# 52596: Subject: Fishtails, Horns 8/27-29, Rhode Island

Submitted by Captain Jim (ip 24.45.179.57)

• Fished on 8/27/2004

• Report received: 8/30/04

Water Temperature: 71
Water Clarity: clear blue
Seas: oily to 7 feet
Weather: .
Fishing_for: tuna
Boat: Reel Steal II
captain: Captain Jim

Report:
Reached Fishtails @ 10 am Fri 8/29. 71 degree water and smooth as oil. Put out the spread and hit a school of skipjacks with 4 rigs getting hit. Set back out and put a 90# yft and 2 albies~40# in the boat. Had a big fish hit the 80 wide which had 120# test and the drag set at 80#, pulling a pink squid spreader. Put the boat in neutral and as I started to see metal on the spool, I loosened the drag and the fish came to the surface at what seemed to be a half mile away. The splash was like a depth charge exploding. It surfaced like that 2 more times as we were recovering line and gaining on the fish and then the hook came out and back to the boat clean. Didn’t act like a tuna with the big surface splashes. Caught a 20# bluefin on the way in. Wish we had landed that whatever it was. Sat-5 of 6 people throwing up all day and not one knockdown at the Horns. Sun, left at 7 am and caught the edge of that warm water finger at the horns and followed it Southwest. Final tally 6 bluefin boated, 3 were keepers (30-38 inches). Back at the dock by 4 pm after traveling through pea soup for about 15 miles

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