We headed off Friday on a long 2 day canyon trip and decided to point towards the Lindy, based on some recent good reports. On our way out, I got a call from the BOSS LADY and the Oh WELL both fishing the Spencer and doing well, so we made a right turn and headeed that way.

With lines in about 1:00pm, we immediately began marking bait in about 400 feet and everything looked pretty good. We had our first bite about 2:00, a small tuna missed the short rigger bait. Another couple hours went by without too much action, and no one doing too much. I decided to move down the west wall away from the other boats in the area and about a couple miles to the south, we got JUMPED, and I mean jumped. We had a 10 rod spread in the water and everything got bit. 7 Ballyhoo, 1 Spreader Bar and 2 Green Machines. 9 came tight. I had 4 fish hooked up on the bridge rods, which i let get strung out and kept out of the way, while the guys got to work on 4 of the fish down below. Joe and Johnny did a great job organizing the chaos, working the guys around the pit, keeping everything clear and avoiding crossed lines. One by one, we worked a guy into the corner and boated a fish, and I'd pass a rod from the Bridge down to get into the rotation. In the end, we boated 7, pulling the hook on a spreader bar fish early on and loosing the last fish at the boat to a pulled hook. The fish were all 40-50 pounds. We had two more shots at the fish later that afternoon, coming tight on two singles and boating both. Both these fish bit naked ballyhoo on the flat lines...great bites! We eneded the first day with 9 Yellowfin, and our back box brined down and sealled up full!

That night we drifted in the same area of the west wall of the Spencer, without too much action. We had a small mako hooked up on a sword rod, released a blue shark and had some dolphin in the slick here and there...At 4:30am, we were back up on the troll looking for more tuna. The morning proved to be very slow and frustrating for us. There were a lot of boats in the area..too many. We watched a boat troll directly past us and hook up to a 250# bigeye, while a boat here and there got jumped by the Yellowfin, but all in all, it was hit or miss at best, and we trolled the whole morning with only a single dolphin bite. About noon, we jumped off the first of about 6 or 7 white marlin we would see the remainder of the day, then decided it was time to leave the fleet and find a piece of water to ourselves that we could work. We trolled north towards the lindy, raising another 2 whites along the way that wouldn't eat.

We arrived in the SW corner of the Lindy about 3:30, and there were only a small number of boats left in the area. By 4:30 we were at the tip and there was no one around us, and we were marking bait like I hadn't seen in a while. Loads of bait, from 50' down to the bottom. Things were looking good now and we all felt that our day was about to change and sure enough it did. We got our first bite in about 350' and boated a pair off about 5 bites. We basically continued to circle the same half mile area the rest of the day, getting jumped about 5 times, each time getting between 2 and 6 tuna biites, and raising another couple whites. We had a lot of short bites, coming tight mostly to singles or an occassional double. The tuna really wanted the meat and weren't too interested in our spreader bar or green machines today. We boated 6 more tuna, loosing another right at the boat, making a total of 15 for the trip. With the wind forecast to pickup steadily throughout the evening and the boat just about full of tuna, we decided to call it a night and headed for the barn at 9pm.

Inshore the last couple Bluefin Trips we've run have been pretty productive as well. Not red hot fishing, but decent catching fish from 40 to 55 inches. They seemed to be spread out here and there and on our last trip we stumbled into them in 4 different place in and around the hambone, never repeating a bite. From what I can tell, the fish are on the move, not holding anywhere very long.

Here's a couple photos from Yesterday's trip as well as our last Bluefin Trip

Tight Lines,

Trey