It was a cold one out there today, and will be for the next several days with high temperatures in the 40s for the foreseeable future. The wind is gonna blow some too, but it didn’t today so it was a nice day to get out and try some of the unbelievable bluefin tuna fishing that’s been going on.
Captain Dave Caffrey of On the Run had another great day of tuna fishing today with two “under” bluefins of 50 and 70 pounds, and one “over” bluefin of 64″ and 165 pounds.
Captain Dale Lisi of Foolish Pleasures has had a crazy good season with the bluefins so far this fall and today the catching continued with 5 “over” sized bluefins coming to the boat. Foolish Pleasures harvested their one allowable fish with this impressive butterball.
The bluefin fishing has been so good that Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star has been doing some tuna trolling.
Bluefin Tussle.. 12/01/24
After two experimental bluefin tuna trips the previous week, today I rounded up a handful of longtime regulars to come brave the cold and troll up a tuna – a for hire trip..
Didn’t skip our reef blocks. Big Jon sent a twenty block unit by the rail atop Capt Bob Gowar’s Memorial Reef. That makes 4,938 blocks at Bobby’s. Hit 5K there and it’ll be time to pick a new spot to broaden.
Still had a good ways to go after we’d built a tiny bit more reef. Put lines in sooner than I thought though when we happened upon gannets plunge diving on bait 3 miles inshore where we’d left em Friday.
Worked a few hours with tuna often sighted busting the surface – had one short bite and one topshot knot fail.
You get zero mistakes with these big sons of a guns..
Once I thought every tuna in the area had seen our lures and chose not to partake I moved on off a bit further.
The same rod we’d lost one on earlier, & now with a new topshot(!) got bit again.
One hour and fifty six minutes later a 69 inch, 211lb bluefin was in the boat.
My anglers all took several turns at the reel – a true joint effort.
Clients got most of the fish. The boys & I kept dinner too.
I’m now confident we have this fishery somewhat dialed in. If interested in such a tuna trolling trip I’ll announce the next one in a ‘FIsh Report’ from morningstarfishing.com ..
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