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stugots · #1 07-14-2018, 12:04 PM

Left the Navesink river at 0330 and headed out for the bluefin. Lines in around 0615 and started the search. Had tons of life in the area with whales, dolphin, and sandeels but no fish. Went into more of a search mode and trolled away from that area. Found another spot with the same life and marked a few fish. Pounded that area to death and still nothing. Continued the search when at 1pm we were still empty handed. Set the auto pilot for home on the troll when at 130pm, we hit the second spot we came across with fish on topwater feeding. got 2 fish around 40 and 50lbs in the next half hour or so and headed home. Heres a perfect reminder to never leave fish to find fish. Probably could have had another few fish if we stayed in that area from the beginning. Definitely could have caught more if we stayed once we found them but had to go home.

Gerry Zagorski · #2 07-14-2018, 01:02 PM

Nice job sticking with it. What did they hit in your spread?

stugots · #3 07-14-2018, 01:07 PM

Zucchini colored wide tracker bar

dales529 · #4 07-14-2018, 02:32 PM

Great job. Tuna fishing is so hard to be patient at one spot as it always seems to happen fast and furious so when it doesn't happen wanting to move from a "life" area makes sense.

We stayed in the chicken one year because the water and life was right. 8 hrs later we got knocked down on 6 rods with quality yellows but all earlier bitched "why dont we move"

Boated 4 of those knocks and stayed late to add a couple more but just luck as they fed while we were still in the area.

Nice report