.

Angler Name : G. Davis
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 7/15/01
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 12 - 18"
Bait or Lure: jigs
Water Depth: 20'
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished Saturday evening & Sunday morning. Slow pick of fluke on Saturday w/ a couple of keepers. Chased bluefish around Old Orchard flats early Sunday. Good sized school that stayed intact for about an hour. Caught 15-20 on bucktails.

Angler Name : patti O and the AB
E-Mail :
Boat Name: feed the llamas
Date Fished: 14,15
Location: west wall of hudson
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60-90
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : after a good trip the other day we took the 100+ mile ride again. slow until 4:30 when we had a little flurry and picked up 4 nice yellows. troll was beat and noaa totally blew the forecast. until next time

Angler Name : mike lawrence
E-Mail : lawremi@churchdwight.com
Boat Name: shot'n' beer
Date Fished: 14-15 JULY
Location: GLORY HOLE
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: MACKERAL
Water Depth: 165 - 260
Water Temp.: 76
Information : WENT NORTH OF THE GLORY DRIFTED ALL DAY, NOTHING BUT BLUE FISH. WENT INTO THE MUDHOLE FOR THE SECOUND DRIFT IN 258 FT OF WATER. SAME RESULTS. CANYON HERE I COME. I FELT LIKE I WAS IN THE INLET WITH ALL THE BOAT TRAFFIC GOING TO AND FROM THE ELBOW. SEE YOU OUT THERE.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: Tenacious
Date Fished: 7/14,15//01
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll and Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 40 to 90 lbs
Bait or Lure: Spreader bars/butterfish
Water Depth: 600 FT
Water Temp.: 71 DEGREES
Information : Took the Ron Antonelli Fishing Team for a memorable overnighter in the Hudson Canyon. Trolled the west wall south from the tip for 2 1/2 hours with no action and based on a tip from Capt Kevin on the XTC, set up for chunking at 4:30 pm. Began catching yellowfins almost immediately on 50 lb leaders and a 40 lb flourocarbon leader. By sunset we had we had gaffed 5 larger size yellowfins and by 11:30 pm we had 10 60 to 90 lb yellowfins in the boat. Action died until 3:30 am when non stop action continued until daybreak. At 6:30 am we headed for home with 22 yellofins and 2 longfins plus several mahi on ice. Demonstrating a large dose of patience and tenacity the charter and mate remarkably went 24 for 25 losing a single hooked fish when a three bagger resulted in tangled lines and one line was chaffed through. Outstanding job! Outstanding chunking trip FOR JULY!!!

Angler Name : Capt. Chris/First Mate Mike
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jenny Lynne
Date Fished: 07/15/01
Location: parking lot
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 60lb, 80lb, 160lb
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 100 ft
Water Temp.: 78.2
Information : Around 10 pm on Sat 7/14, we decided that because the bluefin bite was nowhere to be found in Jersey, we would seek them out elsewhere. We left South Jersey at 2am and decided to trailer our 24' Boston Whaler to OCMD. Launched at 5:15 am and had our lines in the water by 6am. The long trip finally paid off (this was our second run doing this); by 7:30 we had our first 80lb bluefin in the boat. We followed that with a 60lbr by 9:30am. Around 11:30 am the 30tw begin to sing what had become an unfamiliar song, leaving us with only around 150yrds of line left on the spool. After an hour and 20 minutes, a tangle with the anchor line and chasing the fish down, we finally boated a beautiful 160lb Bluefin Tuna. Since our fishbox was filled to over- capacity, we headed back in early. The long drive back to Jersey couldn't have been better. What a great day!

Angler Name : rich
E-Mail :
Boat Name: lionhearted
Date Fished: july 15
Location: verranzano bridge
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 25 inches
Bait or Lure: squid and killies
Water Depth: 25 ft.
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : We started out at 7AM at the islands. It was slow. All 13 or less inches. At about 10 AM I decided to move near the bridge and rapidly got 2 25 inch fluke between 3 and 4 pounds. It was a good day.

