NJFishing Tuna Trip on the Gambler

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The NJ Fishing crew do it again.

We left the dock at 530 in some wind and a small heave. We arrived on the grounds of the Hudson around 11:00. After looking around for a while, Bobby decided to stop in the deep. As soon as we stopped we saw tons of tightly grouped squid.

We began to fish at 11:30 and our first bite was around 5:00. Then it all broke lose. From, 5:00-8:30-9 we had close to 35 fish on. The way they bit was a little strange. The would not slam the bait in a typical way.

In Pursuit Eric and Greg Swinicki jigged 90% of the time. Eric ended up with one of the long Fins. Greg only had one hit. The rest were all on sardines.

We ended up with 6-7 yellow fin up to 80lbs and 2 long fin that the largest was 70lbs.

The tuna were caught by: I'm missing someone?
Yellowfin tuna
Ahab, Scott Kiss
(2)YFT Muldune,
(2)YFT Pennsy Guy
(1) YFT, Kevin Pavone, a 70lb'er on 30lb gear. ( He was the missing person)

Long Fins
Jay Krause,
In Pursuit, Eric


After the morning bite seemed to tail off, Booby decided to pot hop for Mahi. I am guessing we put 25-30 nice mahi in the boat to finish off the day.

The Crew: Bobby and Keith, Kevin and Sean were excellent. Trying to keep everyone motivated through the "no bite night". We had (14) of the (23) standing up all night.

The Boat: The fastest, most comfortable and stabile platform that you could be on. Having the lights underneath the boat illuminate the water is great. The water was crystal clear and visability was at least 50'.

The Seas: We left in a small heave that was comfortable and we ended up coming home on a glossy sea that was beautiful. We saw the high surf back at the beach but we had beautiful weather the entire time.


Thanks again to Gerry for letting us run the trip off the web site and the crew of the Gambler that made this a great trip.

Pics will follwin in a few minutes.