Tremendous Yellowfin-Bluefin tuna fishing at multiple locations all inshore

[Caveman Sportfishing]

We know of at least three locations where the Yellowfin day chunk bite was totally off the charts. The best is out of reach for many that fish out of the more Northern ports but I thought it might be on interest to those that target tuna on this site. The best Yellowfin bite that I know of is off the Northern VA coast along the 20 fathom line south of Ocean City, Maryland. Boats we know had 15-17 Yellowfins in the box by noon and they did not start fishing until around 7:00 am. There was a lot of trollers working these lumps but few if any of them caught any tuna as it was almost all chunking. Have seen this happen on the inshore lumps and hills so many times in the past when we used to have tuna fishing like this. We used to fish these hills and lumps years ago as they held Bluefins up to 200 lbs. on a regular basis with Yellowfins in the mix. I personally have not made the long run as we have some great tuna fishing within 40 miles of our home port in Cape May right now and there is really no reason to run 80 miles when we can run 40 miles.

The last few days has produced absolute stupid tuna fishing mostly with jigs and chunking and the boats that came back to various South Jersey ports all had some great catches on nice size Yellowfin in the 40-50 lb. range and a few Bluefins have pushed the 80-90 lb range but most were 45-60 lbs. The one negative is most bites came on 30 lb fluorocarbon leader which resulted in a lot of tuna busting off. The Yellowfins were manageable on the lighter leader but the Bluefins up over 60 lbs become a real challenge on leader that size and many bust off due to light leader failure. I think it is worth mentioning the Big Eyes have now shown up in the local southern canyons so we can and will do a combo inshore tuna trip and target Big Eyes on the same trip. Overall some pretty decent tuna fishing happening right now on the 20 fathom lumps and hills.

[Caveman Sportfishing]

We have some open dates coming up the last two weeks of July for any interested anglers wanting to get in on this great inshore tuna bite. Our 12-13 hour trips start at $2999.00 for up 6 anglers on a super deluxe boat that is one of the finest without question in NJ. If you want a 24 hour trip we can do the inshore Yellowfin-Bluefin and run out to the canyon and target Big Eyes during the prime time to catch them (4:00-11:00 pm).

We plan on doing some open boat trips for singles and small parties so contact us if you might want to jump on one of these trips in the next couple of weeks. Cost is $500.00 per person tip for mate.

We will be offshore most of this week so please leave e-mail with your contact information and either my wife (Capt Diana or myself will get back to you ASAP)

[MVP]

CApt John

Nice report and greatly appreciate you sharing some intel on were bite has been good and rigging suggestions (30Lb Flouro) to get more bites. Looks like it is going to be a good tuna season.

[Caveman Sportfishing]

The chunk bite down at the Lumpy Bottom and Parking Lot south of Ocean City, MD slowed down some yesterday as did the bite 40 miles off Cape May. Boats I know had 9 or 10 Yellowfin tuna bites but down from 15-20 a few days ago. I am heading out in a few minutes to the inshore tuna grounds and expect the tuna bite to pick up again when the wind turns to the SE later today. Friends that have go fast center consoles are leaving South Jersey ports around 1:00-2:00 pm and slamming the tuna after the fleet leaves in the afternoon and back at their docks before the sun goes down. Not bad inshore tuna fishing with again some Bluefins pushing 90 lbs and almost all the Yellowfins in the 40-50 lb class. If you prefer jigging this is a great time to get out tuna fishing from South Jersey.