New Buccaneer Fall 2020 Tuna Schedule

Saw fish caught on RedHeads and a couple different colors of Blue.

 

We are canceling tomorrow’s trip. The forecast updated this am and is now calling 20-25 knots from the NE at the Gardens for Tuesday.

 

Hope to have it out by early December.

 

We got in today off of a 56 hour. It was a decent trip, not quite what I had hoped for but decent all the way around.
We headed for Auger to start the trip out and made a quick 2 hour pit stop on the way out to bottom fish and fishing was good, we caught a pile of Beeliners and a few Scamps.
We got to Auger and I was expecting a flurry of fish but that didn’t happen, we did land 5 YFT on Halcos in 7 drifts but the bite was slow, after that we hit a nearby drillship and it was dead. The third stop of the night was Magnolia and we steadily hooked 1-2 YFT per drift but we had horrible luck, we lost way too many fish, mostly break offs but had a few hooks pull too. At one point during the night I attempted to make a move to the drillship Pacific Khamsin only to realize it was on the move..... the ship had been on location for months... what terrible timing for it to leave location! We ended the first night at 21 YFT and one really big BigEye.
I heavily weighed making the long slow ride to Lucius for the second night but after sticking fuel and looking at the weather I was not comfortable with the fuel we had and what it would take to get home from there so we slow boated in to bottom fish where we caught a few more Scamps and a good number of Beeliners.
We returned to Magnolia for the second night to a decent bite but once again we were plagued with the break off bug. We did not land a yellow until our fourth drift, at one point we were 0-8 which was extremely frustrating but it wasn’t angler error and wasn’t crew error, it just seemed like we had extremely bad luck for a while.
We picked at YFT for the rest of the second night with a lull around midnight. By 4 am they kind of shut down again so I decided to make a run to Auger to try and catch a morning bite with some fresh fish that didn’t have sore mouths and that didn’t work out for us. Hind sight is 20/20 and if I had to do it again I would have ground out a couple more at Mag but I felt pretty good about an early bite at Auger with us having a few really good sunrise bites there last month.
All in all it was a successful trip, pretty stressful but it was a decent trip in the end. The highlight was the BigEye which ended going 140 on a certified scale which will be a new state record.
Trip totals...
35 YFT
2 BigEye
77 BFT
493 Beeliners
16 AlmacoJack
15 Scamp

 

It was caught at Magnolia in a jig down deep.