Epic white marlin bite continues….

Beautiful weather and conditions has allowed boats to continue to capitalize on the world class marlin fishing that has been going on here in Ocean City. We saw as high as 33 releases from Billfisher and Sea Hag had 30 something as well, might be the 2025 record so far this summer! Many other boats with 10-20 releases Reel Chaos, Wrecker, Bar South, Southern C’s to name a few, but lots of boats had some great fishing! We should continue to see good billfishing at least for the next week or two maybe a little longer depending what this weather does. We are searching for tunas, not much going on as far as yellowfins, we have heard a few bluefins caught trolling and released as the season is closed currently, and we’ve been seeing the unreal big eye bite up north in the Hudson. We are really hoping those fish push down the 100 line and come visit our canyons, we’ll be keeping an eye and continuing to fish and hunt for them they could show up any day. Wahoo are also around, now is a great time to wahoo fish on the 20-30fm lumps, of course mahi are around too! Good luck and tight lines, stay bent y’all! For more info follow along on our social media page Always Bent Fishing on Instagram and Facebook.

Marlin bite out of this world!!

Tons of boats catching white and blue marlin over the last two days as well as plenty of mahi! Todays action sounded like it was all around the Poormans and Dumpsite, however yesterday some boats also fished Norfolk and Washington as well. There is still some nice blue water pushed inshore between the hot dog and the tea cup that is def worth trolling for wahoo or a yellowfin, the yellowfin should show up on the lumps any day now, they gotta be around but they certainly aren’t thick at the moment by any means. Mahi your best bet is to find something floating, whether its a pot or bouy, or if you're really lucky and find a pallet or piece of plywood or a big plastic barrel etc. they’re usually stacked up pretty good! Some great weather days ahead so get out and fish while you can! Good luck, tight lines, and stay bent!!

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Still rough, hoping it shakes things up a bit…

We saw some wahoo, mahi, tuna and marlin all weighed in for MA 500 over the last few days, but zero boats fished today and today is the worst of what we will see from hurricane or tropical system Erin. Not much to report on unfortunately or not much has changed still looking at a far run north or south to any kind of promising life or fishing, but we are really hoping this storm system and high wind really shakes things up and pushes some life and fish back into our local Mid Atlantic waters here, boats in Jersey and NY will have to take.a break from all the insane action they have had as Erin will be approaching them next, and boats to the south in VA will get a chance to get back out there soon and see if anything has changed. Good luck and tight lines! Stay Bent!

Rough conditions for MA500, hopefully it will shake things up….

Well another storm system and another drought tournament week for the boats fishing the Mid Atlantic 500. Fishing has been a grind, with boats settling for mahi and tile fish, or making the long run for Marlin or a chance at tuna, but our local lumps and canyons (Norfolk to Wilmington) have just seemed to be in somewhat of a dead zone. There has been some billfish action deep in the Washington and Norfolk, and then most other boats are running pretty far to the north towards the Hudson and Tom’s for billfish and also tuna. We are really hoping this storm system shakes things up and pushes some life into the Maryland Delaware and Virginia area to end summer with a bang! We will see how the water looks after the storm, tight lines and stay bent!! Also we are working hard on improving our app and our new updated version will be coming out very soon!! Those of you who are already members will automatically gain access to the new app and will be grandfathered in moving forward!! The new app has everything the current one does and more, it is gonna be awesome, highlighting temp breaks and color changes, live location data of other boats recreational and commercial, members and users can submit reports viewable by other members in real time, gonna be an awesome network to be a part of and tool for offshore anglers!

WMO comes to an end, fishing picking back up??

