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Tuna fishing exploded in the canyons today. The Sea Devil's first canyon trip of the year out of Point Pleasant on Friday night couldn't have been better as every angler limited on yellowfin tuna. Capt. Bob Pennington said the yellowfins were all keepers from 30 up to 100 pounds, averaging about 50 pounds. They also had a 100-pound swordfish...
Tuna fishing exploded in the canyons today. The Sea Devil's first canyon trip of the year out of Point Pleasant on Friday night couldn't have been better as every angler limited on yellowfin tuna. Capt. Bob Pennington said the yellowfins were all keepers from 30 up to 100 pounds, averaging about 50 pounds. They also had a 100-pound swordfish cut in half by a mako shark, but another that size was boated. Chris Zotti of Summit caught 13 yellowfins. The Sea Devil will return to the canyon Thursday night.
Adam La Rosa had a report of exceptional albacore trolling by the two Canyon Runner boats from Point Pleasant. They caught a total of 65 albacore, many released, in three hours of trolling.
Very dirty water continues to dominate from Raritan Bay well offshore. Worming for school stripers and porgies was no good for me in Raritan Bay during a brief trip on Sheri Berri from Baker's Marina on the Bay with Capt. Hans Kaspersetz, as we must have set a world record for the number of flies that set up residence as we fished. Tony D'Anna managed one short striper, but the porgies that were stealing worms last week seemed to be turned off by the muddy water.
Dave Lilly of Hazlet fished from Ambrose Channel out to Scotland without finding a legal fluke. He did get into a dozen sea bass and a few short fluke on some rough bottom almost out to the Mud Buoy, but never got out of the dirty water.
Capt. Stan Zagleski didn't have much luck fluking early in Raritan Bay, but got into some action later with Elaine B. from Highlands. Joe Stefanelli of Maplewood caught fluke of 5 3/16 and 4 pounds.
Capt. Howard Bogan Jr. reported a pick of blues from his Jamaica out of Brielle. Pat Capozzoli of Caldwell won the pool with a 6-pounder.
Capt. Pete Wagner of Hyper Striper from Twin Lights Marina in Highlands didn't like the look of the waters, but had a hot bite of stripers up to a 15-pounder during both tides on clams. The limit of bass consisted mostly of 28-to-33-inchers, and there were also lots of shorts.
John Bushell reports from Betty & Nick's in Seaside Park that youngsters fishing in the N.J. Beach Buggy Association's Kid's Tournament at Island Beach State Park were catching 2-to-3-pound blues on mullet and bunker. Other anglers reported small blues, short fluke, and a foul-hooked short striper.
Bob Correll of Bay Head was thankful just to catch two agressive snapper blues on a heavy metal this morning at his local beach.
This Fishing Report was submitted on 9/11/2011 1:38:06 PM by Seamus and last updated on 9/11/2011 1:38:06 PM.
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