Blue Fin Tuna – AND THE BITE WONT QUIT!
Oh yes Ladies and Gentlemen… OI is on FIRE right now. Im calling it COW TOWN BFT OI from now on. There are so many Bluefin Tuna out there its hard to believe they are endangered. As it has been the last few weeks, pretty much every boat out there catches one or has there chance to. The SFT crew was at it again yesterday.. Capt BrOlszyk, Sharpley, Hunter, Chris ,and Jay.. and looking back we probably should not have been as it was pretty sporty out there. NE swell against the stream was stacking em up. We saw some honest 8-10 footers out there in a 26? boat. Not something you want to do. So we pretty much knew it was gonna be a short one and we made the most of it. Started north of the point in around 63 degree water and began working south. Found some real good marks in 74 degree and then had our first shot. This one was a BIG fish & almost spooled a 50 in a matter of seconds before it broke off. Definitely one of the bigger sized fish cause he smoke checked it. So after a quick regroup we set em back out and set a course toward the barn cause the WX was just too much. We were approaching the change inside the point and Id say we had about 5 minutes of fishing left tops, before we would cross the break from 72-50s water, and then would start packing it up, when we got another chance. Another bottom of the ninth walk off homerun, the day saver. Our buddy Jon went to work on the fish and put the heat to em like a pro. Pretty much put too much heat on em cause we had ANOTHER TLD 50 break the same way. 2 TLD 50s in 2 trips on 2 Bluefin. So after another Chinese fire drill bomb defusal while getting tossed around like a top in 5-7 footers we had it tied up on another rod and went back to work. Fish came up pretty quick and Sharpley stuck her and that was all she wrote. I know alot of folks like to save the poon for the BIG fish. But gaffing 200# tunas in moderate seas, heck pretty much any seas is alot harder than sticking a dart in it. We pretty much got that down to a science now and it looks to be the easiest and surest bet. So Sharpley basically darted this fish in his eyeball.. The dart went in its eye socket an just pushed the eyeball out of the way. Not a scratch on the meat of the fish. Probably would be hard to do that again eh. So a perfect under for the boys at 72.5? – Nice fat and healthy fish. First Bluefin for our boy Jon. And another successful trip for the SFT boys.
Day notes:
Found fish concentrated overboard near the point in 72-74 degree water. Fish has pushed a bit south.
3 line spread.. Blue and White Islanders with Ballyhoo- 2 longs and a shotgun. Lost a bluehead islander to a BIG fish. 3-6 knot south west troll against the stream produced our bites. Another broken TLD 50…
Conditions via Tides for Fishing….
Yesterday Saturday, 26th of March of 2011, the sun rose in Oregon Inlet at 6:56 am and sunset was at 7:19 pm. The moon rose in the southeast (119º) at 2:10 am and set in the southwest (242º) at 12:10 pm.
In the high tide and low tide chart, we can see that the first high tide was at 1:58 am and the next high tide at 2:47 pm. The first low tide was at 8:58 am and the next low tide at 8:47 pm.
The tidal coefficient was 38 (low). The tide heights were 2.2 ft, 0.1 ft, 1.6 ft and 0.1 ft. We can compare these levels with the maximum high tide recorded in the tide tables for Oregon Inlet which is of 3.4 ft and a minimum height of -0.1 ft.
The lunar phase was a Last Quarter Moon. We had 12 hours and 23 minutes of sun. The solar transit was at 1:08 pm and the length of time the moon was visible was 10 hours and 0 minutes.
