The Official Fishing Thread is here!

Bluefin on the surface this morning at Shrewsbury Rocks! Bring your poppers!

 

Good move on the fridge!
My wife tolerates the squid, spearing, and ballyhoo next to the ice cream…don’t know how long that will last.

 

How many flats of Butters or Sardines can it handle?

 

well....I got the last seat on the plane to JFK and we gave it a good go.

Saturday went as far as 3 Sisters, but no luck (chatter on radio was slim, aside from morons )... we broke up the monotony by bottom jiggin on some some marks (with tuna tackle lol) and got like 20+ 15" seabass... (all wouldve been legal here in FL), as welI as some big boston mackerels (That i tried to keep in the livewell in case we saw mr. tuna)

Sunday, based on the day before, we changed tactics and headed deeper & a bit more west (with a livewell full of live bunker I snagged on the way out)
On our way to a wreck I saw some "fishy" looking water a mile from our destination (90'-95' of water), so I told my brother to stop the boat. Chilled for a bit to observe; no life signs so we started to move on, then sure as shit my brother sees a big splash behind us, then we turn to see a wolfpack of big tunas going nuts maybe 200yds away.... we stop the boat and swap nomads for live bunker to slow troll past them, but unfortunately 2 other boats saw the mayhem as well. One guy was cool, as he put out his spreader bars to troll around, but then the other jackass in a bigger boat comes in FULL THROTTLE as I'm on the bow waving my arms..... basically runs em over then stops to put out balloon rigs... but they were spooked at that point. We (and the other boat) trolled wide clockwise circles for awhile to no avail..... outside of one moment when drag screamed for a second from what was most likely a shark that snipped the 80lb fluoro.. and stupid bluefish that were tearing up our ballyhoo and RonZ tails
In retrospect I wish I wouldve just got closer and threw lures, but the size of those fish, I wanted the 50s, not spinners .... and didnt anticipate the other jackass running up on us like that.

On the way in we saw a BIG bunker pod and tried to fish that for a bit, and a humpback whale pops up RIGHT next to us to check us out (I couldve rubbed his nose) and hung around for a bit. that was pretty cool, especially in a little boat... unfortunately no fish, but that was a cool consolation prize.... but our tuna sushi had to come from takeout that night.

0/2 so far but getting better at finding them

I did go see the METS pound the twins the next night though... got home yesterday I need to detox for awhile. lol


and how do you guys not already have some old garage fridge/freezer? Someone's always getting rid of one. The older they are, the better they work (sadly)

 

I wonder who predicted that? *

*granted 2 week forecasts are practically worthless....

 

Well Stink that's why they call it Fishing not Catching.

Fucking Googans running over your lines deserve a well aimed sinker.

Glad you at least got busy with whales and saw the Bluefin crashing the bunker.

We fished the JCAA Fluke tournament Thursday one keeper for 32 fish. Sucked. Fished the Rocks, Long Branch, Red Church. Weighed the keeper anyway. Hot as balls out there no wind no drift.

Friday did a demonstration and shakedown cruise (my buddies $200,000.00 new Cummins motors were throwing weird alarms) to Little Italy and Humpty Dumpty. No life. Some good marks but nothing came tight on the Jigging or Popping. Trolled a bit not many boats there due to the weather report.
Radio reporting sporadic Bluefin catches in the 35 lb range. Saw a couple small Yellowfin on the dock when we got back.

Weather looks shitty for the week. We are in another Fluke Tournament which might get pushed. See a blow headed your way. Stay Safe!

 

Predicting tropical system weather in the keys for the peak of hurricane season doesnt count as a jinx..... it's like saying it'll probably snow in Alaska in the winter

 

Didnt run over our lines, but ran over the fish... end result was basically the same though.

shitty weather today, but we're east enough to where rain's the only real impact... maybe 40mph winds

 

You may get lucky... when i was younger my buddy's parents had a vacation rental in Marathon. Well very few people commit to booking a place in the Keys in September, so when it was empty, they let us use it (we just had to pay the cleaning service)... we'd trailer the boat and fish hard for a few days.

 

Weather here sucks and Debby won't make it better.

Did get a chance to rig up some Ballyhoo rigs for Mahi and Wahoo.

Hopefully conditions and water temps will improve to make that kind of fishing available.

Our inlet Manasquan got huge sand deposits due to the months of South winds.. They are dredging it out today.

I echo Stinks assessment of weather in the gulf during September. Hope the trip works out for you Cman.

 

Hopefully you got some wire for those wahoo rigs Blue and white & purple and black islanders behind a planer. Yo-zuri Bonita (or nomad madmacs) rt behind the propwash (if you trolling fast enough work good too).... but livebaiting them with bonitos or bluerunners is now my fav (if theyre thick and you're speciffically targeting them).

Yeah, I've had 2 trips to the "Middlegrounds" canceled by weather.... one when we had to turnaround 30 miles out

 

Dang... Yankee Capts?

I'd check regional seasonal closures. Sure the wind can blow in march, but id say the weather in SFL is alot nicer in March than sept.... (it's hot as fuk rt now)