Montauk Sportfishing Report 7/11/05

7/11/05

The Montauk Boatman's and Captain's Association held their annual shark
tournament over the weekend, and kind of took it on the chin. Normally a
large percentage of boats enter the night before the tournament, but the
weather forecast on Friday wasn't very encouraging. As a result there were
only thirty-five entries, roughly half of what the event usually draws.

Although the weather wasn't the greatest, it was acceptable. Overall the
fishing was decent, but there is definitely a scarcity of makos, as not one
was weighed in. The top of the leaderboard was all bluesharks, with around a
half dozen threshers also weighed in. There was one thresher of around 550
pounds taken on Friday by the LADY GRACE that would have taken everything,
except that they weren't entered in the tournament. I bet they enter next
year. The results are as follows;

1st Place - THE KID - BLUESHARK - 387 lbs

2nd Place - WINDY - BLUESHARK - 346 lbs

3rd Place - ARC ANGEL - BLUESHARK - 306 lbs

4th Place - JEN SUE - THRESHER - 250 lbs

5th Place - SEA WIFE - BLUESHARK - 244 lbs

There are still the small bluefins out there, but I don't believe that
anyone is fishing for them exclusively. Rather the boats are trolling for a
while before setting up their shark slick. It works out well since the tuna
are for the most part inshore of the sharks.

Last week I mentioned that the limit on bluefins is one per boat over 27".
While that is true for the recreational boats, the charter and head boats
have different regs. They are allowed two bluefins over 27" and one between
46" & 73".

Inshore is pretty much as it has been for the last couple of weeks, with
bass fishing difficult, although there are now enough bluefish around to
fill in the dead spots.

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