We had great 2 days on the water last week with Captain Josh
Zacharias from Outermost Angling Charters with a slow start that turned into
Manheim on the second day.
Dennis and Alex joined me on those 2 days were we fished the
South of the Vineyards. The first day was very tough were we marked fish to no
vail to get a bite till we saw some jumping halfbeak out of the water with tuna
on their tail. We rushed to the scene were Dennis and Alex got a shot and without
any hesitation from the aggression of the fish, Dennis was tight on the CB One
drifter.
Dennis got his fish under 5 minutes and it measured at 52
inch. We sealed the day hoping for a better result for tomorrow.
On the next day we went to the same general area and we
noticed that things were a bit better. Josh started marking the fish in the
deeper columns but soon enough they begun coming up to the top, marking them in
30 to 40 feet of water. Alex was laying down on the boat taking a nap so I
encouraged him to stand up and give it a shot.
He made one cast and sure enough he got tight on a Shout
Engra sinking lure. He was fishing with the Race Point 100 and the bend and the
fight on this rod was absolutely amazing, Alex nailed a nice 53-inch fish and
sealed the day for us.
Captain Josh decided to explore and headed away from the
fleet in search for a better opportunity. We found life full of bait and whales
all over the place and while cruising slowly we saw silver flash under our
boat. We stopped right away and sure enough we were surrounded by Bluefin all
over us. We casted to them and Alex got a bite but no takes. I made a cast to
the moving school and Josh said you’re going to get a bite, I let that small
Prototype CB One Drifter sink and gave it 2 twitch and I was on.
I was using the El Maestro 82M matched with a Stella 8K. The
fish took off like no tomorrow and we end up chasing it on top till she charged
me back to the boat were she unbuttoned herself, happy to get the bite and have
a taste of that fight.
All of a sudden the shearwater took over and barely could
get a chance to present our lures, we stitched to sinking lures and they still
managed to go down to grab it, the feeds were insane with massive boils on
topwater to a point that you can choose the feed you wanted to approach.
With that scenario Alex switched to RonZ and he got a bit
right away where he landed and released his second fish of the day. We moved in
to the other pods and Alex made a cast and right he was on.
The fish charged him and came in straight to boat side with
line peeling on the topwater, the take was amazing, he fought that fish close
to 25 minutes on the Race Point 100 and lost it after.
Time was flying by and when we looked at the time it was
close to 3:00pm and knowing our run is long we had to make the call and end the
day, what a day!
We saw what we wanted to see, pods and pods of tuna all over
the place and from what I saw it is only going to get better, we’re going to
have a stealer solid year in the Cape!
Do yourself a favor and jump onboard, it is tuna time!
Tight Lines
Sami
Sami
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