On Saturday, the early morning drift yielded some cod, to get everyone warmed up. The real action started when Captain Gary Cannell chose to anchor over several hot spots. Cod to 20lbs hit Norwegian jigs, aiming for herring, but hitting the hook and landing aboard Tuna Hunter. Haddock – boatloads of haddock – preferred the clams throughout this weekend. Saturday’s haddock bite was steadier and continued later in the day. The Westchester guys were fishing all day long, reeling all day long, which is what we all aim for.

Typical to all trips in the spring, the breezes offshore and 45 degree water keep it much cooler than the 80′s on shore. As the water warms up, expect migrating striped bass and eventually bluefin tuna to move into our area.

There is plenty of life out on both Jeffries Ledge and Stellwagen Bank: sand eels, herring, pods of whales. It all looks promising to attract and hold quality fish throughout our summer season.

Gives us a call for the latest openings – 978-407-1351 or email captain@tunahunter.com

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Tuna Hunter encourages all anglers to participate in the Tag-A-Tiny Tuna Tournament August 22 – 24 to support the Large Pelagic Research Center’s Tag-A-Tiny program.

The focus of the Tournament, hosted by the North Shore Community Tuna Association, is promote tag-and-release of juvenile bluefin tuna and to raise funds for Dr. Molly Lutcavage and the UNH Large Pelagics Research Center. The Tag-A-Tiny program studies the migration paths of juvenlile bluefin tuna through internal and external archival tags. The Tag-A-Tiny program has made great progress since its inception in 2005. ( Read more about the Tag A Tiny program here) but funding is needed to continue this important program.

The Tournament has three categories of boats: small, large, and charter.

The winner of each category will be the boat that tagged the most fish.

Dated digital photos will be required for each fish tagged in order to
make the tournament as fair as possible.
There will also be a kill
category for giant Bluefin Tuna.

Each registered boat will receive a
tagging kit, sponsor gifts, four t-shirts, and four meal tickets for
the grand celebration dinner. The tournament will take place up and
down the east coast (from Maine to Florida ) with its base in
Gloucester, MA . Tournament tagging kits will be sent to all
applicants whose registrations are received before August 10^th.
Entries within a two hour drive of Gloucester , MA will be accepted through Wednesday, August 20^th, 2008.

Full details including registration form can be found at www.rockonproducts.com.

To Download a registration click this link:

http://rockonproducts.com/pdf/tag_a_tiny_registration.pdf

Sign Up

Contact Mark Godfried for more information about signing up for the Tag A Tiny Tournament

email: tagatiny@gmail.com

phone: (978) 317-1797

Thank
you to the tournament sponsors: Ouellette and Smith (Fishlaw);
Grady-White Boats ; Gloucester Seafood Display Auction; Gloucester
House Restaurant; Captain Carlo’s Restaurant; Commercial Fisheries
News; On the Water Media; Madfish Grill; Intershell; The Billfish
Foundation; and Seaboard Products Company, proud distributors of
Anheuser Busch Products. Please support these sponsors as they help support our fishery!

Tuna Hunter strongly supports tag and release of bluefin tuna and other species, and Molly Lutcavage’s efforts with bluefin tagging in particular. See our AFTCO Tag Flag tagging story here.

Call Tuna Hunter at 978-407-1351 or email captain@tunahunter.com for our latest openings.
Bluefin Tuna are running strong now – register for hte Tag-A-Tiny Tournament, or call us to book your appointment with a fattie (for tag-and-release, or course!)

Bluefin Tuna Fishing aboard Tuna Hunter is HOT lately, as the Roach charter can attest.

Their recent bluefin tuna charter yielded several gorgeous bluefin tuna in the 130 – 200-pound range.
On Tuna Hunter we fight this size tuna on light tackle, standup.

This looks easy here .. but battling a bluefin tuna standup is heavy work. All aboard had sore arms by the end of this charter!

The guys retained one fish; the remaining bluefin were tagged and released unharmed.
Tuna Hunter supports tag and release. See our AFTCO Tag Flag tagging story here.

Captain Gary is known along the eastern seaboard for his expertise with bluefin tuna. It helps that Tuna Hunter is fully loaded with all sizes of rods and reels, bait and lures to handle any and all fishing conditions. Tuna Hunting is Captain Gary’s passion … if there’s one around, he’ll likely hook it. You get to land it!

Call Tuna Hunter at 978-407-1351 or email captain@tunahunter.com for our latest openings.
Bluefin Tuna are running strong now – call us to book your appointment with a fattie!

The “Pineapple People” have a great time fishing aboard Tuna Hunter each year.
2008 is no exception ~ In fact, 2008 was a surprising Striped Bass Fishing Charter …

because they ended up with a Bluefin Tuna!

Captain Gary is known for the occasional bluefin tuna catch a mile or so offshore .. as only Gary can spot ‘em and hook ‘em that easy. It helps that Tuna Hunter is fully loaded with all sizes of rods and reels, and all sorts of bait for just such an event. Tuna Hunting is Captain Gary’s passion … if there’s one around, he’ll likely hook it.

Call Tuna Hunter at 978-407-1351 or email captain@tunahunter.com for our latest openings. We work hard to make sure you go home with fish – and if a bigger fish comes along, we’ll try for that too!