Personal best Offshore

425 pound Black Marlin - Costa Rica (had the video - computer crashed - video crashed with it 😡)

Tuna - 300+ bigeye, 600+ bluefin, several 60+ albacore, 280 Yellowfin (all on my boat)
Blue marlin - two 750+ one on my boat one in Kailua-Kona both released
White Marlin - Several up to about 60 pounds
Sword fish - several just over or under 100 pounds on my boat, all released.

Nothing impressive with me on the rod that I can confirm/remember weights other than............

1. Mako 161 - F/V Kristen
2. Bluefin 175 dressed - F/V Ivory Queen
3. Mahi Mahi 18 - F/V Nikki Ann
4. Wahoo 26 - F/V Nikki Ann

Other than the above confirmed, I'll add plenty of YFT 80lb class, no Bigeyes, many Long Fins, to about 50lbs., no Swordfish, no Marlin of any kind, an assortment of every other kind of shark that inhabits our waters, some very large Dusky's, very, very large Bluesharks, one estimated easily over 350, some Mako's larger than the 161 above, no Thresher's. Am I missing any offshore fish here?

From 1978 to 2011 I fished offshore on private and Head Boats.
BFT from 20 to 998 lbs, the later caught on a 25 foot cc out of Greenport Mass.
250 lb BFT caught on the Atlantis Princess using a jigging rod with 80 lb mono
YFT up to 185 lbs, inshore in the butter fish hole off R.I. to 150 lbs 1980's
White Marlin up to 78 lbs
Blue Marlin up to 400 lbs
Albacore up to 65 lbs, held the Ct. state record for several years
Mahi up to 45 lbs caught on the Capt Francis on a private charter
Big eye up to 300 lbs Sunbeam express , Niantic ct.
Sword fish up to 200 lbs
Tile fish to 50 lbs.
Wahoo estimated 64 lbs released.
Mako up to 200 lbs
Tiger Shark 800 lbs
Blue Shark, lol lost count.
Manta ray estimated over 300 lbs

From 1978 to 2011 I fished offshore on private and Head Boats.
BFT from 20 to 998 lbs, the later caught on a 25 foot cc out of Greenport Mass.
250 lb BFT caught on the Atlantis Princess using a jigging rod with 80 lb mono
YFT up to 185 lbs, inshore in the butter fish hole off R.I. to 150 lbs 1980's
White Marlin up to 78 lbs
Blue Marlin up to 400 lbs
Albacore up to 65 lbs, held the Ct. state record for several years
Mahi up to 45 lbs caught on the Capt Francis on a private charter
Big eye up to 300 lbs Sunbeam express , Niantic ct.
Sword fish up to 200 lbs
Tile fish to 50 lbs.
Wahoo estimated 64 lbs released.
Mako up to 200 lbs
Tiger Shark 800 lbs
Blue Shark, lol lost count.
Manta ray estimated over 300 lbs

That's some resume Capt! 👍

Fluke Whisperer.........Very nice indeed.

Thank you, I stopped fishing offshore in 2011, the Last boat I was on was the Voyager out of Point Pleasant N.J.
I saw a big decline in the yft population as everyone did,The last trip I was on saw yft in the 40 lb range, 1 big eye was caught, but never landed, the angler fought it for over 4 hrs, Capt. Jeff Gutman was backing down on the fish, unfortunately the angler was using a very light outfit, it hit just as were going over the edge, I miss being out there, young mans game these days. lol

The only offshore fishing I’ve done was one shark trip out of Montauk. 90 pound mako tagged and released. Bunch of blue dogs. Believe it or not I get extremely seasick offshore I can’t take the ground swell. Supposedly those patches work wonders. I never tried em though.

This is my personal best, and the fish that started it all! I was in my mid-late 20's and made it to the boat without sleeping and still a bit hungover after a night out in the Hamptons. I jumped on my friend's boat and we traveled 11-miles to the Tuna Hole outside of Shinnecock. We had 4- Makos that day 3 we released and we had one tied off that was approx 150. End of the day, the last line goes, and 2-hours and I don't know how many jumps later we stuck this 586-pound mako.

AND you're wearing a NYR jacket 👍 👍 👍

AND you're wearing a NYR jacket 👍👍👍

As a Long Islander in those days, the rant was "1940" from all those damn Islander fans 🙂

This is my personal best, and the fish that started it all! I was in my mid-late 20's and made it to the boat without sleeping and still a bit hungover after a night out in the Hamptons. I jumped on my friend's boat and we traveled 11-miles to the Tuna Hole outside of Shinnecock. We had 4- Makos that day 3 we released and we had one tied off that was approx 150. End of the day, the last line goes, and 2-hours and I don't know how many jumps later we stuck this 586-pound mako.

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They can put on a most spectacular show, sometimes very dangerously when they get close to the boat.
Very nice George.

Beautiful fish George!!!

Some fish!

This is my personal best, and the fish that started it all! I was in my mid-late 20's and made it to the boat without sleeping and still a bit hungover after a night out in the Hamptons. I jumped on my friend's boat and we traveled 11-miles to the Tuna Hole outside of Shinnecock. We had 4- Makos that day 3 we released and we had one tied off that was approx 150. End of the day, the last line goes, and 2-hours and I don't know how many jumps later we stuck this 586-pound mako.

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Nice Mr President

Forgot to mention sharks:
Mako lots of fish biggest was pushing 600 pounds
Its of blue dogs
Several relatively small (like 120 lbs) tigers
Several hammerheads
Lots of browns
Two sand tigers
several small threshers
Innumerable dogfish, (both smooth and spiny)

Heres one for now, from 10/12/94. State record Thresher 614 lbs, caught on the Gambler...kind of a throwback but still a record to date.

Nice Mr President

Were you fishing with someone named mike on a center console...I know weird question but 586 same weight so just asking