It was much better fishing today on the bluefin grounds. We saw plenty of fish, most didn't want to bite for us, but we did get in a few licks. The weather is still good, but cold.Big Fish Happen,
Bruce A. Smith
Lately I have been using a new(at least it's new to me) knot for attaching solid braid to fluorocarbon or mono. It's called the FG knot and is very similar to the GT knot. The jigging and spinning guys that chase those monster Dogtooth tuna and Giant Trevally came up with these. They are pretty darn cool, although a little complicated at first. The knots are in fact, like the Bimini twist, not a knot but a weave around the fluoro, which means a much stronger connection. If you interested you can google it or I found a decent set of instructions on YouTube.
Almost like a scratched vinyl album of 2010, we saw lots of fish, bluefin and albacore, but they didn't want to bite. For the most part they were pushing/slashing through balls of small, fire cracker sardine. Usually we can get some guys in the bow, fire some small jigs or mega baits into the maley and get some bites, but not today. The weather is good, overcast, not too much wind. 
It was a good day of yellowtail fishing. We moved around hit a bunch of spots, feed the local sea lion population and still came away with a bunch of fish for the hold. The weather came down, we do have some drizzle, but the wind has backed off quite a bit. Lots of pictures today and I would like to mention, thanks to Kevin Cooney for the use of his Newell 533 that was converted to a 522. Kevin it works great, got a 30 pounder with it today!
