360Tuna - View Single Post - Good tuna jigging at Baltimore Canyon on 10-21/22

ksong · 10-22-2007, 11:01 PM

I have had hard luck whenever I went tuna jigging trips this year. On late three tuna trips, I had only one tuna for my 30 hour jigging efforts.

Finally the long spell of drought was over on yesterday's Baltimore canyon overnight tuna trip by landing 9 tuna (8 yellowfin and 1 longfin) upto 90 lbs. on jigs. The first two tuna were caught on metallic sardine jigs and I switched to Shimano's new glow Flat-Sided jig as I wanted to experiment this new jig and caught 7 more on this jig mostly from 5:30 am to 6:30 am.
The glow Flat-Sided jigs worked, but I believe it didn't make difference what jigs I used as tuna hit anyhing moving during the hot bites.

While jigging action was slow at night, I even used OTI popping rod with Stella 20000 for chunking tuna.

I wanted to know how the rod acts while fighting a decent tuna.
I found the rod has a plenty of backbone and the trip is very strong. When tuna went under the boat, I intentionally held the rod in high stickting position, but the rod didn't break.

I could control tuna for the entire fight with the rod. I am pretty satisfied with the performance of the rod, but the real test is when I have a cow on the rod when I fish PV soon.

OTI 80 lbs popping rod/Stella 20000 setup

nice yft on a jig

bloodydeck after hectic hot bites

scars on the Flat-Side jig ater catching 7 tuna on it

10-22-2007, 11:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
ksong Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,377	Good tuna jigging at Baltimore Canyon on 10-21/22 I have had hard luck whenever I went tuna jigging trips this year. On late three tuna trips, I had only one tuna for my 30 hour jigging efforts. Finally the long spell of drought was over on yesterday's Baltimore canyon overnight tuna trip by landing 9 tuna (8 yellowfin and 1 longfin) upto 90 lbs. on jigs. The first two tuna were caught on metallic sardine jigs and I switched to Shimano's new glow Flat-Sided jig as I wanted to experiment this new jig and caught 7 more on this jig mostly from 5:30 am to 6:30 am. The glow Flat-Sided jigs worked, but I believe it didn't make difference what jigs I used as tuna hit anyhing moving during the hot bites. While jigging action was slow at night, I even used OTI popping rod with Stella 20000 for chunking tuna. I wanted to know how the rod acts while fighting a decent tuna. I found the rod has a plenty of backbone and the trip is very strong. When tuna went under the boat, I intentionally held the rod in high stickting position, but the rod didn't break. I could control tuna for the entire fight with the rod. I am pretty satisfied with the performance of the rod, but the real test is when I have a cow on the rod when I fish PV soon. OTI 80 lbs popping rod/Stella 20000 setup nice yft on a jig bloodydeck after hectic hot bites scars on the Flat-Side jig ater catching 7 tuna on it Last edited by ksong : 10-23-2007 at 08:55 AM.