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my toggin team got out this morning without me...
north fork toggin is on!!! they chewed good at many different depths....
fish to 7 lbs....
easy double limits...

now my friends...i got a little big dilema!!!

tog fishing is what keeps me going three hundred something days of the year....

i have off of work tomorrow and got invited to fish the north fork waters (w/out my team...but a good fishing buddy)

and now the stars and moon and sun and the planets aligned and i'm finally gonna get to go offshore for tuna for the first time in my 27 years of existence....

what do i do????
tuna for the first time???
or
big ol' bucktooth tog from the north fork ??

tuna or tog??? tuna or togg???? tunnaa or tttooog
gggg!!!!!!
please help me!

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crabcake

Joined: 07/10/2003
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posted 10/01/2009 04:15 PM

If you've got the weather (I haven't even looked), then go for TUNA!! You've got weeks and weeks to catch those slimey chins!!

Ling is King and Cusk are Deluxe!

triniron

Joined: 11/07/2001
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Location: queens

posted 10/01/2009 04:31 PM

dude go for tuna!!!i was the same as you...lived for those togg!!! but after catching tuna, i now would now say that tuna has taken over togg as my numero uno favorite fish to catch!!!good luck!!check the weather cuz it ain't looking good at all this weekend.....

KenJz

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Location: Wrecksville

posted 10/01/2009 07:41 PM

TOG !!! Don't question yourself. HaHa. When they start chewing I can't look at anything but a blackfish report. JMO. Ur day to enjoy either way...

tiara40

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posted 10/02/2009 01:16 AM

save the tuna trip for next yr..unless ur cappy is going for bluefin that are inshore.some are real big still.but if ur boat is just goin far for whatever bites go for blackfish.its just not hot right now offshore.

Q U SOLDIER

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posted 10/04/2009 03:34 AM

i got my first tuna!!!!!!!!!!!
and it was on the jig!!!!
we went inshore....10 to 15 or so miles off of block island.....
2 hour ride from greenport.... not bad at all

on the first drift we dropped 7 bait rods down.....
we where marking fish right away...in 60 to 80 ft of water....
so i took my p235 newell off my blackfish/striper stick... and put on a 440 newell.... 80lb braid.... tied some fluro and put a nice 8 oz hammered diamond jig on..... 5 to 10 minutes of jigging...and i got hit on the down flutter of the jig..... wow!!! i was stunned....... i felt the tuna's tail whipping back and forth!!
i got the fish to the boat pretty quickly.....it did a run or two...nothing crazy....but i did feel the power and weight of the fish...and my rod handled it without a problem!!
so yea...now i'm hooked!!!!!

i stayed out east....and with the morning rain none of my buddies took the boats out....so i was land locked..... so i tried the greenport crabby jerrys doc..... and caught a dozen shorts.....lotta fun!!!
i ran out of sinkers....so i just tied a hook to the line and let it drop down to the bottom with the weight of the crab...... i was getting wacked a few feet off the bottom.... again....lotta fun!!

so i'm going out in 2 hours....fishers island....equiped with greens whites and hermits!!!!!!!!!!shallow water when the tides ripppen (full moon super tides!)
deeper water around around slack

i'll post up the pics of the tuna...and the blacks!!! when i get back to my apt.....

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posted 10/04/2009 02:17 PM

quiknet wrote:
This season, I have made a personal vow to not swing at the wrong bite, ever. Anyone care to wager how many minutes into the first drop before that's been broken?

Took about 10 seconds. Early season, still scup and cbass hitting the baits with gusto. I was swingin like a sexually liberated couple in the 70's. surprise

As the day went along, I got better about waiting for the right bite and ended up catching a few of the slippery ones.

I BRAKE FOR HAKE!

