Note: It’s that time of year, when winds are fierce, and seas are big, and offshore trips only run during the weather windows. Just a few boats sailed during the brief break in this past week’s winds, so reports were scarce. But the couple of reports that came in are posted below.

<b>Shark River Inlet</b>

From an edited e-mail from Capt. Ralph from <b>Last Lady Fishing Charters</b> from Neptune: “Just got back from the canyon (Tuesday) afternoon. Boat ran great after my previous problems, and we found the fish.  Unfortunately, we didn't land as many fish as we should have.  Lost a sword, plus tuna that we almost had to the gaff.  The tuna were on steroids. We had a lot of blue sharks around the boat all night, and they were a problem.  Ended up landing two tuna, and trolled dolphin the next morning.  Ran back in a flat ocean and was at the dock at 4:30 p.m.  I will be going to the canyons when we have a weather window till the fish leave. Call for a special charter price. Bluefin tuna are in the Mudhole close. We can troll them 20 to 30 miles offshore for a charter.”

<b>Barnegat Inlet</b>

From an edited e-mail from Capt. Dave DeGennaro from the <b>Hi Flier</b> from Barnegat: “We ran to the Monster Ledge area of the Mudhole (on Tuesday). Heard one guy on the radio that trolled a 40-pound bluefin. We trolled one false albacore in the clean, 63-degree water. Lots of draggers. Not much in readings. Tried chunking for a while, but no hits. Ran to Little Italy next – the machine blacked out with what turned out to be all dogfish. Ran due west from there in hopes of finding any kind of life along the beach. We found pod after pod of bunkers being wooshed and rushed by big, gator blues. Worked them over for a few hours in hopes of finding a striped bass in the mix, but it was all blues for us. Found out later they caught some big bass off of those same pods in the morning. (Afterward), three days of wind, and then we will be back at it Sat., Sun. and Mon.” 

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