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Pennsy Guy
11-05-2020, 01:35 AM
Just back...With water cooling at the triples, Bob took us to the Hudson, looking along an edge-finally started a drift in 63* clear blue water--instant thought, Longfin water...I think it was 6 AM first bird is boated(45#). Thereafter, every hour on the hour another tuna put on ice. After noon, that changed to anytime a boated or dropped fish. I had 1 hookup but mid-fight, I lost. As has been said "it wasn't his day to die". I think this was a yellow from the triple wrecks as it did just like those hooked fish. Occasionally a bait would get bit and dropped, coming in in shreds. Twice we started drifts at pots with only 1 medium mahi seen & caught. At fishing start, wind was a breeze and remained so until mid afternoon, then increasing a bit. Seas 2-4' under a cloudless sky.
As always our crew- Greg(capt74) 2nd Capt., Jill(office manager), John and Rick dealt with fish, tangles & the various duties expertly. Kudos to them & Capt. Bob for always trying for fish.
Drift was slow enough for tile fishing, of which 6 goldens were landed.
Totals: dropped/broken offs--too many, LFT's= 7(40-45#), 2 YFT's=2(50-60#), 6 Golden Tiles and one Mahi.
Only life was a few squid which showed briefly and weren't interested in jigs.
Oh yes, 1 blue shark early on.
See y'll next week.

captbogan
11-05-2020, 10:04 AM
Thanks for the report, Chuck

It was great weather. We did not stop around triple wrecks area. A few boats did but they did not see anything.

I was hoping to see a more recent temp shot but cloud covered before our trip.

This morning, I checked and it looks like more good water working down towards the Hudson Canyon from the Northeast.

One of our guys stuck with the jig and landed 3 out of 6 tuna!

Fish are still there and the water is plenty warm enough.

Looking forward to the next one, leaving Tues night, weather permitting

Jigman13
11-05-2020, 09:28 PM
Sounds like a quality effort. Anyone battle any swords on the trip?

Doing a saturday/sunday out east. Hoping that water up off Nantucket continues to slide down and west by tomorrow night/saturday morning

Pennsy Guy
11-06-2020, 05:52 PM
Jigman, no swords but only 2 tried and only had a couple hours 'til false dawn. Capt. spent some time looking for life & temp break.