Angler Name : National Fishing Association/Phil Kozak
E-Mail : NFA5441@aol.com
Boat Name: Pocket Rocket
Date Fished: 07/14/01
Location: Hot Dog
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 150 pounds 63 inches
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 137 ft
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Wind light out of the nw. current light 1st quarter of the moon. Fished the Hot dog area. Bite was hot. Double header 1st fish took at least 300 yards on the first run 2nd fish cut off both. 3rd fish at about noon and wse got ofr the ball and fought it for a hour landed tht one. Used sand eels and chunks from its stomach for chunking and with in 10 mins after stting up we had another smoker. Off the ball for another 1 hr and 45 mins/ Lost this fish at the boat. Straighted out a 5/0 hook. The fish was with in 15 ft of the boat excerted to much pressure and we had a tackle failure. Rigged our 80 poumd class rods and reels for this weekend. 50 pound tackle drags not heavy enough, and you cann't stay on the anchor and expect to land these larger Bluefins. Will fish again next weekend. Donn't forget the NFA Bluefin Tuna Challenge Tournament July 27 and 28th at Cape May Marina, Capts meeting and sign up thursday 7:30 Pm at Cape May Marina

Angler Name : Dan Mcgivney
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Megan Beth
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: 3 miles north of manasquan
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 2.0
Bait or Lure: Squid
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.: 67
Information : The Megan Beth had Megan,Alyssa McGivney along with Russ Moretti to fish the kids JCSA Tournament. Keeping 5 Fluke to 2.0lbs all three children placed and all won prizes.There was plenty of action with shorts and skates as it kept the parents very busy unhooking and rebaiting the hooks.

Angler Name : Capt Sal Guttilla
E-Mail : sgisland@att.net
Boat Name: Jackie Too
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: Island Beach to Manasquan Ridge
Fishing Method: Trolling (Blues);Drifting (Fluke)
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16-17 inches
Bait or Lure: Killies/Squid
Water Depth: 52-60'
Water Temp.: 71-73.5
Information : Trolled along beach with planers and pomy tails for blues. No hits. Then trolled approaching Manasquan Ridge from Southeast-No Hits. Drifted on Ridge for fluke, caught one sand shark, several sea robins and three fluke. One 15 1/2 and the other two 16-17 inches. Little wind so drift was slow to non-existent. Drifted for about 1 1/2 hrs.

Angler Name : Chris Santoro
E-Mail : ctsantoro@aol.com
Boat Name: Dr. Hook
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: 5-10 miles shy of West Wall
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-50lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid Bars and Feathers
Water Depth: 250
Water Temp.: 71.5
Information : Pulled up about 10 miles shy of the Hudson after seeing porpoise and lots of activity. Raised a nice Blue Marlin behind a squid bar but couldn't entice him. Went 3 for 4 on 30-50lb yellowfin which were loaded with squid. All this and we were 5-10 miles inside of the crowd at the West Wall. Thanks to Cisco Kid for a safe ride home.

Angler Name : ALAN SHIRLEY
E-Mail : JSHIRLEY@AOL.COM
Boat Name: TUNA GIRL
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: SANDY HOOK
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 8LBS
Bait or Lure: KILLIES
Water Depth: 26FT
Water Temp.:
Information : STARTED FISHING OFF THE NUDE BEACH SATURDAY MORNING. HAD A STEADY PICK OF KEEPERS TILL 11AM WHEN MY FATHER-IN-LAW NAILED AN 8 POUNDER ON A DOUBLE KILLIE RIG. THE NEXT DRIFT YEILDED A 4 POUNDER.ONLY A COUPLE OF BOATS FISHING IN OUR AREA, MOST WERE AT THE KNOLL. PAYS TO STAY AWAY FROM THE FLEET.

Angler Name : Steve Howard
E-Mail : showard@peoplepc.com
Boat Name: Sharkskin
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Baltimore Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Atlantic Bonito
Size: 10 Lbs+
Bait or Lure: daisies, green mach.,bullyhoo
Water Depth: 900"
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Trolled and chunked the tip of the Baltimore on Saturday for first overnight trip of the season. Caught 5 nice bonito on the troll on all types plastic-one knockdown by tuna on squid daisychain but couldn't boat it. Chunking with butterfish produced nothing all night. Anyone having any luck on yellowfin yet at the Baltimore?

