The Real Sea Adventure 80 Bluefin Tuna 7-19-13

[trophyhnter]

Left the docks at 8:30 PM on 7-19-13 for a 1 1/2 day tuna trip and picked up some big but fair bait. The captain and crew did a long range style seminar which certainly helped as we only lost a couple fish all day due to tangles and the tuna shuffle went better than expected with a full boat.

Woke up to a couple small yellowtail getting taken from a nice looking paddy offshore. We were on the way to BFT grounds and just had to make the stop but only two tails on the stop.

Once we got to the BFT grounds we found a school and a small bite went on. I picked up my first bite, keys were a hot bait that could get far from the boat, and a long soak. Dont waste your time on a bad bait and make sure not to over handle it. When you nose hook the bait and it trys to swim out of your hand at 5000 rpm......hot bait otherwise unhook it through over and get another one!

The first tuna of the day is the small one about 15 pounds.

 

From there we went searching for school of hungry tuna but couldn't get a school to stay with us. The captain (The best captain I have ever fished with) sure did search long and hard, didn't mind burning tons of fuel to find the fish,

Finally a hour or so before sun down he found a school that stayed with the boat until dark, This is where we picked up the majority of our fish, a lot of which were 35-40 pounds. The kite here worked very well, 6 of our 46 BFT were kite fish. Once again a long soak on a good bait worked for me.

My two biggest make on this stop both 40 pounds.

Resulted in alot of Tuna steaks

 

Dinner Tuna steak a teriyaki glaze

 

Random Pics

The lone dorado of the trip

 

This was the most exciting trip so far mostly because of the way the captain and crew ran the show! If you have never tried offshore fishing.........................try it...........you will not regret it! Make sure you get some motion sickness meds before you go or it will be the worsted experience your have ever had! Also, just check the fish counts at the lands

http://www.hmlanding.com/fcount/fcount.htm

http://www.pointlomasportfishing.com/pages/fishcount.php

http://www.seaforthlanding.com/pages/fishcount.php

 

and the forecast

http://thefishingweatherman.com/index.php/videos

 

When they are on the fish and the weather looks good...............book a trip and have the fishing time of your life!

[6ANut]

Well done, those are some tasty looking tuna steaks.

[Chef]

That looks like a fun trip.

Great looking table fare!

[trophyhnter]

Thanks guys! It was really fun! I remember reading that CWT wanted to do a fishing trip and this would be a good one! Next year if people are interested I can put something together and will can fill a big boat with the CWT crew!

 

Now I can concentrate on my elk tag in sept!

[biglakejake]

https://976tuna.com/e107_plugins/landing/audio.php?btrack.10.1374795268

 

still heating up if that possible.

[azpredator@work]

/>Thanks guys! It was really fun! I remember reading that CWT wanted to do a fishing trip and this would be a good one! Next year if people are interested I can put something together and will can fill a big boat with the CWT crew!

 

Now I can concentrate on my elk tag in sept!

[azpredator@work]

Awesome trip. A good capt makes a big difference. I would like to go next year if you end up lining a trip up. Need 2 spots for my son a me.

[tjhunt2]

Thanks guys! It was really fun! I remember reading that CWT wanted to do a fishing trip and this would be a good one! Next year if people are interested I can put something together and will can fill a big boat with the CWT crew!

 

Now I can concentrate on my elk tag in sept!

Count me in

 

TJ