Subject: hydrogapher, New York

Submitted by john (ip 132.238.173.171)

• Fished on 9/21/04

  Water Temperature: 85
  Water Clarity: clear
  Seas: .5 - 1'
  Weather: the best i've ever been out on the water. the only ripple in the water was a school of fish.
  Fishing_for: Tuna
  Boat: kathy's choice
  captain: anthony
  

  Report:
  we started trolling around 11 am and around 1130 we hit a school of albies that totally killed our spreader bars. While trolling in the distance we saw a "HUGE" giant tuna probally ranging around 800 pounds crash the surface feeding on bait. It looked as if a sub came out of the water and smashed on the surface. The fish was to far away and was moving extremely fast to be cought. Anyways back to fishing... we then hooked up into a nice 400 pound blue marlin that was taged and released. A couple hours later we hooked into a 300+ bigeye...we had it right next to the boat and the gaf bounced right off the gilplate and the line broke.(so pissed) As night started to fall we could a lot of yellowfin tuna on the troll so we decided to tie up the pot and chunk the night away...we were catching yellowfin tuna on every rod. It got to the point where you could drop down a huge diamond jib and get 3-4 hits before you hook up really good. We decided to set up a shark rig to see what would happen..so we hooked up a huge shad to a balloon and drifted it out...not to long we had not 1 but 2 reels being striped of line like crazy. We had to untie from the pot and chase this massive fish. Yes we had 2 baits in one fish. It took an hour just to see what we had on..at first we thought it was a mako because of the temp...but then we thought it was a great white...but after a long period of chasing we got the monster up (lilttle over and hour) we estimated it to be 800+ pound tiger shark. After that we cut the lines. We went back the pot and started catching tuna all night long...As the night went on we all of a sudden had giant tigger sharks swimming around our boat..pretty cool but the tuna didn't care as they kept on eating away at everything. As morning came we cought some mahi and more yellowfin on the troll. Later on that morning we hit a nice school of yellowfin having 10 of our 14 rods having fish. we went 9 for 10 which is pretty damn good. This was one of the best fishing trips i've ever been on. The total catch must of been 40 plus yellowfin but only 25 were taken home(biggest 70lbs)...3 big albies...5 mahi...1 massive shark(800lbs) and a lot of tired arms.

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