No charter today so we broke out the 130’s and went out east looking for Giant Bluefin.
Settled in out on the East Side of Stellwagon with good #’s of breaking fish around. Mixed bay of tuna there with 100lb – 200 lb class fish with some real Giants showing from time to time. Had 1 bite on a live bait pretty quickly, but we couldn’t stay pinned to him. Not sure on the size – could have been another one of the 70″ class fish that have been so prevelent this year. Makes me feel better to think that than having lost a market fish.
We got chased off the bank pretty quickly as the numbers of huge bluefish and Stripers there made it impossible to get to get a livie through to the tuna. Stripers are fun, but when they are eating live baits that cost $5 each, – not so much.
We went way out to the East where one of the Spotter pilots had been seeing good #’s of fish, but unfortunately there was zero visibility Offshore. It can be pretty hard to troll when you can’t even see your spreader bars.
Highpoint of the day was seeing a 4-500 lb class Bluefin come up and absolutely smash a dead bluefish that was floating on the surface. He took two good shots at it, coming all the way out of the water – I couldn’t hook him, but it was still fun to see
Good to be out there, back Striper Fishing tomorrow with another charter
