HIT N RUN
06-08-2009, 11:33 PM
Let me start by saying the thumbs up is for the fact that we have some nice class fish showing daily out there from both the reports we are all seeing from the OI & PC reports as well as what I saw first hand yesterday. We had planned to fish both Sat & Sun but bagged Sat due to the unsettled morning weather & the fact that we didn't want to take a pounding in my little boat without atleast a comfirmed Sat shot/good report.
Sorry for the late report but this is the first chance I have had. Also didn't take pics but will try to get some via E-mail from the guys.
Crew: Bert,Shawn,Lindsay,Chris,Marty,Howard & me.
Fished early from the 630 in the loaded with life Tuna hole that just needs pretty water & a bit of time to get right. We spent some time but lost intrest due to the water temp & ugly color. As we pushed south we heard of a good bite developing for the Point Runner & Skilagal. We continued to work south & out looking for better water & found it in about 500 or so fathoms from the 570 south. 72.5-73+++ as the day went on with clear blue blend & with hardly any tide to speak of. By the time we arrived it was alive & busy with boats pounding the slicks. Bonita were popping up & if you hit them right would produce. As you could imagine, it was tough to get a good pass & because I had chosen to run my stick this day, I had to kind of keep my distance & work the outskirts. I also would go back to areas already worked after the heart of the fleet had moved on south to suck up a scrap or two but trust me when I say we were in the meat & had more than our fair share of perfect passes.:confused:
Well for us it was an amazing day of missed bites. Marks galore, rigger clips popping or getting jerked out of my hands while jigging my longs, danglers getting pounded with out hook up & tons of bit off Ballys. Now mind you that in with the Tuna were Bonita so It would be safe to say that many of the meat misses could have also been from them. Who knows but the Marks on the screen were the best I've seen in a good while & needless to say I was super wired & loving every minute of it. Not counting all the (likley to be just Bonita bites) I would say we should have managed atleast 10 nice Tuna. In the end we only caught 3 + a single Dolphin. We watched tons of hookups others had pulling meat only spreads way back from around the 570-530. For us it was miss after miss. It was so bad that when we got in I had Bert check one of the Bellys & sure enough guess what was in it. Other peoples Ballyhoo.:eek2:
Howard & I were talking on the way home today about what we could of done different. We had only 2 things that came to mind, Meat only & no stick??? or stop & drop on the marks with the jigs.???? Well with the marks we had I'm sure the jig could of worked but then again it was beyond impossible for me to pull them back with all that pretty stuff back there on what would seem to be a perfect pass. Well anyways, today wasn't our day for catching but it sure was one of the better days I can remember for ege of you seat hunting. Man you just had that never ending feeling that any minute we were gonna get pounded. We did manage 2 out of 3 on the stick hooked solid & that many or more that just aired & missed or would slash through but not committ & 1 out of a pile of meat bites so with these fish being nice class it proved to be enough meat for the crew.
The other intresting thing was after seeing the ballys in the stomach of one of the fish I know we caught on rubber, I looked to see what others had reported & it was intresting to see this report from Tuna Fever who apparently experinced a similar day out there on Sun.
Here is what he relayed to his wife Heather who types his reports daily. He & the Outrigger also chose to run a stick combined with closer in meat baits.
Copied & pasted from Tuna Fevers website.
6/7/2009
This way and that way and this way again - Happy Birthday to Byron Green who caught a fat snowy grouper and a limit of tiles today.
You can probably surmise that tuna fishing was not all that today - the boys started out around the 787 and 610 and Billy says the water was military green and 69 degrees..they headed southeast ran around the Point found some 73 degree change and all the boats lined up and headed south again looking for just about anything - when they didnt find it everyone headed for the 450 and the tile hole. Byron and the boys hadn't done it before so they had a great time. Well, while the Point Runner was trolling down for the bottom bite they saw bonitas and got whammed. So everyone headed that way - and heres the deal...Billy didn't say it but everyone had bites that didn't stick. No hookups. He said it was like the tunas were playing games...well I think it was the full moon (big believer here) 15 strikes on the Tuna fever and not one fish actually ate the hook! You tell me!
Anyways :thumbup: cause the Tuna are starting to show more & more + the size of all 3 of our fish were very nice compared to what it's been. I am hoping the area from the 610 north starts to get right soon cause the mammal life is awesome & it just looks fishy less the pretty water atleast as of yesterday. I see todays sats look much better so we will see by next weekend.
Good talking with Kevin,Leon,Talyor,Dave & others. See you all next weekend.
