Reports
- 160 lb Bluefin and 7 Yellowfins on the Hooked Up II today
- Tuna Fishing Report for August 1st-5th
- Outfished by Center Consoles But Still a Great Day
- Blue Fin Tuna Fishing Report
- Updated report on the Hooked UP II
- Tuna report on the Hooked Up II
- 25 Yellowfin, TRIED for Bluefin, Marlin-Big Eye on 55 Hooked Up II
- A very detailed report on new world class jigging-popping tackle on the 55 Hooked Up II
- My thoughts on spinners versus conventionals for jigging those 80-175 lb. Bluefins
- August 24, 2008 Report for the past few days.
August 4, 2008 Make Up Trip Fish Report
2008-08-04
Was sick of losing big fish to light leader and decided to try something different on today's make-up trip and left at midnight to catch live squid to put them out before sunrise with heavy floro leader to see if the tuna would bite live squid with the stronger leaders (80-100 lb) in low light conditions. Well guess what, it made no difference as the squid did not get one pull except on 50 florocarbon which probably was a shark bite a little later in the morning as we started to go down in leader size after a couple hours of no bites with the heavier leader. We had two bites come tight on 12 oz hammered diamond jigs literally dead sticked in the rough conditions but lost both fish when the 50 lb leader on one jig broke and the 60 lb colored jigging line snapped when the tuna ran under the boat. Very slow overall today for us and I really do believe the bluefin may be thinning out from what it was a short time ago. We anchored for a good part of the morning about a half mile from where most boats were fishing with no bites so we decided to drift in the crappy sea conditions that I would normally not drift in but since we were not seeing any bait or tuna on the fishfinder for 3 hours while being anchored, we had to try something different. We did get our jig bites drifting but it was tough with the wind and current out there this morning. Did not hear of any boats catching tuna trolling today either by us or in the canyons but possibly some did catch as I did see some decent yellowfin brought back to the dock on Saturday by a couple of boats at our dock that went deep but heard nothing today on the radio of tuna biting anywhere. Back out tomorrow morning and am going to go with all 50-60 lb florocarbon with the lighter boat traffic and see what happens jigging and chunking for BFT. Later this week I may run deep if I hear of any good tuna fishing in our local canyons. Everyone worked extremely hard today with only a few bites and the strong NW wind may have shut the bite down. This is the first time I have fished the 19 Fathom Lump chunking in years, as I normally avoid this spot, but where I had been fishing to the south seemed to have slowed down considerably from what it was earlier last week so I wanted to try a different lump and see what we could do there.