Angler Name : Dave B
E-Mail : mbent98912@aol.com
Boat Name: Re-Bait
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: 750Sq area
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 120
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Water was suckful, so was the tuna bite,or lack thereof. Some fish caught at the claw, notmany for all of the boats out there. In shore pretty dead, so were the canyons during the day. IF ANYONE FROM Manasquan would please email me I AM SEARHING FOR JUMBO BLUES and am willing to run to the MUD Hole if need be. All tips appreciated. (I'm in a contest) Dave

Angler Name : Sean
E-Mail : sclancy@pattonboggs.com
Boat Name: The Irish Rogue III
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: Spencer
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 6-8lb
Bait or Lure: bally, spreaders, artificials
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Fished the Spencer on Sat. 74 degree water, very clean, little life. trolled up 6 dolphin - 1 per lobster pot. No big bulls. They hit spreader bars, naked ballys and various artificials. Found a huge school of skippies - caught and released over a dozen in 15 mins. they were ravenous. feeding on squid. sounder didnt show any YFTs feeding under them -- pretty disappointing. NOAA forecast was pretty accurate -- started blowing 10-15kt N/NW shortly after lunch. Ride in was a little choppy given the 3 footers that were stacked up tight.

Angler Name : MikeP.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Jamaica
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Approx. 20 miles east Pt. Pleasant
Fishing Method: Jigs and bait
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 8-10 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Jigs
Water Depth: N/A
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : I made the long trip from Baltimore to fish with over 100 other people on the Jamaica. Fishing 25 years on this boat, I have never seen such a crowd. The trip out was approx. 2 hours. The first stop produced 1 blue. Then we headed south for another 30 mins. to better fishing. There was a slow pick of bluefish through the day with some typical flurries. I had 4 and lost 3 near the boat. The average was 1 or 2 with the high hooks at 4-6 fish. The pool winner was about 15 lbs. The fish weren't always hitting a speeding jig. I caught more winding the jig in slow. Surprising enough, with all of the vacation fisherman there were few tangles. That was helped tremedously when most people went to jigs. The capt. stayed out an extra 1.5 hours to provide more fishing time. Watching the tourist get bit and hooked was somewhat of a diversion. With the beautiful weather, it wasn't a bad day.

Angler Name : Mike Copeman
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Renegade
Date Fished: 7/13-14
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: troll, chunk, troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 lbs
Bait or Lure: Bars, Feathers
Water Depth: 350-900
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Trolled the tip and west wall, picked up one yft just before dark, chunked all night on the west wall and picked at 2 more, loosing one at the boat which was about 125 lbs. Trolled at dawn and picked up 2 more and had a nice run off on the 30TW which almost spooled it. Angler allowed slack in the line and fish was gone, but when the angler is your father what can you say? Oh well, it was definelty a large fish.

Angler Name : Nick Cucinello
E-Mail : Cuch3@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Hudson West Wall
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-40lbs
Bait or Lure: Tuna Clone
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 72-73
Information : Caught 3 longfin from 30-40lbs. Had a 100+lb Yellowfin at the side of the boat and the leader broke. All hit green tuna clones either by themself or on a daisy chain. Based on some of the other reports I wish we stopped by the porposes on the way home. All in all a good first trip to the Hudson.

Angler Name : Brenner Green
E-Mail : rbrennergreen@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Black Jack
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: 750 sq
Fishing Method: Chunk/Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 130
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Set up at just east of the 750 sq by 6:30. The water was so green I knew it was not looking good right away but in a 20' boat we were out of options. Just blues all day, avoided the hot dog because we thought it would be too crowded, clearly a bad move as they killed 'em there from what we heard.

Angler Name : Captains John, Ron
E-Mail : Chumslickdaddy@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Crack O' Noon
Date Fished: 7/14/2001
Location: Silver bay Just north of rt 37 Bridge
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14 1/2 and 16 "
Bait or Lure: Squid/ Killie
Water Depth: 3-5 ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished just off of the bridge, came up with two weakfish, and a bunch of crabs! good size crabs!! Weather was great and the water was also great

Angler Name : Mark
E-Mail :
Boat Name: fished on the Audrey Sue
Date Fished: 7/14
Location: Lillian/Glory Hole
Fishing Method: chum/chunk
Specie: Thresher Shark
Size:
Bait or Lure: Bluefish fillet, mackerel, bunker
Water Depth: 160
Water Temp.: 68
Information : Had 2 run off's. I broke the line completely, the other left a big mouth mark on our bait. Had bluefish around the boat most of the day on and off.

