Charter Party boats for tuna in Northeast?

try Miss Belmar: Belmar NJ Fishing Trips and Charter Boat Rides they will also charter i believe. does the viking do charters? did you check the atlantic star?

who did you call and got a 'no' from?

what abt the helen h?

 

i chartered the Voyager from point pleasant last year.
nice boat we were taking 15 guys.
pleanty room for guys to jig, and have a bait or sword rod out.
bunks for everyone.
gally is available if wanted.
they do 22, 30 and 40 hour trips

i may do it again this year if there is interest.

 

In NJ the boats I know that go regularly are the Jamaica, Voyager, Sea Devil, Doris Mae. There are others too but these are probably the boat that are out there the most in my area.

Out of Montauk the Viking does trip up to 4 days long

 

i dont know if the jamaica charters.....i always had fun on that boat though. if angelo reads this he can chime in as to whether they run private charters.

 

North of NYC, the Helen-H.

Helen H Offshore Fishing Boat - Fishing for Cod & Tuna off the Beautiful Coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts

 

as for #2 - if you're primarily fishing NE party boats, i'd recommend conventional.

 

1. There are a lot of choices, the north east is big where specifically do you want to go out of at what time of the year. For september october i usually stay north or in ny. Choices, The seven b's, helen h, viking, sunbeam, frances fleet, super hawk. Later in the season late october november i like to fish south where the jersey boats are, the doris mae, voyager, gambler, big jamaica, Ms Barnegat Light, The north star, etc

2. You are better off with a conventional, not that you cant bring spinning. You can pop if you want just ask the crew where its b est for you to go so you are out of the way

3.

 

The viking fleet out of LI does the most long range offering some 3 day trips all the way out past the gulf stream which produces big eyes, billfish, yellowfins, swords etc

 

Just throwing the idea out there, but is there any interest in making a 360 NE tuna charter? charter out either the big jamaica, the viking, or the lady frances ? Get say 20 people or so....

 

I would go with a 30 size reel. I prefer narrows. I use all avets for my conventionals. If I was to choose one reel it would probably be a avet 30 2 speed narrow and spool it with 100# spectra backing and 200 yard topshot of 80#.

For Jigging I also like my avets but some prefer star drags.

 

I live "up here" central CT General info for those of you here not familiar with the partyboats up here. Say some of you don't want to fly up just for a 30 hr trip or something like that on the voyager i believe it was, the Frances Fleet runs trips of roughly 70 some odd hrs. strange amount I know but the price is 475$ leaves dock 10pm night before posted trip date and returns mid afternoon on the 3rd day. you get 2 full nights of chunking+jigging and troll during the daylight the 3 days. Crew is really good at what they do, and im sure they would be open to suggestions if majority would rather bottom fish during the day or something of that nature.

 

Just throwing the idea out there, but is there any interest in making a 360 NE tuna charter? charter out either the big jamaica, the viking, or the lady frances ? Get say 20 people or so....


Count me in...........only 18 more to go

 

Count me in...........only 18 more to go

Sounds like a blast! I would do it!

 

Called the Frrances Fleet out of Point Judith RI they said rough estimate for now is for 20 people 600$ per person or 480 for 25 people. It would be on either the 90' gail frances, the 90' admiral frances or possibly the 105' lady frances. I'm calling them back tomorrow for more detail. Trip could be anywhere from late august to early october

 

Called the Frrances Fleet out of Point Judith RI they said rough estimate for now is for 20 people 600$ per person or 480 for 25 people. It would be on either the 90' gail frances, the 90' admiral frances or possibly the 105' lady frances. I'm calling them back tomorrow for more detail. Trip could be anywhere from late august to early october

is this for an overnighter or a multi day?

 

Chartering overnight trips to Canyon is very risky unless you do it on short notice.
We had the worst canyon tuna fishing last year, there is good possibility it could repeat this year and weather is always a problem.

 

MikeG its for a multi day its like 3 days.

 

MikeG its for a multi day its like 3 days.

I don't understand why NY/Panama airfare is only 340 while Houston/Panama is $800 though the distance from Houston/Panama is much shorter.
I dont' know why a party boat in RI charges only $480 for 25 guys for three days while pary boat in Texas charges at least double.