7/26/10
Offshore fishing is a bit "iffy" right now. If you go to the right place and if you are there at the right time, you can catch a couple of yellowfins, longfins, white marlin or even a blue marlin or bigeye, - there are some swords at night too. Wrong time or place and you can be in for a long ride with not much to show for it. That happened to me Sunday, when I wish the weatherman was a little more accurate. Before I even had all the rigs in the water, there was a white marlin batting a green machine around. He took a couple of shots without coming tight before he gave up. We continued working toward a spot three miles away where some fins were being caught, finally arriving there as the bite ended. That was it for the day, except listening to the other boats, most of which were on overnighters, summarize their catches, most of them pretty good. This was all in the vicinity of the Fish Tails - apparently the Dip, which was good last week was dead.
The bluefins that were southeast of Block Island seem to have left, at least I haven’t heard any reports of them being seen lately, much less being caught.
Shark fishing is OK - it would be nice if there were more makos around. Especially since next weekend Star Island has it’s Mako Mania & Thresher tournament.
Inshore is fine. The bass fishing has dropped off a little of what it was, but is still good enough that a half day charter will most likely limit out, unless it tries to specialize in bigger fish. The live baiting with porgies is OK for the bigger fish, but doesn’t produce numbers. Fluke fishing is improving with the eating size fish, with the deeper water off the south side holding some decent numbers of keepers.

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