June 24, 2017 was a hugely successful day of NJ bluefishing at our secret location on the Raritan Bay! One of the better fishing days of the year so far...
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The Double Down II went out early today on an open boat charter. Today the guys wanted bluefish and fluke, in that order. We dropped our hook by 6:45AM and started chumming heavy to bring in our yellow eyed demons...
We took a party of 5 out off the south shore of Staten Island looking for bluefish. We left the the dock at 6am.
Dropped hook at 6:30am, started to chum, and first fish was on board by 6:45am. Good fishing throughout the morning. We got medium to large bluefish, up to 12.5 pounds. Good water, not too rough or too still. Pretty nice day to be out on the water with good visibility and limited wind.
Near-constant action through the day. Pulled our anchor as the last fish came aboard.
Didn't forget to bring along the best EDC pen possible for writing down all those fish reports and accurately recording lengths, times, returns, of the day's fish.
Super successful day. Smiles all around. Every left with a bag full of filets and enough to freeze.
Started trolling south of buoy 19, and got our first striper before even getting to 19. We reran the same route and kept going towards the Old Orchard before hooking up with our first bluefish of the day.
We continued trolling both mojos and bunker spoons but we didn't land any more stripers, just constant bluefish for the rest of the day.
We eventually pulled in the mojos to stop them from getting destroyed. We then tried different spots, closer to Keansburg, but only caught blues. We kept a few -- got some nice filets -- and returned to Brown's Point Marina to clean the boat. We docked around 2pm.