Last minute we decided to try it. Had to wait for a boat to follow out the inlet; they are dredging and have really changed the layout of the inlet. Rolled the dice and headed SE to the point, reached the stream and with the nw breeze the conditions were a little sporty. There were no other boats around, I figured they were off to the north in cooler water. Water temp was 82 and there were tons of skipjacks working bait but no signs of mahi or tuna. Set out trolling north and around 9 am had a strike on a 4/0 outfit. The fish was really peeling line so we cleared other 4 rods and started working him. about 15 min later, nice 25lb Wahoo in the boat. He hit a ballyhoo on a white jr islander rigged with 100lb flouro. He came after our port flatline, missed and dropped back to take the islander. We continued our troll north working the current break and the shelf with not much going on. Saw schools of skips busting bait and ran through several nice slicks with no luck. At 11'ish, the other 4/0 outfit goes of with something nice. It was my turn so the others cleared the rods and I started working on getting some line back. With only 30lb test, I was very careful not to put too much pressure on him. I guess he took close to 200yds before we could get after him. I slowly gained line but we still didn't know what we had. When he went straight down for a couple huindred feet I kinda figured it was a tuna. After about 25 min of the give and take battle, we had a 50lb yellowfin in the boat. My biggest tuna so far. We always use (3) 50 class outfits and (2) 30 class outfits and it always seems the bigger fish hit the light weight gear! We kept heading north off and on the break working in from the deep and never had another hit. On the way in we stopped by the navy tower© and tried for an AJ with no luck. We did see a couple but they showed us no love. I did have a little songbird fly off the tower and land on my shoulder! It looked like a wren but I couldn't be sure, he flew around the boat and went back to the tower. There's no telling what you'll see offshore. We were back on the trailer at 4:45pm and over to the center to have the fish cleaned. We ended up with just the wahoo and the tuna, together weighing 76lbs.
Another beautiful day on the water. As a side note, when we filled the boat up, we had only burned 36 gallons...not too bad for over 100 miles covered. We were in my 22ft Angler/225 yamaha FS.
Tight Lines,
Eddie