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FISHING REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2001

Angler Name : gene
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Nansea
Date Fished: 9-29
Location: Ocean City
Fishing Method: Jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 12-20in
Bait or Lure: hopkins
Water Depth: 56
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Jigged our limit of keeper weaks after the bunker boat left - processing created a slick that brought them in from miles... switched from treble hooks to single hooks after we limited out, lost many and relased the ones we got to the boat. Wish the bunker boat would do the same

Angler Name : Tom Colucci
E-Mail : tommo2t@hotmail.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 9/29/2001
Location: Sea Isle City
Fishing Method: Casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 28" - 30"
Bait or Lure: Atom Popper
Water Depth: Surf
Water Temp.:
Information : Daybreak at 31st Street jetty. First cast, first striper hit immediately. Several more caught within the hour. Popper was hot but then NE wind picked up by 9:00 and action ceased. First time out this year ... good times!

Angler Name : Tim T
E-Mail :
Boat Name: M&M
Date Fished: 9-29
Location: ocean city/ge inlet
Fishing Method: jigging
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 12-18"
Bait or Lure: hopkins
Water Depth: 20-40ft.
Water Temp.: 66
Information : Fish were jumping and the birds were everywhere. After casting to the blues we dropped hopkins to the bottom and got a bunch of weakies. It was really rough, but the fish were hungry.

Angler Name : Bill Shillingford
E-Mail : bucktail8@aol.com
Boat Name: bucktail willie
Date Fished: 9/29/01
Location: Corson inlet area
Fishing Method: casting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 26"-32"
Bait or Lure: Atom Popper--
Water Depth: 2-3ft
Water Temp.: 65
Information : High tide at day break I wonder into a shallow creek behind strathmere where I had seen some fish breaking water in the past. Water started to run out and atom popper came alive.These fish were up in a small creek chasing bait and on the way out they liked my popper. Total 6 bass all light tackle --great couple of hours

Angler Name : SHEEP
E-Mail : pickyourown@aol.com
Boat Name: ote
Date Fished: 9/28/01
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 17-26in
Bait or Lure: sandowrms
Water Depth: 41
Water Temp.: not sure
Information : Headed out for the last of the incoming tide around 2 oclock. Biggest mistake of the day was only bringing 2 dozen worms for me and buddy. We quickly found the fleet around the 18 can in the reach. Unlike last week the weakies dominated the porgies they hit hard and fought great. All in all we had over 10 weakfish all keepers with about 6 huge porgies. Tight lines

Angler Name : Phil Lidlow
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 28
Location: Tower
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 280
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Unable to get in an overnight due to the approach of what looks to be a vicous Nor'easter, Captain Phil Dulanie and the Canyon Runner ran to the Texas Tower to get in a full day of chunking for bluefin and yellow. While the action was not steller it did proved the charter with good day and 4 big tuna to battle, putting 3 in the boat between 80-120 pounds.

Angler Name : Carnig Shakarjian
E-Mail : Gin-rac@worldnet.att.net
Boat Name: Spirit of Josie
Date Fished: 9/27-9/28
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk / Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100lb +
Bait or Lure: Butter/ live squid
Water Depth: 650
Water Temp.: 68.3
Information : Steady picks all night. First fish down deep on sword rig just 10 min in the water bent hook straight. Landed a sword at 6:00am. Trolled up 1 longfin. Ride back provided some great sites. Large explosions seen in The Chicken Canyon. Thought the military were practicing air raids. Closer look turned out to be very large giant blue fins. They were scattered everywhere. Next attraction, A very large dorsal fin slicing through the water. Turned out to be a Tiger shark greater than 1/2 the length of my 30 foot pursuit. Dive operators should reconsider if they plan on diving at any of the offshore wrecks.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: 9/26-27
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 to100 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/sprdr bars
Water Depth: 383 ft
Water Temp.: 71 degrees
Information : Had the Joel Frey party on board for a Wednesday/ Thursday overnighter in the Hudson Canyon Stopped at the tower area and chunked for two hours with no bites and no marks. Continued to the Hudson and started trolling below the tip and picked up a 60 lb yellowfin. A second fish tore the teaser arm off a spreader bar. Decided to set up on the west wall below the bombs for the night. Chunked from 6:30 pm until 6:00am with no bites when rods started going off. Hooked 7 large yellowfins and boated 4 from 80 to 100 lbs. Most were hooked on live squid flat lines. The bite was over by 8:15 am and we headed home with 5 tuna and 1 mahi on ice. The 10kt noaa forecast was a little off with 25knt winds and 4 to 8 ft seas.

Angler Name : jeff
E-Mail : netdeal@erols.com
Boat Name: GetReel
Date Fished: 9/27/01
Location: west reach
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-18"
Bait or Lure: sand worm
Water Depth: 24-40
Water Temp.: 71
Information : loaded up on weaks on the incoming, hit our limit and released a bunch more, a hot bite.

Angler Name : Steve Barry
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 26-27
Location: Lindencohl
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70-90
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Steve Barry charter out on the Canyon Runner Wednesday to Thursday and put together a decent catch in the Lindencohl. Trolling was uneventful but as soon as the chunks hit the water we had fish on. The first was not what we expected as we boated a 100 pound swordfish caught before the sun had completely set. The yellowfin soon arrived and we had a nice pick through the night. The charter fought up to 20 yellowfin putting 10 in the boat between 70-90 pounds.

Angler Name : jim
E-Mail : shep9999@home.com
Boat Name: amy sue
Date Fished: 9/27/01
Location: mud bouy
Fishing Method: chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 6-13#
Bait or Lure: spearing,jigs
Water Depth: 50ft
Water Temp.: 68Nonestop
Information : Nonstop action from 8-11AM.Small albie hook on thin wire.Tired of blues so we cut chum line and in 10 min had Mr Albie. Unbelievabl;e fishing for me and the mate,Dave.

Angler Name : Jeff
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Instigator
Date Fished: September 25-27
Location: Poormans
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 90 lbs
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Skip the Hudson. Much better fishing down south.

Angler Name : Don Taylor
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Crack of Don
Date Fished: 9-27-01
Location: Barnegat Bay {40, BB, BI, OCC, Double Creek}
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: {none}
Bait or Lure: sandworm, squid, spearing, fin-s
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 69
Information : not even a spike. As you see from the locations we tried. Did pick up sea bass, small fluke, and afew big blowfish by "accident". Have the weaks moved out?? Good luck.

Angler Name : ED
E-Mail : coboled@cs.com
Boat Name: 4 J's
Date Fished: 09/26/2001
Location: Cape May
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Atlantic Croaker
Size: 15 inch
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Drifted outside the target range beside the Cape May inlet about 6am. Steady action of 14 & 15 inch croakers, a 15" fluke, a few sharks.

Angler Name : Spiro Andonatos
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: wed 26
Location: raritan bay
Fishing Method: sandworms, plastic red sandworms
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 12-22 in.
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth: 20-40 ft.
Water Temp.:
Information : Started out slow, found them near buoy 20 also hit porgy's and a couple fluke(even on the plastics)

Angler Name : Bruce Wixson
E-Mail : mbwixson@earthlink.net
Boat Name: The Rover
Date Fished: 9/24/01
Location: Barnega Reef
Fishing Method: Anchor
Specie: Porgy
Size: 1 - 1 1/2 lb
Bait or Lure: Clams and Squid
Water Depth: 55'
Water Temp.: 64
Information : Not the greatest day to be out in 20' CC - SE winds building from 5kts - 10kts to 20kts by noon. After making a few drifts and picking up a few sea bass and porgy's I decided anchor over a piece of rough bottom. What a difference - I put 20 fat "shad" porgy's in the cooler in an hour and made for the inlet in building 3' - 4' seas. Great fun on light tackle.

Angler Name : Capt Manny Canales
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Double Diamond
Date Fished: 9/23-24
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: to 120lbs.
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 600'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Canyon chunking trip tonight with the Jerry York party. Hooked up 7 big yellowfin, boated 3 to 120lbs after long fights. Also boated 9 nice mahi and two small makos, that were released.

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: Sept 23, 2001
Location: Delaware Bay / Squirrel's Nest
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-20"
Bait or Lure: Shedders and chicken
Water Depth: 15
Water Temp.: 70
Information : When 6 keeper weakies make a 'good' trip, you know that it was a miserable year in Delaware Bay. We anchored up at the Squirrel's nest and had a very nice day. Beautiful calm weather and dead calm seas. Water temp is starting to come down, so Stripers should be on the scene shortly!

Angler Name : Capt Marc
E-Mail : marc0311@aol.com
Boat Name: Reel Action
Date Fished: 9/22-23
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling and Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: Lures and Butterfish
Water Depth: 500'
Water Temp.: 72
Information : It was a slow trip. Trolling produced no knockdowns. Chunking at night produced nothing. We saw a tuna swimming around in the slick eating our chunks but didn't touch the one with the hook, we went down to 25 lb leader to no avail. A call from Capt Jim on Calypso to come down to where he was fishing, we couldn't get them to bite even though they were there.

Angler Name : jeff
E-Mail : netdeal@erols.com
Boat Name: GetReel
Date Fished: 9/23/01
Location: west reach
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14-16
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth: 25-40
Water Temp.: 71
Information : caught 10, released a few, decent bite top of tide sunday afternoon, #18 west reach fish on every drift.

Angler Name : Scott
E-Mail : scottsecor@home.com
Boat Name: KimberlyRyan
Date Fished: 9/23/01
Location: MudHole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: Zero
Bait or Lure: Spreader Bar, Zuckers, Feathers
Water Depth: 120-180
Water Temp.: 69.8
Information : Started at the Resor, zip. Went to the Lillian, zip. Trolled to Little Italy, zip. Trolled to the Mud Hole, zip. Went to Tolten Lump, zip. Went to Gulftrade, zip. Great day for such a long ride, but couldn't find a fish. Next time I guess I'll head to the Chicken Canyon or the Bacardi. Maybe next week???

Angler Name : Dave
E-Mail : mbent98912@aol.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 9/22-9/23
Location: lindy
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Water has cooled and bait was there, but the tuna have lockjaw. We overnighted in the Lindenkohl and all we had for our efforts was 1 tuna, 1 small swordfish, and a few dolphin. (Always a good idea to have a spinning rod ready to be cast at a moments notice!)The sword was a great fight for a 4 foot fish. It swam to the boat like a little dolphin before he freaked...no wonder their Latin name is Gladiator! Most boats really slow, same suckful reports from Carteret and Wilmington. Unless reports improve that's my last canyon trip of 2001.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: 9/22-23
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100lb
Bait or Lure: butterfish/spreader bars
Water Depth: 550 ft
Water Temp.: 73 degrees
Information : Had the Ron Antonelli fishing team on board for a chunk and troll overnighter at the Hudson Canyon. Began trolling 5 mi short of the west elbow and to the east elbow. Picked 3 longfin before setting up to chunk just below the bombs. We were attacked by large size mahi for about two hours. Went 1 for 2 on yellowfin boating a 100 lber. Released a small swordfish and had one other runoff quickly dropped for the night. Began trolling after daybreak and picked 4 longfin on the east wall before heading home at 9:15 am with 8 tuna and 20 mahi on ice.

Angler Name : Al Gillen
E-Mail : algillen@yahoo.com
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 9/22-23
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: up to 100 pounds
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 400'
Water Temp.: 73-74
Information : Started trolling at 2:00 p.m. about 8 miles inshore of the Letters, immediately boated a YFT of about 50 pounds. Then trolled until dusk with no action. Set up anchor on the West Wall and had nothing until just after 3:00, when a school stopped by for dinner. Had nonstop action until dawn, boated 3 more fish in the 100 pound range, broke off 4 or 5 others at boatside. Judging by the chat on the radio, we were the exception, most boats had long boring nights without a single run off. Water is gorgeous blue to within about 45 miles of Barnegat, lots of grass, flying fish etc.

Angler Name : Andy L.
E-Mail : alojek@tripower.net
Boat Name: Jack and Jill
Date Fished: 9/23
Location: N&S Barnegate Ridge
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: to 8lbs
Bait or Lure: birds w/daisy chains, spearing
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Fished the ridges of barnegate and picked up 12 false albies, 1 bonito, and a dozen ?jacks?. Only one of the fish was caught on spearing. No bait out there and the fish were scattered. Went to the lightship buoy for dolphin and caught what looked like jacks underneath it. Great day on the water.

