10/4-5 Tuna Jack report

[marlinmatt]

not alot of northern canyon reports on here so i figured ide post one from the toms this past weekend.

fished the toms overnight. saturday afternoon took some scouting but found fish north of the tip produced a few nice bites and 3 albacore in the box from 40-65lbs. overnight was dead for us.. some boats massacred the swordfish.. unfortunatley we were not one of them.. i released a pup sword around midnight. and to fight falling asleep being the only one in the cockpit i picked up the jigging rod and went to town.. dropped the butterfly to 200ft and began to work, i got slammed immediatley and 400yards peeled off the accurate like nothing with 22lbs of drag.. as soon as i saw backing i locked it up to sunset.. the fish held for awhile but then proceeded to cut the 80lb fluro leader. my guess was a big sword but who knows?

up on the troll in the morning we kept at it until lunchtime and only picked 3 more albacore also in the 40-65 range. Im sure if you just kept pounding out the area you could have a good shot at 10+ fish in a day trip. everything green was the game for us.. GM spreader bars and our ultimate producer was actually a small mexican flag zucker which caught 4 fish for us.


in total 6 longfin, 1 pup sword release, 1 gaffer mahi. 1 longline gear.

[Russell A. Jost]

Nice job there Matt and thanks for the report. I saw the flags and was wondering were you guys fished. Can't help but wonder where all the YFT are?

[marlinmatt]

Nice job there Matt and thanks for the report. I saw the flags and was wondering were you guys fished. Can't help but wonder where all the YFT are?

i hear you, those yellowfin are very scarce this year and very discouraging to hear of such a good bite off the carolinas right now, we had an excellent start in june and july but then it fell off the table, but i did hear of a few yellowfin being picked up on the flats in the toms.. didnt hear of a slaughter but its a start, although water is cooling fast and they'll be gone before we know it oh well heck of a whitey year for you guys atleast!

[costaricasportfishing]

Good work Matt!!! You guys fishing on the new Cabo??

[marlinmatt]

Good work Matt!!! You guys fishing on the new Cabo??

hey man! yes the new cabo is treating us well unfortunatley the fish arent as cooperative in what can be considered a slow tuna year thus far. hope to visit you down there in 09'
gotta practice up on those circle hooks so we can get in on the hot white bite.. unfortunatley he's only a billsman while on vacation? thats okay he'll drink you out of the imperial