I’m going to have to make this quick because we rearranged our office here at work last week and my new desk is in plain view of my bosses office
. Anyway, Jason, Kep, my buddy Eric and I went paddy hopping yesterday (11/9) between the 371 and 421. We started off at 14/40 and fished a few paddies from there to about 07/42 before we ran out of paddies. We ran around looking for more after that, but nothing. Ocean was flat and calm. The tuna like the 66.2 to 66.5 degree water right now.
We ended up with 3 yellowfin in the box and a bunch of yellows and skipjack. We had our chances with the Yellow Fin Tuna, though, it was just one of those days. My buddy Eric got snapped off at the boat on a nice one and Kep had one to the boat that was foul hooked, but it got off due to my slacking on the gaff. Sorry Kep. I got bit right when I put my rod down to reach for the gaff, so being the asshole that I am, I said hold on for a second while I set the hook. His fish immediately popped off the hook right then and of course I only got a rat yellow. The Yellow Fin Tuna gods were pissed at me after that or maybe Kevin vexed me as I also had a Yellow Fin Tuna come unbuttoned a few paddy’s later.
The skippies really found us today and eventually shut down the bite on every paddy we stopped on. Also we had fish crashing all around the boat a bunch of times but they didn’t want to eat. I even tried 15lb for nothing a couple of times. Fuckers.
Anyway, Yellow Fin Tuna’s in November is hard to complain about even if we didn’t slay them. Kep and Jason, it was great fishing with you both. We’ll do it again.
Oh yeah we got 4 "tiny" bocaccio at a spot on the way in and somehow I managed to raise a mako with a bank perch. He bit that shit right in half, pretty cool. We tried to throw a mackerel and a Yellow Fin Tuna belly at it, but it only wanted bank perch.
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