<b>Manasquan Inlet</b>

Longfin tuna and yellowfin tuna, good numbers, remained at Hudson Canyon between the Notch and the 100 Square, said Eric from <b>The Reel Seat</b> in Brielle. The fish, 30- to 50 pound longfins and 50- to 70-pound yellowfins, were chunked during nighttime and daylight. On some days, the angling was great. On others, the tuna were picked but caught. Limiting out on yellowfins wasn’t so difficult. Catches of bigeye tuna seemed to taper off. Swordfish were landed on the trips, and weren’t huge, but some weighed 150 or 200 pounds.

Awesome tuna catch again on the <b>Gambler</b> from Point Pleasant Beach, a report on the party boat’s website said last Friday, the most recent report at press time. A 36-hour trip fished Hudson Canyon that week from Wednesday to Thursday with 22 anglers. The boat was first drifted for mahi mahi, and the fish gave up exciting fishing for the dolphin to 12 pounds for 3 hours. Then the boat was settled on anchor. Tuna fishing was slow to start, but good flurries of the catches began, with lulls between. Yellowfin tuna 30 to 100 pounds, longfin tuna 30 to 50 pounds and a 150-pound bigeye tuna were cracked. The angling slowed by 6 a.m., but the anglers had enough tuna. So the trip hit a deep wreck 10 miles west of the canyon. More than 20 pollock and three jumbo white hake were cranked up. Great trip, terrific numbers and lots of diversity, the report said.  See the <a href=" http://www.gamblerfishing.net/offshoretrips.php" target="_blank">tuna schedule</a> online. More of the trips will be added for November.

<b>Barnegat Inlet</b>

Wind, rain, sleet, snow and thunder made for extreme weather at times, but anglers made the most of opportunities to catch tuna on a two-day trip Saturday to Monday on the <b>Miss Barnegat Light</b>, a report said on the party boat’s website. They decked 20, working hard for the catches in difficult conditions. “We had some really nice (yellowfin and longfin tuna),” it said. An overnight trip Friday to Saturday smashed 52 yellowfins and longfins. Two hours passed before the first bit, but then a steady pick began, and sometimes multiple tuna were hooked at once. See the <a href="http://www.missbarnegatlight.com/TunaFishing.html" target="_blank">tuna schedule</a> online. The boat is fishing for tuna throughout October.

The <b>Super Chic</b> from Barnegat Light returned yesterday, Thursday, from an overnight charter for tuna, the boat’s Facebook page said. “Fishing continues to be productive,” it said. Seven yellowfins 40 to 75 pounds, the first-ever tuna for the anglers, were bagged. A good-sized bigeye tuna was lost, after a 3-hour fight. More yellowfins would surely have been caught, if not for the effort to fight the bigeye. A 90-pound swordfish was decked, and 18 mahi mahi to 15 pounds were bagged. An overnighter Friday to Saturday aboard whipped 24 tuna – nine yellowfins averaging 40 to 80 pounds, and 15 longfins averaging 30 to 60  – at Hudson Canyon on the chunk, Capt. Ted said in a phone call the next day, Sunday. Seas were rough on the ride home, but not bad during the fishing.  The first tuna, a longfin, bit at 3:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the boat was anchored. Just after sunset, a blast of longfins shot through, and a handful were reeled in. Yellowfins were picked throughout the night. Blue sharks were a bother for some time. Another shot of longfins was caught at first light. Only the Super Chic and the party boats Gambler, Miss Barnegat Light, Jamaica and Voyager fished the area that night, Friday to Saturday, in rougher weather forecasts. The next tuna charters are supposed to sail Saturday and Monday aboard. Sea bass trips are slated for today and earlier in the day Saturday on the boat.

<b>Beach Haven Inlet</b>

Offshore angling was weathered out during the weekend on the <b>June Bug</b> from Beach Haven, Capt. Lindsay said. A trip probably could’ve fished for the tuna Saturday, but anglers couldn’t go then. More of the fishing is slated for two weekends from now, and Lindsay was trying to get anglers together to fish the blue water this weekend. Party boats got into some great catches of good-sized yellowfin tuna and longfin tuna. The fish didn’t only bite at Hudson Canyon, like before, but some slid south to Toms Canyon and maybe Carteret Canyon, though info was unconfirmed about the Carteret. If tuna fishing was a little slow to begin on trips, the outings fished for mahi mahi at lobster pot buoys, until tuna fishing.

<b>Great Egg Harbor Inlet</b>

False albacore were actually boated near shore and caught from the surf, said Bill from <b>Fin-Atics</b> in Ocean City. The fish aren’t so common locally, but they suddenly schooled the water. Little was reported about tuna fishing, except rumors that the fish were caught farther north at Hudson Canyon, and at Lindenkohl Canyon, nearer to Ocean City, but all of that was unconfirmed. A few locals tried for tuna, but most locals were finished with the fishing for the year.

<b>Cape May Inlet</b>

The <b>Heavy Hitter</b> from Cape May is probably finished chartering for tuna for the year, Capt. George said. Hudson Canyon, too far north from Cape May, was the only place that seemed to give up the fish. Tuna fishing from Cape May in recent years seemed best in late May and June. Afterward, bigeye tuna swam canyons within range. But fishing for bigeyes can be a matter of hooking one or two in a trip. Whether anglers could land the big fish, once hooked, was also the thing.

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