Well white marlin open has come and gone, and we are now in the tail end of summer. Was a tough tournament week between rough conditions and tough tuna fishing for most boats. We did get our bluefin bite on our final day Sunday and unfortunately it spit the hook in the first 60-90 seconds just never came all the way tight or hook wasn’t in good, it happens that’s fishing! A few other boats caught bluefin as well on Sunday and all caught relatively close to the beach, or inside 30 fathoms some as close as 10-15 fathoms! Over the weekend to the north seemed to be the hot spots Masseys, 19fm lump, elephant trunk, cigar, sea isle ridge, etc. Marlin bite continues to be decent in 500-1000fms of Norfolk and Washington. Mahi seem to be plentiful as well both inshore and in the deep! Let’s see how the ladies do this weekend with the Poor Girls Open! We’re also hearing whispers of yellowfins showing back up down south of the Norfolk…. tight lines and stay bent!

Crappy day 3 conditions, 95lb yellowfin weighed!

Well someone found a 95lb yellowfin that is currently sitting in first for the tuna division! Boats are still plucking at the marlin unfortunately there is a lot of smaller white marlin around, so boats are having a tough time finding marlin big enough to qualify or even kill! Tuna still seems like a shot in the dark for us down here, we are so jealous seeing all the action the guys up north in Jersey and New York are having!! Let’s hope as we take our lay days the next 2-3 days that by Saturday/Sunday some tuna have pushed in and we can hook a big one!! Tight lines and stay bent y’all!! (Also Jeff and crew went to Norfolk yesterday, missed a couple marlin bites, no tuna to be found)

900lb Blue Marlin weighed on day one, like we thought slow fishing…

Sure plenty of boats caught and released White Marlins and Blue Marlins, but there was only one or two weighed in, and only a handful of tuna as well. We knew it would be a tough WMO between weather conditions and then the current water conditions, you’ve still got that blue water deep holding marlin and mahi from Washington to Baltimore, but if your like us and after a big tuna it still feels like a shot in the dark, maybe the Norfolk? Maybe the Wilmington or Spencer? Those would be our choices, and certainly look like the best odds of catching, but we have no solid catch reports so at this point it’s still a shot in the dark in our opinion! Team Bad Habit is out there fishing today for day 2 so let’s hope we see you guys tonight live on YouTube from the scales!!! Tight lines and stay bent!

Looking rough for WMO, gonna choose our days wisely…

Well boats are registered and ready for Day 1 of WMO tomorrow! Gonna be a rough week ahead offshore, conditions will not be to friendly but seems like almost every year it always tends to be rough for WMO just comes with it, and not much has changed in the way of fishing, Marlin are def around as well as mahi, some boats could have a chance at a wahoo, and of course boats will be trying for tuna, but I think tuna will be the toughest. You can pick a canyon and hunt for a big eye, I personally think Wilmington and Norfolk still look like the play but Washington could be holding life too, Marlin have been in poormans and Baltimore, and yeah not much has changed as far as water wise and chlorophyll so we’ll see how it goes this week and what comes to the scales, could be anybody’s tournament! 282 boats and over 7 million in prize money, should be an interesting week! We’ll be fishing, and Taylor will be around filming as well on land and on the skiff! I’m sure we’ll be going live as well on YouTube throughout the week updating you all! Tight lines and stay bent!

Yellowfins tricky to locate, marlin bite consistent…

These yellowfin have been tricky to find! We saw a few boats having some luck down to the south just inside the 100 line, and then a few boats north of the Spencer having some luck in the blue water on the 100 line but nothing spectacular, or boats getting their limits, still seems like they have better fishing to the north right now. We have some water leaking inshore from the south down south of the Norfolk, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the VA Beach boats and Chincoteague boats are running down south of the Norfolk and finding them. The marlin bite seems to have been decent too at both the Washington and the Wilmington in that blue water, which has pushed in a little closer, some boats finding them inside 500fms. Mahi are defiantly around as well, haven’t seen a whole lot of them inshore but once you're out near the 100 line in that blue water they are def around! Lot’s of flying fish too, we’ll see what this water has in store for us as we get ready for the annual White Marlin Open next week! Gonna be an interesting one if the fishing stays the way it’s been, could be anybody’s tournament to win!! Tight lines and stay bent!!

Full Service takes home the Big Fish Classic, marlin around what about tuna?

