Make of it what you can, or can’t. The difference in results is how one chooses to accept them. So many times over my thirty four years of long range fishing I have observed the best of the best enjoying the outdoors and company they are in while fishing is great or gone. Both extremes are inevitable; and are a blessing truth be told. 

My best advice to anglers regardless of the catching is show strength of character at all times. The fishing isn’t going to change whether you and I are having a good time or not. The old go to quote certainly applies. “It is what it is”, and then some. 

Not the best day of catching today but far from the worst to be sure. Plenty of watching and waiting, along with prospecting around combined for some afternoon action. Right when things started ramping up consistent with yesterday’s bite time the tuna backed off and never really did reorganize. No rhyme or reason could explain it. They were there, plenty of them, but today they flipped us the bird more often than not as they toured up and down the edge.

There’s been plenty of this type of fishing this season both at the island and offshore. As of now time is still on our side. We’ll see if I’m singing the same tune tomorrow. A change of pace in order we are shifting gears in the am choosing to target big yellows for awhile before resuming the tuna drive late. While good weather still graces the effort now is the time.

Photo today features long time Royal Star angler and friend David Sumethasorn with one of his hard earned, forty pound class yellowfin tuna.