Sunday 8/13 with Danny & Jarad on board headed offshore to look for the small school bluefin & skipjack tuna that have made appearances in our area the past 2 years around this time. Headed out to the Ambrose Light, didn't see any surface activity so we jigged a few big blues around the tower before continuing the search.
The water was a perfect, clear blue but the temp was only 71, a degree shy of the minimum required for tuna. Covered a large area out 20 miles with no signs of tuna. Headed back toward the Ambrose light and about 2 miles south of it we spotted some bird activity with fish breaking underneath. Using small diamond and "deadly dick" jigs we hooked up immediately to a bonito that couldn't have weighed more than a half pound, still it was a beautiful fish and somewhat encouraging. We managed to chase these around for about 2 hours hoping for something more substantial, but only caught about 2 dozen of these cookie cutter 1/2 pounders.
Headed in at the end of the tide. Went back out this morning with Dr. Ralph to search again, conditions were a little choppier, but about 7 miles out we found a very good group of birds working. Motored up wind for a perfect shot, but didn't manage to hook up, we only got one more shot and then that action died. We headed back to the Ambrose light and jigged 8 to 10 pound blues on 027 & 047 diamond jigs for 3 hours until we were too tired to fish anymore. We try again for the tuna on Friday.
1.JPG)
1.JPG)