Angler Name : Bryan,Bob,John
E-Mail : bryka00@aol.com
Boat Name: BRYKARYE
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: mudhole 36 miles from Shark River
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Tiger Shark
Size: up to +-150lbs.
Bait or Lure: mackerel
Water Depth: 150-260 ft.
Water Temp.: 69.5-72
Information : 2nd shark trip with high hopes for a mako. Started early with the lines in the water at 6:30am. Had two drifts for the day. 1st drift brought us 3 blue sharks to be released and several others swimming through our slick. One was fed bluefish racks off of a rope until full enough to leave. 2nd drift started 3 miles back into the middle of the mudhole(260ft.). The wind,drift and bite died down. We did have a 10lb. Mahi in our slick that spit a magnum minnow lure. Bluefish were in the slicks through-out the day; but not as heavy as first trip. Ended our day trolling for bluefin(about 2 hrs.) only to catch 8 more bluefish. At the dock at 9:00pm. LONG DAY!

Angler Name : Michael Savage
E-Mail : michael1savage@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Wreckless
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Lindenkohl Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 125 lb
Bait or Lure: Spreader bars
Water Depth: 500ft
Water Temp.: 72-73
Information : Trolled 40 fathom with no luck on the way to lindenkohl. Arrived at Lindenkohl at 8:30 am, trolled the tip and had a marlin, probably a white slash several baits. Caught 1 yellowfin, approx. 125lb at 10:30 am. Big fish, 50 inches long but really fat. The fish was stuffed with fresh squid, explains why he hit our spreader bars. Caught a second yellowfin, about the same length but a little slimmer about 2:30pm on the way back at the 50 fathom line. There were few boats in the lindenkohl, no temperature breaks and I did not hear many success stories on any large fish.

Angler Name : Bill, Millis, Maggie and Amy
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Barking Dog
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Ocean Side of Hook
Fishing Method: Bottom
Specie: Fluke
Size: 5 lbs
Bait or Lure: Killie & Squid
Water Depth: 35
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Left the dock at 5am to see the sunrise. The drift inside the hook was tough with the breeze moving us too quickly, so we headed to the tip and saw a Bayliner Trophy high and dry on the beach. Hope everyone onboard was ok. We returned a couple of shorts as well as sea robins and left that spot. Closer to the nude beach we had a nice pick of fluke with a 5 lbs beauty.

Angler Name : turtle
E-Mail : wakthebid@yahoo.com
Boat Name: LAURA D
Date Fished: 7/13/01-7/14/01
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70-100 lbs
Bait or Lure: ballyho/butterfish
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 71-72
Information : left the inlet approx 12:30 hit the canyon @4 setup for a couple of hours on the troll with in minutes had a triple header after trolling a little more decided to setup for the chunk started the chunk early and approx 20min into the chunk lines were screaming the fishing was good until around 10 when we noticed we had a shark lerking in the area which probably drove are fish away so the hunt was on for this menice after a couple of attempts we finally hooked up it was a 100-125 blue shark after releasing him fishing was pretty quit a couple of mahi where boated then at approx 3 we hooked up with a monster of a fish the fish was just off the rear of the boat getting air then the fish dove after 30 min battle we lost it when fish was airborn it looked like a mako .well first lite appeared and the troll was back on with no luck too many boats dove the fish deep left at 11. great fishing i want to thank captain bly for breakin my cherry

Angler Name : Darrin and William Bradley
E-Mail : darrin_bradley@n2basketball.com
Boat Name: Equity One
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: Seaside
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 3 lbs
Bait or Lure: Squid, Sandeel, Smelt and Spearing
Water Depth: 45 to 70 ft
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Tried to do something different. So we fished off the old Ciba Geigy pipe area as well as off Top O the Mast. Didn't do so well. Three keepers and lots of shorts.

