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Bloodydecks.com - East Coast Fishing http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/ Reports and Discussion en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:15:28 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg Bloodydecks.com - East Coast Fishing http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/ Tuna Report East Coast Bluefin Tuna California style http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/167872-east-coast-bluefin-tuna-california-style.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:22:14 GMT Guys, Just thought that I would share some images with you of my recent trip fishing out of Plymouth, Massachusetts. We fished the Stelwagan Bank and targeted Blue fin tuna aboard Black Rose... Guys,

Just thought that I would share some images with you of my recent trip fishing out of Plymouth, Massachusetts. We fished the Stelwagan Bank and targeted Blue fin tuna aboard Black Rose Charters with Captain Rich Antonino. We went 4 for 7 on tuna this trip and caught all of our fish vertical jigging. There is no way to explain how hard the impact is of a 140 to 180 lbs Blue fin tuna when it hits a vertical jig with braided line. These reels are in gear as we are jigging and is much different than fishing a live bait that has the reel in free spool. It is one incredible feeling that sends shock waves through your entire body. What was even more amazing is the tackle that we were using. My fish was landed on the Cedros-10S lever drag reel. This is a small reel normally used for 15-40 lbs tuna fishing out of California and is a high speed reel. I had the reel spooled up with 50-lbs Western Filament line and released the fish in about 25 minutes. Our largest fish that was estimated at 180-lbs was caught vertical jigging on a Salina-80 spinning reel and a 7’0” Cedros jigging rods. After seeing the torture of this, I do not think I ever want to hook one of these giants on spinning tackle. It works just fine, but is a lot of work. Our other fish were all in the 140 to 160 lbs range and were landed on the Cedros-15S lever drag reelsspooled with 65-lbs Vicious line and the Cedros jigging rods.

This fishery is absolutely incredible. I have never seen such volume of tuna. At certain points of our trip we have tuna between 100-200 lbs jumping 360 degrees around the boat. We pretty much saw fish the entire day coming out of the water, which is frustrating and very exciting at the same time. These guys have been getting Blue fin from June through November and there are giants mixed in. You have no idea if you are going to hook a 150-lbs fish ora 500 plus pound fish. I am definitely planning on heading back next season. We have a great product tester who really loves catching these giants on light tackle and jigs, which the guys from Southern California will really get a kick out of.

One of the most amazing things that I saw was on a fish that we lost. We were throwing top water lures at the tuna when they were crashing the surface and one of our guys hooked a huge Blue fin about 25 feet off our transom. The fish came clear out of the water. This tuna was hooked on a Slugo “Tuna Candy” and a Salina-80 spinning reel. It was as if we hooked into a turbo charged Ferrari as it spooled us in 37 seconds and was captured on video. Two of the guys saw the fish as it swam past the boat at full speed and said that it was well over 300-lbs.

John

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]]> East Coast Fishing Fish Slayer http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/167872-east-coast-bluefin-tuna-california-style.html Kingfish off SC Coast http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/166940-kingfish-off-sc-coast.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:29:21 GMT We headed the other afternoon to try out some of the new weighted jig heads to much success. Went South looking for bait for a minute and decided that wasn't going to happen so we punched in Belkie Bear into the GPS and headed that way! The bite was slow at first with not even the first sign of bait showing up on the bottom machine. Then there he was 36 ft down on the machine, right where the downrigger was holding a ribbonfish rigged up with a Fishizzle RF-5 Skirt and Fishizzle Jig Head!

Ended up with 3 Kings for the afternoon at Belkie Bear pulling dead cigar minnows. Caught two more on a pink/white King Bling and a chartreuse King Bling with "Plan B" heads on both.

