You always hear about that season 5-6?? years ago when the SBFT tuna bit was insane about 1/2-1 mile offshore. Was that only 1 season and never happened again? Has anyone had any luck with one here and there in the past seasons inshore??? Whats the deal with these fish?

That was INSANE :tooth: !!!

And one of the great things was that these fisher were hitting more striper & blue gear than the typical tuna stuff.

25-30# footballs on Pencil Poppers :drool:
Purely guessing with near zero credibility: We just lucked out that a school of that age was around for several weeks. Tuna, I'm told, grow fast and we just lucked out with the Tuna equivalent of a harbor loaded with millions of peanuts.

Thats what I figured from all the stories. No one seems to have experienced that again.

It has happened before and will again. I have a story about giant bluefin tuna in p-town harbor I will post when I find it.

I had a shot at some less than 100 yds off the beach on BI this past August. They were chasing halfbeaks.

Every once in a while you will see footballs running from the beach at the race. Pretty amazing when it happens.
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We had shots at them and landed a few, but this was the craziest I have ever been involved with....


http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/stripertalk/17902-bluefin-beach.html

I caught one on my 10wt flyrod back then off Pt Judith. It started the insanity with me :smash: