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Friday 9 Nov 07.  Had a full crew Friday with Joe, Brian, John, and Tommy Tuna. Saw the awesome break on the SST so ran to the water putting lines in at 30 fathoms at 250 line. Water went from 65 to 74 and we thought it was going to be game on. Weed line and scattered bait, a few birds but no fish. Worked south working from 40 to 140 fathoms and back all the way to the 950 line where caught up with about 4 OI boats working that area. Tuna birds everywhere but minimal marks. Scratched out one 30 lb tuna around 2:30 pm at 50 fathoms on the 950 line as the sun finally peaked though the clouds. Been so long since I caught a tuna I think I forgot how as we made a mess getting one fish to the boat.  Worked the area for another hour and nada so we pulled lines and headed in with our one tuna. I had my tuna game face one today so left the deep drop gear home. Had a wahoo bite off and couple of other mystery bites. I think we gave it a good try. Radio traffic was dead with the exception of talking with Kapoc on Blue Dragon who was also having a tough day. We covered a lot of ground today for sure. Been a tough tuna year and I wonder if I’m done for the year.

I think the problem was we never found any good bait marks and very few fish marks, even deep. That was was all the way from the 300 to the point and south. The only place we saw that was even a little fishy was the 950 with the tuna birds but still few marks so that is why we worked that area over. At that point we were 40 miles from OI and 85 from my inlet. weeds were mostly right at the break but not near as bad as they have been in the past. There were lots of shearwaters but they were mostly sitting. Lots of tuna birds around 950 line at 50 fathoms. I got the feeling that there was some carnage earlier in the day that we missed and we were witnessing the clean up crew and fish gone somewhere we weren’t.

Joe's Tuna

Monday, 12 Nov 07.  Fished Monday, Veteran’s Day on Frank Joyce’s Viking 45 Pier Pressure. We started at the weather buoy and just east of the buoy found an awesome break going from 61 to 75, hard edge but no significant color change and minimal bait. Small manageble weedline right at the break. From the SST shot, the break ran NE from the buoy. Now I understand that a temp break over structure is ideal tuna conditions so we trolled that edge working from cold to hot, hot to cold zig-zagging the break from 20 fathoms all the way to 220 fathoms. Only pull we got was when we snagged a plastic bag and it popped the clip and pulled drag getting us all excited. Nothing on the troll so we do some bottom bouncing for tile and seabass about 17 miles south of the canyon next to the Jill Carie. Got some nice knotheads and tile to 10 lbs. SW winds kicked up to 15 knots on the way back but Frank’s Viking just ate it up. Good day despite no tuna. It sure is nice to be the ho sometimes and nap on the ride out and back.  Thanks Frank for a great trip.  Next trip will be tuna, tuna. 

Here is a short video of our trip.  Pier Pressure Offshore Video.  (Video currently unavailable)

Jack's Sea Bass

Mike's Tile/Naved

Jack, Rob and Grady