Originally Posted by
WeCatchEm
Hey how's it going everybody, I am absolutley hooked into catching Tuna and I have yet to even bring one on a line. Let me explain how I got bit by this addiction. My brother in law Steve and myself have hunted stripers up and down the striper coast surf fishing for the past couple years now. I went to Iraq last year and got back this april. While I was over there Steve and my sister sent me a small fishing rod (like the cheap 3 foot sunfish rods for $9.99) in a care package with a note that said get practicing. I thought they were just saying get ready for more surf casting trips this year. We'll before I left I gave the rod to an little Iraqi boy on a patrol lol and tried to bargain with his dad to trade for a sheep. Long story short I didn't get the sheep and I don't know if they even knew what it was haha but they will take anything you give them lol. So I got home this april and they had a nice 23' foot Wellcraft coastal with 4 cannon downriggers in the driveway all set up. "Hell yea we are gonna kill the stripers this year" SOOOooo we did for a month and my sister said she wanted to go to Stellwagen to see the Whales. Alright so I'm thinking "Hey isn't there tuna out there" Lets stop at the bait store and just dip our toes in and try. I end up buying a flat of macks some treble hooks, shimano butterfly jigs, and hey why not I got money I saved up from Iraq lets buy a squid bar, so we do. My brother in law already had a nice Penn 70 2spd he bought a year ago that had been sitting in the basement, he said it was his back up, just in case. Alright so we head out of Scituate around 1 p.m. and get to the bank just short of 2pm and see no boats around. screw it, not marking any fish on the fishfinder, lets just throw some lines in, we send the squid bar out way way back, no idea what we are doing, no outriggers, nothing start trolling round 5mph, with 3 downriggers 2 swimming plugs, 1 rigged up mack all on penn senators 50lb line, squid bar on the 70. 10 minutes go by "holy shit look at the squid bar", lots of breaking fish following our squid bar for about 5 minutes, nothing hits it, bang, all three downriggers start screaming, "TUnnnaaaa,!!!!!!!!", nope huge stripers after we stop the boat and reel em in. boats stopped stripers blitzing within 3 feet of the boat. we get the spinnning reels, mine had the shimano butterfly jig on it, steve has a popper on his cast after cast striper after striper for 10 minutes, fish finder completly covered with fish, boated and released about 10 stripers all over 30 inches including a soaker at 47 inches. Blitz quits down, we pull in the lines and decide to run and gun and try to find the school. Now here's were i got the Tuna Bite. We see birds sitting on the surface gun it over to them, looks pretty quiet, toss only the squid bar out, 30 yards from the boat a HUGE Tuna jumps out of the water in between the birds and I swear to god I think it ate one of them. We swing the boat around the birds and the squid bar passes right between the birds, squids are literrally flipping out the water nailing birds on the head, I'm sure we are gonna get the bite but nothing. It's around 6 and we troll for another hour and nothing we call it quits and head in. That was in June, on the ride home steve is already saying "Stripers, hah we are going for tuna everytime this damn boat is in the water now" lol . A week later I Spend 2 grand at Fisherman's Outfitters buying a Shimano 50wdlrsa, harpoon, kite, rigging equip, lures, daisy chains and another spreader bar. Over the past three months I have probably spent another 2 grand on more gear. Now let me just say that the boats name is "WeCatchEm" lol and we have yet to catch one in the damn 4 months we have been going to Stellwagen. We have tried everything from kiting live pogies, balooning live pogies, trolling live pogies, trolling rigged up dead mackerel, squid bars, EVERYthing, and we have casted into blitzing schools with Ron-zs, Friggin pencil poppers, anything we had on the boat. I Don't know whats going on but if we don't catch a Tuna by the end of the season I already told him we absolutely have to change the name of the boat. So I will see you guys out there, mainly the SWC, Goodluck everybody and Tight lines..
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Anyway I'm from Ma and fish mostly Ct and RI, was chasing Stripers and Albies until I did a bad thing and tried stellwagon, had 4 hook ups, no fish and I can now careless about anything except getting one in the boat...
