We fished the toms canyon on a thursday-friday overnighter.
Trolled for about 5 hours with nothing to show but 2 dolphin that might have weighed 4 pounds each.
The night started off slowly with only one tuna bite before midnight. It was a 25 pounder caught on a dead squid.
We had sword bites at 12:30am and 1:30am and fought both for a bit before pulling the hook. Both fish immediately swam for the surface after taking the bait. The first jumped 6 or 7 times before spitting the hook and the second swam straight for the boat, then went deep, and then went right for the bow. Before the fish was even under control the hook pulled on the second as well.
Around 2:30am we had a nice flurry of yellowfins and quickly went 5 for 9 on both bait and jigs.
That stopped as quickly as it started and we continued to wait.
At 5am we started to mark the fish under the boat again and we ended up going 15 for 17 before the bite ended.
The final tally was 21 for 26 on yellowfin, 0 for 2 on swords and 2 small dolphin.
Nice report. Sounds like you bent the rod a bit. We were down in the Baltimore the 30th into the first, one shark bite all night despite being in a cloud of bait that made the sounder turn blood red....Netting 10 inch squid all night long, never found the warmer water we were looking for. In the morning i found the 3 degree break and the long rigger went off and 30 lb yft in box. a few small skippies tugged the line the rest of the day, and we just spend most of our time tugging off weeds. By far our worst trip yet. I hope the fishing holds out up there for weeks to come. Pretty work.
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