We are providing another complimentary analysis of the ocean conditions from Monday, April 18th of the overall northeast offshore region from Cape Hatteras to New Jersey to Massachusetts including all offshore canyons to provide some fishing motivation. We have included some spot sea surface temperatures (°F) and located the main eddy features with arrows indicating the flow direction of the water.

Overall, we continue to monitor the large clockwise rotating Gulf Stream warm core eddy now centered south of the Atlantis Canyons and providing some decent chances for bluefin tuna, sharks and bigeye tuna where you find the warmer 58°F to 60°F northern eddy edges pushing into the 100 to 500 fathom ledges of West Atlantis, Atlantis and East Atlantis Canyons. We estimate that if this large eddy continues to drift westward as it has been for the past month or two it will again react with the direct Gulf Stream water and pull direct Gulf Stream water into the Atlantis Canyons then to the Dip and Fish Tails area within the two to four weeks for good to excellent fishing action. If you look farther east we have a couple of encouraging Gulf Stream eddy features lining up nicely south of Georges Bank indicating that the summer season could be a productive fishing season if these eddies remain in-tact and make the traditional long trek west then southwest to the canyons offshore of New York, New Jersey then Delaware and Maryland area by mid-to-late summer.