]]> East Coast Fishing FishizzleTackle http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/166940-kingfish-off-sc-coast.html Three day bluefin jigging/popping with Korean TV fishing crew http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/166171-three-day-bluefin-jigging-popping-korean-tv-fishing-crew.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:09:52 GMT They left for Korea last night and I finally can find time to relax. :) But it doesn't last long as two Korean jigging/popping fishermen are coming tonight to fish bluefin in Cape Cod with me.
We fished bluefin for three days on Oct 11, 12 and 15. I feel they were extremely lucky to fish bluefin three days in a week at this time of the year in Cape Cod.
Oct.11
I picked Shin and cameraman, Lee up at JFK airport, NY at 10:00 pm and drove directly to Green Harbor, MA.
We had a double header on poppers around Peaked Hill Bar area early in the morning. Shin fought his first ever bluefin on a popper and I let Korean fisherman from Argentina a blueifn I hooked up with Dorado Slider floating. Both were in 120 - 130 lbs range and were landed within 10 minutes.
I was using new Jigging Master 8'6" Moster popping rod. I watched closely while the guy from Argentina fought the fish. The rod remined me of long 8'6" original Gloomis rods before Shinamo purchsed the company. thin and stiff, strong, sensitivity and crispy feeling.
Capt. Dom watched the rod action, he was impressed and asked me what kind of rod it is, not realizing it is new JM popping rod.
I think JM did pretty job to develop the popping rod.
In the afternoon, Yong hooked up a nice bluefin and Shin fought the fish for 30 minutes. We saw the fish twice on the surface and it was about 300 lbs big tuna. Though shin fought over 30 minutes, the fish was not ready to settle down for death circles. 8* But unfortunately the fish pulled the hook.
My camera was malfunctioning during the trip. I used Capt Dom's camera and I'll post pictures when I can upload pictures from his camera.
Oct 12
It was calm which is rare in Oct, but we rarely saw any surface action all day. We saw a few tuna jumping and they disappeared as we approached. As soon as we left the area, I saw Capt Chip's boat ran toward the spot we left and Chip radiod us that Adrian hooked a nice bluefin on a popper(I found later he used a Heru lure.
We came back and decided to film their fight.

Oct 15
After fishing bluefin on Oct 11 and 12, I decided to guide them in Panama as weather didn't look good for a while in Cape Cod and NC.
But I found a small window in Cape Cod on Thursday (10-15) before leaving for Panama on Friday. But I couldn't find a boat on Thursday. Fortunately Roger was willing to take us out on his 22' Boston Whaler out of Pamet Harbor, just south of Provincetown, Cape Cod.
Pamet Harbor is a cozy, beautiful harbor and it is short run to the fishing ground.

When we got there, tuna were jumping all over the places.
Shin got a bluefin with Tailwalk Gunz first.
Shin used a prototype Korean popping rod. It looked the rod is rated to 30 - 40 lbs, but Shin said it has dead lifting power of 100 lbs. 8@ he said new carbon developed by new technologies was used for the rod. After I watched him fighting a 53 - 55 inches bluefin with the rod, I asked whether they could add more backbone on the rod and he said any action and any backbone rod are possible by adding other material over carbon.

After we caught and released the fish, the surface action became quiet. We went to the fleet in NE corner. Lots of whales were there, but we didn't have many tuna marks there. We came back to Peaked Hill Bar area and decided to jig while drifting. I didn't take long until I got a hit on my Sevenseas Hooker jig. I normally use glow color daytime, but I used simple grey color of Hooker jig for experimentation and it worked.
I let Shin fight the fish and he was in awe how strong a bluefin is.
He caught 200 lbs dogtooth tuna in Northern Mariana off Saipan and 52 kg (116 lbs)GT in Komodo Island, Indonesia and he didn't have any problem to land them in short time, but he had hard time to fight with 170 - 180 lbs bluefin.
The rod he fought was heaviest jigging prototype rod which they made for me for big tuna. The rod lifted over 400 lbs object !!!
I can sense the new types of carbon will revolutionize rod making processes soon.

I put OTI 10/0 assist hook at the tail of the Hooker jig for experimentation. I feel assist hook at the tail of a jig can give better presentation than hook on top of a jig when using short jigs. Jigging Master PE5 filled with Vairvas Avani Big One PE6 was used.

Thanks Roger for the arrangement of your boat for the trip. Shin was so fascinated with bluefin fishing that he vowed to come back again next year. :)
I have no doubt the fishing shows will be a big hit in Korea.
I don't think anyone fought a nice bluefin on jig/popper in Cape Cod, a marlin in Panama and a big AJ on jigs in NC in a week like Shin did. :) ]]> East Coast Fishing ksong http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/east-coast-fishing/166171-three-day-bluefin-jigging-popping-korean-tv-fishing-crew.html