The tuna bite between the SW Corner of Stellwagen and Peaked Hill Bar is peaking right now with with live mackerel, whiting or bluefish being the key to a big bluefin. If you have the gear, it is world class fishing right now.
Off New Hampshire, there are some titanic tuna swimming around randomly near Jeffreys Ledge and Tillies Bank. Look for contour lines and a live mackerel or whiting to help hook one of these finned submarines. The bait may hook them but after that you are on your own!
The bite at the Canyons, particularly at the area known as Fish Tails at the tip of Block Canyon, has been phenomenal: yellowfin tuna to 100 pounds overnight on jigs and squid, and bigeyes to 200+ pounds on the troll. A great weather window had almost every canyon boat planning to head out on Thursday and Friday.
Eric at the Reel Seat in Brielle, NJ says that Hudson Canyon has been the best place to start the hunt lately. Yellowfin and longfin are being taken on both the chunk and trolling. There have been some wahoo bite offs and a few whites in the area but that bite seems to be further south. The Lindenkohl Canyon also has some reports of nice yellow fin action. Little Italy is loaded with bonito that boaters are both trolling and chumming up in big, big numbers.
Mike Jung at Peace Token Bait & Tackle in Cape May Courthouse says that the Elephant Trunk is still holding dolphin, yellowfin tuna and some really nice wahoo. There are also lots of false albacore in that area. The southern canyons are all reporting good numbers on white marlin.
went to the mudhole today,saw lots of draggers letting dead Hake out all over the place,then a couple of pods of dolphin showed up then around 130pm we saw a group of 200-300lb Bluefin tuna feeding on the dead fish at the surface,we trolled buy them but no hits,we tried jigs still nothing,then after another pass with our squid bars we got a hit,but it was a false albacore,what a tease. lots of fun though.
We headed out to the Fish Tails yesterday. Got there around 6pm and trolled until dark. There was the biggest fleet i have ever seen out there in the canyons. There were probably 300 boats in a 1 mile area. It looked like Las Vegas when it got dark and we set up for the chunk. Got one 95lb yellow, and lost 6 more. Had a sword hit on the deep bait and lost a huge eye at the boat. Great weather and a great trip, but there were way too many boats.