Note: Offshore reports were scarce after the weekend's nor'easter and previously strong winds blew almost every day for more than a week.

That'll happen in fall though this was an usually long stretch.

<b>Shark River Inlet</b>

On the <b>Golden Eagle</b> from Belmar, a tuna trip sailed Sunday to Monday, a report on the party boat’s website said, but no results were posted at press time. Bluefishing resumed Wednesday on the boat, and big blues, and false albacore, were beaten on the outing. These trips were the first to sail in some time on the boat, because of the nor’easter during the weekend, and strong, northeast wind before. See the <a href=" http://goldeneaglefishing.com/tuna-reservation.html" target="_blank">tuna schedule</a> online.

<b>Manasquan Inlet</b>

The party boat <b>Gambler</b> from Point Pleasant Beach was slated to fish on a 48-hour tuna trip Wednesday to today, and the trip likely sailed, or at least had the weather. Phone calls to the captain’s cell phone went directly to voicemail, seeming to indicate he was offshore.  Trips were surely weathered out through the weekend, in the storm. One scheduled for Monday to Tuesday might’ve sailed. See the <a href="http://www.gamblerfishing.net/offshoretrips.php" target="_blank">tuna schedule </a> online.

Fishing was great on a trip to the offshore canyons Wednesday to Thursday on the Jamaica from Brielle, an email from the party boat said. The ocean held a “pretty big swell, but the wind calmed down, and conditions were good,” it said. Yellowfin tuna 50 to 90 pounds, a couple of bigeye tuna to a 230-pounder, and a few longfin tuna were smashed, biting most of the night, with few lulls. The fish began hitting soon after the boat was anchored. Anglers with notable catches included three who limited out on yellowfins and bagged two longfins apiece, and several others who limited on yellowfins. The trip first fished for mahi mahi, tackling lots of the fish to 25 pounds.

<b>Barnegat Light</b>

<b>Miss Barnegat Light</b> is slated to fish next today, for tuna, according to the schedule on the party boat’s website. The season’s first tuna trips aboard were weathered out last Friday and Saturday in the storm. All trips are fishing for tuna aboard, for now, and see the <a href="http://www.missbarnegatlight.com/TunaFishing.html" target="_blank">tuna schedule</a> online.

An overnighter for tuna today would probably be weathered out on the <b>Super Chic</b> from Barnegat Light, Capt. Ted said. He knew that the party boats Jamaica from Brielle and Voyager from Point Pleasant Beach overnighted for tuna Wednesday to Thursday, and was yet to hear results.

<b>Beach Haven Inlet</b>

Tuna trips were supposed to fish on the <b>June Bug</b> from Beach Haven last weekend and this weekend, Capt. Lindsay said. Last weekend’s was weathered out, and the storm did no substantial damage to the boat, but caused some maintenance that will be needed to the outriggers. Lindsay will boat the inlet Saturday to see how the weather might’ve shifted sand bar navigation. No boats that fished were known about from Long Beach Island since the storm. This writer told Lindsay about party boats from farther north in the state that were known to sail for tuna on overnighters in past days, though most results were yet to be reported. That’s what’s needed, he said: The big boats to fish for tuna. Then whether tuna moved, or where they were located, since the storm, could be known. A couple of boats two weekends ago, before the storm, found yellowfin tuna, not big, 30 or 35 pounds, but limits. Those were some of the season’s first substantial catches of yellowfins. Long Beach Island seemed not to fare badly from the storm. Dunes at Stone Harbor, farther south, were heard about that now met a 12-foot drop to the beach. That area usually holds an especially long, gradual decline to the water. 

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