Angler Name : Capt Larry
E-Mail : larzee58@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Wolf
Date Fished: 07/14
Location: Wilmington Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolled
Specie: Blue Marlin
Size: 400+
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 800+
Water Temp.: 75.4
Information : Arrived at the wilmington at 6 am sat morning. Took 2 70lb yft. After 2 hrs of trolling the big boy finally came in. Huge Blue Marlin took my long rigger and left town. We chased him until I got 1/2 of the spool back on my 50 lwrs shimano w/60lb ande. Thes fish put on an aerial show like you couldnt imagine and then sounded. Came up and jumped and sounded several times. Finally brought him to boatside and tagged him. What a beautiful fish. One I will remember all my life. Go get them as they are out there. There were many whites caught as well.

Angler Name :
E-Mail :
Boat Name: PARTY OF FIVE
Date Fished: 7/14/01
Location: GLORY HOLE
Fishing Method: DRIFT
Specie: S-Fin Mako Shark
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: MACKS/BLUEFISH
Water Depth: 262
Water Temp.:
Information : SCUNKED

Angler Name : John Adamcik
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 07/14 2001
Location: Monmouth Beach
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 4 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Spearing & Squid Strips
Water Depth: 25 to 35 Ft.
Water Temp.: 72 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the John Adamcik charter on board and ran up to the Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright areas. Working in water 25 to 35 Ft. deep the Fluke bite was very good on the tide change. In a 2 hour span we put 17 keeper Fluke up to 4 lbs. in the box. The rest of the day was spent picking. The total at the end of the day was 32 keepers and 39 shorts released along with the usual catch of Sea Robins and Skates. Spearing & Squid strips were the baits of the day.

Angler Name : Ernie&Bryan
E-Mail : pulcini@aiov.com
Boat Name: smokercraft
Date Fished: 7-11
Location: sandy hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: 16 to 24 in
Bait or Lure: squid &killie
Water Depth: 18
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Left atlantic highlands at 5 30am and went to the east side of the ammo pier and before 8 oclock we had 14 keepers up to 6 lb.But then the wind came up bad and we ran to the river.Only small ones.Fished till noon trying to catch 2 more keepers ,but only small ones.Best day in a long time.

Angler Name : N. Fairbank
E-Mail : nfairbank@aol.com
Boat Name: Keeper (Jim Munley)
Date Fished: 7/11/01
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Spreader Squid
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Decided to try and see if the Bluefin had arrived inshore. Trolled the Glory Hole to the Chicken Canyon with negative results. Had one fish come up to the starboard spreader bar 3 times but failed to hook-up, may or may not have been a tuna. Tally for the day, 4 bluefish. Did not see any surface life, water temperature 69 to 70 degress.

Angler Name : John Shipley
E-Mail : captjohn001@earthlink.net
Boat Name: Saint Jude
Date Fished: 7/10-11/01
Location: Hudson canyon
Fishing Method: Troll / Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70-90 lbs
Bait or Lure: Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 400-1,000 ft.
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Captain John had the Saint Jude out withmate Nick Nagel and the rest, including John Cherry and Rob Grahm (who experienced his first tuna ever, a 75 pounder.) we worked our way trolling to the east where we found the porposes and lots of life. Having boated two of the bruisers and several mahi, we set up for the chunk. the night was quiet until the s-fish line went off...and boy did it go off! the fin-nor 80W was nearly spooled of it's 130 lb dacron when I tried to stop the submarine with my hand on the drum and the dacron broke... easily the biggest fish ever hooked on the saint jude, this puppy pulled harder than the 500lb Blue Marlin caught last year....another "one that got away". But shortly after that the big yellowfins returned for an hour long mad dog bite that left our tackle (and bodies) busted and filled our fish box two of those fish tipped the scales just short of 90 lbs. A 45lb longfin in the morning was just icing on the cake of this exciting trip. We headed home at 8:30 AM...dock by 12 noon.

