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Amazing to think that the Lage Family celebrated their 25th charter on the Vagabond.  Limits of BFT and limits of fun along with some YFT and Yellows. We can’t thank Poppa enough for sharing his wonderful family time with us out on the wa

The guys returned from this 2.5 day trip with a beautiful catch of Bluefin/Yellowfin. A huge thanks to Bob Hara – we are grateful for our partnership with him. Congrats to jackpot winners….Mr. Salas has been on a jackpot roll this season!

On 7/10 we took Matt Schmitt of Wankeshe WI and his father in law Harry Carey from Alexandria VA. We had 3 BFT bites catching our over & under. Also had 2 dolphin bites catching 1 and went 0 for3 … Continue reading →

Had Rocco out with the family plan was originally stripers but with the sketchy striper bite in the ocean decided to spend the afternoon chasing tuna. Kept the kids busy with Albies until the right one came up. Rocco did a nice job on the bft and no

Trip 23 CEI Fish till it Hertz… and they did til their arms and backs were sore! Good fishing on good grade 30- to 40lb-BFT and Yellowtail. We even had a few YFT. Great group weather & good fishing. Fun for all. Thank you Kyle see you and

Another 4 days of TUNA this season brought a mix of 40-lb class BFT YFT up to 40 lbs (WIDE OPEN at times) and some Dodos for color. The weather was bumpy in the middle but turned very nice the last day. We had a couple of the BFT for dinner and all I

Today there was a very good bluefin bite in Va Beach not sure how many fish were killed but I've been told it was one of the best bluefin bites they have had near the beach up there in the past few years. Also just heard there was a BFT killed he

We came home from2.75-day trip 8 with 118 BFT between 18 and around 35 lbs around 25 nice Yellows from 15 to 30 lbs 2 Dorado and around 15 YFT from 25 to 35 lbs. Our crew did an awesome job with a full load of happy anglers. The fish responded best t

We had another good day of Bluefin fishing to report today. I would say yesterday’s fishing was better however the new jackpot leader is from today’s fishing – Ms. Tammie Ludington with her 48.5 lb BFT (Oops no picture – we

The caption for tonight is stated because I can’t recall ever starting a 10 day trip 125 miles from home in October as you all know the BFT should be up right where they were a month ago? (didn’t see that coming.). Now about our day ̵

It was 5 days of awesome action on Bluefin up to 71 lbs; Yellowfin up to 36 lbs and quality Yellowtail. Great weather great fishing great people–can’t ask for anything more! Jackpot winners: 1st place went to John Leahy with a whopping 71

This 2.75-day trip returned this morning with a beautiful catch of Albacore Yellowfin Tuna Bluefin Tuna & Dorado. Rich Fagner did his usual wonderful job providing lots of cool swag when he wasn’t busy busy pulling in those nice Yellowfin.

The guys backed in early with a nice catch of tuna yellowtail and a few dorado. A huge thanks to Ken and to Wes for sponsoring the trip – we love you guys! Congrats to jp winners: 1st place: Frank Hess 48.8lb bft 2nd place: Chuck Kelman 44.8lb

The PENN REEL (& Tiny’s) 5-day trip started off with a nice all-day drift on quality 30- to 45-lb BFT. Then we went hunting for other species and found some YFT from 18 to 20 lbs. Headed back up for more of that excellent quality BFT. A big

Although we didn’t get large numbers of fish we did get some quality ones. The highlight was one of those memorable stops for 3 hours of BIG BFT 30- to 70-lbers. Jackpot winners: Scott Schell w/ 73.8-lb BFT; Steve Owens with 71.2-lbers; and Rob

Another great 3 days of fishing. Nice long drift pulling on 50- to 80-lb BFT. Most everyone came home with a TROPHY! Jackpot winners were Nikki Peterson and Brendan Burke with a pair of nice 81.8 -lb Bluefin and Mike Leon came in 2nd a 69-lber.

Our Labor Day 3-Day saw lots of Action Fishing–Bluefin Yellowfin and Dorado. Steady fishing both days and finished with 2 wide open stops on mixed Tuna. Jackpots were Todd Wallace in 1st with a 53-lb Escolar; Brian Miyazaki in 2nd with a nice 4

As always the Lage Family and Friends Charter was great fun. We battled YFT BFT Dorado &YT. The trip finished up with an EXCELLENT BFT stop up to 58.8 lbs. Thanks always to Bob Lage chartermaster extraordinaire! Jackpot winners were Dan Kolb with

You will probably see some reports coming from a few other Barners that were out by us today as the Bluefin chunking and jigging was as good as it could possibly be in the very early am today. We fished alongside Dan from Cape May Tackle on his frien

Ok so any of you that know me realize I chase the BFT (bluefin tuna) anywhere I can strike on them with the little the Mount Maker. So with that said I am lucky enough to have a pretty good network from here clear up to the Northeast. So let's re