Reports
- 160 lb Bluefin and 7 Yellowfins on the Hooked Up II today
- Tuna Fishing Report for August 1st-5th
- Outfished by Center Consoles But Still a Great Day
- Blue Fin Tuna Fishing Report
- Updated report on the Hooked UP II
- Tuna report on the Hooked Up II
- 25 Yellowfin, TRIED for Bluefin, Marlin-Big Eye on 55 Hooked Up II
- A very detailed report on new world class jigging-popping tackle on the 55 Hooked Up II
- My thoughts on spinners versus conventionals for jigging those 80-175 lb. Bluefins
- August 24, 2008 Report for the past few days.
Updated report on the Hooked UP II
2009-07-17
We left early am looking for the slob Bluefins that had been caught this past week down to the south and most already are aware where we headed to as it is not any big secret since the Ocean City, MD guys have been hammering some pretty nice BFT this week and we fished a few miles from this location on last weekend’s regular charter. We opted not to enter the Mid-Atlantic Tuna Tournament due to the lousy offshore forecast as our group left it up to me to make the call based on what I thought the sea conditions would be like for the tournament. Since this was a good customer of ours and they had some clients joining them we felt it best to pick some dates with a little better marine forecast and run the offshore trips. As it turned out it was very nasty on Thursday offshore and as reported to me by guys that fished, I think it was the best call overall for this particular group but it was somewhat difficult deciding not to fish the tuna tournament until the guys told me how ugly it was on Friday. We did take the group out on Friday for a regular charter as the seas were much better than on Thursday and had a decent day but did not get our big BFT we were looking for.
We had the John Fochs group out who was going to fish the Mid-Atlantic Tuna Tournament with us. We just did not find the bait or the tuna that we had hoped to find. We left the dock at 2:30 am with the game plan of getting out before the tournament boats arrived and getting daybreak bite on big a bluefin. Unfortunately, where we were it did not happen anywhere near earlier in the week. Did the tuna move north or did the bait move and thus the tuna followed? Your guess is as good as mine but it was much slower for most boats way to the South than earlier in mid-week. I am currently hearing so many different reports I am trying to figure out where the main bodies of BFT are right now and I am not just not talking the 125 lbs and bigger ones as for charter fishing anything from 40-80 lbs works just fine for us with a handful of nice Mahi and in my opinion this is a very decent inshore day trolling trip. I did hear this afternoon of acres of the smaller size BFT inshore somewhat that can be caught on any normal trolling spread without planners or the wwwwwwwayback thing. These fish are up to about 70 lbs maximum but are mostly smaller in the 40-60 lb range from what I was told.