Angler Name : johnh
E-Mail : huck2000@peoplepc.com
Boat Name: tile wave
Date Fished: 9/23
Location: mudhole
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: plastics
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: ?
Information : started chunking & trolling at oil wreck hoping for bluefin,got one false albi.ran to manasquan ridge and trolled up about 8 more false albis,

Angler Name : Mike
E-Mail : MikDolan54@aol.com
Boat Name: TEMPERENCE
Date Fished: 9/23/01
Location: GLORY/CHICKEN
Fishing Method: TROLL/CHUNK
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 50#
Bait or Lure: Squirt Squid Spread (purple)
Water Depth: 220
Water Temp.: 70.5
Information : Left Squan 6am. Ocean was a lake like pancake all day. Didn't mark, or see any form of life the whole trip out. Started trolling Halfway through the Chicken Canyon, Picked up a 50lb BF 30 minutes into the troll, 8:45am. Trolled till 10 and then went back to the Glory Hole where guys were reporting good catches on the chunk. Chunked for a couple hours with no tuna luck, mahi were small and plentiful. No complaints, perfect weekend fishing conditions, have been rare this fall. Sunday was a 10+.

Angler Name : mike lawrence
E-Mail :
Boat Name: shot n beer
Date Fished: 9-23 01
Location: glory and chicken
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: bally, spreaders ciders, ect- ect
Water Depth: 150-240
Water Temp.: 70.8
Information : started at the glory, 70.3 deg. water trolled into the chicken temp started to go up to 73 to 74 east side. one skippy. came across a little presant someone left an old ice chest. had to be 40 mai's under it. was a nice day to be on the water. see ya out there

Angler Name : Tim Thornton
E-Mail :
Boat Name: M&M
Date Fished: 9-23-01
Location: 28 Mile Wreck, Cigar
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Feathers, Ceders
Water Depth: 100-120
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Looked for bluefin all day. The tuna were asleep but the albies and skipjacks were not. Landed about 25 before heading in. We stopped at some pots and Landed a few mahi. Great day on the water. Catch em up.

Angler Name : Brian Brown
E-Mail : brianpb321@aol.com
Boat Name: Tracker
Date Fished: 9/22 & 9/23
Location: 1/4 -1/2 mile offshore of Avalon
Fishing Method: blood worms, squid minnows, trolled with white Bass Assasins
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 10lb
Bait or Lure: white lead head with trailor hook and 5" white bass assasins
Water Depth: 23 feet
Water Temp.: ?? I think about 69 degrees
Information : Killer fishing weekend, went out of Townsend inlet between Sea Isle and Avalon. Got into a bunch of croakers on blood worms as well as Blues, Flounder and a couple Weakies with squid and minnows on Saturday. We were in a small Tracker boat with a 90hp and just a 1/2 mile in front of the beach in Avalon. Sunday we trolled right there with Bass Assasins and chased the schools. Landed a 10-lb blue fin tuna and 2 what I think were 4lb Jacks (pink on top, silver middle with dots on the silver area and a v shaped yellow tail)and of course some more Blues. Quite a few hits were so hard and fast they took all our line(20lb test). The secret was adding on the the additional trailer hook because to many Blues were hitting the white bass asasins and we would reel in a 1/2 a lure. This was the best fishing weekend I ever had.

Angler Name : sam and libby
E-Mail : eavaughn@aol.com
Boat Name: family affair
Date Fished: 9/22-23
Location: ratrian bay
Fishing Method: drifing
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure: sand worms
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : finally had 2 great days of weekfishing, all four poles down at once, bang , bang. it was great,cooler was filled ,boat was a mess, we were a mess but didn't care, till we were back at the dock and then all the cleanin up , ha.

Angler Name : CHRIS
E-Mail :
Boat Name: CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Date Fished: 09/23/2001
Location: DEAL/LONGBRANCH
Fishing Method: DRIFTING & ANCHOR
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: FIN-S/CRIPPLED HERRING
Water Depth: 20-40FT
Water Temp.: didn't look at the temp
Information : GOT OUT EARLY AND SAW SOME FISH BREAKING ON TOP, LANDED SOME NICE WEAKFISH AND SEVERAL ALBIES,, HEADED OFF AND ANCHORED ON ROUGH BOTTOM - SLAYED THE SEABASS. GREAT DAY ON THE WATER. GOD BLESS THE NYPD & NYFD THE WORLD'S FINEST & BRAVEST

Angler Name : jon murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Tunnelvision
Date Fished: 09/23/01
Location: ocean off IBSP
Fishing Method: jig
Specie: Weakfish
Size: to 20"
Bait or Lure: diamond jig
Water Depth: 25-35
Water Temp.: ?
Information : arriving home at midnight last night from my 22hr. trek to O.C. MD i decided to be smart & get up @ 6am & go fishin. Mom, Dad & i opted for an easy day of jigging weakies in the ocean....and it was. 6 nice keepers & about 2 doz. throwbacks. Beautiful relaxing day on the water!!

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 9-22-01
Location: Drift
Fishing Method: Raritan Reach
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-22 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Sandworms or plastic worm
Water Depth: 40 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : A somply fantasic day--one of those days that I'll recall for a while.Had both my kids and the ex with me today.Laurie,my ex hooked up withihn the first minute with a nice weakie-quickly followed by a 3 pounder for Jason.Jordaane soon topped them both with a weakie and a slab porgy in fast succession. I was was barely able to fish the first 2 hours as I was either rebaiting the 3 or removing fish.By the time we finished our first drift of 4+ hours the cooler was full with weakfish,porgies & bluefish.I wa able to add to the cooler after the kids were worn down some.Although I dont have an 'offical' tally-I'd estimate that at the end of the day we had 12-15 weakfish,50-60 big porgies & 7-9 bluefish.There were 25 fares on the boat and on the ride in,the mates & I estimated that there were easily 800 fish caught.

Angler Name : Capt. Gerald Riley
E-Mail : geraldriley@juno.com
Boat Name: Happyman
Date Fished: 09-22-01
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14 to 20"
Bait or Lure: shedder crab & Chicken
Water Depth: 9 ft. to 13 ft
Water Temp.: 71 degrees
Information : Went out of the turn bouys of marice river and went 3 miles at 150 degrees. Fished off Tompsoms beach. Picked weak fish all thru incoming tide. My son Butch and I liminted out. Back at dock by 1 PM. My best day so far this year.

Angler Name : DENNIS SAMPSON
E-Mail : BARBARA08@MSN.COM
Boat Name: "THE GREAT ESCAPE"
Date Fished: 09/22/01
Location: CHICKEN CANYON
Fishing Method: TROLL
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 35#
Bait or Lure: RED/WHITE FEATHERS,BAR'S,CEADERS,
Water Depth: 185'/250,
Water Temp.: 72*
Information : STARTED AT THE GLORY HOLE ,READ NOTHING AND CONTINUED ON TO THE CHICKEN.READ LOTS OF BAIT AROUND A SET OF LOBSTER POTS.DROPPED A 7 LINE SPREAD AND IN 30 MIN.HAD A SKIPJACK ON THEN ANOTHER. REALEASED BOTH THEN THE FUN STARTED,36"[8 LBS] MAHI,THEN A FLORIDA POMPONO,SOME SMALL MAHI,ANOTHER 34"[6LBS]MAHI,THEN THE FINALLY, 35 LB BLUEFIN TO FINISH THE DAY.AS A VOL.FIREFIGHTER THIS WAS THE BEST RELIEF I COULD HAVE!!!REMEMBER THE BIG ONES OUT THERE! SAFE ON THE SEAS,"THE GREAT ESCAPE" !!!!

Angler Name : Tim Valente
E-Mail : valente66@cs.com
Boat Name: Mimi VI
Date Fished: 9/22/01
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: School sized
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 120
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Beautiful day on the water. We fished the wreck of the stolt and chummed with bunker and chunked with smelts and butterfish chunks. Unfortunately, the bluefin tuna had a great day, as we did not even hook one of them. However, the bluefish were everywhere, like rats. We crushed them, most in the 5 to 8 pound range, till about 11:30 when the Little Tunny arrived. We hit the Little tunny initially on white bucktails and eventually had them under the boat and biting on smelts and tiny bunker chunks. Although the bluefin fishing was off, we all got a great tan, caught a lot of fish and had a great day. Fishing still beats working any day of the week! Captain Kenny delivered another exciting day of fishing despite the lack of a bluefin bite! Good luck to all in your pursuit of the big ones!

Angler Name : Steve Senff
E-Mail : NJtuna1666@aol.com
Boat Name: Deep Adventures 111
Date Fished: Fri. Sept. 21 - Sat. Sept 22
Location: West Wall Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 - 120 lbs.
Bait or Lure: sardines
Water Depth: 550
Water Temp.: ?
Information : We did not do much chunking at night. At daybreak the tuna came up in the slick. Had to go down to 50 lb. floro to make them bite. Caught 3 yellowfins. Crew and captain did great job as usual.

Angler Name : Tom + Christine Schweppenheiser
E-Mail : tschwepp@home.com
Boat Name: Captain Applegate
Date Fished: 09-22-2001
Location: Atlantic City NJ
Fishing Method: wreck bottom fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 11inches and up
Bait or Lure: clam
Water Depth: 80 feet
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : We had a good trip Cpt. Applegate put us on the wreck and the action was fast. My daughter and I brought home 15 fish and had alot of throwbacks also. This is the second time I went out on this boat and both times I was very pleased.

Angler Name : craig &mark
E-Mail : yankees3@eclipse.net
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 9-22-01
Location: raritan reach (west)
Fishing Method: drifted
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"-22"
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 48'
Water Temp.:
Information : started off 6:30 am at tip of hook,with only 1 sand shark&1 fluke. after 30 minutes and no other hits started looking elsewhere,very few boats in sight.after following 2 party boats on the move in slightly foggy conditions,found out where everybody was . what a sight,never saw so many party & private boats in such numbers so tightly packed together,all between bouys 14 & 18. joined in to a continous pick of weaks & porgys till we ran out of bait, which also translated into the most fun & fish we've had in a real long time. with cooler almost full headed home by 11:00,a real great day

Angler Name : Joe Croce
E-Mail : jcroce@adp.com
Boat Name: Sea Spirit (19ft open bow)
Date Fished: 09/22/01
Location: Garden state reef, (5-7 miles out of Barnegat inlet))
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 8-10 LB
Bait or Lure: Red and White, and Pink and white Squid daisy chains
Water Depth: 60 Ft
Water Temp.: Not sure
Information : We surface trolled for 5 hours with Red and white and pink and white squid daisy chains. We had multiple double headers. We boated a dozen and lost about the same due to light tackle. The fight was great. It was the "poor man's tuna trip". I am a novice and would like to lear more about fishing for Albacore. Please e-mail with info to jcroce@adp.com

Angler Name : Rob Drake
E-Mail : drake_rob@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Freedom
Date Fished: Sept. 21-22
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75-95
Bait or Lure: butters, squid and troll
Water Depth: unknown
Water Temp.: ditto
Information : The Jerry Smith party had a great night of fishing with Capts. Jim and Darby, and "King of all mates" Brian on the Freedom out of Brielle. All in all we got two yellows, four long fins and two mahi. Of course we also dealt with a few "swings and misses". We had a very eventful night and day. The dolphins put on a show behind the boat all night. At one point a baby swordfish swam right up to the back too. We got stuck in a nasty squall in the middle of the night, but the capt. pulled us out to nicer weather. At first light a large whale swam to the back of the boat, spouted a few times, and passed within 10 yards. I hope that all on the water did as well as we did. If you're looking to book a tuna charter, I highly recommend these guys.

Angler Name : Frank,John,Corey,Curt,C.J.
E-Mail : cjnesti@home.com
Boat Name: Lickety Split
Date Fished: 9/22/01
Location: Mud hole reck
Fishing Method: Bottem
Specie: Ling (AKA Red Hake)
Size: up to 3 #
Bait or Lure: Squid & Clam
Water Depth: 140
Water Temp.:
Information : Had a great day with nice weather caught a 1/2 cooler of Ling.Put out a shark rig but no takers.

Angler Name : Mike Kirkup
E-Mail : kirkups@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Betty K II
Date Fished: 9-22-01
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: chum/chunk/troll/site cast
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 5 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish/various lures
Water Depth: 150-220'
Water Temp.: 68.8-69.2
Information : Headed out to the Glory Hole from manasquan passing through lil' itally and the lilian. No readings on the sonar so we kept on going. We started getting lots of readings as we approached the Glory Hole so we trolled the area for a bit then started chunking for blue fin. A small piece of styrofoam drifted by and we picked up a small mahi. About an hour later a couple of bigger mahi jumped in our slik. A few casts with a mirror lure attracted a 5 pounder. The only other action came from a good sized, very curious sunfish which kept us company for ~5 min., and a 100 pound blue shark which we brought to the boat and released.

