Offshore
A complete Fishing Forecast for all your offshore, big game adventures, from Hudson Canyon to the Gulf of Maine.
October 27, 2011
It’s not looking good for any offshore fishing this weekend, but the anglers who found a weather window this week got into some great fishing. Read More
October 20, 2011
Heavy winds kept offshore reports to a minimum this week, but a window may be opening Saturday into Sunday and Sunday into Monday. Overnighting is the name of the game in the canyons this time of year, and if you aren’t chunking, you aren’t fishing. Butterfish and sardines are the chunk baits of choice, but live baits caught on site, like squid, will offer the very best odds of a bite. Read More
October 13, 2011
After more than a month hiatus, the bluefin returned to the inshore waters off New Jersey. The Shore Catch guides found big numbers of smaller bluefin that covered up trolling spreads. Read More
October 06, 2011
The bite is on, and a mix of bluefin from 40 to 71 inches invaded the waters east of Chatham, Cape Cod this week. Trolling spreader bars has been the most productive method, though jigging is an option as well. Eric Stewart of the Hook Up in Orleans landed 30 tuna in two days this week, doubling up and having the bites come so quickly, he couldn’t even deploy his entire four-rod spread. Heavy winds kept him and other anglers at the dock the past two days, but he hopes when the conditions allow another trip east, that the fish will still be there. Read More
September 29, 2011
Chatham and Provincetown both have good bluefin tuna bites nearby. The Chatham fish have been blasting halfbeaks out of the water and creating great casting opportunities for run-and-gun fishermen tossing weightless soft-plastic lures. Live bait in Cape Cod Bay has produced a couple giants and a 900-pound-plus giant was caught in the Shipping Lanes this week reported Dan from the Hook Up in Orleans. Read More
September 22, 2011
Well I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Every trip to the canyons is different. Even trips that happen back to back. The reports were promising when I boarded the Helen-H out of Hyannis for an overnighter earlier this week. The boat returned from their last trip with 46 tuna in the hold, and another 30 evaded capture by pulling the hook. By the time we reached shore after 36 hours of bobbing around in 10- to 15-foot swells, our grand total was two tuna and three mahi. Ouch. Read More
September 15, 2011
Sounds like the weeds have been giving anglers a tough time in some of the canyons this week. Anglers were constantly busy clearing lines of weeds. The weeded up lures may not be immediately apparent, so it’s important to keep a keen eye on the spread. The cost to get to the canyons is way too much for you to have a spread full of weeded up lures when you finally pass over some fish. Read More
September 08, 2011
Northeast winds and big seas are not the offshore fisherman’s friend, but unfortunately we’ve had a healthy dose of that over the past 72 hours. The most recent reports from the edge came from some of the large party boats that were able to rough it in the building seas this week. The Viking Fleet out of Monatuk, NY found good numbers of 30-to 50-pound yellowfin tuna along with a keeper swordfish and a 125-pound mako. The Helen-H out of Hyannis, MA tallied 37 tuna (yellowfin and longfin) and a handful of mahi on a recent 3-day trip out to Hydrographers, Oceanographers and Welkers canyons. Captain Joe departed on another 3-day canyon mission Tuesday and is set to return today. From the sound of it, he found the fish again early on, and before the end of the first day had 7 yellowfin, two longfin and one nice mahi in the boat. Read More
September 01, 2011
Many areas are still waiting for their first post-Irene offshore fishing reports to roll in. The good water certainly moved around a bit, and so did the fish.
August 25, 2011
As Irene rocks the Northeast this weekend, at least the anglers who got out last weekend and this week will be able to swap some stories of excellent bluewater fishing. Read More
August 18, 2011
Anglers fishing from New England ports found very different results depending on which canyon they fished this past week. Those fishing Atlantis found small mahi, a handful of longfin albacore, and one boat reported a wahoo. I spent last Friday night in Atlantis Canyon, and though the catching was lackluster, the trip, as always had enough excitement that I can’t wait to get back. You can read a full account of that trip here. Read More
August 11, 2011
Warm waters have brought dolphin within reach of anyone capable of making it out to the reefs to fish for fluke. Buoys, weedlines and floating debris all seem to be holding some chicken mahi with the odd gaffer-sized fish mixed in. Read More
August 04, 2011
Bluefin fishing on the Cape slowed a bit this week from the white-hot bite last week that seemed to coincide with the new moon. Captain Eric Stewart of the Hook Up in Orleans, MA, managed 2 knockdowns on a trip this week, landing one of them while trolling splash bars east of Chatham. Stellwagen Bank continues to give up some larger tuna, but with calm water conditions, fish have been skittish. By all accounts, surface activity has been fizzling out by about 9:00 am. Read More
July 28, 2011
Inshore Tuna Chris Megan and Kevin Blinkoff from OTW as well as Craig Cantelmo from Van Staal were kind enough to keep me up to the minute on their tuna trip east of Chatham, Cape Cod yesterday while I was at the OTW office. The trio found breaking tuna off Chatham in 70-90 feet of … Read More
July 21, 2011
The weather is hot, but tuna fishing is hotter. Bluefin are biting well inshore off New Jersey and Cape Cod, and the canyons are swarming with small yellowfin. Some bigger fish are in the mix at the edge though, some big enough to make a snack of a 40-pound tuna! Read More