Tuna Meltdown (Full Moon Who?)

[Tuna Meltdown]

Left the dock early Saturday morning under the cover of darkness with my father, Mike and Jeff and headed for the NWC of Stellwagon. Upon arrival we had birds, whales, bait and tuna everywhere. In went the rigs and we trolled and casted at busting fish all morning to no avail. Around noontime I heard chatter of a bite going off just a few miles to my south and followed a new friend of mine down there. Rick who runs the boat Endorfin had been called by another friend who just released his third fish and was tight to another. So I ordered rigs in and put the pins to the Tuna Meltdown and was doing 50 mph and was on scene and fishing within minutes. Two or three boats in the area were fighting fish and I new We would get our shot. About thirty minutes later I saw the rigger bow and looked back to see a fish attacking my port long rigger 11" Rainbow (P-town special) bar. The fish was hooked but the release clip on the rigger was jammed by a piece of knotted up balloon left over from the shark tournament on the main line. After a short fire drill exorcise we had the rigger popped and Jeff was strapped into his first Bluefin ever. 35 minutes later I got my shot with the Harpoon and nailed him right in the armpit behind the pec fin and it game over. Tail roped and swam him for about 15 minutes and then boated Jeff's first bluefin. 57"- 120 pounds.

Sunday we returned to the same location we fished on Saturday and caught the smallest Bluefin I've ever caught. He attacked a 11" Sandeel colored bar within acouple decimal points of the same location of the fish I caught on Saturday. He was 34" long and weighed about 30 pounds. I quickly tagged him with a tag a tiny tag and let him go after a couple quick pictures.

I will post the pictures as soon as CVS can figure out how to correctly burn copies to a CD. They gave me a blank disk yesterday.

[shoefish]

Great job again Danny! Good to hear that 3 weeks of brides maids, dollar dances, and open bars didn't phase the Meltdown Mojo

[bernzy]

Great news TM, thanks for the rundown.

I'm heading out tomorrow, anyone else going to be out there??? Hoping to pop my tuna cherry....

[oldmud]

Good on you Dan !!! i usually hate to chase down others reports but after hearing someone on there 3rd fish, WELL YEAH !!!

Don

[chumtini]

Way to Hook-em, Dan-O

Those dreaded release clips. Nice job getting that cleared and staying connected.

[Skunked Again]

Nice work Dan.. Heard you on the radio on Sunday... we were down the SWC, over to peaked hill and up to the BE and got the big skunk.. actually i take that back.. we got some blue fish and went out into deeper water and jigged up a small cod but no charlie! We did see a couple boats in the fleet hooked up down there so there are def fish down that way as well just none for us!

[Shortfin]

Dan you have not lost your touch !!!!

[wrap-check]

Congrats Dan.

I'll be out there tomorrow on the southern end.

[Seaker]

Nice work Danny

Your new boat is a fish raiser for certain.

when you go hammer down that rig simply screams....scary fast with good looks, raises fish....

Hey you need a bigger boat...can I get the listing

Nice work Bud

[captdom]

Excellent work, Dan. Those 225 Optimaxes can fly cant they....