Angler Name : Paul Citarelli
E-Mail : biloutback@com
Boat Name: OUTBACK
Date Fished: 9-22-01
Location: 17 Fathom
Fishing Method: Fly Fishing
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 7 to 10 pounds
Bait or Lure: chartreuse and white jiggies
Water Depth: 125
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Capt. Bill Hoblitzell reports, the Paul Citarelli charter did well fly fishing for false albacore and big blues at 17 fathom today. The blues ran to 14 pounds and little tunny to 10. We passed the Mud Bouy gounds because the water was a liitle off color and cooler to our liking. We headed to the east, and anchored at the south end of 17. A chum slick was started and spliked with spearing and small butterfish chunks. The blues showed up immediately, several were lost after biting thru the mono 15 pond tippets. Around 10:30 THE ALBIES INVADED THE SLICK AND STAYED till the tide went slack. Jiggies and surf candies fished on clear intermediate lines provided hectic action, for Paul's companion, Jim. Paul used a 350 grain striper line on a ten weight rod and was heavily into big blues. The blues stayed deeper while the albies rolled in the slick. It was there 1st time offshore saltwater fly fishing, and I know it won't be their last.

Angler Name : jon murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Endeavor
Date Fished: 09/22/01
Location: Washington Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunking
Specie: Dolphin
Size: up to 14 lbs.
Bait or Lure: ballys & butters
Water Depth: ??
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Went to O.C. Maryland for 2nd annual trip with my brothers in law, Rob Wilensky & Ron DeMarino. Trolled the weed line to find fish & then bailed'em on spinning rods. Great day with 22 dolphin, 6 of which were 8-14lbs. Check these guys out at Endeavorsportfishing.com

Angler Name : Gary Cook
E-Mail : riverrunner@rocketmail.com
Boat Name: NIKMO
Date Fished: 9/21/01
Location: Barnegat Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15"-20"
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 12-27
Water Temp.: ?
Information : First trip on the water since major repairs. Had keeper Weakies all morning on Sandworms and Fin-S Fish. Stopped at the tide change with 22 in the box. beautiful and sunny all morning. Thanks to Mike at Moles Bait for the information.

Angler Name : john s.
E-Mail : jsbraga@aol
Boat Name: nu-meat
Date Fished: 9/21
Location: baltimore canyon
Fishing Method: trolling
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 20#
Bait or Lure: Feathers
Water Depth: 700'
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Fished the tip of the Baltimore down the 80 fathom line following a perfect weed line for miles, with no Dolphin taken. Trolled across to the South Vries area and went 0 for 4 on Tuna. We had some inexperienced anglers on board and passed the sticks to soon to them and did not monitor what they were doing well enough. We had one fish at the boat and the leader was in hand but broke off. With the 5 minute warning given to all and the boat prepped for the ride home (only the lines remained in the water) the long rigger went off and we had a 20# Dolphin doing flips. The fish was boated and it encouraged us to stay way too long only to leave us returning in dark and fog. Oh well, no more whining we made our own decisions and are full grown adults responsible for our actions.

Angler Name : Barry & C.J.
E-Mail : cjnesti@home.com
Boat Name: Finangler
Date Fished: 9/20/01
Location: Raratian
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Striped Bass
Size: 20#
Bait or Lure: eel
Water Depth: 30'
Water Temp.:
Information : Put 4 keepers in the boat in an hour fished the outgoing tide.

Angler Name : Barry & Chris
E-Mail : c3151@aol.com
Boat Name: Paramount
Date Fished: 9/20/2001
Location: Breille
Fishing Method: Wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: to 2lbs.
Bait or Lure: Squid & clam
Water Depth: 65ft.
Water Temp.: 68 dgrs.
Information : left the dock with about 13 anglers aboard. Capt. Dave put us on fish in about 30 minutes. Sea bass were everywhere. It rained most of the day and we were not prepared for it. My partner and i boated 50 keepers. All in all it was the best day fishing we've had all year. My hat's off to the Paramount and it's crew for a great day on the water.

Angler Name : Chuck Cumella
E-Mail : ACC@NWL.COM
Boat Name: Golden Eagle
Date Fished: 9-19/9-20
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 +; the largest was 102 #
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, squid, sardines
Water Depth: 500 '
Water Temp.: 72-75
Information : Fished w/ the Fazio party; second annual tuna trip. Fished aboard the Golden Eagle w/ 29 guys. This was a great trip!! Great crew and captains. They worked hard all night to get us the YFT that we caught. As everyone knows it hasn't been the greatest bight out there the past few weeks. We managed to get 9 BIG YFT into the boat, loosing almost 2 times as many due to the size of the fish. I managed to boat a 94# crazy YFT that almost spooled my 30TW. Hal now known as "Mr. Tuna" caught his first YFT, he's hooked on canyon fishing. Everyone had a good time and we will be back out there on the Golden Eagle in October and next year. I know that the fish are there and the bight will get better in the next few weeks. Good luck out there and catch um up. Tight lines.....

Angler Name : Whatever
E-Mail : killakev@optonline.net
Boat Name: Gambler
Date Fished: 9/18 - 9/19
Location: Hudson canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70-90 lb.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: unkown
Water Temp.: unkown
Information : Fished on the Gambler party boat out of Pt. Pleasant for an overnight Hudson canyon trip. Great weather and seas. Started fishing about 1:30 AM. action came quick and lasted about an hr. then went silent. We had two more good bites throughout the dark hours but the fish wouldn't bite for long. There would be an occasional fish on through the night besides when the bite was hot. Once daylight came it was silent.......with maybe two tuna caught one being a longfin about 40 lbs. Dolphin showed up for about 15 mins. about 8 boated. As for the Yellowfins - 20 people on the boat, 12 Yellow fins boated with others lost. I was one of ones that went home empty handed. Oh well, I'll be back in Oct.! Tight Lines!

Angler Name : jon murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Tunnelvision
Date Fished: 09/19/01
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Spreader bar,zukers,cedar plug
Water Depth: 120-250
Water Temp.: 68.5-71
Information : clean water,no fish, should have been up there a few weeks ago. What else is new....S.O.S.

Angler Name : Adam
E-Mail : ibhere5005@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Shore Thing
Date Fished: 9/19/01
Location: Mud Bouy
Fishing Method: trrolling
Specie: Atlantic Bonito
Size: 35#
Bait or Lure: Trolling
Water Depth: 70 ft 80 ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : we trolled for about an hour when we hit a school. It was great we landed 8. My dad let me skip school i got 6 and my dad got 2 we also hit the blues about 18 pounds to 10.

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@msn.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 09/19/01
Location: Delaware Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14" to 20"
Bait or Lure: Shedders and Chicken
Water Depth: 14'
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Fished the incoming tide in the morning. Me and a friend of mine fished The Rabbit's Bed first. We had a nice pick going on until some small bait stealer came in. I pulled the hook and cruised to The Squirrel's Nest. We laided into some nice fish at The Nest. We ended up with 25 Weaks, 33 Croakers, 2 Kingfish, and 2 Porgies.

Angler Name : Ron Matlack
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 9/18-9/19, 2001
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 80 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 500 Ft.
Water Temp.: 72 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Ron Matlack charter out to the Hudson Canyon. Anchoring the Bounty Hunter in 500 Ft. of water on the west wall the charter managed to go 3 for 6 on Yellowfin Tuna up to 80 Lbs. plus releasing a small Mako Shark. A couple of Mahi were also put in the fish box.

Angler Name : Chris Peat
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept. 18-19
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100
Bait or Lure: butters/jets
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Chris Peat charter from Darian, Conn. out on the Canyon Runner Tuesday to Wednesday for our 45th canyon trip of the year. Trolling in the afternoon proved suprisingly good as we pick a few longfin and then just before putting her on the drift went 4 for 4 on longfin totalling 7 for the troll plus a few mahi. Chunking at night was also better than it has been as we had our shot a 3 big yellowfin putting 2 in the boat. In total 9 tuna on ice made for a happy ride home.

Angler Name : Don B
E-Mail : dbaker4@hotmail.com
Boat Name: 25 Wellcraft
Date Fished: 9/19/01
Location: Manasquan Ridge
Fishing Method: Troll-Jig
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Metal-feathers-surgical tubing
Water Depth: 35-50
Water Temp.:
Information : Trolled the beach south from Manasquan to Lavalette Nothing at all. Tried Manasquan Ridge saw fish jumping and read them all over the chart but they would not take anything I threw at them. The only interesting part of the day was seeing a 5' shark in the Manasquan river between the 35 and railroad bridge... Quite a sight watching this thing swimming between the 8-10 boats waiting for the railroad bridge.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: 9/18-19
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60 TO 100LB
Bait or Lure: BUTTERFISH/LURES
Water Depth: 480 ft
Water Temp.: 70 degrees
Information : Had the Joel Frey party on board for an overnight troll and chunk trip. Began trolling 5mi inshore of the west elbow and proceeded across the deep to the east elbowwith no bites. As we turned to return to the west wall we hit a pod of longfins and went 4 for 5 by crisscrossing the area until just before dark. We returned to the west wall and setup for the night near where we had setup for four or five earlier trips this year. We read lots of bait and had squid around the boat most of the night. No action occurred until 9pm and we began picking yellowfins, the majority on flat lines worked with live squid. By midnight we had 8 yellowfins in the boat and action slowed until morning with another 4 yellowfins boated. At times the fish were in the slick and were not leader shy. All fish were caught with 80lb leaders. At 7am we headed for home with 12 yellowfins, 4 longfins and several mahi on ice. Six of the yellowfins were 90 to 110lbs and the rest were 60 to 75lbs. The charter did a great job and only dropped three yellowfins to a broken line and hook pulls.

Angler Name : Capt. John Pfeiffer
E-Mail : captbigjohn@yahoo.com
Boat Name: SEA ++
Date Fished: 9/17 and 9/18
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: Troll and Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100lb
Bait or Lure: Butters and Ballyhoo
Water Depth: 500 to 800ft
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Left the dock at 1pm with owner John Goulet, Peter Glover and 2 other guests. We got to the tip at 4pm and trolled down the East side. We did not mark much bait and decided to check out the other side. As we reached the West Wall we went 2 for 3 on longfins then settled on the drift at 7pm. We went 2 for 5 on yellowfin , had a couple of blue dogs in the slick for about 2 hours. 2 of the yellows we dropped were larger than the 2, 100lb we boated. There was a boat that boated 10 0r 12 but that was the best I heard.

Angler Name : Capt. Bill Hoblitzell
E-Mail : biloutback@aol.com
Boat Name: Outback
Date Fished: 9/18/01
Location: 17 Fathoms
Fishing Method: Chumming
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 6 to 10 lbs
Bait or Lure: fly fish
Water Depth: 125
Water Temp.: 71
Information : After a slow start at the Mud Bouy, picked up and headed east to 17 at 10am. Found clean water, 71+ degrees. After 20 minutes of chuming Tom Howlin nailed a 16 lb blue on a 10 weight fly rod, and a chartreuse and white jiggy. He and partner Bill Lotz picked at large 10 lb+ blues. Then the albies showed up. Supplemented the chum with small butterfish chunks, and held the albies throwing spearing. There was a mad dog bite on little tunny till we ran out of chum, around 3:15 pm. Did not keep score but guess my charter fly rodded over a dozen big blues and 20 to 24 6 to 10 lb. albacore. Not a bad trip on a clear Sept. day. We returned to dock around 4:15 pm. Our spirits lifted somewhat in these very difficult times

Angler Name : Bill
E-Mail : wkarlak@aol.com
Boat Name: Bright Eyes
Date Fished: 9-18-01
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18-24
Bait or Lure: sandworms
Water Depth: 40
Water Temp.: 73
Information : Captain Norton did a great job of keeping us over the weaks, action was steady until 2:00 thats when the big ones were cought. Many thanks to Willie, best mate ever. Will be out again soon. Great day!!

Angler Name : Nigel fairbank
E-Mail : nfairbank@aol.com
Boat Name: Keeper
Date Fished: 9/18/01
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Troll and Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: See post
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 69
Information : Arrived at Little Italy at approximately 08:00. We trolled ballyhoo in between small squid spreader bars on a seven rod pattern. We trolled from Little Italy to Humpty Dumpty to The Lillian to the Monster Ledge without seeing a single sign of life. The water was great from the Lillian to the Monster Ledge, West of the Ledge started to get very green. About 13:00 we decided to chunk at about the 160 foot mark on the Monster Ledge. Nothing, except for the 4 dogfish I caught while trying to catch some ling for bait. About 16:00 decided to troll some more. Again a 7 rod spread same setup. Nothing. At 17:00 it looked like a thunderstorm was moving in so we headed for port. At about the 12 mile out mark we started to see life. We saw a sunfish and what looked like a fairly large shark fin, also a few miles closed to port saw what looked like a small bonito jump. We talked to several people on the radio, all were experiencing the same lack of life and fish. Listening to the radio, it appears that the bite has moved to the Bacardi - AKA Durley Chine, 43310.60 - 26308.10, the Virginia - AKA Sommerstad, 43456.50 - 26425.20 and the Coimbra, 43576.30 - 26204.00 or (43576.00 - 26203.70). The wrecks all a good distance from Shark River. I believe that the Virginia is in the order of 64 NM. I also never used to consider the Virginia a tuna wreck, more of a cod and pollock location.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: 9/16-17
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100lb
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 650 ft
Water Temp.: 70 degrees
Information : Had the Mark Bennett party on board for an overnight chunking trip, their second canyon trip this year. We were hopeful that despite the marginal weather conditions we could locate some yellowfins. We setup on the west elbow amid bait and whales with no bites until 9pm when a deep rod with a lightstick and live squid went off and produced a 100lb yellowfin. A short time later we had a runoff and dropoff and did not get another tuna bite all night. We did chunk a 15lb mahi and left for home at 7:30am. This was the worst trip to the canyon for us this year and I began to believe, as others were saying that our september season was slowing down instead of improving as it has in the past. However, there is no mistaking the fact that the fish are there as evidenced by the marks on the screen and that they will eventually bite, hopefully sooner than later.

