Tuna Breaching

[Rob Rockcrawler]

I saw tuna breaching one September off the avenues in Gansett. 300 yards or so off shore crashing through a massive school of blues, what a site to see.

[Clammer]

Many, many years ago .you could see the boats in the T/tournaments fighting fish from Narragansett , the south shore & beavertail .
about ten ?? years ago I also saw them from Pier 5 & east beach westerly ><>

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Clammer

Many, many years ago .you could see the boats in the T/tournaments fighting fish from Narragansett , the south shore & beavertail .
about ten ?? years ago I also saw them from Pier 5 & east beach westerly ><>

Yup, there was a year in the mid-2000's when there was a few boats who had 80W's on the boat in the fall.


About every 3 years they seem to make an appearance on the deeper blackfish grounds if the herring are thick. Usually Oct-Nov. Tautog hooked one on a spinning rod for about 15 seconds a few years back while blackfishing and floating a bait for bluefish...

[fishgolf]

Tuna breaching of the Gurnet on Monday evening... boy are they big and fast!

[Clammer]

RIRH try the 60.s when we had all the tinkers

[bloocrab]

Originally Posted by Clammer

RIRH try the 60.s when we had all the tinkers

Long gone are the days of pulling in horse mackerel from shore in RI, never mind tinkers...I remember the piers at the fort lined up with people filling their buckets (bamboo and extension poles, no reel needed), the mackerel were almost as tall as the bucket, no BS...we used to use scallops at the GI-bridge too, some days they wouldn't touch anything else, not squid, or even freshly caught silversides.
I remember following schools of what at the time I thought were tommy cod along the shores of CH, blitzing bait on to the rocks, I was too young to identify them?? Maybe RIRH remembers?
One of my last conversations with Crafty, he thought they were pollock? Too long ago to remember....no phones back then, no pictures, only memories now

sorry,

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler

I saw tuna breaching one September off the avenues in Gansett. 300 yards or so off shore crashing through a massive school of blues, what a site to see.

I remember that Rob

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by Rob Rockcrawler

I saw tuna breaching one September off the avenues in Gansett. 300 yards or so off shore crashing through a massive school of blues, what a site to see.

They're usually there sometime around Thanksgiving.

[Guppy]

Not uncommon SW corner of CCB....
Way back I threw a plug into nervous water at the same time it erupted,,, the buddy I lost this spring at the helm me on the bow , the way I remember it that fish didn’t even know he was hooked with such light gear....

Bloo, nothing wrong with memories me thinks,,,