We are beyond stoked our boys on the Full Service got the job done, they got jumped by 5 tuna that size Friday evening in the Wilmington canyon, and I believe only landed one or two of them, they were all 300lb class big eyes, they got a couple yellowfins as well. Overall the tuna fishing has still been slow and scattered, a small boat a 21’ Parker named Teaser ended up taking 2nd place with a big bluefin they caught, my guess is somewhere like masseys or the elephant trunk, but I cannot confirm that! The blue water is pushed in close, we saw flying fish at the hot dog, it looked great inshore, but we didn’t mark any tuna or see signs of life like whales or porpoises or even birds. We are hearing a decent amount of boats catching marlin out deep in the blue water in Washington and Poormans, Wilmington as well. Those big eyes must be cruising up and down the 100 line or something, we’ll see as we have some decent weather this week and boats can get out and fish, someone is gonna find some tuna stacked up somewhere waiting to chew!! Any day now!! In the mean time for members, use our app to your advantage, use our new reporting system for members check for new reports, post reports yourself whether its anonymous or if you can put your boat name in there! Thanks guys tight lines and stay bent!

Tuna bite spotty, marlin deep in blue water…

Well were hearing whispers of a big eye bite, but overall the tuna fishing has been very slow and spotty, few boats picking off single yellowfins in the canyons while marlin fishing, and then the inshore bites to the far south below the Norfolk seem to have slowed up, they may still be biting up north for Jersey boats inshore. As for Ocean City we are right in the middle of the Huk Big Fish so boats are not letting up much information, but our buddies on the Full Service will be weighing in some big eyes and yellowfins today, so we’ll update our members this evening on where they were caught and what they bit! Jeff and the crew have been fishing the last couple days out running around and scouting and can confirm the yellowfins are not at the hot dog or tea cup as of Friday…..

Like we’ve said north and south…

Basically between our app and if you use any services for imagery, im gonna post one above, you can see the blue water is here and all the water is hot 80 degrees or hotter in most areas, so now what? That’s where our app is useful, we can see where commercial boats are fishing, other members are fishing, and then also altimetry and salinity too, it always seems to line up with where the fish are! Like we’ve been saying you best options are basically going as far north as you can make it with your fuel amount, pick a canyon or inshore lump some kind of structure and work it, when its all blue we tend to try and fish near the altimetry lines, I know those fish feel that pressure and it effects them and we’ve tracked it and seen it, but with that being said boats and members are catching them both in the deep blue water and inshore in 30-60fms in green water, or greenish blend I should say cause that blue water is slowly pushing in closer and closer especially to the north! Now to.the south you’ve got the bite that was happening south of the Norfolk on the lumps in 30-60fms south west of the Norfolk, but now there is a good salinity push into the Norfolk and an altimetry line running through the Washington, we haven’t heard any crazy reports from down there, besides some marlin deep in the Washington and mahi, but I wouldn’t be surprised if tuna show up in the Norfolk or Washington, or even inshore on some of our lumps here very soon! Our app and membership really is the best thing for times like this, the altimetry and chlorophyl and stuff def helps, but fresh catch reports from members and seeing where the commercial fleets are fishing and our algorithm predicting the hot spots, its the next best advantage or tool when all the water is blue and hot, intel, Always Bent Intel. Tight Lines and Stay Bent!

Tuna to the north and south, what now?

Well as I’m sure almost everyone knows by now, the yellowfin bite down south of the Norfolk has been pretty good, it was a zoo out there on Saturday with lots of boats down there, quite a few caught, but all that pressure never helps, boats yesterday in that same area had a much slower day than boats on Saturday but they still caught. We also saw our buddies on the Fish-Lik got a nice wahoo down there! Then up to the north there is a bite as well Between the Spencer and Tom’s, we had a member who caught 4 yellows in the Lindenkohl, and then pushed north and got a bluefin in the Carteret, and continued north into Tom’s where they hooked a White Marlin! So it’s decent to the south, decent to the north, but not much in-between, some mahi and a marlin bite here and there in the poormans and Washington. Can’t believe there isn’t more life in that blue water in the Baltimore, then the Wilmington has been great for tile fish if anyone cares about that. One interesting observation we made is the yellowfin to the south seem to be in shallower inside the 100 line in the green water as shallow as 30fms, where as the yellows caught in the Lindenkohl and to the north have been outside the 100 line in deeper blue water, thought that was interesting, we heard the Linde looked great yesterday had birds and whales, probably worth a shot if your thinking of going tomorrow and can’t get to the bite to the south. Tight lines y’all Stay bent!!

