I have been running trips for about the past week. Most on the glacier bay but I did run a sword trip on the contender in which I managed to forget my camera. They have all kind of blurred together but it seems like the dolphin are hitting anythign and everything you put in the water. Which is a good thing unless your trying to catch the tuna that just arent quick enough to beat the dolphin to the bait. I have been starting most trips by trolling around and picking up some dolphin and wahoo on the Illand Black hole. I think I might like it better then the illander. The wahoo have been running on the small side although I did hit a 40 pounder on monday.
The best tuna day I had was saturday with Heaths group. It was no coincidence it was also the worst dolphin day I had so I could actually get my baits back to the tuna. We hit five yellowfin that day on cut up blackfin. We also had a nice marlin on for about 2 hours on 60 pound leader that we got about 4 feet from the boat but couldnt get him to come any closer before we popped him off.
I ran an overnighter wed night where we waylayed the dolphin with 16 and had a couple yellows and some blacks. I set up for swords that evening as well and hooked up two fatties. Both of which managed to pull the hooks about 15 minutes into the fight.
My buddies and I got together tonight to discuss the trip, and it was our consensus that while we would prefer to get into yellowfin, a boatload of dolphin would not hurt our feelings either.
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