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Today was spent collecting, sampling and tagging bluefin and yellowfin tuna, Stanford University professor Barbra Block along with a number of her undergrad students are on board. From a fisherman's stand point, it was incredible fishing, the bluefin were biting nails, literally one of the top five bluefin bites I have had the pleasure of witness during my twenty years in this business. The fish were on the smaller side, actually perfect for what we are doing with them, collecting wise. We woke with fish under the boat and quickly collected a well of bluefin, then it turned to straight yellowfin so we picked up and started looking around. At 09:00 we came across a meter mark that went absolutely ballistic, the bluefin came straight to the corner and stayed there for over two hours in the beginning, backed off where we had to drop to 50 pound and make a cast, then in the afternoon(yes the same school) they came right back to the corner again. We drifted from 09:00 till 18:30, all day and we left them biting in the corner. It was an amazing site to see so many bluefin going through the corner at one time. The approximate(I write the word "approximate" now, since in the past I have garnered the wrath of the upper level trying to report finite figures on this blog, I'll leave that up to the professionals) tally from the scientist side was over 100 surgically implanted archival tags went out and 26 bluefin collected in the wells on the Shogun.

Oh yeah, we also caught the first two albacore of the year for the Shogun!

Big Fish Happen,
Bruce A. Smith

"I don't know what will happen tomorrow, but I will say this, it's going to be different"
BAS