fished the tournament aboard 'stretched out' with capt porkchop. beautiful flat ride out. we sat slightly north of the fingers for 40 minutes before lines in at 7am. started south and worked various water depths and tried everthing in the bag for 4 hours before landing a nice gaffer dolphin on a purple seawitch. work toward the 44 fathom wreck and both flats go down at once each with large bluefish...still not what we were looking for. decided to cut back inside toward the fingers and reworked the spread with a ballyhoo setup instead of the spreader bars etc. around 1300, penn 80 with red/black seawitch in the shotgun way back begins to scream. we get harnessed up for the fight as the fish steady takes line. we get the spread cleared for the fight. did not see the fish until 1400 as it begins to circle and make shallow dives to avoid the boat. at 1450, 2 gaffs are dropped in the back of an 87.6 lb bluefin. very excited crew prepares the boat for the run back into rudee. very slow fishing, but capped off with a very pretty fish to get us at #7 on the final weigh-in. 1 gaffer dolphin, 2 bluefish, and a 87.6 bluefin. overall, great weekend during the tournament....cant wait to fish it next year

Way to go tunaboy...that's a nice bluefin!!!

Nice work TB and crew!
Dave

Thats what Im talking about. If you only get one tuna, might as well be a big Blue.

Eric