Decided to give the tuna a break and play with the sharks today. Headed to the temp break at the Claw to find 6 draggers working the area and 65 degree water. Decided to continue south to warmer water and set up for a drift north of the dump near the Star of The Sea wreck in 69.5 degree water. Slow start with a NW drift. Released a very ornery mako pup and a few big blue dogs in the morning. Drift turned to a SW drift and the bite picked up. Mostly big blue dogs and then a small mako that was taken for the grill. Normally I would have released this fish, but it was a male and was deep hooked and bleeding from the gills. So the little ******* gave us a hassle with a straight gaff and trying to get a tail rope on it, but we won. The hull of Get Reel got the worst of it. Good day on the water, but nothing spectacular for fish. No tuna sited and radio chatter did not indicate the dump was on fire with fish. Hoping for weather window to make a canyon run. SST at Veatch looks phenomenal.
I heard a few boats from this site working the dump area for tuna. How did you do?
We did an overnight shark into day tuna trip. Nothing too spectacular. Much of the same for us as you reported on the sharks. Had a psycho dragger Capt. decide to try and sink our boat for no reason other that we were there! Litterally had this guys outrigger within 45-50 yards of our boat and he was closing in with engines throttled up! I just don't get this mentality. Had to pick up and run ten mi. south to get away from this a-hole. Turned our attention to the dump in the a.m. and within ten minutes of lines in we were on. Turned out to be an albie. Biggun at that. Then we had two small yellows which were released and had to head home much earlier than we wanted to due to someones upset tummy! Not mine. Saw lots of life but nothing seemed to be concentrated. Some turtles here and there, small pup dolphins jumping, nice looking crystal blue water, but all in all nothing to write home over. I'm allready looking forward to the next trip. Was John with you guys for this trip? Tight lines.
Ed
Thanks for your update. You were obviously fishing in the draggers private water. I saw the lot of them in the area and said no way am I setting up a drift and giving them them opportunity to torment us. Albie, as in long fin...yum penguins? I would love to get on some of them. I went all last season and all of this season so far without a long fin tuna. I like LFT sushi just as much as YFT. Where have all the LFT gone?
John could not make this trip, but we are planning on a Saturday run.
No, it was a fat albert! I wasn't very clear. I agree with you about the albacore though. I was just talking about that this am. As for the dragger, well he wasn't pulling nets, he didn't have any light markers on to give me an idea that he was a working boat, and we weren't anywhere near him, I actually thought it was a big sailboat as we past him at about 1 mi. to his north side. He actually spun the boat around, came at us hard and fast, I moved about 3/4 mi. to his west side, he spun the boat on a dime and started chasing us down again! This all took place just east of the gully at just around midnight. And if you can believe this, it is not my first incident with ignorance like this. I am very careful of the working boats as I know many of the boats out of Galilee, but there are still mentalities out there that remind me of the early eighties. I'm sure he had a gun very close to him too!
And yes, it is weird that there are no LFT this year considering the amount of them last year. Tight lines GETREEL.
Ed
Too bad that there are some really ignorant guys out there. Fortunately most good fisherman are great guys. I was out today off Montauk with some friends and some idiot kept jumping on top of my drift. This guy was trying to impress his buddies and was frustrated that we were doing well so he kept getting closer and closer...at one point he was within 40 feet in 4 foot rollers. I released a 40# striper in his direction and took off for another spot a mile away. He tried following again but his buddies realized that the capt was being a total dbag and made him turn away. Glad to have avoided a formal confrontation...the idea is to have fun and relax, right?
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Had to pick up and run ten mi. south to get away from this a-hole. Turned our attention to the dump in the a.m. and within ten minutes of lines in we were on. Turned out to be an albie. Biggun at that. Then we had two small yellows which were released and had to head home much earlier than we wanted to due to someones upset tummy!
Not mine.
Saw lots of life but nothing seemed to be concentrated. Some turtles here and there, small pup dolphins jumping, nice looking crystal blue water, but all in all nothing to write home over. I'm allready looking forward to the next trip. Was John with you guys for this trip? Tight lines.
I wasn't very clear. I agree with you about the albacore though. I was just talking about that this am. As for the dragger, well he wasn't pulling nets, he didn't have any light markers on to give me an idea that he was a working boat, and we weren't anywhere near him, I actually thought it was a big sailboat as we past him at about 1 mi. to his north side. He actually spun the boat around, came at us hard and fast, I moved about 3/4 mi. to his west side, he spun the boat on a dime and started chasing us down again! This all took place just east of the gully at just around midnight. And if you can believe this, it is not my first incident with ignorance like this. I am very careful of the working boats as I know many of the boats out of Galilee, but there are still mentalities out there that remind me of the early eighties. I'm sure he had a gun very close to him too!
