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Giant Bluefin Tuna Love to Eat Bluefish
Except for awful weather conditions, catching, hauling and stowing fresh live bait was probably the most hard giant tuna barrier for my crew last season. I'm very happy to point out that so far this autumn, the latest on the live bait front is a lot more encouraging.
This past weekend I trailered the Miss Loretta down Cape Cod to Lewis Bay, just outside the Hyannis Marina. My fishing good friend had performed a giant tuna bait run in Lewis previously in the week, and uncovered lots of appropriate length bluefish hunting three inch baby menhaden. Each of our hopes were set high for a fruitful giant tuna bait trip.
I have to say, the community fishing boat ramp at Lewis Bay is amazing. It's a paved launch, with a spanking constructed boat dock plus lots of room to steer a vehicle and trailers. On top of that, there was no cost. I'm speculating no charge access is a post-Labor Day phenomenon, and most likely isn't ordinary at Lewis Bay. In any event, I'll take it!
After some recon all around we stumbled upon the biomass of blues piled up in 7-18 ft . of h2o.
The schools of small bluefish swum from place to place, and yet there ended up being so many bluefish, that when we stopped catching, it didn't take long for us to move around and quickly zone back in again. The fastest action occurred the moment the tide began running in. The action slowed very quickly at the time the current began to come to a halt, at just about noon time.
We put up with a large amount of snapper bluefish that are just too small to employ as bait for bluefins.
Even so, for nearly every twelve snappers we hooked, we would hook one more substantial blue-perfect for bluefin tuna bait. It turned out that any time we spotted a pod of baby pogies, we found larger bluefish in the vicinity.
Best producing lure for the small blues was a golden 1 " spoon. This lure casts far and long on very light line, and hooks the blues remarkably well. Hot lure for the 12-20 inch bluefish was the 3in. floating, blue Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow.
I am definitely hoping that this hot spot becomes infiltrated 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.
This past weekend I trailered the Miss Loretta down Cape Cod to Lewis Bay, just outside the Hyannis Marina. My fishing good friend had performed a giant tuna bait run in Lewis previously in the week, and uncovered lots of appropriate length bluefish hunting three inch baby menhaden. Each of our hopes were set high for a fruitful giant tuna bait trip.
I have to say, the community fishing boat ramp at Lewis Bay is amazing. It's a paved launch, with a spanking constructed boat dock plus lots of room to steer a vehicle and trailers. On top of that, there was no cost. I'm speculating no charge access is a post-Labor Day phenomenon, and most likely isn't ordinary at Lewis Bay. In any event, I'll take it!
After some recon all around we stumbled upon the biomass of blues piled up in 7-18 ft . of h2o.
The schools of small bluefish swum from place to place, and yet there ended up being so many bluefish, that when we stopped catching, it didn't take long for us to move around and quickly zone back in again. The fastest action occurred the moment the tide began running in. The action slowed very quickly at the time the current began to come to a halt, at just about noon time.
We put up with a large amount of snapper bluefish that are just too small to employ as bait for bluefins.
Even so, for nearly every twelve snappers we hooked, we would hook one more substantial blue-perfect for bluefin tuna bait. It turned out that any time we spotted a pod of baby pogies, we found larger bluefish in the vicinity.
Best producing lure for the small blues was a golden 1 " spoon. This lure casts far and long on very light line, and hooks the blues remarkably well. Hot lure for the 12-20 inch bluefish was the 3in. floating, blue Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow.
I am definitely hoping that this hot spot becomes infiltrated 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.