Well with the bite going off for the last 2 weeks, I figured it was time to get out there and help myself to some of the easy pickings.... WRONG... It started out good, got down to the docks Firday night with my fishing buddy "Big D" and we talked with a lot of people going out as well on 1 day and 2 day trips and the mode was high on getting into a epic bite. The counts had been down for the last couple of days but that means it time for the bite to start up again... I was Hoping.. Well we headed out around 9:30pm and headed south about 100 miles and would be in the zone around grey light. Had a boat meeting with Tim and then a talk from Dave Clark from 976-TUNA and most of us entered the raffle for a trip on the Q105 next year, all for a good cause.. Thanks for the T-shirts Dave. :-)
The morning started out slow but we had a few bites on the troll, then we stopped on a paddy and picked off a few rat size Yellowtails, a few where kept, but most where tossed back for next year..
We then trolled the rest of the day and stopped on a some good meter marks but just could not get the fish to bite.. I think we have caught all the stupid fish.. It was bound to happen some day..
Came in to some nice dolphin schools with tuna under them but there was no way to get the fish to boil..
Fished until we could not see the lines and started home.. The fish count was to low to post but we did have a jackpot winner. Winner photos is at the top of this post..
The trip was a nice boat ride for most of us, great boat, great crew, the skipper did all he could to put us on fish, but he can't make the bite the hooks.. Better luck next time..
Here is the link for what pictures I did take.. Sorry there went more action shots, but needed to catch my own fish and there was not that much action to shot..
Photo Link
Well that is itfor the local season for me this year, looking forward to the 10 day in November..
Cool Tuna.
