larger than normal, I like that......

Inquiring minds want NEED to know. Post mo details!

Where are the pics and reports? They are killing me :-)

Just got to room- just packed away 3 big YFT - tired- trip started out with sporty seas- to wet on deck to troll- water calmed enough to troll few hours - No Hits- went south first night- marked lots of fish- but they still where deep- chunking was not the way this night- fish stayed deep did come up once in while for little top water action- stayed south until about 10am- fished right on rig- 3-4 nice AJ- one about 70 plus - headed to Diana - for next night - water two degrees cooler- only YFT caught on chunk had to have weight 1-2 ounces- top water got Hot - about 38- total YFT - bigger than average- two good fishermen spooled- I broke off twice- top YFT about 120-130- we broke off some BIG fish- jigging deep also produced big fish early in night - then YFT came up for a display and solid top water bite for hours- hooked 200 plus mako broke off under boat- jig had monster YFT on spit hook after hard battle - hard south wind pushed us home- hope fish hold for this weekend - someone might catch their dream YFT- see you this weekend!

Thanks Mike!

Were there any flyers in the water? Did anyone try live flyers?

Good flow of flyers- was worth trip to watch YFT work them- YFT came in light of boat chasing flyers-slamming them feet from boat- listen to this! Capt. Russel was trying to catch a flyer- threw cast net a one right by boat- just as net hits flyer a YFT slams the flyer- net catches YFT - Tuna blew a big hole in net in milli-seconds! YFT & cast net hit flyer same time- wow!

awesome... this might be interesting...

Yep ..... sounds like we might be heading straight to Diana. There are a number of bottom drop spots on the way there and back.

Can't wait! Who wants to catch my AJ for me?



LOL

sounds like EVERYBODY needs to do the piggy party ! now i need to repack w/different focus

any body know someone that would like a spot ? stephens got to bail on us .

Who's with me?! Let's get some! Can we just go now?

JM, got a buyer for the spot potentially lined up. Will know this afternoon.
Too bad no one wanted to buy the oipen spot on Once I last week at $250 bottom lined price.

yea there was a bunch of wussies i seen commenting on the forecast on the other forum that had no idea how the cat performs

Let me tell you, this was about the best trip I have ever been on, and I landed ONE tuna. That one was about 100#, and I would say it was average! I fished a shibuki with owner ST66 3/0 practically the whole time, just like always. I lost four monsters to pulled hooks, and another right at the gaff due to a leader parting. I had the 100# to the gaff in under 10 minutes. The others I had to color before loosing them in under 10 minutes, all about the same size. The very last cast I made, at 3am, I hooked a beast so big he almost spooled me TWICE, and then settled down at about 400ft and I could not move him. We had everyone pull in and tryed to chase him down, as he was starting to come up from the depths away from the boat. After about 45 minutes, we had him up and down again, and I was finally gaining some line back when the hooks pulled again. I was fishing 18# of drag, and as you get a lot of line out the drag increases quite a bit. And he did it twice. I cannot even imagine how big this fish was.

So why was this such a great trip with one tuna in the boat? Because the fish were there,biting and all huge. They were working in the lights non stop. It was unreal. I have only seen this once before, but the tuna were much smaller. 100# tuna were coming completely out of the water busting bait RIGHT NEXT TO THE BOAT!

Another thing, I tried fishing a rubber flying fish, but missed a lot of fish so went back to the shibuki (and lost more fish). The fish just couldn't seem to find the hooks in the flying fish. If you fish these, I would try rigging up with a huge treble or single stinger a few inches behind the fish.

You guys are going to have an epic trip.

I was ten yards away watching when this happened. It was unreal. I also had about a 10ft mako hit a blackfin right at the boat. That was really cool too.