Angler Name : DANIEL KOVACH
E-Mail : JDKOVACH@MINDSPRING.COM
Boat Name: DEEP ADVENTURES
Date Fished: 9/16 - 9/17
Location: TEXAS TOWERS
Fishing Method: CHUNK
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 75-100 LBS
Bait or Lure: SARDINES
Water Depth: 185
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Just like all the other tuna boats,the Deep Adventures came in Sunday afternoon from the Hudson Canyon with 0 tuna aboard. Captain Dave took us out Sunday night to the Bacardi. The only action here was a small Mako hooked and lost. We then headed for the Texas Towers where i saw 10-12 other boats, and were all reporting good action. Our bite started at the crack of dawn and stayed hot to about 7:00am, then had a pick up to about 2:00 pm when we left. Most of the fish were caught on sardines and jigs. Butters and chunks worked also. The final score: 15 Bluefin & 2 Yellowfin to 100 lbs., and lost just as many.

Angler Name : eric c
E-Mail : yayaginky@aol.com
Boat Name: seas the day
Date Fished: 9/17
Location: mud hole/monster ledge
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 0
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Swamped at work but took the day off anyway. Had a bumpy ride out to the mud hole in the AM. Trolled a false albacore right away and thought it might be a good day. Picked up a few albies but that was it. Nice to hear the reel scream. PS One captain was on # 68 asking the fleet if anyone had a gin pole for a "large fish".

Angler Name : Withheld
E-Mail : Withheld
Boat Name: Out of Barnegat
Date Fished: 9/16-9/17
Location: Toms Canyon
Fishing Method: Butterfish, squid, mackeral
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: any would do
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, squid, mackeral
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Went out Sunday nite to Toms Canyon..........had 2 run-offs.....thats it. No bait in the water, nothing, had a good time sleeping.

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@msn.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 09/17/01
Location: Delware Bay
Fishing Method:
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15" to 24"
Bait or Lure: Shedders
Water Depth: 12'
Water Temp.:
Information : Tried fishing at the Rabbit's Bed this after noon. Fished for 2 1/2 hours and ended up with 11 Weaks and 10 croakers.

Angler Name : mike lawrence
E-Mail :
Boat Name: shot n beer
Date Fished: 09-17-01
Location: glory and chicken
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 36"
Bait or Lure: ballyhoo
Water Depth: 170-210
Water Temp.: 75
Information : started at the lillian trolling. got one small schoolie. worked out to the glory about half way there got one about 30 plus. worked that area had another knock down but lost it. got half way into the chicken and banged 3, 2 really nice fish. lost both at the boat. one on a cider and one on the bally. all were caught between 10 and 2. started home about 4 and wound up blowing my clutch plate on one motor. 4 hours later tied up at the dock. good day long ride home. be ready this weekend. see ya out there

Angler Name : Frank Cardaci
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 16-17
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 5 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Can it get any worse? With the supposed height of the chunking season upon us the tuna have left us. Another very slow trip to the edge left the Frank Cardaci charter from Farmingdale very disapointed and wishing they fished with us in July rather than late September. Trolling produced a couple mahi and we lost a 40 pound wahoo at the boat when is bit through the mono leader. Chunking produced zero, zip, zilch (0). We will keep on trying as our last hope is the second eddy of the year which is possed to hit the Hudson any day now.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kper@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 9/17/01
Location: North Sandy Hook Beach
Fishing Method: Cast and retrieve from shore
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17"
Bait or Lure: Fin-S fish with 1/4 oz jighead/8 lb test
Water Depth: 3 to 4 feet
Water Temp.: 72
Information : Caught high tide at 8:22 AM and found a nice drop-off hole with a rim around it, awash with irregular breaking waves very close, yielded one 16" + two 17" fluke along with 7 pound bluefish, returned to the sea to be caught again. Great day for fishing.

Angler Name : Bob & Rob
E-Mail : rmackjr558@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Ya!
Date Fished: 09/16
Location: Lillian/Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Trol/Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: Anything
Bait or Lure: Jigs, Butters
Water Depth: 176 to 235
Water Temp.: 70 to 73
Information : Trolled from the Monster Ledge to the Lillian. ZERO! Joined 14 or more other boats at the Lillian. ZERO! Ran to the Mud hole and drifted through Little Italy. ZERO! Thank God for my autopilot or I would have been exhausted for nothing. Will try again this weekend. Good Luck to all (and me, too!).

Angler Name : Len La Rosa
E-Mail : larosa603@aol.com
Boat Name: Mutual Fun
Date Fished: 16 September
Location: Tires
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1+ lbs
Bait or Lure: Clam
Water Depth: 60'
Water Temp.: 75 Degrees
Information : Got out the inlet at 8AM to be greeted by a sloppy sea. Cruised out to the local wrecks 8 miles out and got there just ahead of dive and head boats. Went back to the tires and drifted with clam and picked up some nice table fare. The bass were agressive and decent size. Picked up a few dozen (including throwbacks) and kept a dozen nice fish. Nice action for a close in trip.

Angler Name : Scott Sokoli
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Art of Living
Date Fished: 9/16/01
Location: Lilian
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30#
Bait or Lure: spreader bars
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 69.9 to 71.2 degrees
Information : Started trolling about 7:00 AM around the 6 or more boats chunking. Troll was slow and water was cold, Pick up one schoolie around 9:00, nothing the rest of the day.

Angler Name : Jim, Brian and Roland
E-Mail : jimk@edprop.com
Boat Name: Out of the Blue
Date Fished: 9/16
Location: Sea Girt Reef
Fishing Method: Bottom Fishing
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: 1-3 pounds
Bait or Lure: Killie/Squid
Water Depth: 60-70 ft.
Water Temp.: 65
Information : Filled the cooler with nice sized Sea Bass on the reef. Lots of small fish in between. LARGE KILLIES for BIG SEA BASS. Consistently caught big fish with a big killie. Unfortunately we ran out of them and had to pick through the small fish using squid.

Angler Name : SkipJack, Nute, Ray K, & Sponge Bob
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Riptide
Date Fished: 9/16/01
Location: Wreck
Fishing Method: Wreck
Specie: Black Sea Bass
Size: up to 5lbs
Bait or Lure: Clam/Squid
Water Depth: 75
Water Temp.: 69
Information : We had 130 fish in about 2 hours. We only kept 33 fish nothing under 13 inches. Non-stop action. Good positioning makes a world of difference.

Angler Name : Tiger fisher
E-Mail : Rockon0001@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Tiger
Date Fished: 9/16/01
Location: off the hook
Fishing Method: Drift with bloodworms
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14-6lbs.
Bait or Lure: bloodworms
Water Depth: 30-60ft
Water Temp.: ??????
Information : fished off the sea tiger. good fishin. no weakfish until third drift. hundreds of porgies on the boat. weakfish are there and hittin pretty good. fish on!!!!!!

Angler Name : Ron Walker
E-Mail : rwalker@trilogyassoc.com
Boat Name: MegaBite
Date Fished: September 16, 2001
Location: Delaware Bay - Squirrel's Nest
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15-24"
Bait or Lure: Crabs, Squid, Mullet
Water Depth: 10
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Acting on a tip from Capt. Ed on the Trophy, I headed to my old honey hole from last year ... The Squirrel's Nest. We had immediate action on nice sided, keeper weakfish with some craokers and blues mixed in. We enjoyed a beautiful Indian Summer day, but were forced back to the barn when we ran out of bait (First time this year for that!!), and when we were invaded by gnats when the wind died off. Highlight of the trip was a 24" trout that capped off our haul of 10 weakies. This was the "Best" trip of the year for weakies and represented almost 25% of all the weakies we've caught this year in 35 trips. Hurry up stripers!

Angler Name : Captain Bill
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Fin Fun
Date Fished: 9-16
Location: Mud Buoy
Fishing Method: Chum
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 4 - 5 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Spearing
Water Depth: 48'
Water Temp.:
Information : We went to the Mud Buoy looking for the usual bluefish,false albacore,and bonito. What we found was surprising. Porgies! Big porgies! We stopped on some good marks and started chumming. The first fish was a tunny, then a couple of blues. Then....porgies. Can you believe it? We used 94150 Mustad chum hooks with no leaders (1/0,2/0)tied directly to 10lb mono. The blues bit us off most of the time but we managed to hook several right in the corner of the mouth and landed them. We ended up landing 12 blues(three on flies), 6 albies, 1 bonito and two dozen porgies. By the way, if anyone is missing an outboard boat(about 16') it's capsized and floating about 1 1/2 miles off Long Branch. We almost hit it on the way in. All that was visible was part of the hull. The Coast Guard knew about it when we called it in but I didn't see any vessels around to retrieve it. We didn't see anyone with the boat as we circled it. I hope everyone is safe.

Angler Name : Mike P.
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Queen Mary
Date Fished: 9/16
Location: Mud Dump and The Farms
Fishing Method: Chum, Bait & Jigs
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 3#-15#
Bait or Lure: 047's
Water Depth: N/A
Water Temp.: N/A
Information : It was a beautiful fall day to be on the water. However, the smoke from NYC didn't let you forget the important matters at hand. After what was reoprted as a great week of fishing last week. It wasn't to be on Sunday. I believe that the front put a hurtin' on the bluefish. It was an OK day, but I had hoped for better. We fished bait and jigs and it was about a 50/50 on what caught the fish. I had 4 hits on each. I caught the 4 on the jigs but only 1 on the bait. I tried circle hooks with the bait and didn't like the performance. I probably did better than most on board. The fish averaged about 6-8 pounds. A few in the 15 pound range came over the rail. Some albies were also caught on lighter tackle. It wasn't extremely productive but you couldn't beat the weather.

Angler Name : Ed Holmes
E-Mail : hookemtocookem@msn.com
Boat Name: TROPHY
Date Fished: 09/15&16/01
Location: Delware Bay
Fishing Method: Anchored
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 15" to 20"
Bait or Lure: Shedders
Water Depth: 14'
Water Temp.:
Information : Sure is nice to be able to catch some fish in the Delaware Bay again. I've been doing most of my fishing this season in Virginia and Maryland. I just got my boat back in my slip Saturday after having some repairs done on it. I caught 12 Weaks Saturday afternoon. Sunday produced 14 Weaks and 12 Croakers. I fished at the "SQUIRREL'S NEST"

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: One Nut
Date Fished: 9-16-01
Location: Raritan Reach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 14-19 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 35-45 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Fished for 2.5 hours in the late afternoon-early evening.Came across some breaking fish after clearing Morgan Creek-these turned out to be small bluefish,as evident by the one ray caught.This action soon dies and we moved over to Prince's Bay,where one the first drift Bill and I put a pair of nice weakies in the boat--second drift yielded another weakie for me, 2 for Ray and a fluke for Bill--third drift yield a another blue and weakie for ray. We then moved up past Lemon Creek where I added another weakie.Our final stop was off the #55,which yielded 2 more weakfish for myself.All fish were released with the exception of 1 weakie for the grill.

Angler Name : Capt. Manny Canales g
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Double Diamond
Date Fished: 9/15/01
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : After cancelling the previous two nights canyon trips, the Tom Lusty charter decided to try for bluefin tuna in the mudhole, and salvage one of two days. The troll bite was slow, but we did boat two school bluefin out of 5 hooked up. Did not hear of any other schoolie action today.

Angler Name : jim
E-Mail : shep9999@home
Boat Name: amy sue
Date Fished: 9/13/01
Location: mud bouy
Fishing Method: chum
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 6-12#
Bait or Lure: spearing,etc
Water Depth: 60ft
Water Temp.: 70?
Information : Steady action all day once tide starting moving.Got better as SE wind came up. No wire leader,just ablie hook.Lot of break offs,but fun on light tsckle. Two ablies as a desert to the wonderfull day with Dave and Rodger.

Angler Name : Richard Steer
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 12-13
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Richard Steer charter form Connecticut back out on the Canyon Runner for their 3rd canyon trip of the year with us. Unfortunately, while the first two trips were outstanding. And both happened to be in July. This trip, which was anticipated to be the best as we are supposed to be in the prime time for canyon fishing, was less than stellar. Trolling and chunking produced only a couple longfin and a couple Mahi.

