Our day was DOOMED from the moment we launched the boat: a BANANA
was smuggled on board and although the embargoed fruit was quickly removed from the boat the damage was done.
. A 2nd boat launching advised us to just put the boat back on the trailer and GO HOME, we ignored him.....and went anyways.
We hit the SEC @5:30AM and trolled until about 10AM. Grass was a nuisance and constantly fowled the bars/chains. While reeling in one bar, the mono just broke and we lost a nice proven bar.
In general the activity out there was much reduced even from a week ago: number of whales way down, little bait, and few birds but a fair number of boats/regulars. We might have marked a tuna or 2 and heard reports of maybe 2 hookups, by chance, not due to activity or marking. The general theme was go deep and catch sharks, no tuna to be had today.
We decided to move inside and play with schoolies/blues. After that decided to check out rumors of tuna ~2 miles from east end canal, must be either due to the weather change or that they are rumors but we found nothing inside CCB of interest from canal to GH, 120ft line.