Rough yesterday, and rough again today, slow fishing…

Man was it rough yesterday!! We are hearing today it’s still a little sporty out there! Yesterday was absolute washing machine out there with big short period swell, we ended up going straight east to hot dog and then Baltimore and only picked off one mahi, it was just to rough for us to make the trek down to Norfolk, or we didn’t wanna put our bodies or the boat through that beating LOL Unfortunately the fishing seems to have slowed up quite a bit, few boats are still getting a few yellowfins way down to the south around the Norfolk, and a few boats picking at Marlin deep in the Poormans but overall the fishing slowed down compared to what we had, hopefully we get a good piece of water or something to bring another mass of life and fish through our canyons before White Marlin Open! The mahi are def around, we also saw a big 75lb wahoo caught yesterday, and heard whispers of a possible big eye caught in the Wilmy but haven’t seen pics or gotten enough intel to confirm yet. If you can make the run to the south that’s probably best bet for yellowfin, inshore lumps should get ready and turn on any day now, we’ve been checking them and haven’t seen to much yet, but its about that time! Tight lines y’all and stay bent!!

Marlin fishing good early, tunas to the south…

Man we could be in for some great Marlin and bill fishing this summer! Jeff headed out this afternoon in search of a Blue Marlin as well as to scout for some more tunas, so we’ll see how he does! In the meantime we are getting reports of boats still catching yellowfins down south of the Norfolk and just inside the 100 line around the Norfolk, some boats picking at a few here and there in Wilmington and Spencer as well as Washington, but it’s mostly billfish to the north in the blue water. Let’s see if this wind and weather mixes things up at all or maybe a nice piece of fresh water will slide in with some new life for us! To the north is looking really good for all you Jersey and NY guys, I can only imagine it’s on fire!! Tight lines and sty bent!!

Tuna Tournament comes to an end, yellowfins moving inshore?

Well the 2025 Tuna Tournament has come to an end, and just as we thought the tuna bite was very sporadic and they were very spread out. Boats caught a decent amount of yellowfin, but was hard to find big heavy tournament winning fish, I believe we saw one bluefin and two big eyes the entire tournament, and only a handful of yellowfins over 60lbs, we did finally see a nice wahoo get that awesome payout, as well as a good size bull mahi for that division, and then tons of billfish releases, seemed like everyone raised, hooked, or released a white or blue marlin! Good sign for the billfish guys! Now the Jimmy Johnson quest for the ring is coming up so we’ll see how that goes! Fishing wise in my opinion the bio mass is spread out to the north at this point, there’s def some big eyes in the Wilmington and Spencer, probably the Baltimore and Washington too, boats just had trouble getting them to come up and eat, they were all down deep from what we heard, and what Jeff saw as well. The yellowfins we had stacked up in the Poormans area spread out up and down the line and some moved north, however there is another mass of them pushing in from the south, we’ve got good reports of boats out of VA beach doing well south of the Norfolk, and even some Chincoteague and Ocean City boats also doing well between south of the Norfolk and South of the Washington. We also have got reports of some yellowfin finally starting to show up in a little shallower water, pushing into some of the southern most lumps in 30-60 fathoms, down south west of the Norfolk like the 21fm and 22fm fingers, Wayne’s world, and even to the north west spots like the Hook or the Rock Pile are worth starting to scout and troll, even if you don’t find yellowfin you could find wahoo or mahi! Summer fishing is in full swing, let’s see what the water and weather does, and then we’ll see what we think these fish are gonna do! Tight lines and stay bent y’all!!