Angler Name : CAPT. PETE
E-Mail : PETEANDJAN@MSN.COM
Boat Name: SAND PEBBLE
Date Fished: 9-12-01
Location: BARNEGATE BAY BB MARKER
Fishing Method: LURE
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 18 INCHES
Bait or Lure: SILVER LURE
Water Depth: 10 TO 12 FEET
Water Temp.:
Information : WENT OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING OUTSIDE BARNEGATE INLET. GOT TOSSED AROUND AND CAME BACK IN. STARTED BACK HOME AFTER DOING SOME CASTING JUST INSDE THE INLET WITHOUT LUCK. I WAS MOVING BY THE BB MARKER SAW SOME BIRDS WORKING AND FOUND WEAKS AND SMALL BLUE UNER THE BIRDS. STAYED AROUND FOR AN HOUR FOLLOWING THE BIRDS AND HAD A LOT OF FUN ON LIGHT TACKLE. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO HAVE GOT QUIET AROUND 9:30AM WHEN THE WIND STARTED TO BLOW HARD.

Angler Name : John Adamcik
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 9/9-9/10/2001
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 130 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 675 Ft.
Water Temp.: 79 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula was back on the west wall of the Hudson Canyon with the John Adamcik charter. After locating huge bait readings with whales and porpoise actively feeding the Bounty Hunter was anchored in 675 Ft. of water and the charter had their first 90 lb. Yellowfin in the boat within an hour. Over the course of the night we enjoyed over 20 hookups of large Yellowfin and managed to put 11 fish in the boat the largest of which weighed in at 130 Lbs.

Angler Name : Joe Connelly
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 9-10
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and had his worse trip of the chunking season on Sunday to Monday with the Joe Connelly charter from Brooklyn. It looks like the tuna have moved out with the eddy we have been fishing all year. Trolling for 6 hours produced nothing and chunking all night saw only 1 yellowfin hit the deck. Not good at all.

Angler Name : Capt. Manny Canales
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Double Diamond
Date Fished: 9/9/01
Location: Sea Bright-
Fishing Method: Bait
Specie: Porgy
Size: 1-2lb
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 30
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Today was the annual kids trip with Jack Singh, Tom Taranova and family. Strong tide in the morning made for tough conditions, but managed to put together a modest catch of seabass and porgies mostly during slack tide. Wives and children all had a good time.

Angler Name : Capt. DERBBS & Lord Biron
E-Mail : derbbs@aol.com
Boat Name: 18/8 MATE
Date Fished: Sept. 09, 2001
Location: Longport - Ocean City, NJ
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Atlantic Croaker
Size: 1-3 lbs.
Bait or Lure: cut squid
Water Depth: 40 feet
Water Temp.: 74
Information : Beautiful Ocean! 40 feet of water seems best, approx 2 miles from GE Bell, either in front of Ocean City or Longport. Lots of Bunker breaking water, fish are underneath. Got bluefish, flounder (many undersize) but croakers were plentiful. Some double headers. Nice to have abundant supply of fish!

Angler Name : Harry Delanoy
E-Mail : New Earth 2000@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Margie
Date Fished: 9/8/01-9/9/01
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 450
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Ran the boat to the tip of the Hudson and began trolling down the west wall. Water looked good read some bait, had three knockdowns but no hookups. Dropped the hook on some good readings and within an hour boated a small swordfish which was let go. Put two other fish in the boat and that was it except for a large blue shark. Most boats had a slow night.

Angler Name : Greg Niccolai
E-Mail : greg@bnngroupinc.com
Boat Name: Reel Estate
Date Fished: 09/08-09/09
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling/Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Assorted Luhrs and Butterfish
Water Depth: 350-
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Went to the Hudson to see fi we could get in on some of the good chunking and trolling action that occurred earlier in the week. Despite poor reports, took advantyage of a good weather window and arrived in time for an evening troll. Hoping for a sundown eye-ball did nothing, but found some bait on the West side and anchored up for the night. Boated two large yellowfin overnight and had many more under the boat but could not hook-up. Should have gone down to smaller leader but never made the switch. One longfin on the troll in the AM. A big shout out to Scott on Tail Spin for the Spreader Bars (was hoping to break those in for you but could not find a Big Eye willing to cooperate).

Angler Name : Bob, Rob, CJ, Randy, & Bret
E-Mail : rmackjr558@aol.com
Boat Name: Sea Ya!
Date Fished: 09/08-09/09
Location: Hiudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk/Troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 82 to 90 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 480 ft
Water Temp.: 77.6
Information : Arrived at 5pm and started our troll. Whales and small Skippies everywhere. Had one knockdown but lost it immediately. Dropped the hook on the West Wall just below the Elbow at 7:30pm. Had our first Yellowfin of 82 lbs. at 9:15. Our next one came at 10pm and after that Bluesharks and runoffs but nothing more. The radio was dead - everyone was having a bad night. The idiots were drifting everywhere with no respect for us guys anchored. A little common courtesy, guys! By the way, where was those 1 to 2 foot seas? We got banged around till morning. Looked and felt like 3 to 5 or more.

Angler Name : Jason Brian Dwayne
E-Mail : Jayman63@aol.com
Boat Name: Lindsay Marie
Date Fished: September 8-9
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunkin trolling
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 60-100
Bait or Lure: butterfish, spreader bars
Water Depth: 460
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Trolled from 5pm to dark with no hits. Setting up to drift on the west wall produced nothing after a few hours. Moved and anchored on the east wall. From 11 to 4am we only had 1 run off and fought what we think was a big blueshark but was lost. A little after 4am the bite finally turned on and we put 1 yellowfin over 100 lbs. and 5 longfin ranging from 40 to 70 lbs. in the boat and only losing 2 within a 45 minute range. Picked up at sunrise wit 6 tuna on ice.good trip Ketch em up!

Angler Name : jon murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: tunnelvision
Date Fished: 09/09/01
Location: Harvey Cedars
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17-24"
Bait or Lure: squid/spearing
Water Depth: 60
Water Temp.:
Information : Only 3 keepers for the last fluke trip of the year but Dad topped off the catch with a nice 24"er. Time to start trolling albies & blues and catching sea bass on the reefs.

Angler Name : Mike Kirkup
E-Mail : kirkups@ix.netcom.com
Boat Name: Betty K II
Date Fished: 9-9-01
Location: klondike area
Fishing Method: chumming
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 7 lb.
Bait or Lure: squid
Water Depth: 50-75 '
Water Temp.: 74
Information : We set up south of the Carlson wreck and drifted NW for about 3 hrs covering a distance of 4 miles. no hits until about 10 min. before we were going to leave, empty handed. Before leaving I decided to dump the remaining chum and butter chunks. As I was rinsing the chum bucket, something hit one of the lines. It didn't fight like a blue and then it jumped and I realized I had a Mahi on. What a thrill. We were only 3.3 miles from shore. Moral of the story: always keep you lines in the water when you dump your bait before heading in. If there's anything out there you're bound to find it at the end of your line.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 9-9-01
Location: Off Highlands Bridge & Sandy Hook Channel
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13-15.75 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Killies,Spearing,Fluke Belly,Squid
Water Depth: 20-50 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Had hoped to add a few extra fluke filets to the freezer before the season closes on Tuesday.Did both trips on the Teal.Morning trip begun off the Highlands Bridge with some fluke caught-we made last drift along the edge of Sandy Hook Channel.I finished this trip with a total of 8 shorts.Maybe 20-25 keepers for the entire boat.In the afternoon it was just the opposite as we started in the Sandy Hook Channel and finished off the Highlands Bridge.This trip I tallied 9 shorts,1 porgy and a sea robin.There were less than 10 keepers on this trip but was made up for with some sea bass and porgies.

Angler Name : Dave M
E-Mail : conan00049@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Diane
Date Fished: Sept 8-9 2001
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll- Chunk-
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 40-60 lb
Bait or Lure: Chunk-Live Squid- Troll
Water Depth:
Water Temp.: 77
Information : Arived at Hudson Canyon at approx 3:00 pm 9-8-01 with myself and 4 other anglers to make up the charter. Within the first 30 mins of trolling we had three fish on at once. All three Longfin (40-50lb) were boated thanks to the superior crew onboard. Boat traffic began to look similar to the parking lot of the Meadowlands 2min before kick off of Jets-Giants game. After establishing ourselves on the east wall we chunked from 6:00PM and got skunked through out the nite as did most boats. At first light, approx. 6:00am we had a quick hit. 3 on and 3 Longfin boated (40-60)lbs. We picked up at approx 8:00am and trolled several Skipjacks before heading home. All in all not the best trip I've been on but Capt. Frank and crew were able to boat every fish that was hooked up(very impressive). With the large amount of boats reporting zero fish I consider ourselves fortunate. But one question remains in my mind " where did all the Yellowfin go" ?????

Angler Name : Gary
E-Mail : micco@blast.net
Boat Name: TAMRA II
Date Fished: 9-8/9
Location: Harvey Cedars
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 7 lbs.
Bait or Lure: various
Water Depth: 50'
Water Temp.: 60's
Information : Took Dad out Saturday and Sunday. Had limit catches both days, with 20-30 throwbacks each day. The largest on Sat. was a 28 in. 7 lb. and a 5.5 lb. Fluke on Sunday. The species gas clearly recovered. The season should have been longer.

Angler Name : capt. Manny Canales
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Double Diamond
Date Fished: 9/7 - 8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 30-40 lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 550
Water Temp.: 78
Information : Fished in the Hudson with the Tom Lusty charter. We set up for the night right on top of them and had fish on within minutes, but in an hour it was over. Slow night for most of us, we finished up with 5 longfin in the box, two undersize swordfish released , and jumped off one mako. Current was very strong.

Angler Name : Capt. John De Mio
E-Mail : fishformula@aol.com
Boat Name: Fish Formula
Date Fished: 9/8 9/9
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: worms
Specie: Weakfish
Size:
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : Raritan Bay Weakfishing is still excellent as all trips this week seen great action in the reach channel. Jim Giebler of Hazlet was high hook on the boat sat. with 18 weaks himself.

Angler Name : Oggie
E-Mail : oggie1@home.com
Boat Name: Trophy One
Date Fished: 9/9/01
Location: Monster Ledge
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30-37
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 221'
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Chunked the Ledge with a few other chunkers and trollers. Caught two on Butterfish and Sardines. Had to go down to 20# Flouro to get them. Luckily no giants hit or would have felt like s%$t using that light.

Angler Name : Rich
E-Mail : randres1@swarthmore.edu
Boat Name: Sawdust
Date Fished: 9/9/01
Location: Sea Isle Ridge
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 10 lbs
Bait or Lure: cedar plugs, skirts, feathers
Water Depth: 45-85
Water Temp.: 76
Information : Since federal waters for fluke are now closed, we decided to mix it up by trolling the Sea Isle Ridge. Started late at 10:30 and trolled with the fleet from the ridge to the Alligator to the 2FB. All false albacore were caught at the ridge and on the way to the alligator. From the Alligator to the 2FB was the bonita. Everything was on top and hit everything except spoons. The highlight of the day was a 6+ foot hammerhead which was cruising the surface. We tried to get him with some albacore heads and chunks, but him wasn't interested. Called it a day with 9 for 12 on the albacore and 3 for 3 on the large bonita. A fun day with the little fighters.

Angler Name :
E-Mail :
Boat Name: hat trick
Date Fished: 9/09/01
Location: east lump
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 8-12lb
Bait or Lure: cedar plugs, feathers
Water Depth: 60-80 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Went looking for BFT at the East Lump. Lots of action, but all false albacore, no BFT. Fish hit just about any lure trolled. Also some dorado reported in the area.

Angler Name : gc
E-Mail : gcaffrey_2000@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Four Girls
Date Fished: 09/09/01
Location: Massey's Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 50-60lb.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish Chunks
Water Depth: 185
Water Temp.: 79.4
Information : Boated two 50-60lb Bluefin at Massey's Canyon. Daytime chunking. Hot rod had four ounce egg sinker was the hot rod. First Bluefin for the boat. On second hook up, Bluefin ran for the anchor line and subsequent run resulted in fishing line burning the anchor line clean through. Lesson: use an anchor ball and drift back off the ball, or, cut the line allowing the fish go free - either way you'll save your self or your capt. some money.