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posted 10/05/2009 09:20 AM

I hit Fishers with my buddy and 3 kids yesterday. Got out there at the top of the tide. Fished in 15-20 feet of water and the bite was on. For the first 2 hours of the outgoing, the only thing that slowed the bite down was whenever the porgies decided to come through. We wound up with at least 50 keeper sized tog. The biggest was probably around 5 pounds. Once the moon tide started cranking we set off for some blues and bass to giv ethe kdis some variety. A beautiful day on the water

QU.. congrats on your tuna

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fishhead1985

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posted 10/05/2009 09:42 AM

My 1st togs

I got my first 'togs yesterday in the Western sound onboard the Snowgoose. Both were just over keeper size at about 15-16" long; I'm holding them out, so they look like 5-pounders. Took them on my new Daiwa Sea Line/Penn set-up. Also took about 20 dinner plate-sized scup and tons of 9-10" shorts on spinning gear. Even got a fluke, which was obviously let go.

"Color outside the lines. Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. This is your last chance." Anne Herbert

Q U SOLDIER

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posted 10/05/2009 09:45 AM

fishers island blackfishing has begun!!!

we got a late start sunday morning and probably lost half hour of fishing....of the hour or two these full moon tides let us fish....

the fish bit really good on greens and whites....
we had an easy double to triple limits for 5 guys....
the size wasnt there like opening day where my 2 buddies caught there limit all over 5 to 71/2 lbs....

but we had our share of 5 to 7 lb'ers
and one fish in high 7's to 8 that i hooked ...then took me in the hole....and got foul hooked by the tail with the other hook...and was coming up like a drift anchor........the line must of gotten knicked from a rock...and on the last hard pull to get him in the net....the line snapped...........

in between tides, we fished shallow for a bit and had nothing to show for it.......

what an early start!!!

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Q U SOLDIER

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posted 10/07/2009 07:22 PM

i love tog...but....i think theres a mistress!!
here she is!!

we didnt get to weigh her.....
what do you think?

for a few more pics....

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posted 10/08/2009 08:42 PM

Nice fish. I don't tuna fish, but my uncle, who taught me much of what I know and who did alot of small boat tuna chunking out of a 24' Wellcraft Airtslot always told me "Catch one decent tuna on relatively light tackle and you'll forget about every other fish you like to catch."

Having said that, I have a bushel and a half of greenies stashed and I'm itchin' to get the tog wars started. Hope we can get in our opening shot this coming Sunday. Weather looks a little fugazy, so its still up in the air.

Lep

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posted 10/11/2009 07:49 PM

Did our season inaugural tog run today. Personally had 8 keeper-sized to 5.5lbs fishing inshore, thru a very scratchy bite. Tough day, but enough fillet for all was had.

Lep

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phil2260

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posted 10/12/2009 05:49 PM

Went out on Sunday to well known 20 foot of water wreck(no spot burning here). Had a ton of fish most short, but did have a 9 lber and a couple of fives. All on greens. I was the second boat to get there. The first boat a regulator had 2 anchors out with 200 feet of line. Did not matter where I was, but made it very difficult for all the other boats that got there after me. Also the guys next to me in a Aquasport ran out of crabs and asked me to sell them some. All I wanted was a beer. They did not have any. So I Threw a bag of 15 crabs to them. They insisted on paying and threw back the bag with a sinker and money. On the way home I opened the bag and it had 30 bucks in it. I bought beer at Frank And Dicks and weighed the big one. Great Day!

Q U SOLDIER

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posted 10/12/2009 09:58 PM

another 2 days of great early season toggin at fishers island...

on sunday our tuna fishing trip was a no go...so i took the older crew and there 43' tiara to fishers and dropped the hook in the deep(for october).

we fished 55 to 70 ft of water....

easy 6 man limit of fish to 24'....almost 9 lbs....a good amount of fish over 5 lbs.....

as i finished rigging everybody up i dropped my rod in before i had to give most a lesson on how to hook the crabs......
i swing the big girl in and everybodys jaws dropped....
i had them all swinging big fish by the end of the day....

we got out to fishers today also..
3 of us limited out with fish to 10.5 weighed in at wego bait and tackle

we had a 8.6, 9.1 and a 9.6

we had about 30 keepers
1 in the 7 lb range
1 in the 6 lb range
and about 6 or 7 in the 5 lb range...

now i just gotta upload the pics

by the way...
theres not that many male fish caught so far....

here goes the 4 big ones from monday!!

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This post edited by Q U SOLDIER 10:51 PM 10/15/2009