19 Fathom Lump Report for today chunking & jigging for BFT

[Caveman Sportfishing]

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Was sick of losing big fish to light leader and decided to try something different on today's make-up trip and leave at midnight and catch live squid and put them out before sunrise with heavy floro leader and see if the tuna would bite live squid with the stronger leaders (80-100 lb) in low light conditions. Well guess what it made no difference as the squid did not get one pull except on 50 florocarbon which probably was a shark bite a little later in the morning as we started to down in leader size after a couple hours of no bites with the heavier leader. We had two bites come tight on 12 oz hammered diamond jigs litterally dead sticked in the rough conditions but lost both fish when the 50 lb leader on one jig broke and the 60 lb colored jigging line snapped with the tuna ran under the boat. Very slow overall today for us and really do believe the bluefin are thinning out from what it was a short time ago. We anchored for a good part of the morning with about a half mile from where most boats were fishing with no bites so we decided to drift in the crappy sea conditions that I would normally not drift in but we just plain were not seeing hardly any bait or tuna for 3 hours while anchored and had to try something different. We did get our jig bites drifting but it was tough with the wind and current out there this morning. Did not hear of any boats catching tuna trolling today either by us or in the canyons but possibly some did catch as I did see some decent yellowfin brought back to the dock on Saturday by a couple of boats at our dock that went deep but heard nothing today on the radio of tuna biting anywhere but hopefully somone found some fish today somewhere. Back out tommorrow morning and am going to go with all 50-60 lb florocarbon with the lighter boat traffic and see what happens jigging and chunking for BFT. Later this week I may run deep if I hear of any good tuna fishing in our local canyons. Everyone worked extremely hard today with only a few bites and the strong NW wind may have shut the bite down. This is the first time I have fished the 19 Fathom Lump chunking in years as I normallly avoid this spot but where I had been fishing to the south seemed to have slowed down considerably from what it was earlier last week so I wanted to try a different lump and see what we could do there.

[brad regan 01]

we were fishing the washington and it was pretty rough very hard to troll with the wind and waves.