Trip Reports

ATLANTUS CHARTERS

Located in Atlantic City's historic Gardner's Basin

Captain Brian Larsen

609.408.3564

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2013 Trip Reports

Sat, April 13: Private Half Day Fishing Charter. Hit some wrecks out of Atlantic City and had 10 throw back Taug and 2 keepers, 15"& 18". We had a long interval swell with a slight breeze giving us a beautiful day. Air temp:mid 50s. Water temp: 40s still.

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2012 Trip Reports

Sun, Aug 19: Deep tech dive to the Varanger. Monster taug around. 40' of viz. Great day on the water diving 150'. Scallops and muscles a plenty.

Fri, Aug 17:Dove the Jet Trader in the morning followed by anchoring up to watch the airshow outside of Atlantic City. Viz on the JT was beautiful at 30-40'. Muscles everywhere. Flounder around and some taug.

Tues, July 31: Open Boat Wreck Fishing Trip. Awesome group out today. Ryan McDonald landed a 14lb, 33" Flounder on rod and reel on a wreck off of Atlantic City. 16 flounder keepers, 6 seabass. Most flounder were over 20", some 24" & 25". Lots of throwbacks too.

Sat, July 28: Dove the John Marvin. At least 40+ of viz. Calm seas and spectacular viz while diving a beautiful in tact wreck. Great day out on the water. This is what Jersey SCUBA diving is all about.

Wed, July 25: Dove the Pat McAllister today with American Diving Supply. 5-10ft viz. Sand Tiger Sharks were hanging out by the wreck for both dives. Awesome to see especially since they were right on you because of the limited viz. Jersey SCUBA diving ROCKS!

Mon, July 23: Private Tilefishing 24 Offshore Trip. 30 tile, mahi and seabass. Visited the Wilmington. All Tile were between 15-30 lbs. Awesome trip, Beautiful 2ft seas. Lake Atlantic in the canyons.

Tues, July 17: Open Boat Wreck Fishing, had a great group today. Sharks everywhere and hooked up a couple. Calm seas and bait everywhere. Caught seabass & taug (released).

Fri, July 13: Night Dive on the Almirante. Viz 5-10". 56 bottom temp, 66 surface. Flounder and Lobster all over the place. 2nd dive was beautiful. Surface viz was spectacular around 40+ foot. Great night dive.

Wed, July 4: Dove the Almirante. Viz was 15-20ft. Bottom temp was 55, surface 66. FLOUNDERS GALORE! Jen shot a 28" slob while Henry, Rob, Warren and others all shot some. The Atlantus had a total of 26 flounder on the deck by the time we were done the dive. Lobsters, seabass and artifacts were also added to the insane collection of goodness. Jodi-Lynd found a sweet brass pipe with flanges on both ends. NICE! Awesome day of diving and a great 4th of July. America ROCKS!

Sun, July 1: Dove the Almirante with American Diving Supply. Kurt got his first flounder with his new wood speargun. Drew did great with multiple 5lb+ flounder. A new diver cut his teeth in the North Atlantic finding a glass bottom intricate mug (Captain Brian saw it, Freaking AWESOME!!!). Other divers found some anchors, sinkers and various other dive booty. GREAT DAY! (The Flour STILL produces!!!!!)

Sat, June 30: Dove the Southern Lillian. 31" cod speared. Viz was 40'! 10 lobsters. 10 ling. What else can you ask for? Great friggin' day!

Sat, June 23: American Diving Supply trip to the Copper Wreck. Great day. Lobsters and artifacts. Divers found some slave chain, brass trinkets, brass pipes, bass nails, and some nice bugs to make a nice day.

Tues, June 19: 15 Sea bass keepers, 14 Ling, 1 Pollock. Great day of fishing for a group of fishermen on Atlantus Charters for Open Boat Tuesdays Wreck Fishing Trips. Calm Seas. What more could we ask for?!

Mon, May 28: American Diving Supply, 3 tank dive. Started out on the John Marvin, decent viz at 15 feet. Lots of sea bass on the wreck, some divers speared a couple. We then moved in to the Sea Girt wreck which had 12 foot vis and did our final 2 dives here. Jesse Pettit got a nice lobster and sea bass he was happy for his first ocean dives of the season.

Sat/Sun, May 26 - 27: The Atlantus headed to the canyons Saturday at noon to try our luck for some tuna, sharks and what ever else we could get to and we did pretty good. Landed 2 nice 40 lbs yellowfin tuna Saturday afternoon/evening and a big mahi-mahi. Tried to chunk up the tuna after dark but got no takers so we moved and switched to sharking... broke one off and then landed a nice mako. In the am we tried trolling again for a little bit. One knock down that we couldn't capitalize on. Started steaming in, stopped for a few minutes and caught a couple seabass on an offshore wreck. Not too bad for the first tuna trip of the year.

Sat, May 12: Beautiful day diving the Astra wreck. Bow and stern pieces. Rich, John, Rob and Michael joined Captain Shadows, Shaner and Captain Brian for a great day of diving on both sections of the Astra. The first dive on the bigger piece was nice. 10-12ft viz. John P got a nice lobster, Shaner popped the hook. We then went to the small piece of the Astra. Viz was the same, 10-12ft. Captain Brian got a nice monkfish. Calm seas and a beautiful day. Check Schedule for upcoming dives! The diving is good!

Fri, May 11: Joe, Vinny and friends had a nice afternoon flounder fishing. Ended up with 2 keepers. Biggest being 20" in addition to 12 throwbacks.

Sat. May 5: Bachelor party today enjoyed a great opening day of Flounder season. We had 5 keepers, 10 throwbacks in a half day trip.

Tues, April 29: Beautiful day to fish. On the ride out the Atlantus had a belt slip. Captain Brian Larsen got the belt tightened and we back in business shortly. Started fishing some wrecks off of Brigantine. Caught a couple keepers but mostly small fish and doggies. Moved offshore, had a good bite for the afternoon. Lots of big seabass (released) and some nice tog as well including Mike's 12.6 lbs, 25" Tog-zilla!

Sat, April 21: PM Half day fishing trip. Bachelor party this afternoon. Tog were biting today. 1 nice keeper, lots of little fish again. Needed a bit more time. Good day overall, guys had a blast.