We went back to the Triangle Wrecks yesterday and found the bluefish waiting. Capt. Rick Wineman was already there jigging them up. He said that everyone on his boat had caught multiple citation-sized fish and that they were off to the canyon. We caught all of the large bluefish that we could want. We caught them both trolling and jigging. We caught our largest fish on the troll. We released most of them but some are destined for the smoker. Five of those weighed for citations between 16 pounds and 17 pounds 8 ounces. The guys all had multiple releases that qualified for citations but they did not fill out paperwork for those.
We did some flounder fishing and caught a few. We also caught some nice sea bass that had to be released.
A disturbing thing happened when we caught a couple of false albacore. I am not sure what is most disturbing: that they were eating raw false albacore or that they were eating it off of the bait board. I did not think to get a photo until they were almost done.
We trolled for threshers a bit but did not have an encounter. Ric Burnley was out there and did some fishing for them. They saw two but did not catch them. One followed a plug up to the boat. The other came to a live bluefish that they were slow-trolling but did not eat it.