Today's Tuna Fishing
 

Great weather today nice calm seas, but not a lot of action.
There were many boats there in the AM, but most left before we did.
Only saw 2 whales, and not much bait.
But we managed one tuna ~45 lbs.
Which was promptly released after a pic.

But what a thrill we got when a tuna came full out
of the water about 30 yards in front of us.
I would guess this fish was like 250-300 lbs.
Even at a distance is looked HUGE.

sweeet....:kewl:

must have been an awsome day out there. nice fish.

Tuna have been all over the place here on the Northshore (i.e., between Thatchers Island and Glo harbor). Haven't hooked on yet but they are chasing macs no more than a few miles out.

sabiki some of those macs and bridal rig one with a small rubber band thru the eyes.:humpty:

You'd killem with a barrel full of Macs. We hooked up twice yesterday on 50-60 pound tuna on the cod gear. Both times the tuna hit a small cod, haddock or herring that we were reeling in. It was allot of fun. Codding was slow but managed a dozen nice haddock. This happens on occassion but twice in one day tells me maybe there is a better method than dragging rubber.

Nice Tuna! Must have been fun. :kewl:

Van,
Nice fish.

Freak,

Can you give some details on how to do the bridal rig?

http://www.thaifishingguide.com/fish...ing_steps.html

forget the string, use a #32 rubber band and twist it up tight then stick the hook back thru the twisted loop on top of it's eyes..

Nice, I've never tried it before. Is that what they call a "rigging needle" like you would find at a tackle shop?

I don't get a chance to fish offshore much, but I want to try this with bunker and hickory shad 3-wayed for stripers.

freak.... i like that idear . how about blue fish for gaints ???? just heaver rubber bands .....

# 64's.
i got a big bag of black ones from fishermans'

you can troll a blue with a # 64 thru the eyes :musc:
can make your own needles too out of coathanger.
sorry for the hijack Vance:tm:

You kidding me, I'm taking notes ......
Hoping to grag a couple of small blues tomorrow early and head out to drah them around. But i was just going to run a BIG hook through the upper jaw.

supposed to be bumpy in the morning?
i'm headed out of the merrimac for shark if we can make it out?
3 feet every 3 seconds right now and STEEP :sick:
i hate forcasts. :wall:

mikey you got some stuff to pick up at my shop No fishing for me this weekend My right hand man Johnnie is having a ball down the vineyard a well deserved vacation Oh ya i forgot to tell you guys go southeast of the nw corner of the bank about 5-8 miles Thats where they where yesterday pete

Johnnie C - GREAT guy. Great Carvings...

I'm Johnny's roomie on the Vineyard. A complete gentleman and a pleasure to spend time with. I hope he lands a derby winner!