Canyon this weekend

[REEL ADDICTION]

IF the weather reports are correct this weekend is looking good!

[Bullish]

3-4 on saturday and 2-3 on sunday. sounds good to me! I'm going somewhere between the hudson and the wilmington. leaving saturday around noon. I'll check the water temp charts on friday and make a decision. channel 69. this is my last chance to go this year so I hope the report holds up.

[Bullish]

reel addiction,

let me know if you are heading out around the same time and want to run together...I believe you are in Waretown too.

-Jason

[REEL ADDICTION]

My boat is on the hudson river in jersey city I leave my boat down at holiday harbor for the winter. I do things backwards boat up north for summer and south for winter. I will check out the temp charts on friday to make a decision on friday.

[Split Decision]

Was thinking the same thing. Leave saturday noon out of Barnegate. Lets see if the weather holds. Have to check if the crew is available.

Has there been any reports on the troll. I've heard mostly on the chunk.

[CClassic28]

Should be spending the night down near the 100sq area of Hudson, now lets hope the weather holds!!


Chris

[REEL ADDICTION]

Most of the reports I am gettting are most of fish being caught on the chunk.

[Bullish]

a friend of mine was in the carteret monday into tuesday. They boated 6 yft on the chunk....unhappy with that, they trolled in the morning and caught about 20 longfin. I thought the troll was dead but I guess not!

[Bullish]

Tom,

Just saw your post...let me know if you get a crew together and want to run out together on Saturday....anyone else leaving Barnegat Inlet around noon on Saturday?

-Jason

[Bullish]

It may have to be a Sunday-Monday trip now. Forecast is getting ugly for Saturday.

[Split Decision]

I figured that would happen. I have jury duty on monday unless it gets cancled.

[backman]

I love my 28, but 12 hr's of pitch dark is past my limits of reasonableness.

I either make a day trip on my boat Monday or hitch a ride on either a boat with a bit more size and comfort features.

[REEL ADDICTION]

I will be heading out Sunday and be back on Monday.

[Petty Cash]

If the weather cooperates I will also overnight Sun-Mon. Water temp will dictate canyon.

[Bullish]

I'll be heading out tomorrow too....still not sure where yet. I just got a good report from the tip of the hudson Friday night...yft and albies. If you look at the temp. charts from yesterday, there was a nice temperature break with 70 degree water...it looks like that water has moved northeast today.

[Petty Cash]

I saw that break in the hudsun but that's out of my range, the lindy looks good for me now. There is some warm water from the toms to the lindy.
Good Luck

[REEL ADDICTION]

Ran out the 100 line in the hudson plenty of trawlers must have counted 12 started the troll around in ten minutes had a small albie few minutes later a double about 50 lb longfins later another double hook up it was getting late so we started chunking we did not catch a fish until 12:30 then it was non stop action until about 3 all said and done came home with 19 longfins and 8 mahis nice way to end the year. Also the weather man was wrong again the wind felt like it was about 25 to 30 mph gust and there were some pretty big swells all night.

[Bullish]

I had two option this weekend...the first was to stay home....the second was to take two friends to the canyon that know a little about fishing but nothing about offshore fishing.

We left the dock at noon on Sunday and made it to the parking lot (hudson) by 4pm. We trolled the tip for an hour but couldn't avoid the kelp that was everywhere so we tied up by 5:30 and got ready for chunking.

We boated 1 yft and 3 mahi. We had plenty of sharks of too. I put on a shark rig so one of the guys could fight it to the boat...about a 150 lb. blue.

The best water temp that we could find was 65 on the east side of the tip.

We broke off more fish than I care to remember. I expect the boats around us probably did O.K.

[REEL ADDICTION]

My buddy was there too the caught 1 big eye, 1 yellowfin, 1 mahi adn 2 blue sharks

[Bullish]

Nice work on your trip. You're right about the weatherman screwing up.....we took a good beating all night. I was glad it flattened out in the morning.

[backman]

It was blowing an honest 20 from the north on the cape. MY max. in the 28 is 10-15 - I declined a trip on a downeast 36 and they got pasted on West Atlantis.

How did you control the drift and rock during the long night?

[spoolsout]

Left Sunday arond 2:30 pm and set up between the Lindy and Spencer in about 600 fathoms. Had a lot of squid and a school of dolphin playing around in our lights. Got 2 mahi and a 200+ lb blue shark on that drift. Picked up around 1:30 and moved into the tip of the Spencer found a 2 degree break. Picked a few more Mahi and one 30 - 35 Lb. YF. Around 5 our Sword bait went off and stayed down, thought we had a sword. When it finally came up we realized it was a Wahoo. Got a gaff in him before the leader went. Fish went about 75-80 lbs., and helped save what was a slow night other wise.

