Tuna Mayhem

[Capt Josh]

This past trip saw us getting back to the wide open lure fishing that we saw late last season. Bait is extremely difficult to catch right now with this past full moon and la nina cold water conditions. Most of what we took outside for bait we caught ourselves with cast nets in the marina and most of what we caught was mullet. Tried trolling up some skipjacks or bullet tuna but the water around the islands was muddy and green. No bueno for bait fishing.

Thankfully, after missing three quick fish on what small live mullets we had I decided to go back to the basics of plastic and threw out three Archer bars and two Yo-Zuri bonitas. It didn't take long...

First pass through the nearest tuna school produced a double on the bars, and it went naughty from there. Nothing like watching these fish detonate on the topwater stuff. Time and time again the Archer bars called them up and then the Yo-zuris took a beating shortly thereafter. My voice was literally hoarse from screaming "HOLY CHIT DID YOU JUST SEE THAT!" over and over again.

Awesome tuna fishing a loooooooong way from the cold nastiness that we left behind in Canada and Chicago respectively.

Here's a few pics of the action from Kristin's camera. For some reason mine is not downloading at the moment...trying to figure that out as we speak.

We've got a few days off and then we're right back at it again, time to surf and enjoy the solid NW swell that's just arrived from, you guessed it, Canada!

[Hard Core]

Very nice JT, but what's with the chair!

[naknekm]

llévame contigo


Marty

[CaptAnthony]

Another day of catching tunas on maximo - life does not suck!

[Bogart]

Very nice JT, but what's with the chair!

Fuc**ing puuusyyys Ha Ha Ja Ja

[Ozolins]

Cool deal.

[Capt Josh]

What's with the chair? I think it comes standard on most boats like Maximo dudes! If the boss wants an escalator on the next boat I'm certainly not going to complain! HA!

Surfed all morning, heading out with Lora for some roosters this afternoon. You are correct Anthony - it doesn't get much better than this!

[MarkV]

Hey Josh post some pics of the waves as well! East Coasters would love to see them too - I can't think of a better time than catching both -

[naknekm]

Hey JT,

Are the fish within reach of Lora's Panga?......you have me going....I was thinking of a quick trip down there next weekend for a few days.

Having knee surgery the following week....on crutches for a time then jogging again

Marty

[Capt Josh]

Hey JT,

Are the fish within reach of Lora's Panga?......you have me going....I was thinking of a quick trip down there next weekend for a few days.

Having knee surgery the following week....on crutches for a time then jogging again

Marty

They're within reach Marty, but not what i would consider an enjoyable reach on a panga. The fish start stacking up at the first island, and that's a loooong run in a panga.

I'd say get the surgery and save the trip for when the fish are within panga range and snapping!