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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 10:38 pm |
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Catch-22 spf had three boats on the water today, before we made it 8 miles out Scotty on "Sassy Lady" had already found the tuna ..165 at 21 Miles Scotty said, "we have a triple" !!! 25 Min. Later our fleet arrived and the Fun Started, C-22 had 10 Tuna and 1 Marlin, C-22 Pez-vela Had 9 Tuna and 1 Dorado, C-22 Rubina Had 4 Tuna & 2 Dorado...what FUN..I think Scotty ended up with 12 Boated, & the Other 7 or 8 boats there all did well. This school was bigger fish than yesterday, all our fish were from 25-35 pounds..Buoy weather shows great sea's Friday, Saturday & Sunday...Air temps today were 89 Deg. and sea temps are 79.5...at this rate it could last 2 more weeks.YAHOO If you want YFT get your butts down here, never better fishing and weather.....
Game on
Steve
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Posted: Wed Nov 7th, 2007 11:10 pm |
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Im on my way!!! Should be there by 10 tonight. Sounds like fun. Congrats Steve on the awsome day. SEE YOU ON THE WATER!  Mobile MikeLast edited on Wed Nov 7th, 2007 11:10 pm by MOBILE MIKE
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Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 02:17 am |
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Mike,
A couple of hints - stay with the big boats (C22, JonJen, etc) and watch for a group of boats working an area _ monitor Ch68 and follow them when they say "go to Chxx".
If the group of boats is on tuna, you have to do the Run'n'Gun. Don't have too many lines out, and have cedar plugs ready to drop back. When you spot boiling fish/birds/porpoise working, pull everything in, make a wide circle to be in front of the fish (go/fast/quick!) and drop the cedar plugs as you approach. With a smaller boat, you will have to watch for the converging wakes of the bigger boats - five or six 30-40 foot boats charging on tuna will set up a "whipped cream peak" type of wake that grows rapidly to 4-5 feet and bigger. Use speed to circle out and stay to the front! Use caution to insure that you stay dry! If there are just the two of you, don't try to pull more than two lines. The first time I got caught up in a WFO yft bite I never landed one, even though we had 4 on at once - then we hit a five-plus foot wake at 10 knots trying to get in front of Que Rico and were soaked.....the voice of experience............
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Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 09:50 pm |
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Craig,
Hopefully you've had a chance to cash in on some of the great tuna fishing I've been reading about here. I hope it lasts until Thanksgiving because that is the first opportunity I will have to get down there. One question: Do you know if the cedar plugs that are being used successfully are just the wood colored ones or some other color? Any help you could lend would be appreciated as I've only caught a couple of tuna at SC and those were probably by mistake!
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Chip
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Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 10:45 pm |
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Chip,
I have been landlocked for this whole bite and may not make it before you  . I can see a "zucchini" colored plug hanging out of the first picture Fernando posted from Tuesday. That is one of the perennial favorites along with purple/black, orange/black, dorado, and sardine colors. I have never had much luck with the natural cedar (except Rapala's in that color for yellowtail), but I know some people swear by them.
Maybe our buddies Steve and Fernando will pipe in on the subject.......one thing is usually true - if you are positioned correctly in front of feeding tuna, they pretty much eat anything they see. Bright colors on bright days, dark colors on cloudy days or early/late in the day help them to see your offerings better.
Hopefully I will get there before they're gone.....I still want to throw the big Tady 4/0 iron with the gaff-sized hook at them!!!!!!!!!!!
Wishin I wuz fishin'!
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Posted: Thu Nov 8th, 2007 10:50 pm |
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Chip- Blue/ green/ Natural cedar plugs all worked great, we also had very good luck with Bally-hoo
See ya soon
Steve
PS Just got back from shooting Dove, thousands of white wings here now..I have dove hunting trip's now...MUCHO FUN
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Posted: Fri Nov 9th, 2007 05:55 am |
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No Sniveling wrote:
. I have never had much luck with the natural cedar (except Rapala's in that color for yellowtail), but I know some people swear by them.
Maybe our buddies Steve and Fernando will pipe in on the subject.......one thing is usually true - if you are positioned correctly in front of feeding tuna, they pretty much eat anything they see. Bright colors on bright days, dark colors on cloudy days or early/late in the day help them to see your offerings better.
Hopefully I will get there before they're gone.....I still want to throw the big Tady 4/0 iron with the gaff-sized hook at them!!!!!!!!!!!
Wishin I wuz fishin'!
IronMan
Me either ironman.
I never had any luck an a cedar plug, never.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11th, 2007 03:00 am |
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Hey Steve,
you are tops. keep me in touch as we always catch fish. I won't leave the dock unless i am on one of your boats.
Thanks again for another great trip!!
Phinney
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