Mass Bay Guides Tuna Report

[turbor2]

Nice report greg. Its great when a plan comes together.

[Captain Greg Sears]

Aug 4th 2009

05:00 Departing Scituate with a group of guys from Downtown Boston the biggest fish any of them had caught was a 100# Grey reef shark. Kerry is first mate.
05:30 Still departing Scituate because one of the party is late. ( I need another cup of coffee already )
05:45 finally heading for the Hot Spot
07:15 Arrive at Peeked Hill
07:16 Realizing there is no life it is not the same place as yesterday.
07:45 No marks or signs of tuna
07:46 In fog no bites for anyone this Hot Spot is cold.
08:15 Leave for better Hot Spots
08:40 First Hot Spot Su%^$
09:30 Second Hot Spot is Dead
10:30 Third Hot spot is warm but no bites
11:00 Decide to Cod fish for an hour or two
11:01 Angler number one is tangled with the late guy ( By the way when you are late on my boat your name is "Late Guy" all day)
11:03 Angler number one is tangled with angler number three
11:07 Angler number one is tangled on the prop.
11:09 Angler number one is tangled with Angler number 5 and 6
11:12 Angler number one reaches the bottom
11:20 Angler number one asks if he should reel in when he runs out of line?
11:45 I am all done with cod tangling ( even with all the Tangles they manage to get about 20 keepers in about an hour).
12:30 Back tuna fishing in new territory
12:31 I explain I will give everyone a job if we hook up.
12:32 I tell Angler number one his job is to stay in the fly bridge and take pictures.
12:45 A 400 pound fish is chasing the bait ten feet from the boat. Swings and misses we saw the whole fish leap out after the bait "wow"
12:48 A big swirl on the balloon bait
12:49 Fish On"
13:15 we land a nice 70" fish
13:18 I let Angler number one down from the fly bridge
15:30 Just sprinkle a little water around and get me a cup of Coffee.

[Captain Greg Sears]

Pictures From the Fortuna 2009

[sears720]

I fished on the Alcazar today. A 36' Albermarle. We got two fish in the upper 60s. Got another real nice kite bite on film! Another video should be coming soon.


-Taylor

[Massbaytuna3]

I hear the big fish are staying deep until I get home

Watch out Broheim!

[Col. Kurtz]

Love the heart picture, Greg. These reports are awesome-keep 'em coming!

[Captain Greg Sears]

The past few days have been too hot and too calm. the fish are just playing with the baits. Hopefully this north wind will change their feeding habits. I have had many Boils this past couple of days ( Mostly boiling frustration and the one on my butt) hooking the fish has been difficult. We are doing allot of Shark fishing now and it has been great, Multiple sharks every day. Reports of some big Makos cruising the bay has the crew ready to do battle with a monster.

As Soon as I have some good stories I will return to the usual format.

Just sprinkle a little water around and get me a cup of coffee.

[sears720]

Monday I did I guide trip on the boat Boomerang out of Scituate. Had a good day, two fish and a bunch of boils and crashes on the pogies. I fished on the Labrador today and it was awesome. We headed to the bank and saw many schools of crashing fish. We put the kite bait out and it was eaten before I got it all the way out. I pulled the hook trying to set it. Put the next kite bait out and I notice a school of fish crashing about 20ft behind it. It got smoked and swallowed. 65" fish in the boat and everyone is happy. Most live bait guys hooked fish today. I am heading on a canyon trip tonight and will be back with a report either Saturday night or Sunday morning. Good luck to all.


-Taylor

[sears720]

I left for Falmouth on the Alcazar on thursday night. Stayed over night, fueled up in the morning, and headed for Veatch canyon at 8:00am. We arrived there around 12:30 and put our spread out. It looked okay, a couple porpoises around and a couple flying fish. Trolled for 2-3 hours and headed south to the SW edge of the canyon wall and headed West from there up and down the drop off.

