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Jason Wormald:
Awesome stuff would love to fish there one day
Ed Nicholas:
Wow . . As always seems like you dominated!! ;D Awesome pics & post Kilsong.
Kil Song:
After Tsurusaki san's group left, fishing slowed down.
We were fortunate to work with small school of nice bluefin for a whole week.
There are some giant in Cape Cod now, but they respond only to bait.
We ventured out offshore as there were reports smaller bluefin were abundant last week and we found them. We had 8 - 9 hookups (3-4 on FCL CSP, 3 on Soul Brabus and 2 on Ron Z) with smaller 50 - 60 lb.
Here is the report of the trip.
07-05 full report
Fishing has been very slow in normal areas. I discussed with Capt Jimmy to explore other areas. Some caught smaller tuna offshore a few days ago, but we got reports that boats fished there on July 4 couldn't locate tuna again.
Capt decided to go where a few boats spotted tuna while returning from canyon trips.
I told my friends we might not see any tuna on the trip as it is an exploratory trip, but I assured that they could load up with jumbo scup and fluke in case we didn't locate any tuna.
Fortunately we located tuna and loaded with scup and fluke in the afternoon.
We had 3 out of 8 with smaller 50 - 60 lbs bluefin, but we quit fishing by 10:30 am and went inshore for scup and fluke.
We had three on FCL CSP sinking, three on Soul's Brabus and two on Ron Z.
I was surprised tuna hit normal size lures though they are small. We found the reason after we opened stomach of a tuna. It was full of small halfbeak.
It was like we fished smaller tuna in Cape Cod a few years ago. They pop here and there, then they disappeared when we approached them. They reappeared again and we ran. It was fun. :)
Choi and Park used OTI popping rods and I think the rods are good for smaller tuna as the price is very reasonable and the rod can handle smaller tuna.
I feel you don't need expensive Stella or Saltiga for those smaller tuna and Shimano Saragosa is good enough for them.
I used 8' Black Hole Cape Cod Special/Shimano Stella 20000 filled with JB 80 lbs hallow.
The setup is for big bluefin over 200 plus lb and 50 - 60 lb bluefin was no contest with the setup and I landed one in one or two minutes. :)
Ladd Yoshimura:
Hi, And word on the black hole surf rods?
Kil Song:
--- Quote from: Ladd Yoshimura on July 13, 2011, 06:03:09 PM ---Hi, And word on the black hole surf rods?
--- End quote ---
We got 10'6" surf blanks and expect to get surf rods in a month.
Bluefin popping has been erratic and most tuna caught on poppers become smaller in 100 lb - 130 lbs range. More 100 lbs - 130 lbs tuna showed up in normal areas, but they are hard to catch on poppers for some unknown reasons.
Once water temp goes down, we should see more action.
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