Had quite a few Striped Bass trips this week. They are still around and hungry as many Bass over 36" came onto the boat. The Mackeral are still around and in very good numbers so it's the same setup as we've been doing all year. Dena's group on Saturday were very patient and well rewarded with some big Bass. On Sunday we were 40 miles out on a Shark Charter with Michael Harding and group. It was first time on ocean for a few of them but they were troupers and rewarded with some very large and VERY hungry Blue Sharks. Of course with Billy and myself every offshore adventure turns into a Tuna trip in one form or another so while we were chumming for sharks on one side of the boat we flew the kite with a livie on the other, about noon time fish alarm on sounder goes off and Billy walks inside boat to take a look, say "Hey Mauro what do these look like?" I reply back " those are Tuna" and as the last word is leaving my mouth the Live bait gets completely inhaled by one that was just seconds ago 75 feet deep....Game on. Mike gets strapped into the harness and puts the fish to rest after about 45 minutes...Well done, Sushi for all tonight. As for the sharks, we started chumming again and they started hitting everything in the water with many of them going 9-10 feet long. Great couple days of fishing, The tuna are here and in close, let's go......
Til next time.
Capt. Mauro
