6/10 Tuna Trip

[Tuna Meltdown]

Charlie Wade and I splashed the Tuna Meltdown in Scituate around 6 and ran aproxamatly 22 miles to the Northwest corner of Stellwagon. The ride out was alright with a mix of 2 to 4's just as Noaa predicted and the rader was essential with the fog lowering visibility two only about 200 yards in some places. We got to the corner at about 7 and the fog lifted and to my surprise we were in a fleet of about a hundred boats trolling everywhere. We stopped short of the fleet about a mile and decided to troll into them not to piss anyone off. We had an impresive six rod spread going off the stern of the 20' CC comprimised of 2-13" bars, 2-9" bird bars and 2 Daisy chains. Colors were Purple/black, Black, Green, and some pink. The Purple/Black was a big hit with monster stripers all day and we had a large fish (probobly a tuna) boil right behind it but he swung and missed it . Lots of Whales, bait, birds, and a very large Basking shark. Total for the day= 3 stripers ( one pushing 40 pounds- ALL RELEASED), 2 Knock Downs, And the very large boil behind the Purple/Black bar. The further East we trolled the more weeds and other crap we found floating. Made trolling almost impossible you had to check rigs for weeds constantly. Here are a few pics that Charlie took.

[shoefish]

Nice report man. Had a buddy last year who got the monster stripers on squid bars out there too. Too bad about the near miss- at least something came up though!

[Tuna Meltdown]

Thanks Shoe.

[trollman]

those Stripers were hitting those surface draggers? damn, sounds like the place for old trollman to visit asap

[wrap-check]

Nice pics and report.

I've gotten some of my better bass on 130's up there too. When trolling down in the bay was more popular (80's/early 90's) alot of big bass came in on squid bars.

I'm always tempted to troll a small bar when when bass fishing - but that makes for expensive bluefish.

[Seaker]

Gives me tears just thinking about being covered up with a massive school of chompers on the backside while hunting tuners