Jumped on with Capt Rich, his brother Ronnie and Matt yesterday to do some bluefin jigging. Left the inlet at o dark thirty, to find a very lumpy ocean. Rich decided to see if it would lay down a little and headed to some inshore pieces . we found alot of life with plenty of bait but couldnt get away from the BIG blue fish in the area, which were really tearing up the jigs. Decided the ocean looked good enough to move way off where Rcih had been beating on them earlier in the week. Took awhile in the nasty seas but once getting there we got into a couple of tuna with our over and under going in the box. Looked around for some better reads with Rich getting on some better marks, and the tuna deciding they wanted to chew before the aprroaching storm. for the next couple of hours we had 2-3-4 tuna on a time. The tuna were so aggressive that even jigs resting on the bottom while one of us worked a tuna boatside were crushed and a nother hook up started. Most of the tuna were 35-45 pounds , but we had three or four over fish (only keeping 1) with Riches pair of 54 inch being best boatside. at days end we had released well over forty bluefins. Even in the mad dog bite , stingo jigs were out producing everything else we dropped. Decided when some big sharks came in and started ripping the tuna up to make the run back through the storm , instead of watching released fish get smashed by the sharks. def a super fun day , that will be hard to match, but we sure will try !!!!!!!!!
