Hrydros to Veatch 7/27-28

[bigtuna2106]

Took the Lizzy T from marblehead down to the water south of Hrydros tuesday night, a long 9 hour run. The temp break was a few miles off the edge when we arrived in 6000 feet of water. Set up for the troll around 4am and worked back and forth across the break working our way west toward Veatch. The cold side was 68' and warm side was 74ish with a pretty sharp break. We had no action until 7am when we found some bait a little west of hrydros in deep water on the warm side of the break. Picked up a nice sized mako on a spreader bar of all things, and didn't break it off. Then picked up 5 YFT all small, no more than 25lbs. Then a white marlin on the same bar as the mako, in the boat for some pictures and a release. By 8am it was all over, trolled the same area for a hour or so with no action. We made decision to give the warm 79' water that was 20 or so miles south of Hrydros a chance. Roffs had this spot picked as the best possible fishing in the area so we headed off south. After finding the temp break (25 mile run) we trolled both sides of the break moving to the west. We found no bait or life at all and after 4 hours made the run back up to where we left off. Set up for the night and picked up a nice keeper sword on a tail hooked mack at 50'. But that was it for the night bite. Started the trolling at 4am and worked our way toward Veach, worked both sides with no luck at all. We worked our way up into Veach from the deep and found lots of bait on the east wall at the mouth of the canyon. Worked that bait for a few hours with out a knock down or any thing. I was surprised to find that Veach had warmed up to 73 since our last satelite shot had it 68'. Worked both sides of the canyon and up into the high ground with no luck. We did pick up a few mahi north of the canyon, but most flyers were not holding fish. So in the end 1 150lb mako, 5 small YFT, 1 sword, 1 white marlin release, and 6 mahi. Not a bad trip but not much action either. We didn't see any other boats at all, some long liners in the aera on the radio but that was it. I think that aera will heat up after the warm water sits on the shelf for a few days, and the eddy that that is to the east looks real nice. Good luck to all.

[tuna-or-later]

Nice job Tommy. First trip out this year?

K2

[cappyD]

did you see any shearwaters or petrels in that water?

[bigtuna2106]

Damon, we did see some shearwaters no petrels that I recall. But not much bird action at all. The fish we brought on board all had empty stomachs, all but the sword. Very slim bait conditions, I never been very good at finding bait in the deep any way. We saw a few pods of pilots in the warm water well south of the edge, but that was as fishy as it got for us in the real warm water. Looks like that water has pushed north, the water had moved at least 3 or 4 miles north while we were out there. The water east of Hrydros looks real nice, what are your thoughts of a trip out there.

Kent (on the Hooked Up)

[amarshall]

We went Hydro to Welkers Friday/Saturday. Very little bait. Very little birds. Nasty weather. Only a few small YFT right on top of the canyon. There was an awesome break there too. I guess Munson was lit up. We were listening to the long liners all night.

[keithj]

Good trip Kent. Someone had to check that water out! Give it a couple weeks.

[APB Presto]

Presto arrived West of Welker at first light on Sunday returned late Monday. We saw good life north of Hydro in the cool water. We trolled from 10 miles east of welker to Welker and stayed in the 73 to 76 degree water. We fished with a couple of boats early but alone most of the time. We found an incredible amount of life on the edge. Our first two fish had good size (not huge prob only lbs) but both got sharked. We got the head of the second fish and it was decent size. We worked the general area for the next 24 hours and brought home 28 YFT, 4 mahi and released one white marlin. All of the tunas were small. 5 cores were 29-30 lbs a good number in the mid 20s and many 14-20 lb.

We had the couple bigger fish to start and just could not get much of reasonable size after. It was a fun trip with plenty of action, but not great size. We heard others complaining of small fish fursther east in radio chatter. We proabably should have worked the deep sooner, but we had a good trip and expect the east to heat up in coming days.

We fished mostly in 76 degree water and had it peak at 79.5 off the edge.

Fish seemed to hiit most of our lures. normal green, rainbow zucchini, bars, birds, bird bars and bally.

Andy B. (Presto)

[SteveK]

You should be releasing yfts that small instead of selling them for cash. Those fish are not even commercial sized yfts. Release them and let'em grow up........

[APB Presto]

Steve:
You may be correct, even if I have commercial outlet for some of my smaller fish. I hope your post was aimed at making sure I do not share info, because it is working. Good luck big man.
Andy B.