Giant Bluefin Tuna Love to Eat Bluefish
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
By Cap. Steven Morris
Except for stormy weather conditions, catching, moving and stocking fresh live bait was probably the most complicated giant tuna challenge for my crew during 2010. I'm very happy to point out that as yet this autumn, the latest on the live bait scene is way more reassuring.
Last week I headed the Miss Loretta way down Cape to Lewis Bay, just outside the Hyannis Marina. My fishing buddy had done a tuna bait run in Lewis early on in the week, and encountered plenty of ideal size blues feasting on 2 inch young of the year menhaden. Our expectations were set high for a abundant giant tuna bait trip.
To my surprise, the public fishing boat ramp at Lewis Bay is fantastic. It is a paved launch, with a perfectly newly constructed boat dock in addition to a great deal of area to operate a pickup truck and trailer. Furthermore, there was no fee. I am speculating free of cost easy access was indeed a post-Labor Day miracle, and probably isn't an excpected standard at Lewis. In any case, it worked for me!
Subsequently, after some searching about we found the motherload of blues loaded up in 7-18 ft . of water. The piles of snapper and rat blues shifted up and down the channel edge, yet there appeared to be tons of bait size bluefish, to the point that when we lost track of them, it did not take long for my crew to move around and quickly zone back in again.
The pods of snapper and rat blues shifted around quite a bit, even so there seemed to be so many bluefish, to the point that when we lost track of them, it did not take long for my crew to zone back in. Best fishing transpired after the tide started rolling in. The productive fishing died down very quickly when the current begun to slow, at nearly 11 AM.
We dealt with a whole lot of snapper bluefish which are just not big enough to employ as live bait for giant tuna. Nonetheless, for nearly every twelve snappers we caught, we boated one larger blue-fantastic for live bait.
In spite of this, for every twelve tiny blues we caught, we would hook one more substantial bluefish-appropriate for live bait. It turned out that anytime we located a school of baby pogies, we found larger bluefish in the vicinity.
Best producing lure for the small blues was a gold one inch spoon. The thing casts very easily fished with ultra light tackle, and catches extraordinarily well. Hot lure for the larger blues was the 3in. suspending, blue colored Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow.
I'm honestly dreaming that this area will become taken over with 12-20 inch bluefish over the next few weeks.
It would be great to maintain a dependable location to find bluefin tuna bait. Whether or not we have to travel a little to make it there.
Last week I headed the Miss Loretta way down Cape to Lewis Bay, just outside the Hyannis Marina. My fishing buddy had done a tuna bait run in Lewis early on in the week, and encountered plenty of ideal size blues feasting on 2 inch young of the year menhaden. Our expectations were set high for a abundant giant tuna bait trip.
To my surprise, the public fishing boat ramp at Lewis Bay is fantastic. It is a paved launch, with a perfectly newly constructed boat dock in addition to a great deal of area to operate a pickup truck and trailer. Furthermore, there was no fee. I am speculating free of cost easy access was indeed a post-Labor Day miracle, and probably isn't an excpected standard at Lewis. In any case, it worked for me!
Subsequently, after some searching about we found the motherload of blues loaded up in 7-18 ft . of water. The piles of snapper and rat blues shifted up and down the channel edge, yet there appeared to be tons of bait size bluefish, to the point that when we lost track of them, it did not take long for my crew to move around and quickly zone back in again.
The pods of snapper and rat blues shifted around quite a bit, even so there seemed to be so many bluefish, to the point that when we lost track of them, it did not take long for my crew to zone back in. Best fishing transpired after the tide started rolling in. The productive fishing died down very quickly when the current begun to slow, at nearly 11 AM.
We dealt with a whole lot of snapper bluefish which are just not big enough to employ as live bait for giant tuna. Nonetheless, for nearly every twelve snappers we caught, we boated one larger blue-fantastic for live bait.
In spite of this, for every twelve tiny blues we caught, we would hook one more substantial bluefish-appropriate for live bait. It turned out that anytime we located a school of baby pogies, we found larger bluefish in the vicinity.
Best producing lure for the small blues was a gold one inch spoon. The thing casts very easily fished with ultra light tackle, and catches extraordinarily well. Hot lure for the larger blues was the 3in. suspending, blue colored Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow.
I'm honestly dreaming that this area will become taken over with 12-20 inch bluefish over the next few weeks.
It would be great to maintain a dependable location to find bluefin tuna bait. Whether or not we have to travel a little to make it there.
About the Author:
Captain Ryan Collins fishes for striped bass and Bluefin tuna off Cape Cod, MA. Visit his blog, myfishingcapecod.com for insider how to catch striped bass.
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