Start of the pelagics season went well

[Capt RB]

Got out for the first trip of the season yesterday. Slow for us however we did mark fish all day.. Ended up getting a nice fat 52" bluefin while 2 others missed the hook on the cover-up at the slack tide. Biss was thrilled and the work and perseverance to stick to the plan showed it still works

 

[wv270wsm]

That would be some fine eating for sure

 

[CMP70306]

Congrats on the nice bluefin, where were you fishing at to get him?

We went out last week and fished the deep between the Hudson and Toms canyons. Got a bunch of small bluefin before we found a school of big ones up on top. My brother cast into them and hooked up on a big one, he had previously fought a 70"+ bluefin on the same set up and this one pulled harder than that one did.

Unfortunately we never got to see the fish as it appears another tuna from the school swam into and snapped the line, when we reeled it back in there was a chunk of the spool missing which indicated that it did not break at the wind on connection. Not the first time it's happened but still sucks to lose a big one.

But we did have some consolation as the sunset that night out there was beautiful and we got our limit of smaller 30" ones.

 

[Capt RB]

There have been alot of bigeye tuna in the area you were fishing recently. In the deep the big tunas can be a handful. Last season an 86" bluefin beat up a friend of mine for 6hours. Had he hooked in 400' or less it would have been a 20-40minute fight. The difference was he was in 3500' He had the bottom of the spool showing for a long time. The fish died on the line around the 5hr 30minute mark and it still took a half-hour to reel it up. If they can stay below the thermocline they do not overheat so it can be a long fight on lighter gear. He was using a 50 talica with 80# braid. This was while deepdropping for swordfish.

 

[shootallday]

Nice