Tuna Fishing Report - March 1, 2010

On March 1 Monday, at about 4 am, we got to Hatteras Island, when winded so much like over 30 knots. But as soon as we were out in Ocean, the condition wasn’t that bad. There were some waves, but for the size of the boat it was okay

After we started jigging for about 15 minutes, Carlos FISHED ON! After 1 hour, we saw color. It looked like less than 200 LBS, but it was so strong. So many times we saw that, but it was not closer than 10 feet.

Around just before 9 A.M., Captain said a lot of tuna around here! After then we started casting jigs. After few seconds, three tunas were on! Every tuna ran to different direction. After about 15 minutes, first tuna was deck, and after few minutes, another tuna was on! Two fishes had to go since they didn't have any more line. Still we had two fishes on.

We were trying to tag, but everyone fight with tuna over one hour. We had to tight more drag and break line, so we can move to tile fish spot. 600 feet water with full moon tide was not easy to hold bottom. We caught 10 gray tile fish and one 170 lb. blue fin tuna.

We tried little different way for tuna jig. Before we used tuna jig with plain hook, but today we used Metallic Sardine and Stainless jig plus one piece of pink plastic octopus on the hook. You can see picture above.