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tunajoe
10-30-2014, 09:28 AM
Well, we headed off shore on the V Tuesday around 7AM and finally hit the grounds by about 2PM- We hit a few pots for mahi and about 1/2 dozen were caught- that's it. Only fished for mahi about an hour.

We were fishing around the Lindy because the Hudson completely died after Friday's strong catch. Boats who fished the Hudson had less than 1/2 dozen fish Sat/Sat night, Sunday, Monday eve.

With that intel, our boat headed a bit south near the Lindy. One longfin was jigged around 5-6 PM, two were missed on a jig and that was it for the entire 30 hours outside of 3 small 30 lb swords. There was some squid around, but very little life out there. It looked dead. The water dropped to 66-67, and was not the best color- a steel gray. Conditions sucked too- wind against tide, boat swinging left to right for more than 1/2 of the night.

Many of us fished with live squid and nada, zip, zilch, zero. Some jigged for hours, again nothing ! Canyon season could be drawing to a quick close. It seems like for every 1 good trip we read about, there are 4 to 5 that suck. I talked to a few guys who have been on 4-5 trips this year and they could only recall 1 or so that was decent....

The fish were not even around at all- we marked them decently once through out the night- a mate said he saw about 6 on the screen and that was it. They never schooled under the boat at all- Heck, zero runoffs off too- cant blame those fishing. Can't catch when the tuna are not even there!

As usual, the crew on the V was awesome. They worked their butts off. :(

tuna john
10-30-2014, 12:25 PM
Sorry to hear had the same crappy results sat into sun... Time to tog

tunajoe
10-30-2014, 01:59 PM
Starting to understand why the MBL is not tuna fishing at all anymore - A shame. The long liners are 200 miles plus out and those are about the only boats catching on a consistent basis anymore.