Angler Name : Tom Brennan
E-Mail : tjb1222@aol.com
Boat Name: Wicked Witch
Date Fished: 9/8-9/01
Location: Ocean off Island Beach
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 23.5 inches
Bait or Lure: sqid,minnows, bucktail
Water Depth: 55 ft
Water Temp.: 71
Information : Last two days of fluke fishing were solid off the Judge's Shack and the Bathing Beach. Saturday, with son Sean and friend Tom Howell was best day with 19 large and fat fish in the cooler. Several fish at 23 inches and all others over 19 inches. Lost a monster at the boat (and that's not a fish story). Sunday at the same spot with wife was slower due to negligible drift but still brought home 8 quality fish to 22 inches. Also caught a large bonita and a Ribbon Fish to round out the day. Let's get legislation to ensure a longer season next year. We're shutting down the season when the best fishing starts. Something wrong with that logic!!!

Angler Name : Michael Savage
E-Mail : michael1savage@yahoo.com
Boat Name: Wreckless
Date Fished: 9/08to9/09
Location: Lindenkohl Canyon
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 0 pounds
Bait or Lure: Everything I know and own
Water Depth: 500 ft
Water Temp.: 76
Information : One of the few lousy reports that you will read. Must have been 50 boats at the lindy Sat. Nite. I did not hear of a lot of fish being caught. One boat had 4 swords and a couple boats had a few tuna, but if there was a lot of catching going on everyone decided to keep their good fortune to themselves. I did hear one guy say he limited out around 5 am in the tip and was heading home. He said he was live-lining squid and dropping them to the bottom and he would get hooked up every time before it got to the bottom. It did not work for me though.We had no action at all chunking. No run offs, no sharks, nothing. We were stuck with drifting with strong wind and sloppy seas which might have contibuted. In the morning we trolled a huge weed line, like I have not seen in a couple years, where we hooked the one that got away. The fish ran off 700yards of 50# line when the hook broke. I had heard that happens but never experienced it. Went 0 for 1. Hope we don't do that again. If you were out there this past weekend and did well, please email me or post your secret, another trip like this one and I'll put the for sale sign up.

Angler Name : Boomer Bergen
E-Mail : robertrtb560@aol.com
Boat Name: Purple Jet-with Capt John
Date Fished: 9-09-01
Location: Manasquan Ridge, Barnegat Buoy
Fishing Method: Baitfish and Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 10-18 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish, Jigging
Water Depth: 50-55 ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Waht a great day on a great boat. Capt John and mate Christian are the greatest. Left with the Keith Dunaj charter for Boomers birthday. On board with Keith D, Sean D, KB, Joe the bassmaster, Boomer and Big John. Weather was fantastic and headed out at 0615. Made an early stop and got about 8 with butterfish. Continued out further and finally wound up 36 miles offshore in about 55 ft of water. We started jigging and the strike was on picked up another 10 real quick and then unfortunately had to head in.All fish were between 10-18 lbs. The boat and crew were fabulous and looking forward to another trip real soon.Headed back in and arriver dockside at about 1400. End of a great day!!!!!!!

Angler Name : Anthony Limbardo
E-Mail : adlimbardo@aol.com
Boat Name: Electra Michelle
Date Fished: 9/9/01
Location: Lilian Wreck Area
Fishing Method: Chunk & Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20 lb
Bait or Lure: Butterfish / Spreader Bars, Daisy Chain, Green Machine
Water Depth: 120 - 160
Water Temp.: 73 - 74
Information : After a trying morning getting started, breaking the inlet for the second time, Tony, Vinny, & Mike headed to the Lilian based on the reports of Giants in the area. We arrived finding about 12 boats in the area, by days end the fleet was well over 50 boats. We chunked for 3 hours without a hit, then decided to start trolling at around 11:30 am. Had a double header of Bluefin at noon and a third fish about an hour later. Saw one Giant being hauled in over a transom and heard of a couple of other boats hooked up on the radio. Picked up a large False Albacore late in the day, then headed home. Water was very clean, a nice day to be out.

Angler Name : Rick
E-Mail : sincker@aol.com
Boat Name: Hellcat
Date Fished: Sept. 8-9
Location: Lindenkohl
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-110lbs
Bait or Lure: live squid
Water Depth: 340ft
Water Temp.: 76
Information : We grabbed the only pot open as there were 50 -60 boats at the lindy and although it was not the location we normally fish we had great success. Caught 9 Yellowfins picking the 1st at 11:30pm. Every fish was caught on live squid - most very deep. 3 times we had 2 hookups at one time. Weather report was wrong once again and we had a pretty stiff wind during the night. Some boats had swords and longfins. Most didn't seem to fair as well as a few of us. First time we continued to fish and release due to maxing our holding capacity. Good Lord must have been watching over us...very good night.

Angler Name : john
E-Mail : huck2000@peoplepc.com
Boat Name: FIRST STEP
Date Fished: 8/9/01
Location: MONSTER LEDGE
Fishing Method: CHUNK/TROLL
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 20 LB
Bait or Lure: X
Water Depth: X
Water Temp.: X
Information : TRIED CHUNKING ALL DAY,1 FALSIE. STARTED TO TROLL AT 4;00 BEFORE I GOT THE SECOND LINE IN THE WATER THE 1ST ONE HIT ON A GREEN FEATHER, 1 BFT ABOUT 20LB AFTER THAT 7 MORE FALSIES

Angler Name : Rick and Jim
E-Mail : jimk@edprop.com
Boat Name: Crazy Scooter
Date Fished: 9/9/01
Location: Lillian Wreck Area
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Little Tunny
Size: 8-10 pounds
Bait or Lure: Feathers, Cedar Plugs, Butterfish
Water Depth: 150-270
Water Temp.: 72-74
Information : Left the dock with dreams of giant tuna. Trolled only little tunny all day long. Set up for the chunk along with 100+ boats. No bites. Didn't see any other chunkers do anything either. There was probably enough chum thrown in the water to feed the entire biomass of Atlantic tuna. Better luck next time!

Angler Name : Nick Cucinello
E-Mail : Nick_Cucinello@aol.com
Boat Name: Cooch
Date Fished: 9/9
Location: Lillian to Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30lbs
Bait or Lure: Spreaders, Cedars, and Feathers
Water Depth: 160-220
Water Temp.: 75-77
Information : Trolled from the Lillian to the Glory Hole without much action in the morning. Saw no Mahi around the pots. Later in the aftenoon back towards the Lillian saw a humpback whale and a couple of minutes later found the bait and caught the BFT. After that caught over 20 8-14lb False Albies and a small Skipjack.

Angler Name : John Miller
E-Mail : jpemiller@aol.com
Boat Name: surf casting
Date Fished: september 9, 2001
Location: bay head, new jersey
Fishing Method: pole
Specie: Northern Stargazer
Size: 15 inches
Bait or Lure: mullet
Water Depth: 8 feet
Water Temp.: 70 degrees
Information :

Angler Name : John Malzonni
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 7-8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: White Marlin
Size: 72inches
Bait or Lure: Squid
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and Adam LaRosa had an interesting trip to the Hudson Canyon on Friday night with the John Malzone charter from Philadelphia. Trying to avoid the crowd all night we put the boat on the drift and made several drift throughout the night in a unforecasted 15-20 knot winds. A slow night ended with a bang as we put a couple lonfin and a yellowfin in the boat before first light a fought landed a released a 72 inch white marlin caught on the chunk.

Angler Name : GARY, JEREMY, & ART
E-Mail : TRAILPIMP@AOL.COM
Boat Name: MAKO 19
Date Fished: 9-8-01
Location: SEA ISLE RIDGE
Fishing Method: DRIFT CHUNKING
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 5-10 LBS.
Bait or Lure: BUTTER CHUNKS
Water Depth: 77'
Water Temp.: 74
Information : GOT TO RIDGE AT 10:30, SEEN 8-10 BOATS TROLLING BUT THEY REPORTED NOTHING. STARTED DRIFT CHUNKING FOR TUNA. FIRST DOLPHIN SWAM BY TRANSOM 2 HRS LATER. HOOKED MANY WITH MINNOWS ON LIGHT TACKLE BUT KEPT SPITTING HOOKS. SCHOOL OF AT LEAST 50 CAME SHORTLY AFTER AND FOLLOWED THE BOAT FOR 2 HRS. ALSO LOST A NICE SHARK BELIEVED TO BE A BROWN. LOTS OF LOST FISH BUT A FUN DAY WEATHER WAS BEAUTIFUL!

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Capt John
Date Fished: 9-8-01
Location: Raritan Bay
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 13.5 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 30-40 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : A very slow day for my son Jason and I--in fact for the entire boat.Jason and I caught more fish at the dock (snappers) then during the trip. We started by the #12 moved west to the #35 then worked back east as far as the #10. I ended up with 1 keeper fluke & 2 porgies,while Jason got 2 short weakfish & 1 short fluke.Less than 25 keeper weaks for the boat with maybe 10 keeper fluke with a dozen porgies thrown in.

Angler Name : Tom
E-Mail : t.bartku@att.net
Boat Name: Miss Belmar Princess
Date Fished: 09/7 09/8
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: chumming, butters,sardines
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70 to 110 lbs
Bait or Lure: butter fish, sardines
Water Depth: 600 ft++
Water Temp.: 78 DEGREES
Information : Arrived about 11pm to the canyon, first fish on was a small sword about 20lbs.Picked eight turkeys and two large yellowfin on butters until 9am. That was it til heading home around 11am, beautiful day to be on the water. Capt (Tom & Alan) and mates did a great job! It may be a little too early for tuna but had to get out there and give it a shot. good luck fishing guys,tight lines

Angler Name : John, Charlie, Rick and Bill
E-Mail : nbijohn@aol.com
Boat Name: Hook'm & Cook'm
Date Fished: Sept 7 - 8
Location: Lindenkohl
Fishing Method: Troll & Chunk
Specie: Swordfish
Size: 150 +
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 112 fathoms
Water Temp.: 78
Information : Fished overnight at Lindy. Caught, took pictures and released Blue Marlin about 400 lbs on troll about 8 miles short of Lindy. Great Fish and first ever Blue Marlin. On chunk caught 2 Swordfish and lost at least 4 more. These fish made Tuna look tame. They beat us up good. Also boated 2 Yellofin and 2 Longfin. The best fishing trip ever.

Angler Name : Jim Foy
E-Mail : Jimfoy@aol.com
Boat Name: Bottom line
Date Fished: 09/08/2001
Location: Mudhole
Fishing Method: Rod and Reel
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 753
Bait or Lure: Live bait
Water Depth: 167
Water Temp.: 71
Information : We hooked and landed our 3rd Bluefin this year. We lost 2 others and are on the move to having a good season without going north to Mass. The fish are leader shy and need to be fished with caution. They are easily marked, but hard to get to bite.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : Burtmirage@aol.com
Boat Name: Mirage
Date Fished: 9/7-8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 100
Bait or Lure: Butter fish, squid
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Capt.Bruce had the Charles Zulli party from Ridgewood,NJ to the Hudson for a night of chunking.Had a Sword on for a good hour and one half and finally got wrapped around the anchor line and broke off.That was on the West side. After the anchor deal we moved to the East and managed 1 for 4 on the 80 lb. yellows.We also added 2 Mahi-Mahi. Not a real good night for alot of boats out there.Very slow indeed!

Angler Name : Keith
E-Mail : Keithlawye@aol.com
Boat Name: Aquaholic
Date Fished: 9/8/2001
Location: Little Egg Inlet
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Atlantic Croaker
Size: 12in+
Bait or Lure: bunker pieces on high low rig
Water Depth: 35-15 feet
Water Temp.:
Information : Attempted to catch fluke just outside Little Egg Inlet in ocean. After minimal luck, changed over to bunker and filled the boat with croaker. Non-stop action.

Angler Name : GEORGE CHEETY
E-Mail : bvg1223@aol.com
Boat Name: Miss Chris II
Date Fished: 9/8/01
Location: south of Old Grounds
Fishing Method: rod & reel with bait
Specie: Fluke
Size: 12.23 pounds
Bait or Lure: minnow
Water Depth: 80 feet
Water Temp.: unknown
Information : Weighed in at Jim's Bait and Tackle in Cape May, New Jersey (official weigh-in station)

Angler Name : Mike Copeman
E-Mail : michael.copeman@everestre.com
Boat Name: RENEGADE
Date Fished: 9/7-8
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: chunk/troll
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 50-105
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 500
Water Temp.: 77
Information : Started chunking by 9:00 pm first yft hit by 10:00 pm on a whole butter fish. The fish stayed under the boat the entire time and wrapped the line around the rudder. We were able to snag the line with a long gaff from the other side of the boat and then we pulled the 105 lb yft in by hand. Our next fish hit 10 minutes later and after a 2 1/2 hour fight on 50 lb tackle it finally broke off. We only saw the tuna once and it was well over the 150 lb mark. Trolling in the morning produced 6 longfins, 5 hitting at once with all boated. Seas rougher then forecasted. Thank you Jenni-Lee for the ride out and the numbers!

