We had a very nice trip this past weekend to the Washington Canyon along with great weather, a great crew, no mechanical problems and lots of fish. We really lucked out with the weather. The forecast was for 10-20kts and 5-7ft waves. Instead we had 5Kts 1-2 ft until midnight Saturday when it picked up…
The boat looks good with the new paint and the name reinstalled, so we are officially back in action as the Maximum Gusto! We finally made our first offshore trip this weekend. The weather forecast was marginal with 10-20Kt winds so we chose to go to the inshore lumps for Bluefin tuna. (The alternative was…
First and formost, I would like to thank Matt (my brother) for organizing this whole thing. Without Matt, this would not have been possible and we would never have had this happen. THANK YOU MATT!!!! Yesterday (Sunday November 4) I got to be a part of probably one of the most rewarding experiences of my…
As is always the case in the late season, weather is almost always your biggest enemy. However after enduring another week long weather watch and hoping get that perfect weekend weather forecast it appeared as if the crew of the Gusto lucked out as NOAA was nice enough to claim a 2’-3’ wave height forecast…
We took two trips since my last report. There was an epic tuna bite going on at the hot dog during the week July 9, but we could not go out that weekend because the boat was hauled out to install our new sonar transducers for our fancy new fish finder. Unfortunately then a 20-30Kt…
What a weekend for the Maximum Gusto and crew after successfully completing their first official tournament (The Florida Key’s Nurse Shark Grand Prix will not be counted) in this year’s South Jersey Shark Tournament with a 3rd place finish in Mako points. The Gusto was loaded up with another all-star crew of Rich, Matt, Brandon,…
Sorry for the late posting but here goes the fishing report from the weekend of July 29-31. We left Cape May inlet about 3am and anchored up at Masseys canyon around 6am. This trip was the ladies day out so we had them doing most the work. They were tending lines, chunking and fighting the…
It was finally that time again and with an all star crew of Big Karl, Andrea, Rich, Matt, Eric (Big Er), Eric jr (Lil Er), Brandon, Shane, and Joe slated, The Maximum Gusto was ready for another offshore overnight tuna trip. The plan was to steam out Friday night and do the usual Sunday afternoon return. After…