[wetsuitnmtk]

quick report

night bite is on!!!

day one troll at the tails....nothing, saw a nice marlin hooked and heard of a couple fish hooked but that was it....started steaming west for hudson.

hit the hudson about dark set up on the anchor.....little life in the water but about 1 am HUGE pod of squid came in and stayed....little later predators showed up. after a couple random small jigged yellows i got first real hit on the live squid. after 15-20 min got ****y and ended breaking the 80lb on what we all agreed was a real nice swoard....what can i say first trip of the year and i was far from ready.

budy lands a nice 50lb yellow bit latter and another looses his boatside.

all this time jig and bait bite was epic on skippies and small yellows till we got up on the troll.

on troll landed 1/2 dozen nice 40-70lb yellows btwn 8 and noon then quite till we set up on anchor. again quite till bait showed at 1ish and by 3 three tunoids were back. this time first hour was almost exclusivly 30-70lb fish...put 20 or so in the boat by sunrise. as night went on skippies and small yellows moved in again for another wild jig bite with fish breaking all around the boat

trolled high speed to the dip in the am but with limits and a long ride made it back early.

water temp was 77-80 everywhere with no breaks and often greenish color.

marked almost nothing during the day but did see fair amount of skippies on top

This post edited by wetsuitnmtk 03:58 PM 08/07/2008

 

[wetsuitnmtk]

ps word was all three days most boats had squat...couple marlin, maybe 1 big eye and then most didnt even see the small yellows with only 1 or 2 fish on the troll

 

[bluefinn240]

Maybe it was me but that was very difficult to understand.

 

[FishWisher]

Only if you're not in the right code group. The transmission is scrambled for security reasons.

Thanks for the skinny, WSM. Any mysterious bite offs?

 

[tunafever]

fishwisher, no 3day charter this year?? what gives?

This post edited by tunafever 09:32 PM 08/06/2008

 

[624984]

yes that was an awsome trip,you could catch a tuna every cast with the jigs,literally my arms were gonna fall off,bigger fish on bait but boy capt steve jr really knows how to find the fish we fished in two completely diff spots at night and had none stop action both nights

 

[tunafever]

I'm guessing you guys didn't have time for the tiles or that it was slow?? Great trip regardless.

Also what worked best trolling?? Did they show a preference for anything or any color (green or purple)??

Angelo

This post edited by tunafever 09:42 PM 08/06/2008

 

[FishWisher]

I'd love to go again, but getting to Montauk from Boston is just too much PIA. I swear, it's easier to go to Mag Bay.

 

[tunafever]

So stay the night somewhere you bum! or take the megalong drive out. We need to fill some spots man.

 

[FishWisher]

I think Bob W. might be available. I'm given to understand that he will also teach you guys the right way to fish, if you ask nicely.

 

[BobWheeler]

FishWisher wrote:
I think Bob W. might be available. I'm given to understand that he will also teach you guys the right way to fish, if you ask nicely.

This is true --- but I'll only give instructions in Japanese --- I got an awesome new outfit --- a 40 inch Smith rod matched with a 50 t-Rex Wide / 100 lb drag at strike --- its a f*&îng mind blowing experience --- you can say you heard it first here.

 

[bretabaker]

BobWheeler wrote:
FishWisher wrote:
I think Bob W. might be available. I'm given to understand that he will also teach you guys the right way to fish, if you ask nicely.

This is true --- but I'll only give instructions in Japanese --- I got an awesome new outfit --- a 40 inch Smith rod matched with a 50 t-Rex Wide / 100 lb drag at strike --- its a f*&îng mind blowing experience --- you can say you heard it first here.
mariana by chance?

 

[BobWheeler]

YES!


bretabaker wrote:
BobWheeler wrote:
FishWisher wrote:
I think Bob W. might be available. I'm given to understand that he will also teach you guys the right way to fish, if you ask nicely.

This is true --- but I'll only give instructions in Japanese --- I got an awesome new outfit --- a 40 inch Smith rod matched with a 50 t-Rex Wide / 100 lb drag at strike --- its a f*&îng mind blowing experience --- you can say you heard it first here.
mariana by chance?

 

[BobWheeler]

Green Machine unweight head --- two matching bulb squids in front --- this produced the largest yellow --- however, there really wasn't enough action to say empathicly --- yes this is the one --- the B&P Hex Head didn't produce.


tunafever wrote:
I'm guessing you guys didn't have time for the tiles or that it was slow?? Great trip regardless.

Also what worked best trolling?? Did they show a preference for anything or any color (green or purple)??

Angelo

 

[bretabaker]

We had a mariana in north carolina a few months ago. It is surely light and would be very good for snowy grouper jigging, so it might be a good tilefish jigging rod as well (I am not experienced with fishing for tiles so i dont know). We had a 'structural integrity' problem with it though.

Which model did you use?

 

[BobWheeler]

From Peter, I got the 300 model used once --- I read the thread about the Smith rod breakage --- and also posted some thoughts about it --- I believe that it was bad luck and also a warranty issue --- the rods IMHO are awesome --- there are a whole bunch of really cool functionally awesome rods to be found at the Anglers Pro Shop. After one trip with the rod I feel that due to it's exceptionally short lenght it has some disadvantages on the party boat circuit. It's a fun stick and I see it as primarily for tuna. I don't think that it has any value as a tile stick --- too short --- now AJ's out of NC --- that's a different story.



bretabaker wrote:
We had a mariana in north carolina a few months ago. It is surely light and would be very good for snowy grouper jigging, so it might be a good tilefish jigging rod as well (I am not experienced with fishing for tiles so i dont know). We had a 'structural integrity' problem with it though.

Which model did you use?