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Took the Maulena (28CC) for her first trip to the deep. Left Great Kills, S.I., at 9:20 AM. Lines in the water by 2. Trolled down the East side with the rest of the boats, not even a knock down. Decided to try the less populated West wall. Around 6 PM we hit the lower turn and find 75# class yellowfin jumping out of the water. Just a handful of boats, tons of fish, and not one hit, several of us decide to anchor up and begin the chunk. Nothing happens until 9 PM when we start reading bait and fish up top, then comes our first run-off, the Maulena's first tuna is boated
, a yellowfin around 75/80 lbs. We continue to read bait but all is quiet again until around 10:30 when things break open. From then on we had fish around the boat all night long. Sardines and Squid were the preffered menu items. Ended up keeping 8 Yellowfin and 1 Longfin, which we picked up on the troll at sun up. We easily could have had 20+ fish but with only 3 of us on the boat and no more available space we called it quits, releasing all others. At 2AM, after we already had 7 fish in the box, and with fish breaking the surface around the boat, I broke out a Van Staal 300 on a Shimano butterfly spinning rod and tossed out a sardine. Within 2 minutes I had a 75# class fish on which was fought for nearly 2 hours. Just as it was doing its death circle and we were about in gaffing range the fish takes off like a bullet and became dinner to a large shark
. The fish were with us until the sun came up. What an unbelievable first trip!
Rich
, a yellowfin around 75/80 lbs. We continue to read bait but all is quiet again until around 10:30 when things break open. From then on we had fish around the boat all night long. Sardines and Squid were the preffered menu items. Ended up keeping 8 Yellowfin and 1 Longfin, which we picked up on the troll at sun up. We easily could have had 20+ fish but with only 3 of us on the boat and no more available space we called it quits, releasing all others. At 2AM, after we already had 7 fish in the box, and with fish breaking the surface around the boat, I broke out a Van Staal 300 on a Shimano butterfly spinning rod and tossed out a sardine. Within 2 minutes I had a 75# class fish on which was fought for nearly 2 hours. Just as it was doing its death circle and we were about in gaffing range the fish takes off like a bullet and became dinner to a large shark. The fish were with us until the sun came up. What an unbelievable first trip!Rich
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