Left Rudee just after 7 am sunday morning with my dad, brother and son on the boat for their first try at tuna, and headed towards the canyon. Since we left the docks pretty late, and my dad planned on leaving sunday night, I decided to start the troll back at the fingers, even though the odds of picking up any tuna were pretty much nill. Got the first double between the fingers and triangle wrecks with two FA's. Kept moving back towards the bay and picked up 4 more FA's, all around the wrecks. Hoped for a King or Mahi, or something they could eat, but they were having a blast fighting those little bullets. It started getting late and we picked up for the run back to Gloucester. About 6 miles from the mouth of the bay, found the birds working a water boil, so we dropped a couple lines just to see what we could pull....another FA. All in all, 7 FA's - 2 short corner cedar plug, 4 long corner bird/squid chain naked, 1 short rigger blue/white islander/whoo...3 happy/tired first time offshore fisherman.
Tight lines
Chris
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QUOTE (rockfishin @ Oct 17 2007, 03:23 AM)
Left Rudee just after 7 am sunday morning with my dad, brother and son on the boat for their first try at tuna, and headed towards the canyon. Since we left the docks pretty late, and my dad planned on leaving sunday night, I decided to start the troll back at the fingers, even though the odds of picking up any tuna were pretty much nill. Got the first double between the fingers and triangle wrecks with two FA's. Kept moving back towards the bay and picked up 4 more FA's, all around the wrecks. Hoped for a King or Mahi, or something they could eat, but they were having a blast fighting those little bullets. It started getting late and we picked up for the run back to Gloucester. About 6 miles from the mouth of the bay, found the birds working a water boil, so we dropped a couple lines just to see what we could pull....another FA. All in all, 7 FA's - 2 short corner cedar plug, 4 long corner bird/squid chain naked, 1 short rigger blue/white islander/whoo...3 happy/tired first time offshore fisherman.
Tight lines
Chris
Tight lines
Chris
Nice work Chris! Nothing wrong with sharpening skills on Little Tunny. As I mentioned in my post, we cut up one of the fresh FAs we were going to use for chunking later on and had some ultra fresh sushi...and it wasn't bad at all! May try to smoke one next time just to experiment. All in all you had a good day fishing and spending quality time, keep it up!
Tight lines.
Dave
Nice report, thanks. Looks like everybody's still waiting for the yellowfin.
Those Fat Alberts might be the little cousins to the Yellowfin, but fight like crazy and your spread can get nailed by a passing school. Good times for sure. Thanks for the report!
[quote=Billable,Oct 17 2007, 06:54 AM] [quote=rockfishin,Oct 17 2007, 03:23 AM]Left Rudee just after 7 am sunday morning with my dad, brother and son on the boat for their first try at tuna, and headed towards the canyon. Since we left the docks pretty late, and my dad planned on leaving sunday night, I decided to start the troll back at the fingers, even though the odds of picking up any tuna were pretty much nill. Got the first double between the fingers and triangle wrecks with two FA's. Kept moving back towards the bay and picked up 4 more FA's, all around the wrecks. Hoped for a King or Mahi, or something they could eat, but they were having a blast fighting those little bullets. It started getting late and we picked up for the run back to Gloucester. About 6 miles from the mouth of the bay, found the birds working a water boil, so we dropped a couple lines just to see what we could pull....another FA. All in all, 7 FA's - 2 short corner cedar plug, 4 long corner bird/squid chain naked, 1 short rigger blue/white islander/whoo...3 happy/tired first time offshore fisherman.
Tight lines
Chris
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Nice work Chris! Nothing wrong with sharpening skills on Little Tunny. As I mentioned in my post, we cut up one of the fresh FAs we were going to use for chunking later on and had some ultra fresh sushi...and it wasn't bad at all! May try to smoke one next time just to experiment. All in all you had a good day fishing and spending quality time, keep it up!
Tight lines.
Dave
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Had a guy at work tell me today that he ate them fresh like that all the time in Japan, and asked me for one until I told him they were frozen for bait. I may have have to try it myself next time. I'll sure be using one to teach my 11 year old son how to clean tuna. then might try grilling some marinated.
Chris
[quote=rockfishin,Oct 17 2007, 03:23 AM]Left Rudee just after 7 am sunday morning with my dad, brother and son on the boat for their first try at tuna, and headed towards the canyon. Since we left the docks pretty late, and my dad planned on leaving sunday night, I decided to start the troll back at the fingers, even though the odds of picking up any tuna were pretty much nill. Got the first double between the fingers and triangle wrecks with two FA's. Kept moving back towards the bay and picked up 4 more FA's, all around the wrecks. Hoped for a King or Mahi, or something they could eat, but they were having a blast fighting those little bullets. It started getting late and we picked up for the run back to Gloucester. About 6 miles from the mouth of the bay, found the birds working a water boil, so we dropped a couple lines just to see what we could pull....another FA. All in all, 7 FA's - 2 short corner cedar plug, 4 long corner bird/squid chain naked, 1 short rigger blue/white islander/whoo...3 happy/tired first time offshore fisherman. Tight lines
Chris
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Nice work Chris! Nothing wrong with sharpening skills on Little Tunny. As I mentioned in my post, we cut up one of the fresh FAs we were going to use for chunking later on and had some ultra fresh sushi...and it wasn't bad at all! May try to smoke one next time just to experiment. All in all you had a good day fishing and spending quality time, keep it up!
Tight lines.
Dave
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Had a guy at work tell me today that he ate them fresh like that all the time in Japan, and asked me for one until I told him they were frozen for bait. I may have have to try it myself next time. I'll sure be using one to teach my 11 year old son how to clean tuna. then might try grilling some marinated.
Chris
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