Tuna in the Dark
 

Left Cohasset for the BE at 6pm and saw heavy bird action on Flats ledge about 7 miles out of Cohasset but after seeing no breaks contimued out to the BE bouy. Had 3 Squid bars and 3 Dasiey Chains on Birds out by 7:05PM and had a hit in 10 minutes bus droped after 15 seconds. It was cool because it was on the Squid bar 30' back and both of us saw the hit. We fished around the "BE" until dark and set the autopilot for the course back to the house. We kept the spread in for 2-3 miles before pulling them in one at a time stowing them away as they came in. My question is will Tuna hit a lure after dark? We had the boat at the dock by 9:30 and was home by 9:45. Plan on more evg. trips but getting underway sooner than 6... more like 4:00. There was a nice Grady out there also...

PS... The Raymarine S1000 autopilot is like having an extra person on board that steers straight and eats or drinks no supplies...

Chunk at night.

auto helm is good stuff.... tuna at night w/ bait

I've hooked big eye trolling after dark, but never bluefin. Any fish that is feeding at night might attack a lure.

A few years back myself and Eric LaFleur were in his old tin boat out on Scorton Ledge drifting eels on rubber cores. We had waited out a tremendous but thankfully fast moving thunderstorm in the B-Harbor parking lot and follwed the clearing sky and rising moon out around Beach Point and west to Scorton.

We were drifting along peacefully in the moonlight amongst the lobster pots getting our eels chewed by Bluefish on almost every drift and had no bass taking.

It was just after midnight when the first one crashed 30 yards from the boat and within minutes they were crashing everywhere around us. It was Giant Bluefin in the moonlight chasing bluefish and they were breaching so close we left in a hurry fearing one breachihg into the side of an 18 foot tin skiff with us in it.

True story. We could see them as plain as day and they were there the next day in the morning as well.

East of Chatham many guys leave baits out overnight when they get shuteye. They do take fish doing it that way, or they used to, when there was a real strong GBFT fishery...