Day 2 of the OC Tuna Tourney, getting better reports this am…

Well yesterday was an interesting first day, lots of boats catching marlin, and only a handful with tuna! Mostly yellowfins, and one nice bluefin that is currently in the lead. Most boats went north yesterday in search of blue water, and some boats did catch however I would bet today boats are trying other areas and moving south towards poormans or Washington maybe even the Norfolk, I don’t know where they’re fishing but the boat Sushi already has 6 yellowfins in the box this am!! Jeff and crew got 2 mahi and raised 2 whites yesterday, but no love from the tunas, they’re gonna fish their last day tomorrow and get some rest today. For those of you not in the tournament, like we’ve been saying you got a shot in almost any canyon right now, heard Wilmington was slow, I’d just avoid the tourney fleet and hit Poormans or Baltimore, you’ve got as good a shot there as anywhere especially if its not to crowded. Also could be worth poking inside the 100 line and scoping out the meat department and other lumps, could be mahi, wahoo, or even a stray yellowfin in there! Tight lines and stay bent!! We’ll be live again later this evening covering the weigh ins!

Day 1 of OC Tuna Tourney under way!

Day 1 of the Tuna tournament is under way here in Ocean City MD, with over 100 boats competing for over a million dollars!! We will be covering the tournament all weekend on our social media pages, as well as live each night between 4-7pm covering the boats coming in, and changes made to the leaderboard, as well as where we are hearing fish being caught! The truth and reality of the matter is we are having a season that is abnormal, it is much better than last year, however with no real Eddys or perfect pieces of water, these fish seem to be spread out all up and down the 100 line from the Norfolk all the way up to the Spencer and everywhere in between, including even further north! This is anybody’s tournament this year, but obv we are rooting for our crew on the Bad Habit!! Good luck, tight lines, and stay bent!!

Nasty weather inbound, could shake things up…

Well we’ve got some crappy weather inbound which should have most boats at the docks over the next few days, we’ll be keeping a close eye on our app to see what if any commercial boats are out fishing and where they set their gear, we have a good idea of where they’ll be but it’s always interesting to see especially when the conditions are nautical! Hopefully the storm system coming up the coast will shake things up in a good way, the yellowfins should be pushing closer in on some of the lumps any day now, maybe spots like the tea cup or elephant trunk could have fish in the next few weeks even the meat department. For now we are stoked with the fishing we’ve had so far and excited to see what’s in store for the rest of this summer with tournaments right around the corner! Tuna tourney is this weekend! We may get a little quieter leading up to the tournament however you have access to the app and can use it no matter what! Chances are I’ll still pop on and do a daily recap for you members though, just understand we are competing and do want to win just like everyone else so we may be less vocal around tournaments. Thanks for all the support tight lines and stay bent!

Make a plan, and stick to it, the fish are here….

We’ve gotten so many reports from all different areas over the last few days, a lot of boats doing well north of the Washington, then some boats a little further north in south poormans and inside poormans catching tuna, then another group of boats in the Baltimore and up between the Baltimore and Wilmington. Use the data, whether its our app and where the hot spots and commercial fishing activity is, or SST and Chlorophyll shots, pick an area and work it, communicate with buddies and other members while on the water, it seems like almost every one has been catching which is awesome, and everyone seems to be on their own fish in their own little areas! The boats who are where the crowds are actually seem to be struggling a little more, or it is more hit or miss, if your alone or with 2-3 other boats in the Baltimore and go 3 for 4 or 4 for 5 there’s nothing wrong with that! Yes some boats are getting limits further south but there’s also boats down there getting skunked or catching 1 or 2 tuna, so you have to pick you battles, make a plan and stick to it! Work the structure, find the life, find the fish! Jeff went exploring inshore yesterday around the 12 and inshore of Masseys and saw some cobia and also caught that barracuda while trolling!! Some crazy life around this summer could be some wild fishing!! Tight lines and stay bent!