May be able to get some fun pics from the day with fish & action but most importantly of Shawn chumming to the fish gods first thing in the am in one of most calm days you could ever ask for.:D;-)
Just kidding Shawn. Staying up late & drinking too much will get ya from time to time.:helpsmilie:
Sorry for the late report but this is the first chance I have had. Also didn't take pics but will try to get some via E-mail from the guys.
Crew: Bert,Shawn,Lindsay,Chris,Marty,Howard & me.
Fished early from the 630 in the loaded with life Tuna hole that just needs pretty water & a bit of time to get right. We spent some time but lost intrest due to the water temp & ugly color. As we pushed south we heard of a good bite developing for the Point Runner & Skilagal. We continued to work south & out looking for better water & found it in about 500 or so fathoms from the 570 south. 72.5-73+++ as the day went on with clear blue blend & with hardly any tide to speak of. By the time we arrived it was alive & busy with boats pounding the slicks. Bonita were popping up & if you hit them right would produce. As you could imagine, it was tough to get a good pass & because I had chosen to run my stick this day, I had to kind of keep my distance & work the outskirts. I also would go back to areas already worked after the heart of the fleet had moved on south to suck up a scrap or two but trust me when I say we were in the meat & had more than our fair share of perfect passes.:confused:
Well for us it was an amazing day of missed bites. Marks galore, rigger clips popping or getting jerked out of my hands while jigging my longs, danglers getting pounded with out hook up & tons of bit off Ballys. Now mind you that in with the Tuna were Bonita so It would be safe to say that many of the meat misses could have also been from them. Who knows but the Marks on the screen were the best I've seen in a good while & needless to say I was super wired & loving every minute of it. Not counting all the (likley to be just Bonita bites) I would say we should have managed atleast 10 nice Tuna. In the end we only caught 3 + a single Dolphin. We watched tons of hookups others had pulling meat only spreads way back from around the 570-530. For us it was miss after miss. It was so bad that when we got in I had Bert check one of the Bellys & sure enough guess what was in it. Other peoples Ballyhoo.:eek2:
Howard & I were talking on the way home today about what we could of done different. We had only 2 things that came to mind, Meat only & no stick??? or stop & drop on the marks with the jigs.???? Well with the marks we had I'm sure the jig could of worked but then again it was beyond impossible for me to pull them back with all that pretty stuff back there on what would seem to be a perfect pass. Well anyways, today wasn't our day for catching but it sure was one of the better days I can remember for ege of you seat hunting. Man you just had that never ending feeling that any minute we were gonna get pounded. We did manage 2 out of 3 on the stick hooked solid & that many or more that just aired & missed or would slash through but not committ & 1 out of a pile of meat bites so with these fish being nice class it proved to be enough meat for the crew.
The other intresting thing was after seeing the ballys in the stomach of one of the fish I know we caught on rubber, I looked to see what others had reported & it was intresting to see this report from Tuna Fever who apparently experinced a similar day out there on Sun.
Here is what he relayed to his wife Heather who types his reports daily. He & the Outrigger also chose to run a stick combined with closer in meat baits.
Copied & pasted from Tuna Fevers website.
6/7/2009
This way and that way and this way again - Happy Birthday to Byron Green who caught a fat snowy grouper and a limit of tiles today.
You can probably surmise that tuna fishing was not all that today - the boys started out around the 787 and 610 and Billy says the water was military green and 69 degrees..they headed southeast ran around the Point found some 73 degree change and all the boats lined up and headed south again looking for just about anything - when they didnt find it everyone headed for the 450 and the tile hole. Byron and the boys hadn't done it before so they had a great time. Well, while the Point Runner was trolling down for the bottom bite they saw bonitas and got whammed. So everyone headed that way - and heres the deal...Billy didn't say it but everyone had bites that didn't stick. No hookups. He said it was like the tunas were playing games...well I think it was the full moon (big believer here) 15 strikes on the Tuna fever and not one fish actually ate the hook! You tell me!
Anyways :thumbup: cause the Tuna are starting to show more & more + the size of all 3 of our fish were very nice compared to what it's been. I am hoping the area from the 610 north starts to get right soon cause the mammal life is awesome & it just looks fishy less the pretty water atleast as of yesterday. I see todays sats look much better so we will see by next weekend.
Good talking with Kevin,Leon,Talyor,Dave & others. See you all next weekend.
May be able to get some fun pics from the day with fish & action but most importantly of Shawn chumming to the fish gods first thing in the am in one of most calm days you could ever ask for.:D;-)
Just kidding Shawn. Staying up late & drinking too much will get ya from time to time.:helpsmilie: