[psciacca]

Kicking off our tournament season in two weeks with Sj Shark again-this year with Blinky IV. Anyone else headed down to Cape May to fish it? I've done this one a few times and it's always a good time...Here's a few pics from our last few shark tourneys...Hope everyone has a safe and successful offshore season...

Capt. Patrick
Expeditor-31 Ocean Master WA
Blinky IV Fishing Team
Tournament Angler

 

[MakoMike]

I just got an e-mail from Charlie about the dates. I'm thinking about it.

 

[CanyonRunner]

Pat,

We will be there - pre-fishing Thursday for a while and then should pull in around 3-4pm.

Where are you staying?

 

[psciacca]

Sj Shark

Hey Adam,
We're staying onboard at Canyon Club.

This post edited by psciacca 09:07 PM 06/02/2008

 

[srhodes587]

I'll be fishing as part of the crew that has slain its share of makos and threshers on another Long Island boat making the trek to Cape May. Believe that we'll be at either the SJ Marina or the Canyon Club.

 

[psciacca]

Srhodes,
See ya down there.
-Patrick

 

[BlueMarlin35]

South Jersey Shark Tournament

Another Freeport N.Y. based boat, Blue Marlin, will be heading down this year as well. We will be docked at the Canyon Club

Have a safe trip and we will see you guys down there.

Capt. Harry Weinblatt
F/V Blue Marlin

 

[psciacca]

Safe trip down, Capt. Harry. See you there...
Capt. Patrick
Expeditor 31 Ocean Master WA
Blinky IV Fishing Team
Tournament Angler

 

[BLUEFISH9]

I was just invited and got super excited until my buddy told me how much it would cost per man....keep it! lol

This post edited by BLUEFISH9 09:29 PM 06/04/2008

 

[CaptainFweddy]

Good luck guys!

Nice to see more & more LI boats making the trip down for such a great tourney. Seems like we were the only LI boat down there in 2002. We took a chunk of NJ $$$ back home to LI that first year and that wasn't the last time either...

This is the first year since '02 that we will not be fishing SJ Shark. Family obligations require us to stay close to home so we're fishing Star Island instead. Not a bad consolation...

Enjoy the tournament, catch 'em up & be safe!

 

[psciacca]

Good luck at Star Island. Catch somethin'big

 

[MakoMike]

FWIW, Charlie reported a 150-pound class mako brought into Sj marina this past weekend.

 

[psciacca]

Thanks for the update, Mike. A 506 thresher was also reportedly caught out of OC, md.

 

[MakoMike]

I just got an addendum to Charlie's report: "a 583 Thresher Shark caught on the "Rock On". James Tregg of Collingdale, PA was the angler and Capt. Rocco DePasquale said it took
3 1/2 hours to land."

 

[psciacca]

Nice fish, Mike. Thanks for sharing. Did you find out if you're fishing the Sj? I happen to be a sponsor this year, too.

 

[MakoMike]

Pat,
No time this year to get the boat ready in time for the shark tournaments. Maybe next year or maybe one or more of the tuna/marlin tounaments.

 

[MakoMatt]

I seem to recall they had a live webcam for the weigh-ins. Anyone have that link??

MakoMatt

 

[micchip]

If they do it'll be on this page.
http://www.southjerseymarina.com
Chip

 

[MakoMatt]

South Jersey Marina

Thanks Chip.

 

[psciacca]

SJ Results

Well, Team Blinky went down there and went for it. We found a mako, about 130 pounds on day one, which we released. That was it.

Day two we managed another mako, two blue sharks, and an in-the-money thresher, that got wrapped, swung its tail over the cable and 80-pound main line and sliced it clean. That's fishing.

In all, there were no qualifying makos out of the 200 caught and no qualifying blue sharks-both categories have a 200-pound minimum. A 582 thresher was the largest fish along with a 347 thresher, a 308 hammerhead, and a 200-something hammerhead. That's all the fish that were weighed and qualified.

We had our chance, just didn't get it done this time.

It was good to see other LI boats there including Oceanic (good seeing you Capt. Larry and Aurora) and Blue Marlin.

We'll see what next week's tourney brings.

Capt. Patrick
Expeditor 31 Ocean Master WA
Blinky IV Fishing Team
Tournament Angler

This post edited by psciacca 04:14 PM 06/15/2008