Tuna South of MV

[colad]

Same here...heading out to Gully, Shark's ledge, Coxes on Sat..

[waggles02673]

Fished the Fingers just above the Dump today and picked up a 40" fish just East of the fingers on a Munson Mahi with Ballyhoo. Nothing else all day. It sounded slow down there today.

[AT Grimaldi]

Hello all.

Below is the report for the Jenny Lee for Friday 15JUL2011.

We headed out of Barrington to the Claw. It took about 2.5 hours to get there and the seas were flat in the bay and VERY calm outside. We set a spread out of small splasher bars, a shanka on the looonnngggggg center rigger and a couple of tuna clone feathers.

We saw zero point zero signs of life.

We then moved to the Inside Fingers.

Then the port long rigger goes off. This is the best part and a lesson for me and perhaps many of you. We were pulling out gear and going to head east. As we were pulling the spread, we took a few cranks on the reel and BAM - we're tight. I guess that was all that it took. We landed a nice little slot fish. We hammered those numbers for another 45 minutes and then headed to the Gully.

Still no life and we just trolled aimlessly for a few hours. We decided to slowly head back to the inside fingers and put a power chum out. As we were approaching the inside fingers a nice Mako full body jumped out of the water and I saw the whole thing, straight profile against the sky. It was just awesome. We then went tight to a Mako and got him boat side. As we were handling him, he broke off and was released the old school way - not intentionally. We continued power chumming and went tight to God only knows what. This thing peeled line not fast, but just tons of it from my 50W with full drag setting. The reel was clipped to the boat. The reel was clipped to the angler (Chuck, linesider69) and the angler was clipped to the boat. After about an hour of inch here and inch there fighting, the line parted right at the loop to loop connection between the windon rig and my top shot. After some serious post *** kicking analysis, we only put the windon rig through the top shot eye once and not the three times we should have done. THAT won't be happening again.

We then got tight to a blueshark, got him to the boat and clipped the release. By this time, one of the crew had personally examined each and every inch of his GI tract and the other crew was wasted from catching all the fish for the day.

We headed for the barn and look forward to fishing this area many more times. It was just so great to not have to trailer to Stellwagon for a good day on the water.

- ATG - Jenny Lee ch 68


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