Angler Name : Skip Jack
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Laura D
Date Fished: 9/8/01
Location: Lillian
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: Bunker
Water Depth: 147
Water Temp.: 73.5
Information : Heard the bite was late from the day before so we didn't leave as early. Got set up around 12 and chunked the entire day. Heard of 3 fish being hooked up right around us but we never got that lucky. Went through 600lbs of bunker. We dropped from 300lb flouro to 200lb but that didn't make the difference for us. Had your typical jerks out there running through slicks.

Angler Name : Bart Bakelaar
E-Mail : captreelaction@aol.com
Boat Name: Reel Action
Date Fished: Sept. 7 and 8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Trolling and Chunking
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 40-50 lbs
Bait or Lure: Zuckers, Green Machines
Water Depth: 400' +
Water Temp.: 76-78
Information : Had Bart and Bob Bakelaar party aboard for a troll and chunk overnight canyon trip. We arrived at the West wall and within 10 minutes had two longfin tuna in the boat. On the chunk, we had no luck, only a couple runoffs. The troll in the morning produced on one knockdown. Nice weather and good time was had.

Angler Name : Ralph Autuore
E-Mail : autuore4@aol.com
Boat Name: Dragon Lady
Date Fished: 9/7-9/8
Location: Lindenkohl
Fishing Method: Chubnking
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 60lb
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 800'
Water Temp.: 78.9
Information : Overnighted the Lindy Friday picked a couple of nice Longfin lost an estimated 150-200lb Sword after a 45min battle. Had a monster shark of unknown specie fight for 30 minutes before deciding to help him part the line. Action was generally slow but quite a few boats did report a swordfish bite.

Angler Name : Paul
E-Mail :
Boat Name: Bite Me
Date Fished: 9/8
Location: 28 mile reck,cigar,sea isle ridge
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Dolphin
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Aliens / spoons/butterfish chunks/killies
Water Depth: 100/120
Water Temp.: mid 70's
Information : Trolled cigar south to north,over and around the wreck in to the ridge no knockdowns,inside ridge picked up two little tunny(albies)about 6lb.Not much talk of catching on the radio. Longe day nothing to show for it."Tight Lines". Still need more reports from the south end they help everybody.

Angler Name : robert&tony
E-Mail : rtcruse@prodigy.net
Boat Name: concret man
Date Fished: 9/7-8
Location: lindy
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 110 & 135
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 575'
Water Temp.: ?
Information : started trolling at the first pots.cought 1 longfin 50lb missed 2.found the last pot out there about 1 mile from fleet and tied up.had 2 brakeoffs before we had our first yellow. lots of action for 2/ 1/2 hours then dead.left for home with 2 yellows 1 longfin &1 15lb miah at 6 am.grate night!

Angler Name : Ed Z
E-Mail : Monmag31@aol.com
Boat Name: "RAMONA"
Date Fished: 9/7-9/8
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 70-90 lbs
Bait or Lure: Butterfish/ Fresh Squid
Water Depth: 750 - 800
Water Temp.: 74.3
Information : Dropped the hook at the bombs around 6:30pm.First hook-up was around 10:00pm with the second and final hook-up for the night right after the first.Had a few run off's later that night but no hook-ups.I have my doubts about circle hooks.Never had a problem hooking up with regular tuna hooks.

Angler Name : frank and nick
E-Mail : frankko66@yahoo.com
Boat Name: easygo2
Date Fished: 9/8/01
Location: 17 fathoms
Fishing Method: troll
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5-16 lbs.
Bait or Lure: surge tubes
Water Depth: 100-125
Water Temp.:
Information : arrived just north of 17 fathoms and started trolling nailed fish within minutes -most about 8 lbs ,but a couple of brutes around 16 lbs.single tubes trolled about 30 feet down did the trick-great sport on light tackle .water was calm and clean looking.packed it in after 2 1/2 hours-we had enough and decided to try fluke/weaks by tip of hook-wound up with 1 keeper weak and a humpback porgie-beautiful day -good fishing.

Angler Name : Capt Bernie Roth
E-Mail : mbroth@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: TENACIOUS
Date Fished: 9/6-7
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Troll/Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 75-105
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 440ft
Water Temp.: 77
Information : Had the John Mcsloy charter on board for an overnight charter in the Hudson Canyon. Trolled 4mi short of the west wall to the east wall with no bites. Trolled back to the west wall and set up for chunking. Within 5 min we hooked up with a large fish which became wrapped on the propeller. The mate used a jig to snag the line below the boat and we proceeded to hand line and gaff a 105lb yellowfin. We had steady action till midnight on butterfish chunks on deep lines. No bites on squid or whole butters. We fished till 6:30am with no more bites and began trolling with 8 yellowfins from 75 to 105 lbs on ice. With no trolling action, we headed for home at 8:am.

Angler Name : Allen Yoshimar
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 6-7
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had a slow trip to the edge with the Allen Yoshimer charter but hopefully it is not a sign of things to come. Chunking at the bend on the West Well only produced a bite of 4 fish putting 3 in the boat.

Angler Name : Andy Sokol
E-Mail : Skolmann@aol.com
Boat Name: Teal
Date Fished: 9-07-01
Location: Sandy Hook Channel
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 13-16 Inchs
Bait or Lure: Spearing,Fluke Belly,Killies,Sandworms
Water Depth: 35-50 Ft
Water Temp.:
Information : Made two long drifts along the green side of Sandy Hook Channel from just before the #5-past the #3.On the first drift I went 1 for 13 with fluke and on the second 1 for 3.There was easily 175+ fluke caught on these two drifts with maybe 20 keepers.We made a few short drifts in Chapel Hill Channel with a few more short fluke taken along with the eventual pool winning fluke of 18 inchs,1 weakfish and 2 porgies-which I got one of.

Angler Name : Dan Vespertino
E-Mail : vespertino@home.com
Boat Name: All in the Family
Date Fished: Week of September 2nd
Location: Backbays Brigantine to GE Inlet
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: 20"
Bait or Lure: Squid and Minnow
Water Depth: 5-25'
Water Temp.: 70+
Information : A couple of nice keepers (fluke) early in the week. Mid week, nothing. Later in the week a couple of shorts, but no keepers. Still haven't seen any weakies in the back. Kids are happy to catch and release the black bass that never seem to leave.

Angler Name : Captain Ed
E-Mail : Metropolitanfire@big planet.com
Boat Name: Pamela Marie
Date Fished: 09/07/01
Location: Hot Dog
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 105#
Bait or Lure: Butters
Water Depth: 123
Water Temp.: 77.6
Information : Left Cape May, headed south in perfect seas at 2:00 am hooked up our first fish at 6:00 am, then had a spotty day with hook-ups until 12:00 pm, we went four for eight on yellowfin with 105 the biggest, trolled one nice wahoo on a green machine and lost it at the boat. Beautiful sea conditions.

Angler Name : Ken
E-Mail : kper@bellatlantic.net
Boat Name: N/A
Date Fished: 9/7/01
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: Cast from shore
Specie: Fluke
Size: 17"
Bait or Lure: Fin-S Fish+ 1/4 oz. jighead
Water Depth: 3 to 4 feet
Water Temp.: 74 approx.
Information : Caught AM incoming tide, with plenty of snapper blues tearing up the Fin-S, caught 5 fluke , 3 were keepers. 22" in fluke was taken from shore by fisherman using spearing. Another fluke dinner by candlelight tonight.

Angler Name : Petekeywest
E-Mail : Petekeywest@aol.com
Boat Name: Skipper
Date Fished: 9-6-01
Location: Off Long Branch within 3mls
Fishing Method: Drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: Up to 20in
Bait or Lure: Squid Spearing
Water Depth: 40ft
Water Temp.: 70
Information : Fished on the Skipper out of Belmar, we went up to the inshore area off Long Branch and started a drift. We picked up fish from the get go, most were short. After a few hours we moved off shore a bit for SeaBass and had a mess of fish, a lot of shorts but lots of action. The Capt. made sure everyone had dinner to take home. A good trip with a good boat and crew. I took home two nice Seabass and one keeper Fluke, but had a good day on the water, Thanks Capt.

Angler Name : Walter Huresky & Paul Balanikas
E-Mail : whuresky@epresence.com
Boat Name: Happy Ours
Date Fished: 9/6/01
Location: Sandy Hook 1/2 mile off beach
Fishing Method: Fly Fishing
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 2-4 lbs.
Bait or Lure: clouser minnows
Water Depth: 24-30 feet
Water Temp.: low 70s
Information : Although we were on the hunt for the albies, bluefish were the only ones responsive to our flies. We got an early start, coming aroung the hook at the break of dawn. About a half hour after sun rise the birds were working like mad. It was just a matter getting the fly in there for the blues. Although we spotted a few albies we were not able to hook up.

Angler Name : John S
E-Mail : johnlaura@home.com
Boat Name: Sea Siren
Date Fished: 9/6/2001
Location: Manasquan inlet to Brick Beach
Fishing Method: Trolling and Jigging
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 0
Bait or Lure: Spoons and Feathers
Water Depth: 20' to 60'
Water Temp.: 67
Information : Started trolling south from the inlet at 745am. Read allot of fish and bait. Saw albies breaking around the boat. However I did not have one knock down. Jigged over some heavy readings with 2 head boats to know avail. Out of desperation I drifted for fluke for about an hour and cauth one fish 14". Not one of my better days on the ocean. But, it was a great day to be fishing. Keep a tight line!

Angler Name : Greg
E-Mail : picman@bigfoot.com
Boat Name: -
Date Fished: 9/5 - 9/6
Location: Corson's
Fishing Method: fly
Specie: Bluefish
Size: small
Bait or Lure: silverside pattern
Water Depth: 3'-5'
Water Temp.: 72?
Information : Fished a couple of days at Corson's Inlet to check out a new rod & reel. -not too much going on during the day except for continuous schools of baby blues. They keep you busy at least. I did hear of striper action at dusk on Wednesday but it had died out by the time I got there around 8. - not an exciting report but trying to get other reports from south Jersey goin' -how about it guys?

Angler Name : Chris Marra
E-Mail : Chrisstrmn@aol.com
Boat Name: K Kat
Date Fished: 9/6/01
Location: Ambrose and then Chappel Hill
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: Medium
Bait or Lure: Sandworms andfluke strips for fluke
Water Depth: 30-40
Water Temp.:
Information : This is the second trip I took with Ken Dubman of the K Kat out of Highlands, NJ. One of our people started to not fell well wo we left the Ambrose Channel and went into the bay for Weakfish. We ended up with 10-12 fluke and 10 weakfish. I believe if we had stayed and fished Ambros channel for the entire trip we would have limited out. No doormats. Excellent captain and mates are always customer oriented. One of the best charter boats!

Angler Name : Joe Guzzo
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept. 5-6
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 90-130 pounds
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 77
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie and mate Jay Richardella had the Canyon Runner back out to the Hudson Canyon Wednesday to Thursday with the Joe Guzzo charter from Allentown, PA. Putting it on the drift where we have been fishing for the last few trips we quickly picked 2 yellowfin and dropped one. However, the bait quickly left and so did the yellowfin. With no signs of life we decided to make a move and made 3 different stops before we finally found the fish. Setting up on our fourth drift of the night we had non-stop action for 1.5 hours and put 7 yellowfin in the boat. We left the canyon with 9 yellowfin on ice with a couple around 130 pounds and rest all over 80 pounds.

Angler Name :
E-Mail : Burtmirage@aol.com
Boat Name: Mirage
Date Fished: 9/6
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: Schoolies
Bait or Lure: Spreader bars, cedar plugs, zuckers
Water Depth: 125-200
Water Temp.: 75
Information : Capt.Burt had the Alex Zadrozny party out from Gillette,NJ for a day of Inshore Tuna trolling.They caught about 35 false Albacore and put two Bluefins in the box about 30 to 35 inches.Kept the rods and Capt.Tom,mate,busy the whole day.

Angler Name : Bill
E-Mail : CPTwildbill@aol.com
Boat Name: Wild Bill
Date Fished: 9/5/01
Location: 3 miles east of hudson
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 90 - 296
Bait or Lure:
Water Depth:
Water Temp.:
Information : caught the biggest yellowfin i have ever seen. set up around 8 pm in the deep about 5 miles past the letters. had non stop action as soon as we got there. the yellowfin were really big fish 90 - 130. at 4 in the morning we hooked into a monster took us 3.5 hours of chasing with the boat to land a 296 pound allison. we came straight in to wiegh the fish. ended up with the boxes full.

Angler Name : Steve Won
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 09/4-5/2001
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 120 Lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 550 Ft.
Water Temp.: 79 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula made his way back to the west wall of the Hudson Canyon with the Steve Won charter. After anchoring the Bounty Hunter in 550 Ft. of water the night started off pretty slow with only an occasional Shark or Mahi visiting our slick. At 4Am the ocean came alive with large Yellowfin Tuna and the bite lasted until 6 AM. When it was over the charter had boated 10 Tuna ranging in size from 80 to 120 lbs. and lost as many to cut offs and feeding Sharks.