Petty Cash, Great talking to you out there. When I left you had just boated a YF on the troll. How did you make out the rest of the day. Hey if any of those pics of the boat come out can you email them to me, spoolsoutfishing@yahoo.com? Thanks, Chuck

[Petty Cash]

This was my first overnight trip on my new boat and my second trip overall.I finally bought my Honda generator so I was ready.I called my friend to get his crew ready since his 27 albemarle was being repaired and off we went.We left Sunday around 2pm w/the boat loaded with ice and crew( 6 people total). Went to the 100 line of the spencer and started trolling had 1 miss. We set up for the chunk in not so perfect weather,2-4 10-15 more 15. The rocking was a concern but my friends rocker stopper made a world of a difference. Unfortunately the overnight chunking was slow. We lost a 125lb mako at the boat and that all we had all night. We got back up on the troll in the morning putting out all spreader bars, 3 SPOOLS OUT bars and 2 canyon runner bars and quickly boated 2 yellowfins 40&50lb. Now that the skunk was gone we headed home at 10am all in all a great trip.

Chuck
It was great fishing with you. I called Chris and he will email those pictures.

[REEL ADDICTION]

So did the honda genny do the job

[Petty Cash]

Like a champ. It's quiet and easy to start. I had on the cockpit floor and a co detector in the cabin just in case, but I'm thinking of putting a bracket on the hardtop since I don't have a tower to tie it to. Thanx for all the advice.

[REEL ADDICTION]

If you make a bracket please send me a pic?

[Bullish]

I would like to see a pic of the bracket too...if you make one.

Backman,

There is no way I could of drifted in those seas Sunday night without getting wiplash. We tied up to a lobster pot which I know some people don't readily admit. Even so, the boat was swinging enough to make the night very uncomfortable.

Petty Cash,
What's the rocker stopper? I would like to get something to help stabilize the boat while drifting.

[Petty Cash]

Once I finish the bracket I will post pictures. Also the rockerstoppers can be purchased at www.davisnet.com, go to marine, then products, then fishing ,and you will see them. My friend has been using them a long time with his 27 albemarle. Davisnet says to use 4 but thats too much we always used one or two for sharking or chunking,usually on the mid cleat. On our overnighter we put one on the stern cleat, when we had the shark on, he took it out,and you could feel the difference immediately. It looks like you build them yourself, you only buy the plastic plates from davis and you put them on the rope yourself with a mushroom anchor on the end. He had 5 plates on his stopper with a mushroom anchor,which is now in my garage. I think these are must haves for drifting in rougher seas.

[backman]

I use the Magma door:

http://www.magmaproducts.com/Products/Marine_Products/Stabilizer/stabilizer.html


which does a better job of dampening roll than 2 sets of rocker stoppers.

I can survive 10-15/seas 3-5 at night with the door off the midship cleat and a 4' drift sock off the bow. I've spent some sharking time in steady 15; gusts to 17 or 18, steady 4' seas with a periodic 5 or 6 breaking at the top with that combination and while the boat is not comfortable; the snap is reduced and is not dangerous. Of course - sharking for 4 hr's by day vs. drifting for 12 hr's in the dark are 2 entierly different things!

[Bullish]

Thank you for the tips. I know what I want for Christmas now.

[spoolsout]

I got the pics, thanks. Question on the generator... Do you just plug it into your shore power and use your spreader lights or do you run seperate lights. Reason I ask is that we rigged a setup using a pair of halogen work lights from Home Depot that mounts in one of the rocket launchers on the hard top. It provides 10 times more light and still leaves the spreaders available if you need additional lighting.

[Petty Cash]

Backmen

Do you use the pole or do you just tie it to the cleat. According to the manuel you need a pole and 2 more cleats

[Petty Cash]

I plugged the generator to shore power w/adapter ran the cockpit lights,and battery charger, and 1 500 watt light (plugged to the generator) from the side rocket launchers.Everything worked fine but I sure wish we could have landed a 200lb sword, even a 80lbs wahoo would do.

[backman]

I simply hang the door off a 20' 1/2" dock line looped to the midships cleat and use a 50' section of 1/4" line to collapse and retrieve it that I tie to the tower leg. I'm not getting as much dampening as if I ran it off the pole like they suggest but my way is 3 minutes to deploy and 30 seconds to retrieve when you want to get the boat going fast.

Realistically I know it works up to the point I consider driftable; if the seas build further I would idle my way homewards trolling as I went as a survival tactic,