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Originally Posted by TunaBully  Many of experts I have spoken with on the east coast are opposed to them, as they may prevent a school of tuna from rising to the surface and seeing the full array of spreader bars, jets and ballyhoos running just below the surface; possibly preventing multiple hookups. |
I'd rather hook a single tuna once than an entire school zero times.
Taken from the learning section of the semi-defunct SD Fishing buddy board, with all respect:
Albacore are one of the Tunas whose body temperature is warmer by several degree's than the water they swim in. They must always be on the move because they haven't any swim bladder. If they stop moving they'll sink. The way they get a little rest is to swim up sharply from three-hundred feet or deeper to about one-hundred feet. Then they'll take a long downward glide back down to the depth they started from. We suspect this behavior may also have something to do with regulating their body temperature. The same way Yellow-fin
and Big-eye tuna do. They will come to the surface to feed, but not for a long period of time. They have large eye's for feeding
at depths of over a thousand feet. Their eye's don't have eye lids and are very sensitive to light.
So, it seems like fishing at depth isn't a horrible idea, eh?