Angler Name : Nigel fairbank
E-Mail : nfairbank@aol.com
Boat Name: Keeper
Date Fished: 9/4/01
Location: North of Shark River
Fishing Method: Drifting
Specie: Fluke
Size: up to 25 inches
Bait or Lure: Squid and Killies
Water Depth: 44
Water Temp.:
Information : Started fishing the lumps north east of Shark River. They were so dead; it looks like the draggers had been working through the holiday. Moved inshore, caught one legal fish and lots of shorts, robins and skate. Went up to Monmouth beach and fished the flats, caught 3 more keepers with the biggest being 25 inches and about 5 lbs. Early afternoon and to quit because the wind picked-up and could not hold bottom even with six ounces.

Angler Name : Chuck Sturman
E-Mail : pacemaker36@aol.com
Boat Name: Carol-E
Date Fished: 9/3/01 @ 9/4/01
Location: Hudson
Fishing Method: chunck
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80 lb to 110 lb
Bait or Lure: butters , squid
Water Depth: 425
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Had a great ride out and back little rain early in morning. Set anchor at 6:00 pm non stop action till 6:00 am.17 hook ups. Kept 6.Crew exusted headed in at 6:00 am great trip

Angler Name : Archie
E-Mail : AJSiriani@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Triple Play
Date Fished: 9/4/01
Location: North of Corson's Inlet, Ocean City, NJ
Fishing Method: Trolling and Bottom Fishing
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 18"
Bait or Lure: minnows, surface plugs, spoons
Water Depth: 40'-20'
Water Temp.:
Information : Many schools of Taylor Blues chasing the bait fish of of the beaches. Each boat out there picked their own school of fish. Many fish and few boats. We just followed the birds, and kept 4 fish for dinner. We caught many more. On the bottom, 6 short flounder, blues there too, and the usual assortment of skates & sea robbins. Great fun, and good eating when the blues are this size and cooked fresh. Ciao.

Angler Name : Mark Norman , Maggie Norman
E-Mail : joeyvirus@msn.com
Boat Name: The M and Ms
Date Fished: 9/4/01 and 9/2/01
Location: Sandy Hook
Fishing Method: drifting
Specie: Weakfish
Size: 5LBs and smaller
Bait or Lure: Sandworms
Water Depth: 30ft
Water Temp.: 75
Information : While drifting the Hook we caught about 20 keeps and about 15 throw backs,the bite slowed up around 12pm on both days We also got intyo some nice fluke around 19 inches and below Good Luck to Yall

Angler Name : marty o'shea
E-Mail : moshea@aol.com
Boat Name: fishout
Date Fished: 9/3,9/4
Location: hudson
Fishing Method: jigging/chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-110
Bait or Lure: jig and bait
Water Depth: 650+
Water Temp.: 77.9
Information : Had a great day out at the Hudson. Caught 7 yellows from 70-110 lbs and 4 albies. Would have caught more if I had my old Ande' line. Used a line called IZER for the first time. Purchased it when in Cali. a few months ago. Line broke off a four times with only 20lbs. of drag pressure. It was 60lb. test. Only 1 breakoff on other rods with ANDE and Trilene line!

Angler Name : Tom O'Neil
E-Mail : njcharter@aol.com
Boat Name: Canyon Runner
Date Fished: Sept 3-4
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 600
Water Temp.: 79
Information : Captain Phil Dulanie had the Tom O'Neil charter from Holmdel, NJ out to the Hudson Canyon on Monday after the Labor Day crowd left for home. The Canyon Runner started the day trolling and had the yellowfin busting water but could not hook-up on the troll. Shutting down and throwing the meat produced immediate action with yellowfin from 80-100 pounds. The action was non-stop as soon as the first line hit the water and by 11pm we were on our way home with the boxes full. In total, 16 yellowfin were caught with 2 released. We were back at the dock at 3am.

Angler Name : Dave LeMay
E-Mail : d.b.lemay@home.com
Boat Name: Sportcraft
Date Fished: 9-3-01
Location: Mud Hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size:
Bait or Lure: Spreader Bars
Water Depth: 150 -170
Water Temp.: 74.6 - 76
Information : Caught four Skip Jacks between the Arundo and the Monster Ledge using spreader bars with small squid. Caught one yellow fin 30" seven miles south east of the Monster Ledge in the Mud Hole. Marked the spot and went back and had no other hits. Lots of skip jacks one to two mile east of the Arundo. No Blue Fins. It was a great day.

Angler Name : Rhett Cron
E-Mail : rhettcron@msn.com
Boat Name: Choas Theory
Date Fished: 9/3/01
Location: Glory Hole
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: 30 lbs
Bait or Lure: Spreaders/ Zuckers
Water Depth: 175-250
Water Temp.: 73 - 75
Information : Put lines in around 8 am had fish on in about 20 minutes. trolled over same spot, around pots nothing else. Heard some other boats on radio said they where getting some dolphin around monster ledge.

Angler Name : jon murray
E-Mail : murray@quadnet.net
Boat Name: Tunnelvision
Date Fished: 09/03/01
Location: G S Reef N
Fishing Method: drift
Specie: Fluke
Size: up to 22"
Bait or Lure: sea robin & squid/spearing
Water Depth: 65
Water Temp.: 72
Information : started out with the fleet @ the GS Reef with over 100 boats and a very slow pick. Moved inshore to find fish & hit on our first stop. with about a 2-1 ratio of shorts we put 15 in the box with most being 18-22". Great way to end the fluke season if we don't get out next week.

Angler Name : chuck
E-Mail : tigershark58@aol.com
Boat Name: last lady
Date Fished: 9/2- 9/3
Location: hudson canyon
Fishing Method: chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 90-130lbs
Bait or Lure: butterfish
Water Depth: 700ft
Water Temp.: 78.6
Information : got to the west wall around 4pm, we had a dolphin on in 15 minutes, 1st yft on at 8:30pm, all hell broke loose after that action was non stop until about 10:30,some idiot in a boat named sea dee drove right through our slick,and just about took out the shark line.it shut the bite down for 2 hours.all in all we slamed the yft and got into an awsome bite of longfin's.at 4:30 in the morning we hooked up to the biggest blue shark i have ever seen, i'd say he went an easy 400 to 450lbs possibly bigger.. after all the exitement we anchored up and headed home at 6, thank's to capt. ralph and crew for such an awsome trip..

Angler Name : Ed, Bigeye Joe and Tom
E-Mail : e.l.smith@gte.net
Boat Name: Cat Tales
Date Fished: 9-3
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: 80-100
Bait or Lure: butters
Water Depth: 450 - 900
Water Temp.: 79.
Information : Cat Tales made a Mon. - Tues. Hudson canyon trip with fellow bass barneres Joe and Tom a memorable one. We arrived on the west wall around 7 pm to calm seas, a light NE wind, and a gorgeous night. While looking for our berth for the night we saw whales spouting, another boat boat fighting what looked to be a very angry Blue Marlin, and baitfish breaking water all over the place. With such calm conditions we decided to drift for the night. Not more than 15 minutes after setting up we had 2 rods go off and landed two beautiful yellows around 80 lbs ea. All while watching the most incredible sunset. The action then was almost nonstop for the next 2 hours with the fish almost eating out of our hands. We ended the first drift going 4 for 5 with Joe catching the top fish going about 100 lbs. While motoring back for another drift Tom gets on the radio for a report from another boat --- their comeback was "too manny fish and they are too big". Our second drift produced 2 long fin and a what looked to be a large Bigeye lost at the boat when the hook pulled. We found no need to go with lighter leaders and had good luck with 80 fluro. Bait of choice was whole butters to start the night off, with chunks producing better later, in fact the fish wouldn't touch fresh whole squid, but did inhale a live squid. It wasn't even necessary to hide the hook, just slap a chunk on and there goes another fish. Water temp went to 79.3 and an incredidle blue color. Cut butters, spearing and cat food were the chum for the night. If at all possible try to fish during the week. With a fleet of over 200 boats on the weekend some boats did well, while others did little. By 11 pm with a boat full of fish and tired arms (and backs), we decided to head in early under full moon.

Angler Name : Lou Mercurio
E-Mail : captpaul@bountyhuntercharters.com
Boat Name: Bounty Hunter
Date Fished: 9/2 9/3 2001
Location: Hudson Canyon
Fishing Method: Chunking
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: Up to 80 lbs.
Bait or Lure: Butterfish
Water Depth: 500 Ft.
Water Temp.: 79 Degrees
Information : Capt. Paul Regula had the Bounty Hunter back to the Hudson Canyon with the Lou Mercurio charter. On what was a very crowded night at the canyon we anchored in 500 ft. of water on the west wall. The charter picked away at a mix of Yellowfin & Longfin Tuna and at nights end had 6 fish in the box along with a couple of Mahi.

Angler Name : Bob Brown
E-Mail : bayshorebob@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Old Grand Dad
Date Fished: 9/3/01
Location: Barnegat Ridge North
Fishing Method: Chum & Troll
Specie: Bluefish
Size: 5lb.
Bait or Lure: Bunker chunks
Water Depth: 52' - 56'
Water Temp.: 74.3
Information : For us, the Barnegat Ridges have proved a real big disappointment all summer long. 5 trips there have yielded a whopping 4 bluefish. 1-5lb.er and 3 under 2 lbs.. Were looking for some dolphin or bluefins there yesterday but again, the ridge seemed lifeless. Didn't mind too much...fantastic day to be on the water.

Angler Name : Jeff Smith
E-Mail : smithnsllc@aol.com
Boat Name: Robalo
Date Fished: Sept. 3
Location: Mud hole
Fishing Method: Trolling
Specie: Bluefin Tuna
Size: none
Bait or Lure: Spreader bars, daisy chains, Plugs
Water Depth: ?
Water Temp.: 72 degrees
Information : Trolled around Mud Hole, Lillian, and Monster Ledge. Nothing. Lots of boats out there trolling too. Anybody getting Bluefins or Yellowfins inshore yet?

Angler Name : Lisa Robert Chuck Bob and UC
E-Mail : Lisagib@aol.com
Boat Name: Ann Capri
Date Fished: 9/3/01
Location: Cigar, Elephant trunk
Fishing Method: Troll
Specie: Albacore Tuna
Size: 8-10lbs
Bait or Lure: Feathers and DAISY CHAINS!!
Water Depth: 106-150ft
Water Temp.: 75 degrees
Information : Stated trolling just outside the Cigar looking for y/f tuna. Couldn't get away from the Albies though. Had 2-3 hit at a time before all lines were set. Filled the fish hold quick. The action slowed toward the SW tip. We picked up around lunch and ran to the elephant trunk to see if we could pick up anything bigger but no luck. Looks like all the other Tuna and Dolphin are holdong in the canyons. Great weather and great sea conditions made for a very fun day!

Angler Name : Tom Cawley
E-Mail : drtom@home.com
Boat Name: Fat Cat
Date Fished: 9/2 and 9/3/01
Location: Hudson Canyon, West wall
Fishing Method: trolling, chunking and live squid
Specie: Blue Marlin
Size: 450-500 lbs.
Bait or Lure: daisy chain
Water Depth: 600 ft.
Water Temp.: 78
Information : We trolled past a lobster pot while trolling from the east wall to the west wall. We battled a large fish for about 45 minutes. The drad on the 9/0 was smoked. We almost got spooled. The reel had to cooled off with a bucket of water several times. The fish came up near the boat and managed to free himself from the hook. It was a very large Blue Marlin. It was quite a thrill. We also released a small swordfish. We caught a 100lb. Bigeye and several longfin on live squid down deep at 100+ feet. Most of the fish were caught using light sticks. We also fought a larger fish for nearly an hour. It broke off on the rudder. We could not lift him out of the deep. There was alot of bait on the scope but few tuna.

Angler Name : eric c
E-Mail :
Boat Name:
Date Fished: 9/2-9/3
Location: Lobster Claw
Fishing Method: troll/chunk
Specie: Yellowfin Tuna
Size: none
Bait or Lure: butter, live minnows, sandeels, baby bunkers, ballyhoo, squid spreaders, cedar plugs, greenmachine/bird, feathers, tuna clones
Water Depth: 180
Water Temp.:
Information : Armed with a favorable weather forecast and good fishing report we decided to do our first over nighter of the season and got skunked at the lobster claw. 12-15 commercial netters were there and no other private vessels. Endured the blown forecast with 20kt winds and choppy seas with some green faces. Same lifeless dark green water we've seen all summer. Nothing on the troll, nothing on the chunk, nothing on the screen.

Angler Name : Chris/John/Mike
E-Mail : writejohnnyg@hotmail.com
Boat Name: Chris's Boat
Date Fished: 09-03-01
Location: Wildwood Reef
Fishing Method: Drift
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