Angler Name : Dan Miller
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July 11
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 35-100
Bait or Lure: Bars & Baits
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mates Brad Burgess and Mike Zajac had the Dan Miller charter from Seally Mattress out to the Hudson Canyon for the 4 back-to-back canyon run in a row and the 10th canyon trip of the year. Once again the yellowfin were on the feed early and we had 3 yellowfin and 2 longfin around 40-pounds in the boat by 9am. Squid bars were again the lure of choice. Unlike yesterday, however, the action did not stop. Working the edge in 400-600 feet of water produced another 5 yellowfin between 30 and 50 pounds and just before we called it a day a 100 pounder fell victim to the long rigger squid bar. In total we went 11 for 15 for another double digit catch of tuna.

Angler Name : Oggie
E-Mail : oggie1@home.com
Boat Name: Low Bid
Date Fished: 7/10/01
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 35-85 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Daisy Chain/Spreader Bar
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 73-74
Information : Hit Hudson 8am. caught early Bite. went 6 in 2hour. then died down nice ride home excellent Crew. THanks Capt. Bob M, Jason and SEan

Angler Name : Dave Tolchin
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July 10
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-50 pounds
Bait or Lure: Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie put the Canyon Runner into another good bite of yellowfin tuna for the Dave Tolchin charter from Sayerville, NJ. Trolling the Hudson Canyon on Tuesday the action was what best is characterized as a good pick as all the boats on the edge had fish. The only downside to the trip was that an unexcussable amount of fish were lost after the initial hook-up. The final total had 6 yellowfin ranging in size from 35 to 45 pounds in the boat with 12 others lost. Not a good ratio. The hot lure of the day was again the squid spreader bars and most of the action was on the West Wall.

Angler Name : Capt. John Pfeiffer
E-Mail : captbigjohn@yahoo.com
Boat Name: SEA ++
Date Fished: 7/9 and 7/10
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll and chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30 to 100lb
Bait or Lure: Squid Bars and Butterfish
Water Depth: 400 to 600ft
Water Temp.: 71.5
Information : We did back to back trips this week. We left the dock about 12:30AM with co-owner Doug Anderson and 1 guest. We reached the Tip at about 4:30am on the 9th. Picked up 2 small yellowfin and continued to slide down the west side until we marked tons of bait at 550ft. we went 6 for 7 on larger yellowfin in the 60 to 90lb range. Called it a day at 10:am with eight fish. Then we cleaned up and did it again on the 10th. This time we left at 10:30 pm on the 9th and arrived where we caught the larger fish the day before.At a whim owner John Goulett picked up a flat of butters and we started chunking at 3:30am and had fish on in 20 min. Again these were larger fish in the 80lb range. We boated 4, then the bite stopped at daybreak. By the way we were on the drift. Stared trolling and picked up three more then the troll bite slowed and we started tward the tip.Right at the tip there was two large explosions about 200 yards in front of the boat so we took in the small spreaders and put out 2 large 12 inch squid bars. About 10 min we had two huge explosions behind our rigs and hooked up on one. Ended up being a 135lb Eye. Then we put a 100 yellowfin in the boat and called it a day. We ended up with 8 yellowfins to 100lb and the one eye.

Angler Name : frank,rob
E-Mail : frankko66@yahoo.com
Boat Name: easygo
Date Fished: 7-9-01
Location: ammo pier -sandy hook
Fishing Method: drift/jig
Specie: Fluke
Size: 1-3 1/2 lbs
Bait or Lure: squid/jigs
Water Depth: 5-50
Water Temp.:
Information : went out fluking by the ammo pier grounds and wound up with 4 keepers among 20 or so fluke and one 3lb. blue-on the way back to the dock noticed birds working by the ammo pier and caught 2-3 lb. blues on every cast ,also caught two 3 lb. fluke on the diamond jigs -great weather -great fishing !

Angler Name : Ron Zale
E-Mail : rzalegowski@saintclares.org
Boat Name: No Worries
Date Fished: 7/9/01
Location: Great Bay / ocean off Holgate
Fishing Method: Drift, shedder/bucktail jig
Specie: Sandbar Shark
Size: 30 -40 inches
Bait or Lure: crab/ bucktail
Water Depth: 34 ft.
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Driven off the bay by Greenheads.In ocean off Holgate had eight sharkes boated in 45 minutes all over thirty inches. No game fish caught.

