r/offshorefishing

Hi everyone, I’m not one to ask for much guidance/advice especially fishing, but Tuna have been stumping me.

I’m on a 23’ tidewater that I’ve fished hard for bass and other inshore species this year and am looking to try my hand at some mid shore tuna.
I have been acquired jigging and popping setups and all associated jigs/ poppers/ Ron z and whatever I can get my hands on. I will soon be purchasing a couple trolling combos “probably gonna start with a set of 30’s” unless I’m convinced to go 50’s.

Does anyone have some advice or maybe a finger point towards some 5-15 Mile locations? Some advice on baits or rigging? Maybe some input on trolling gear or even lead weight. Any and all info will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance and for the read,

Dave

Hope I'm all good to post this here.

A few days ago I created r/smokingfish , a community dedicated to smoking tuna, trout, salmon and everything else that swims.

I figured I'd find a few people who like to smoke their catch in here. And to those that haven't tried it, you're missing out! Mahi, grouper and leaner fish in general take some finesse to smoke right, but smoked salmon belly is insanely delicious and hard to mess up.

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I’ve been fishing freshwater and inshore for around 8-10 years now and I’ve never been offshore or cared to go until recently and I am hooked. I went a couple times to the North Atlantic out of Daytona with my friend and his dad anywhere from 100-300ft and we were jigging metals and dropping bait to bottom catching some nice fish. I’ve been looking to go on some party boats with my own setups. Right now I’m looking at a penn fathom 2 25n lever drag single speed and planning on pairing that with a crowder enamic 7ft 15-40lb mono to start off with. What do yall think. And is there any affordable party boats around Daytona yall would recommend?

In NJ, want to try trolling and have always just used spinning reels for bottom, striped, blue. I don’t want to drop 5-10k on gear. Would older penn senators and used trolling poles get the job done? From what I see the main difference is slower retrieval and less accurate drag setting. But they caught big ass fish with this stuff before modern equipment and the fish haven’t changed.

What size reels would you be aiming to get?