Hello Anglers,
After we decided to give it one more day, we headed to the bait grounds where bait didn't go so well. Despite only a few hundred pieces made we still went back out to the big fish zone for our last day. As soon as we got back in the zone we came across a nice school of fish where we were able to land 3 fish, up to 230 pounds. We then had a short stop for 2, the biggest being a 260, landed by Larry Ward of South Africa. After that stop there wasn't much daylight left and we knew from the past two days a school late would bite well. Sure enough we got on a good school, it took a minute for it to react but when it did, the whole boat got bit. Like the past few days the grade was mixed, 120 all the way up to Jim Malone's 275 pounder. Other big fish for the day were Chris Dodder's 255, Mark Rock's 245 and Tal Baker's 267. After 5 days of fishing in that 'zone' we were able to land 95 tuna from 120 pounds to 299 pounds. We taped 24 over 200 pounds, 14 of those are over 250, so we should have a nice looking stern when we back in on the 22nd.