Capt_Gene_Kelly
07-21-2008, 10:29 AM
7/21/08
The shark fishing has slowed down dramatically, and it’s not surprising with the temperatures in the Butterfish Hole in
the mid to upper 70’s. Blue sharks don’t like it that warm, but it’s OK for the makos. But you normally don’t catch a
mako everyday.
The warm water probably ensures that we won’t be seeing anymore bluefins around, although I understand there are
some showing up occasionally out to the east. With fuel prices the way they are no charter boat is likely to go far enough
in that direction to run into them.
Out on the edge there was a good hit on the yellowfins early last week, but by the weekend the best I heard about were a
couple of fish per boat, fishing in some sloppy seas. There were some bigeyes taken ten miles or so south of the Dip.
Inshore the bass fishing is kind of spectacular, at least as far as quality is concerned. Live porgies, big tubes and chutes
are taking a real nice class of fish every day, with most of the action off North Bar.
Fluke fishing is great, with enough keepers being taken to keep hope alive, and occasional days when lots of eating class
fish are taken.
From the LAZYBONES:
Still the same old story! There are some many throwbacks it's disheartening. Mon. A.M. saw 14 keepers and tons of
throwbacks just missing by a 1/4 of an inch. Mike Razny had the pool with his fish at 6 lbs. and the Jensen Patterson girls
rule group had 4 nice keepers up to 4 1/2 lbs. P.M. trip some nice size keepers and the pool went to Jackson Jarboe with
his fish at 6 1/4 lbs. Tues. A.M. had keepers up to 6 1/4 lbs. and Bucktail Richie had that pool honor. Tues. P.M. had
Ryan Long win the pool with his fish at 7 3/4 lbs. and 9 y/o Margo French had a 5 lber. Wed. all day was slow keeper
wise. Thurs. A.M. had pool fish up to 51/2 with Joe Mandaro winning the pot. P.M. had the pool going to Matt Kirsh
with a 5 lber. Fri. P.M. we had 10 nice size keepers with our very own Andy " SMURF" Chiodi and his fish tipping the
scales with a beauty at 10.1 lbs. and Tom McMahon had 3 keepers at 6 1/2, 51/2 and 5 lbs. Sat.P.M. had 10 keepers again
and Harold Kahn had 4 of them and limiting out. His pool fish was a 6 lber. Sun.A.M. saw some nice fish come over the
rails and quite a few sea bass. Pool winner was Jan Bendernagel, second year in a row, and beating out her two brothers,
with a fish at 5.9 lbs. and Tom McMahon had his fish at 5.6 lbs. P.M. trip yielded 10 keepers with the pool being tied
between Don Nickel and Sara Diaz at 5 1/4 lber.
The shark fishing has slowed down dramatically, and it’s not surprising with the temperatures in the Butterfish Hole in
the mid to upper 70’s. Blue sharks don’t like it that warm, but it’s OK for the makos. But you normally don’t catch a
mako everyday.
The warm water probably ensures that we won’t be seeing anymore bluefins around, although I understand there are
some showing up occasionally out to the east. With fuel prices the way they are no charter boat is likely to go far enough
in that direction to run into them.
Out on the edge there was a good hit on the yellowfins early last week, but by the weekend the best I heard about were a
couple of fish per boat, fishing in some sloppy seas. There were some bigeyes taken ten miles or so south of the Dip.
Inshore the bass fishing is kind of spectacular, at least as far as quality is concerned. Live porgies, big tubes and chutes
are taking a real nice class of fish every day, with most of the action off North Bar.
Fluke fishing is great, with enough keepers being taken to keep hope alive, and occasional days when lots of eating class
fish are taken.
From the LAZYBONES:
Still the same old story! There are some many throwbacks it's disheartening. Mon. A.M. saw 14 keepers and tons of
throwbacks just missing by a 1/4 of an inch. Mike Razny had the pool with his fish at 6 lbs. and the Jensen Patterson girls
rule group had 4 nice keepers up to 4 1/2 lbs. P.M. trip some nice size keepers and the pool went to Jackson Jarboe with
his fish at 6 1/4 lbs. Tues. A.M. had keepers up to 6 1/4 lbs. and Bucktail Richie had that pool honor. Tues. P.M. had
Ryan Long win the pool with his fish at 7 3/4 lbs. and 9 y/o Margo French had a 5 lber. Wed. all day was slow keeper
wise. Thurs. A.M. had pool fish up to 51/2 with Joe Mandaro winning the pot. P.M. had the pool going to Matt Kirsh
with a 5 lber. Fri. P.M. we had 10 nice size keepers with our very own Andy " SMURF" Chiodi and his fish tipping the
scales with a beauty at 10.1 lbs. and Tom McMahon had 3 keepers at 6 1/2, 51/2 and 5 lbs. Sat.P.M. had 10 keepers again
and Harold Kahn had 4 of them and limiting out. His pool fish was a 6 lber. Sun.A.M. saw some nice fish come over the
rails and quite a few sea bass. Pool winner was Jan Bendernagel, second year in a row, and beating out her two brothers,
with a fish at 5.9 lbs. and Tom McMahon had his fish at 5.6 lbs. P.M. trip yielded 10 keepers with the pool being tied
between Don Nickel and Sara Diaz at 5 1/4 lber.