Angler Name : Ron Antonelli - RAFT
E-Mail : Karonaraft@cs.com
Boat Name: Karona
Date Fished: 7 - 9 - 01
Location: Manasquan Ridge
Fishing Method: drifting - jigging
Specie: Fluke
Size: 15 - 22 ins.
Bait or Lure: bucktail hooks + squid + spearing
Water Depth: 47 - 50 ft.
Water Temp.: 70 dgs.
Information : Scooted out of Manasquan at 9 am on a realy nice morning, and headed directly for the ridge. Came into a few boats for company, and started catching. You almost always need 6-10 oz. to hold and jig properly, but that method catches for me. The fish there were all sizes, from 15 to 22 inches, and still on the lean side. Jigged that bump for nearly 3 hrs. and kept 4 fish for dinner. The weather and ocean were perfect... Heading east to the shelf this weekend, weather permitting, OOO!!! OOO!!! OOO!!!

Angler Name : Ken and Matt
E-Mail : klfujimori@home.com
Boat Name: Tiger-Uni
Date Fished: 7/9/2001
Location: Hatteras canyon West Wall
Fishing Method: Trolling spreader bar and Hoos
Specie: White Marlin
Size: 79"
Bait or Lure: Trolling Hatteras style hoos with skirt
Water Depth: Deep
Water Temp.: 72-75
Information : First trip to the Canyon. Could not have pick a calmer day. Reached the Canyon (west wall) at 10:15am. First knock down was a 20 pound bull Dolphin. Right at the drop of was tons of bait. Marked a huge ball of red 200 ft down, Tuna? Spotted lots of bait being pushed up. Then four knock downs in a row. Finally fifth one was a solid hook up. After a 45min fight on 30# brought a 79" white marlin boat side. Later, we did see a school of atleast three marlin feeding on top but no more takers. No tuna but sure if we got there early we would have see some Tuna up higher. Lots of life out there. We are looking for a third to join us on Caynon trips to help share the expenses and fun. Tiger-Uni is on the small side so we only go with the best weather conditions. E-mail me if you interested or just want correspond about fishing.

Angler Name : G. Davis
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Slacker
Date Fished: 7/9/01
Location: Sandy Hook Rip
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 36"
Bait or Lure: bucktails
Water Depth: 15-30'
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Caught the morning flood tide. Blues on top chasing bait. Dropped a 3/4 oz white bucktail under the blues & hooked into a 36", 18 lb striper. Not a bad way to start the week. Followed that up with 3-4 blues & fluke. Also had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of about 30 sea robins... gotta take the good with the bad.

Angler Name : John Kerwin
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: July 9
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 30-50
Bait or Lure: umbrella rigs
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 70-72
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mates Brad Burgess and Mike Zajac had the John Kerwin charter from Short Hills, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon on Monday. Trolling was instantaneously productive as the Canyon Runner crew picked yellowfin as soon as we had the lines in the water. The yellowfin were slightly larger than previous catches as they ranged from 30-50 pounds. The action was again located just south of the Tip and squid spreader bars produced best. By 10am the charter had enough and we left them biting. The final count left us 10 for 15 on the larger sized yellowfin.

Angler Name : J Mason
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Premonitions
Date Fished: 7/9/01
Location: GS South, ICW 110-120
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 8-18"
Bait or Lure: squid/minnow
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 69/78
Information : Went out to the reef, conditions were nice, but fishing was poor, just alot of sea robins. Came back inside and we fished the ICW, picked up 3 keepers to 18" and about a dozen shorts. My 7 yr old daughter had the high hook and the 18". Great day, low boat traffic, breeze picked up just enough to get a decent drift in.

Angler Name : Greg
E-Mail : Vongas@aol.com
Boat Name: Wahoo
Date Fished: 7/9/01
Location: Shrewsbury River
Fishing Method: jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 12"-16"
Bait or Lure: White twister tail
Water Depth: 6-10
Water Temp.:
Information : Started by Little Silver all the fish were small (12"). Went to bouy 36, caught a few 16" fish.

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : MTM134@AOL
Boat Name: AMBROSIA
Date Fished: 7/9
Location: HARVEY CEDARS, TIRES &SEA SIDE
Fishing Method: DRIFTING
Specie: Fluke
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: SQUID & MINNOWS
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 68
Information : The ocean was flat but no fluke. All radio reports