July 01 2017
The crazy boat traffic weekend begins with the Fin Chaser arriving at the tuna grounds early looking for a couple bites before the boat traffic shut things down. First bite takes about ten minutes. Next bite takes another ten, but both fish come unbuttoned midway through the fight. A few more passes and we finally have a fish that manages to stay tight all the way to the gaff. A few minutes later we have another fish on and a nice 40# yellowfin joins our 115# bluefin in the box. By now the sun is high, boats have jumped on us and the bite dies. After a couple hours with nothing we troll to a little hill that doesn’t have a boat in sight. I mark fish immediately and spend the next two hours pounding the area which produces one “swing and a miss” and a nice 44″ under bluefin for our box.