NEW YORK

Point Lookout

Only one trip sailed this weekend on the Captain Al, and fishing was slow in a riled up ocean with a big swell, Capt. Tom Weiss said. Last week’s storm did a number on seas. A handful of ling and cod were managed. The Captain Al is this site's closest cod boat to New Jersey. When cod are in, trips target them. Otherwise trips fish wrecks for a mix of cod, ling or other bottom fish. Trips are sailing 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. See More Info. Call: 516-623-2248.

VIRGINIA

Virginia Beach

Winds and a huge swell weathered out the weekly party boat trip to Norfolk Canyon on Saturday with Rudee Inlet Charters,  Capt. Skip Feller said. On recent trips, covered in past reports, fishing was usually great, for a mix of deep-water catches including blueline tilefsh, black belly rosefish, wreckfish and barrelfish. The unique trips, running 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Saturday, sail to Norfolk Canyon, 4 to 4 ½ hours from port, each winter. Sometimes when weather is predicted for a Saturday, anglers will be offered to sail on that Sunday or Monday, if weather looks better. Call: 757-422-5700 or 757-425-3400. Visit Web Site.

NORTH CAROLINA

Hatteras

“Gianormus seas,” and no fishing, a report said on the Web site from
The Roost Bait & Tackle at Teach’s Lair Marina. Beaches also took a pounding from rough seas. “Been a real, real long week here,” the report, posted on Sunday, said. Easterly winds also raised tides higher than usual, covering some roads with several feet of sand. Visit Web Site.

FLORIDA

Islamorada

Amberjacks began to show up around the Islamorada Hump, Capt. Bruce Andersen from Captain Easy Charters said.  That’s a dome 11 miles offshore that rises 290 feet from bottom in 600 feet of waters. Charters fished livelined baits, mostly blue runners or speedos, to hook the large, tough-fighting a.j.’s. Sometimes small blackfin tuna were caught and livelined for bait for them. Sharks – big bulls, hammerheads and tigers that fed on the amberjacks – were also fought. But trips aboard cleaned up on a mix of fish. Lots of mutton snappers, including large, were cranked from wrecks in 200 to 250 feet on live bait, usually ballyhoos or cigar minnows. Quite a few sailfish were landed on slow-trolled ballys along the offshore edge of the reef. Blackfin tuna and mahi mahi were also trolled on live bait. Fishing was good. Call: 305-451-9578 or 305-360-2120.
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One of the traveling charters to the Florida Keys fished aboard Saturday with Dick Linus, said Capt. Joe Hughes from Jersey Cape Guide Service from Sea Isle City, N.J. Fishing the Everglades, he tackled nine snook to 12 pounds and some redfish, speckled sea trout, jacks and ladyfish, and a black drum. Live and Gulp shrimp were fished on jigheads. Joe fished solo on Sunday near port in Islamorada, fly-rodding jacks, good-sized mangrove snappers and moonfish on Clouser Minnows and a shrimp pattern that he ties. The annual charters to Florida will fish through Easter, and Joe will turn all attention to fishing back home in Jersey afterward. On the Florida trips, mostly on weekends, anglers can arrive on a Friday, fish all day Saturday and part of Sunday, return home on Sunday evening, and be back to work on Monday. The trips can be a mini, fish-filled vacation. Call: 609-827-3442. Visit Web Site.

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