Thanks Sami,
Were you seeing surface action with birds etc. on this day?
It must have been hard work out there.
Andy,
I did not put a report in GT Popping last month but we opened the season very early this year
we fished in January 14 and landed 3 fishes, the smallest was 81 inches and the biggest 84 inches on a popping rod, on that day they responded to jig and we saw some birds here and there, in many occasion we saw them busting on topwater without a single bird on top of them.
you see birds when they are concentrating and feeding on the surface, prior to this trip we had an amazing bite on the jig and on topwater, Nick Bowles from Ocean Active will be writing down the report soon.
when we made it to the desired location we saw them busting on topwater with couple of birds, Konishi-san and Ajiti-san and I came in tight right away,
when the wind blow from the north you will see the tuna riding the wave heading south, we saw 2 killer whales yesterday, thousands of gar fish, hammerhead shark, all heading south from the cold water to the gulf stream, it was absolutely national geographic !!