"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more than luck.


What type is Pacific tuna? Sizes?

Eisboch

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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more than luck.


What type is Pacific tuna? Sizes?

Eisboch


Bluefin, Yellowfin up to 400#.

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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more than luck.


What type is Pacific tuna? Sizes?

Eisboch


Bluefin, Yellowfin up to 400#.

I wonder if they are the same species as Atlantic Bluefin and Yellowfin ....
or something different.
How big to the Bluefin giants get?

Eisboch

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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:02:25 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more
than luck.

I don't mean to imply that tuna fishing is all luck, but it is an
important part of the recreational process.


From my small amount of experience .... it's 99.5 percent luck getting
hooked up. The .5 percent skill is just being there dragging bait in the
water. Now, getting it in the boat takes some skill.

Eisboch

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:19:05 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:02:25 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more
than luck.

I don't mean to imply that tuna fishing is all luck, but it is an
important part of the recreational process.

From my small amount of experience .... it's 99.5 percent luck getting
hooked up. The .5 percent skill is just being there dragging bait in the
water. Now, getting it in the boat takes some skill.

According to some pelagic species dudes extraordinare, the boat
actually seems to have something to do with it.

Apparently, four stroke diesels make a heavy thrumming noise and
vibration that two stroke diesels don't and that has a tendency to
bring the giants up to the surface out of curiosity.

There's also some thought that prop size and type can do much the same
thing.

Don't ask me - I'm an outboard guy. :)



Yup. Then there are the guys that paint images of bait fish on their hulls.

I have one friend with an old Hateras with DD 6-71 two stroke diesels. Of
course, he claims the fish like the sound of his engines. The guys with
four stroke Cats claim Charlie the Tuna likes their engine sound.

It's luck.

Eisboch

I went out of Santa Cruz for albacore a few years back...and I gotta agree,
luck was all important. We went out about 25 miles, and there were 12 of us
on the boat. 1/2 caught fish and we were all on the same boat! I was really
lucky and caught two! At one point, we had a pod of dolphins playing in our
bow wake...that was beautiful. That was a fun day, even though I chummed off
the side in the morning g.

--Mike

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:19:05 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:02:25 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more
than luck.

I don't mean to imply that tuna fishing is all luck, but it is an
important part of the recreational process.

From my small amount of experience .... it's 99.5 percent luck getting
hooked up. The .5 percent skill is just being there dragging bait in the
water. Now, getting it in the boat takes some skill.

According to some pelagic species dudes extraordinare, the boat
actually seems to have something to do with it.

Apparently, four stroke diesels make a heavy thrumming noise and
vibration that two stroke diesels don't and that has a tendency to
bring the giants up to the surface out of curiosity.

There's also some thought that prop size and type can do much the same
thing.

Don't ask me - I'm an outboard guy. :)



Yup. Then there are the guys that paint images of bait fish on their
hulls.

I have one friend with an old Hateras with DD 6-71 two stroke diesels.
Of course, he claims the fish like the sound of his engines. The guys
with four stroke Cats claim Charlie the Tuna likes their engine sound.

It's luck.

Eisboch

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:42:45 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

I have one friend with an old Hateras with DD 6-71 two stroke diesels. Of
course, he claims the fish like the sound of his engines.

The fish might be the only ones. My neighbors say they sound like a
bus, actually two of them. :-)

I always tell them it's music to my ears.

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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:12:39 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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Eisboch wrote:
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

For tuna.
How far offshore do you have to go to fish for Tuna?

I think he's gone fishing.

You go to where the tuna pods are running. It could be 5 miles, 10
miles or
20 miles.
In Cape Cod Bay where we used to go ... we waited until the tuna
migrated up
around the tip of the Cape and into the Bay. We would then chase them
all
over Cape Cod Bay, watching for working birds.

How is the Tuna population in the NE? Can the sport fisherman notice a
change in the number or size of Tuna being caught?

It all depends on what. Giants are few and far between during any
period - they are tough to get up to the surface and you have to troll
deep and long.

If you are just into the game for normal sized tuna, the stocks are
good, but the fish it'self is picky. You can be sitting right on top
of a school with them busting bait on the surface and not make a hit.
Sometimes, right out of nowhere.

Tuna fishing isn't as much of an art as it is luck.

Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more
than luck.

I don't mean to imply that tuna fishing is all luck, but it is an
important part of the recreational process.

Part of the recreational fishing in the San Diego fleet is the capacity to
carry hundreds of scoops of bait, so you can brail out enough bait to keep
the school up and interested while you toss out a fly lined bait. Plus the
use of kites to dance a bait on top of the water a distance from the boat.

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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:09:37 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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Come to San Diego and take a long range trip. Then you will see it as
more than luck.

What type is Pacific tuna? Sizes?

Bluefin, Yellowfin up to 400#.

400# Yellowfin?

Me bad Yellowfin in the 200+ range. Record is about 300#.

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