Left for HI Tuesday night of last week and was only able to fish Thursday afternoon and Friday. Did scratch out a citation Amberjack aka REEF DONKEY of 68 lbs with Ted and son Porter on Thursday afternoon it was Porters 16th Birth Day DAD was on the Rod for 45 minutes we almost were spooled twice on a Shimano stella 6000 the fish took a turkey slider in 240 feet of water off the 000"s, Headed back out Friday in 3 to 5 foot seas and came home with 2YFT of about 30 lbs each and 3 Wahoooskies. Missed a whole lotta fish due to my ho"s had no experience but they had a ball we actually missed another 5 to 7 YFT and 2 more wahoo bite offs. every thing hit on blue and white islander trackers flash series. we fished south of the 000"s all day. Did talk to Gusman from the board yesterday at the dock looks like he will have a good weather week thru Wednesday and the fish are their. M

I'm pretty sure the tuna bite was north around the 280 and 230 Rocks

Any size to them hoos?

Not based on our experience. While we were rigging Thurday night a boat came in from the 230 rocks. They had 1 75 AJ and a 7lb sea bass and had not seen a tuna. We were in touch with boats north all day long on Friday and although there were a few yft caught, they were few and far between. The bite(such that it was) was south as was reported here. The boat in the slip next to us at Teach's, fished the 450 line Friday, they had 4 yft all day long and two of them were footballs.

M, once again thanks for the invite but it seemed the weather had different plans for our trip on Saturday. Imagine my surprise when i woke to see an inch of snow outside. Throw that in with 25-35 kt winds and I don't think that would have been that enjoyable. Maybe some other time.

-Justin

p.s. where is the icon for the typhoon type winds with snow?

[quote=gradyman,Apr 9 2007, 03:30 PM][quote=fordbjr,Apr 9 2007, 11:36 AM]I'm pretty sure the tuna bite was north around the 280 and 230 Rocks

Any size to them hoos?
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Not based on our experience. While we were rigging Thurday night a boat came in from the 230 rocks. They had 1 75 AJ and a 7lb sea bass and had not seen a tuna. We were in touch with boats north all day long on Friday and although there were a few yft caught, they were few and far between. The bite(such that it was) was south as was reported here. The boat in the slip next to us at Teach's, fished the 450 line Friday, they had 4 yft all day long and two of them were footballs.

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Gradyman it was me with the big amberjack it actually weighed 68 pounds and what a sea bass i couldnt beleive it when it came to the surface,you are right all of our tuna bites were south on Friday,buy the way beautiful boat i was in the white and blue 29 Regulator

[quote=conch27,Apr 9 2007, 02:01 PM][quote=gradyman,Apr 9 2007, 03:30 PM][quote=fordbjr,Apr 9 2007, 11:36 AM]I'm pretty sure the tuna bite was north around the 280 and 230 Rocks

Any size to them hoos?
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Not based on our experience. While we were rigging Thurday night a boat came in from the 230 rocks. They had 1 75 AJ and a 7lb sea bass and had not seen a tuna. We were in touch with boats north all day long on Friday and although there were a few yft caught, they were few and far between. The bite(such that it was) was south as was reported here. The boat in the slip next to us at Teach's, fished the 450 line Friday, they had 4 yft all day long and two of them were footballs.

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Gradyman it was me with the big amberjack it actually weighed 68 pounds and what a sea bass i couldnt beleive it when it came to the surface,you are right all of our tuna bites were south on Friday,buy the way beautiful boat i was in the white and blue 29 Regulator

[/quote]Sorry, my mistake I thought you said 75 --no matter - it was a "big un" anyway.
Good job Friday -I wish we had gone south with you --we got some bites but not like you describe. Did you run any spreader bars? We put a bunch of bars in the spread early, trying to raise up the tuna - which I had good luck with last year - but we didn't do anything with them Friday. In fact I think they hurt us. Once we changed them out we began to get wahoo hits. Wondering if you had any similar experience.

Kent

Mike,
Sorry to hear about the blow out, but congrats on that Donkey !!! Thanks for the intel.

Are you going to be down there this weekend??

Good job Guys! Wind=drink beer, tell lies, rig baits. No wind=rig baits, fish, tell lies, drink beer when ya get back.
Tight lines.
Dave

[quote=gradyman,Apr 9 2007, 05:36 PM][quote=conch27,Apr 9 2007, 02:01 PM][quote=gradyman,Apr 9 2007, 03:30 PM][quote=fordbjr,Apr 9 2007, 11:36 AM]I'm pretty sure the tuna bite was north around the 280 and 230 Rocks

Any size to them hoos?
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Not based on our experience. While we were rigging Thurday night a boat came in from the 230 rocks. They had 1 75 AJ and a 7lb sea bass and had not seen a tuna. We were in touch with boats north all day long on Friday and although there were a few yft caught, they were few and far between. The bite(such that it was) was south as was reported here. The boat in the slip next to us at Teach's, fished the 450 line Friday, they had 4 yft all day long and two of them were footballs.

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Gradyman it was me with the big amberjack it actually weighed 68 pounds and what a sea bass i couldnt beleive it when it came to the surface,you are right all of our tuna bites were south on Friday,buy the way beautiful boat i was in the white and blue 29 Regulator

[/quote]Sorry, my mistake I thought you said 75 --no matter - it was a "big un" anyway.
Good job Friday -I wish we had gone south with you --we got some bites but not like you describe. Did you run any spreader bars? We put a bunch of bars in the spread early, trying to raise up the tuna - which I had good luck with last year - but we didn't do anything with them Friday. In fact I think they hurt us. Once we changed them out we began to get wahoo hits. Wondering if you had any similar experience.

Kent

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Kent i did not run any spreader bars but i do know of one boat which had multiple hook ups on a natural cedar plug chain on the flat line in the wash i ran all single blue and white or my other favorite color white and blue islander trackers some with flash and some without if i would have had a couple of the guys from this board who are experienced we would of had a stellar day i was plagued by inexperience but we did have a ball. M