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08-01-2013, 09:23 AM
Tuna did not want to play today but the yellows dud - we landed 6 nice ones.
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Long Story - Left Shelter Island Sunday evening with crew members Aaron, Sid and Nick. I had already assumed the bait at the receiver would be crap so we went into the kelp line with sabikis and made a few dozen spanish macks and smelts first. We then loaded up on sardines at the receiver. They were a little better shape than last week but still crap. Next stop was North Island were I put the squid light out and after a few moves we found the bed and proceeded to crowd a healthy scoop into the small tank. Loaded for bear, we motored out to the tuna pens arriving just after 2am. After a few hours sleep, we woke to find a few cattle and private boats that had joined us. We gave it a go for a couple of hours and didn't see any action the whole time. Some of the cattle boats were moving on and I decided to do the same. We put out the trollers and worked south east in search of paddys. It took a while but we found a small one and I hook a nice mahi on it. I pass the rod to Nick and after a long battle it chews through the line right next to the boat. Nick has a nice video, maybe he will post it? Next paddy was a bit larger and loaded with fork. We decked four nice ones and lost many more, mostly by me I'll admit! Just wasn't my day. Paddys were scarce so after a few hours we came back to the same one but it was still vacant so we went back to the pens. All the cattle boats were gone but there were 6 or 8 private boaters working it. We drifted for a few hours and I saw one #50 tuna caught between everybody there. We decided to troll towards home and look for kelps. We didn't get anything on the troll but found a few more paddys and picked away at the yellows, putting a total of 6 on the boat. Sid and Nick are saltwater newbs and Aaron only fished S/W in Hawaii so these were there first yellowtail. Good job guys, hopefully next time we'll get some tuna.
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Long Story - Left Shelter Island Sunday evening with crew members Aaron, Sid and Nick. I had already assumed the bait at the receiver would be crap so we went into the kelp line with sabikis and made a few dozen spanish macks and smelts first. We then loaded up on sardines at the receiver. They were a little better shape than last week but still crap. Next stop was North Island were I put the squid light out and after a few moves we found the bed and proceeded to crowd a healthy scoop into the small tank. Loaded for bear, we motored out to the tuna pens arriving just after 2am. After a few hours sleep, we woke to find a few cattle and private boats that had joined us. We gave it a go for a couple of hours and didn't see any action the whole time. Some of the cattle boats were moving on and I decided to do the same. We put out the trollers and worked south east in search of paddys. It took a while but we found a small one and I hook a nice mahi on it. I pass the rod to Nick and after a long battle it chews through the line right next to the boat. Nick has a nice video, maybe he will post it? Next paddy was a bit larger and loaded with fork. We decked four nice ones and lost many more, mostly by me I'll admit! Just wasn't my day. Paddys were scarce so after a few hours we came back to the same one but it was still vacant so we went back to the pens. All the cattle boats were gone but there were 6 or 8 private boaters working it. We drifted for a few hours and I saw one #50 tuna caught between everybody there. We decided to troll towards home and look for kelps. We didn't get anything on the troll but found a few more paddys and picked away at the yellows, putting a total of 6 on the boat. Sid and Nick are saltwater newbs and Aaron only fished S/W in Hawaii so these were there first yellowtail. Good job guys, hopefully next time we'll get some tuna.
http://fishinghotpage.com/images/jeff/yt7.jpg
http://fishinghotpage.com/images/jeff/yt5.jpg