Finally I here the drag go off and we double up on little yellowfin. Maybe 15-20lbs. Well that was a start anyways. With the pressure off we kept chugging along. Ten minutes later we double up, no triple, nope four on, now SEVEN rods on. Yeehaa! Not huge fish but great action so far. Next pass we hooked 6 at once, the pass after that we hooked 4. The last pass 5 rods go off and one of them was a little bigger. We landed a good 50lb yellowfin. What a way to start the trip. Nothing huge though. The sun started to set and the waves died down. We decided to put the bigger squid bars out (13" squid and 18" squid) to see if we could hook any big yellowfin or maybe a bigeye. I took the marlin and high speed stuff out and I ran my usual 4 rod bluefin spread and a hoo down the middle.

I just got the last bar out and a big boil on the right long. I teased it. It looked like a big yellowfin coming up. Than another giant boil and a dorsal comes up. We are only trolling 5 knots. I teased it again. My buddy Andy started yelling its a f*ckin mako! One more boil and he/she eats it! I reel so the clip would pop and the rod starts to peel. Now when he first came up it only showed about 3" of its dorsal. I thought for sure we were going to get bit off. After a hundered feet off line is gone the it starts to shoot for the surface.

Out 400ft behind the boat off into the sunset a 500lb blue marlin clears the water with my squid bar attached to its face. Everyone is screaming and yelling, the fish is greyhounding and flipping around like he owns the place. This is my first bluemarlin and I am getting stripped!! We start to back down as fast as possible and get him to stop, he jumped twice more towards the boat and the bill broke though the main line on the bar. What a RUSH!! Once we organized the cockpit again we had lines out. Another marlin came up and took the bar off the rigger before we could get the pitch bait back to him again. We hooked him but quickly jumped us off. Why were these marlin eating squid bars was my question and at 5knots? Strange. We set up for swords and had no action all night. The water started to light up with squid and yellowfin showed themselves early in the morning. I decided to just tie on a popper on a spinning rod and see whats behind or beside the underglow lights. The popper hits the suface and gets inhaled by a nice yellowfin. They are like bluefish. After 6 or 7 we packed all the swordfish gear up and decided to put the squid bars back out seeing as all the marlin action were on those and at a slow speed.

An hour goes by and we hooked a couple decent yellowfin on the bars. We got another marlin to come up and take the bar off the rigger again. An hour goes by and there he is on the right short. On a pink squid bar. He is on it and the marlin is hot!! We get a pitch bait back to him and all of a sudden the left long gets smoked out of nowhere. The marlin (220-300lb) jumped 3 times and we pulled the hook. After a few more tuna we ended the trip and arrived back in Scituate at around 8:00pm on Saturday night. What a great time, if you guys get a chance to go to the canyons its a amazing experience.

-Taylor

[Massbaytuna3]

Well, after crying about not being able to run to the canyons with my little bro (I was stuck in Canada until Thurs night due to work...), I decided to spend Friday and Saturday fishing local with my buddy Nick on the Al Dente II.

We ended up having a great couple of days!

-Fri - Started at SWC. Fished until about 9:30...no bites. We moved a little East and saw some fish busting up top, birds working, etc. We idled down, put the baits out. Right away we had a couple bites. Nice size fish to!! No hook ups...a few minutes later we double up! Fish 1 breaks off (I think in the midst of getting chased, the pogie twisted the crimp and swivel), Fish 2 pulls the hook...Not starting off to well. 30 minutes later, same spot, still marking wolf pack after wolf pack under the boat. Bang!, we go off, and almost doubled again. We fought, and boated this fish, 68". As soon as I am getting ready to gut the fish, the one bait we put back out starts screaming! I locked it up, and after doing so we were 1/4 the way into the backing before the blink of an eye. Seemed like a nice fish. We got him under control only to have the hook pull a few minutes later...Not a great record for the day (1-8ish), but A LOT of action.

Sat - The next day was similar. Same spot, same marks, same life. We had three bites on the kite right away. Had a BIG fish tear a pogie off the floater (I saw the fish...est. 400+). We were a little bummed only to have a nice 70" fish eat our bait immediately after. We fought, tagged and released this fish. Very fat! Absolute butter ball. We ended the day 1-6. Another action packed day.

Beautiful weekend. I hope everybody had a chance to get out.

-Bryan