Tuna Report November BFT, YFT, Albies 11-02-09

[djspintacticz]

nice report

[Tunaslam]

Outstanding guys, a real sweet mix of tuna trifecta! Congrats!

[Trayscool]

awesome work! you guys are killin it

[sdreefsurf]

this is the next best report,....... almost up there with fishing with the inlaws!

[Tuna Master]

Robert....another awesome trip on Triggerfish. The fish seem to really hold with our boat! Many great trips this year.

Fishing is still great out there, and with all the yahoos saying the fish are heading for Japan, there is a lot less boat traffic!! Must say that it is nice that we are not getting dogged by a lot of boats trolling down our chum line when we are into a stop. Makes it easy to give out numbers.

I'm still amazed by the amount of our chunked sardines that ended up in the bluefin. I think if I had to do it again, I would have fished the chunk instead of live bait when we were metering fish but they were only eating periodically.

Thanks for not mentioning all the fish lost this trip to pilot error, pulling hooks, old line, euphoric greed, etc.!!!!

[Fred Archer]

Big roger on the chunks, Frank. As you know, they do a lot of great things. First and foremost, the fish friggin' love them. Second, there's no need to buy bait (how much $ will THAT save you over the course of a year?! Add it up!). You can make your own. Macks make for great chunks and best of all, you can freeze them and they still work great. And chunks SINK and don't hide under the boat, split the area, or get eaten by birds, instead of fish. Bait tank breakdowns don't mean anything, expensive live bait doesn't roll on you (if it does, you can chunk it, but it will be mighty expensive chunks), the bait will never be too big or too small (cut to match the hatch), save what you have left, freeze it again and bring it along next time, just in case. Yes, fresh is sometimes better, but many times the old stuff works just as well.

Those are just a few of the reasons why I have been chunking back east, down south, and here for many, many decades. And guess what? Chunking is a great way to catch bass (seabass and kelp ones), yellows, sharks, even halibut.

I have written two books on the subject. The first was The Art of Chunking Tuna and Other Species. It is out of print. However, the book Secrets of the West Coast Private Boat Pros has a great deal of info on chunking in it, including the aforementioned halibut chunking. I hope some of you read it.

Meantime, chunks rule!

[Randy V]

Originally Posted by Fred Archer

Big roger on the chunks, Frank. As you know, they do a lot of great things. First and foremost, the fish friggin' love them. Second, there's no need to buy bait (how much $ will THAT save you over the course of a year?! Add it up!). You can make your own. Macks make for great chunks and best of all, you can freeze them and they still work great. And chunks SINK and don't hide under the boat, split the area, or get eaten by birds, instead of fish. Bait tank breakdowns don't mean anything, expensive live bait doesn't roll on you (if it does, you can chunk it, but it will be mighty expensive chunks), the bait will never be too big or too small (cut to match the hatch), save what you have left, freeze it again and bring it along next time, just in case. Yes, fresh is sometimes better, but many times the old stuff works just as well.

Those are just a few of the reasons why I have been chunking back east, down south, and here for many, many decades. And guess what? Chunking is a great way to catch bass (seabass and kelp ones), yellows, sharks, even halibut.

I have written two books on the subject. The first was The Art of Chunking Tuna and Other Species. It is out of print. However, the book Secrets of the West Coast Private Boat Pros has a great deal of info on chunking in it, including the aforementioned halibut chunking. I hope some of you read it.

Meantime, chunks rule!

Chunks good!

[tuna sniffer]

NIIIIIce! way to keep the dream alive. Looks like this weather will hold awhile and more of us will have the chance to get some.

[ReelGem]

Good job guys! You guys did a great job out there! Did you have problems with the birds? I've never seen it so bad with the birds everytime our guys threw a bait out they got hammered by the birds. We started putting the baits in next to the boat and the friggin birds still nailed them. Think we had 10 hook ups on birds alone!

[arik lerner]

not over till the fat girl goes on a diet, then and only then no more doritos,Chips,fast food,soda pop,candy,cream cheese,packaged and procesed food

hey a transiet friend told me this if your ever a transiet get a fat girlfriend
why?? because number 1 fat chicks do not walk and number 2 fat chicks always have food

[Triggerfish]

Originally Posted by ReelGem

Did you have problems with the birds? I've never seen it so bad with the birds everytime our guys threw a bait out they got hammered by the birds. We started putting the baits in next to the boat and the friggin birds still nailed them. Think we had 10 hook ups on birds alone!

No bird problems here. We typically hook the sardines in the belly or near the vent to get them to swim down and away from the boat -- nose hooking seems to cause more bird encounters. Did you guys get any once you made it to the area???

Originally Posted by teufel

With the fish at lower depths .... are you guys trolling with down riggers to bring them up? Or, is this not needed.

Didn't use the downriggers, although we have them. Search Fred Archer's articles on building and using a "TOAD". That thing raises fish. Here's a photo from last year with the TOAD on the deck -- it's the painted fender in the stern corner.

[teufel]

Thanks ... will check out the toad. Any plans to go out this weekend? Considering an SI launch to the 60 mile. Leaving late Fri/early Sat.