First Shark trip of 2012

Yesterday was our maiden sharking voyage of 2012 aboard our 25cc banished, We set out of Jones inlet  due 31 miles south  of the inlet over some natural pieces 3 miles east of the HA buoy...The crew consisted of Big John"pops", Uncle Steven Milano, Capt JJ"me" and first mate Marco who did a hell of a job handling these big fish... We started our slick around 7 am and started off the day with a dog shark problem but after a hour or so the blue sharks showed up in full force and got bigger as the day went on... It was nonstop action on these fish and the majority ranged between 150 to 300 lbs   which is not the normal size for your spring shark run.. We didn't get our Mako or thresher we had no shot with 5 to 10 big!!! blue sharks surrounding our boat, bumping it ,biting our props and chum buckets it was  def not the day for a swim to cool off... The last shark of the day was around 300 lbs and took a hour or so to get to the boat, it was one tough blue dog and actually bent the seat of our penn international  50 wide  and after that it was around 2 pm and we decided to head for the barn... What a nice first trip it turned out to be , it oiled up the crew for the next trip and that big mako / thresher we will be looking for, now off to the chiropractor and the tackle shop to re-rig  btw  a special thanks to Mike Falco "Rip Some Lip Tackle" in Freeport for hooking us up with the bait/chum....

Tight lines  JJ