This past weekend was one of the calmest I can remember in a while. It was nice to be able to go where you wanted and not have to work around what the weather is giving you. On Friday we had Jim Henderson and Frank Perry down. Tuna was the targeted species but it wasn't as easy as it had been. The hardest part of the day was having them jump all around us but couldn't get them to bite.Our first stop, they were there thick but after 30 minutes of fishing and no bites we went searching. We found some huge patches of grass with all the perfect sized baits you wanted, but they wouldn't bite, all they would do is follow the sabiki and act like they were interested. After trying 5 different sabiki rigs we managed to get several in the boat. Took off towards our next stop and on the way found a white bucket floating. Pulled up next to it and three large triple-tail were on it.
Tossed some bait with a hook in it in front of their face and they weren't interested. After 10 minutes of aggravating them with our efforts to sink a hook, they finally swam off. It is usually automatic. They basically just watched the bait sink. We made it out to our second tuna hole to find birds everywhere and fish busting. I figured it was on. After an hour of fishing we had nothing to show for our efforts, not even an interested fish in the baits. So, off to another spot we went. On the way there we came across what looked to be a partially sunken jet ski or wave runner. Around it there were plenty of dolphin. A couple of them were almost bulls. But, they wouldn't bite either. We managed to pull a couple of not bad, but smaller mahi out of the school and then they got lock jaw. I looked at the guys and said for some reason everything we fished for today won't bite. We made it back to where we started and finally, around 1:00 p.m. we had our first fish on, the guys got him in the boat and it was about a 75lb yellow fin tuna, second fish came around 3:00 p.m. and this one was about 45lbs. We put about another hour into it and the guys called it a day. They finished with two dolphin and two yellow fin.
On Saturday we had Lyle Russell and friends back down for another round of snapper fishing. First stop, nada. Took us 10 minutes to move to the second stop and in about two hours put 24 snapper in the boat. All of them were very nice, didn't have to use the fish ruler once. They filled the limit and we went searching for A.J.'s We put three in the boat but we had to work for them. The current was our main problem but that is how it goes sometimes. On Friday Capt. Bob K. fished Mike Widak and friends from Texas. They started out running long for tuna. They had the same problem we had, all over the place but not biting very good. The did end of with several nice dolphin. On Saturday Bob K. took out the Henderson crew for their second day. They limited on snapper easily and called it a day. Back at it this week. We've got a boat open a couple of days this week and weekend.
Capt. Damon McKnight/Super Strike Charters/1 800 318 1720
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