Jersey Hooker Charters gained first place with a white marlin in the Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club White Marlin Invitational on Friday, the tournament’s first fishable day, an e-mail from the boat said. The fish was knocked out of first by one other white on Saturday, but the crew won all the Calcuttas for the first day and the Calcutta for heaviest white in the event. After all boats sat out fishing on Thursday, the first day of the tournament, because of seas, the crew with Jersey Hooker – Capt. Rich Wilkowski, mate George Paley, Tom “Big-T” Wortmann, Kenny Burnes and “Mean” Dean Holonics – set out for the canyons on Friday for the tournament. They arrived at the grounds, meeting a 4- to 7-foot chop and occasional 10-footers, though forecasts had called for “prime fishing conditions,” the e-mail said. They started fishing when the committee boat called all lines in at 8 a.m. A 50-pound yellowfin tuna was trolled. After a little while, a white marlin jumped the spread and was hooked. The spread was cleared, and Capt. Rich backed down the boat, and the 69-inch white was placed in the fish box after 20 minutes. Seas worsened, and a couple of more whites entered the spread without biting. Lines out took place at 3 p.m. Back at the docks, Jersey Hooker was the only boat with a white marlin weighed in that day, jumping to the top of the leader board. On the next day, Saturday, the crew released one white, raised a couple and landed a good-sized, gaffer mahi mahi. Three whites were boated in the tournament that final day of the event, and the only one that qualified bumped Jersey Hooker out of first place.
Joe Piscetta and five buddies jumped aboard the boat for a 4-hour Vacation Special Trip, bailing sea bass the whole time at sticky bottom in the ocean. They had to work for the legal-sized lumpheads, but boxed 30 large keepers, a porgy and a cocktail blue.
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