Short story - We landed 40 albacore in 3.5 hours before we drove away from biting fish. Only 4 fish were on the jigs and 36 on live bait. Fishing was as good as it ever gets and blows doors on SoCal! We also had a bigger model (I believe to be a large Blue Fin Tuna as we had some jumbo sized boils in our chum on our first stop) spool us on live bait - it never stopped or checked up; zinggggggggggggggggggggggg pow - say good-bye to 350 yards of spectra! Also, played around for an hour w/ bigger jigs for Mr. big and nasty, for 1 good take down and no stick.
My cousin Darrell and I above hooked up on our first stop. We had Max on board, and 2 of my cousins buddies. Remember friends that drink and stay up together will chum and be worthless together
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Fishing was wide open, so the 3 of us w/ the clear heads poured on the coals and kept them at the boat.
Our first stop ended w/ 1 jig fish, 9 on bait.
Here's were we ended up driving away from the fish:
We stopped short of our intended numbers as we hit a 2 tenth of a degree break (went from 59.3 to 59.5 in 1/2 mile, on the otherside we had clean water for about 1.5 miles but not much to stop on until we hit this semi gradual break and saw a few albatroses, birds and fish on the meter above a thermocline. We trolled 200 yards and it was on for the rest of the day.
Max held his own and I believe took the big step from being a kid to a man.
In the hottest bite you can imagine, the greenhorns were sleeping!
And so we cleared the harbor at 7:15am fished from 9:30 - 1pm. Then spent an hour on other stuff.
Darrell - The owner of the 21ft Triumph centerconsole we fished.
Yeah we chummed them right up to the boat and held them there keeping fish on, and steady 1's and 2's of the pinhead bait, while we were fighting fish.
Here's our sled at the bait dock
IF you're a dad you gotta love this stuff-
For my first trip out of the year, but it was just how I remember it - the best tuna fishery on the west coast - in our back yard. Had it been a tournament day we would have had 5 fish in the 30# range wile the average was 21-25lbs.
PS. Cornfed, thanks for the numbers but I got them today, as you can see,we found our own fish and then proceeded to call in our buddy boat - Vader, and then 2 commercial came in and a couple of sport boats and a few privat boats, one of which carefully netted every fish and ripped their net. We also the macho verado rig come in from the outside of us to slam a few.
T-Rip OUT!
WA (WP) Tuna died in large numbers - 40, 3.5hrs 
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