This is the year’s final Offshore Report!

Fish swam the water still, but most boats wrapped up the trips for the season.

This report is usually ended about the first of November each year, and was continued later this year, because reports still rolled in.

That was because autumn was relatively warm, the season still offered weather possible to sail offshore, and the fish kept biting.

<b>Manasquan Inlet</b>

A tuna trip was weathered out Monday to Tuesday on the party boat <b>Gambler</b> from Point Pleasant Beach, and another is scheduled for 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. this coming Monday to Tuesday, Capt. Bob said. Spaces are available, and about half the trip is full. If the trip blasts the catches, and enough anglers are interested, more of the trips will sail. Tuna fishing was good on the last trip for them aboard. The boat had been slated to wrap up tuna trips for the season after October. But the trips continued in November, because the angling kept producing. <b>***Update, Friday, 11/20:***</b> The boat fished offshore at Spencer Canyon this past Monday to Tuesday, and a good mess of yellowfin tuna was nailed, Bob said. The mostly 40- to 60-pounders bit 15 minutes after the trip arrived Monday night until almost when the outing left the canyon at 1 p.m. Tuesday. The fishing was a steady one-two pick, with not many lulls. That would probably be the final tuna trip aboard this year, depending on whether enough anglers are interested in sailing on another this coming Monday to Tuesday. The fish are there, but drawing interest might be difficult this time of year.

Hudson Canyon’s West Wall sounded like the place to be for tuna, said Eric from <b>The Reel Seat</b> in Brielle. Yellowfin tuna to 80 pounds and longfin tuna to 50 pounds were chunked there, mostly during daytime, but a few were chunked at night. For jigs, pink was the color this year. Eight-ounce, pink jigs caught tuna. A handful of swordfish were heaved in, and some were nearly 300 pounds. A pile of mahi mahi still swam the water. <b>***Update, Friday, 11/20:***</b> Tuna were still reeled in, mostly along the Hudson West Wall, said on Sunday in a phone call. Mostly yellowfin and longfin tuna were caught, on the chunk, mostly during daytime. But a few bigeye tuna were chunked, and bluefin tuna 250 to 300 pounds began to be chunked in the area. The bluefins gathered behind squid boats, feeding on the discard.

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