Colnett Report

[riverplayer]

Fished deep with the fleet on saturday for all the 35-40 pounders you wanted....Seriously all you wanted! Was worth every bit of the travel time and cost for a quick one day of fishing...Weather was up south of the lower 500 down to the Colnett point but flattened out nicely as we traveled deeper during the day running along the ridge with the sporties.

We passed 8-10 boats on the way down and arrived in the area before light so we brewed some coffee and discussed our plan for the day. Checked the bait and only 8-10 pieces of the 3 scoops rolled....Bait was great! Cracker sized mixed with nice hook bait. Just as we start rolling, the Condor was the first sporty to arrive right off our port. Knowing the day they had on thursday, I knew if we worked this area we had a good chance of finding fish.

10 minutes out we have a double on the jumbo skipjack...Really had no lag time to even get the boat cleaned up between jigstrikes. We were running black and purple daisies on the outriggers in the clean water and the standard of all standards the zukers zuchinni (sp?) broomtail on the inside corners. Every double we had was on the inside with nothing less then 35 lb Yellow Fin Tuna's and the often quad's were the skippies. It kinda became a joke because whenever the riggers went off is was no hurry to get to the rods knowing that the fish were only pests. The Yellow Fin Tuna never hit the black and purple jigs. FYI, these are fatties, the grade of these tuna was supprising even after some of the slug albies we've caught this year!

Every stop was 2 jig fish and 1-2 bait fish. Never could really get the fish on the corner. Never was wide open but limit style fishing for sure.

Left the area about 2:30 and had a LOOOOOOOOOOONG truck back. Made a fuel stop for that 2.50 a gallon sweet diesel at the Coral and headed into the blackest skies I have ever seen on the water as we made the corner outside the bay. Turned out to be the smoothest part of our ride back to Dana.

(TRIP SUMMERY)

147 Gallons of fuel
290 NM
Left MB at 11:30 P.M. Friday Night
Arrived MB 12:30 AM Sunday Morning
No sleep for me as the owner
Loaded the boat

I love this shit!!!

[Dr Jekyl]

Sounds like a great trip. Thanks for the report.

Now I'm thinking I need a bigger boat!

[MATTANZA]

damn good! now all i need is my new lower unit.

[Crusty Rod]

WOW we need some of that action too, thanks for the report, was the Coral looking devoid of tuna and gringo tuna fishermen?

[WET EVER]

I thought about you guys on our way home. Glad you guys made it and caught lots of fish.

[Foss]

Originally Posted by riverplayer

290 NM
Left MB at 11:30 P.M. Friday Night
Arrived MB 12:30 AM Sunday Morning

Really puts a new perspective on "go long or stay home."
Great work on plugging the boat with tuna and thanx for the report.

[locobro]

Way to go Ed, sounds like a great trip. Thanks for posting...it aint over...just further.

[Tunaslam]

Some fantastic fishing, sounds like the weather was much better than forecast. Good job guys!

[pura vida]

Do you have any numbers, as I am getting up a crew for tonight or Tuesday night.

Thanks for the report

[Fishingtail]

Thanks for the report, Congrats.

[riverplayer]

Sure do.....Shot straight to 30.58 116.41 and worked SSE from their. 2 degree temp breaks around but really didnt matter as the fish were caught everywhere once we set up and motored around. And yes, weather was great until about 2:30 or so but as still very fishable. Just made it a bumpy ride heading back up the line.

If you can make the run do it, its worth it! I am not one to chase radio or reported fish reports but we did this time as the sport boat reports came out pretty fishy on thursday, and I am glad we did because it was the most consistant bite I have seen this year and all fish were sluggo's. Nothing less then 30# went into the bag which makes for a great trip!

[pura vida]

We are set for Tuesday at noon. I have a 5-600 mile range with my 29 pilot house, and so this is an ideal trip for me.

Thanks