Bluefin tuna must have good vision. Afterall they warm their eyes with counter-current heat exchangers that keep the retinal temperature above ambient. That is just one hypothesis as to why they won't take our live baits even when we present them on 20 lb fluorocarbon.. In the old days (1999), our team would only use heavy gear for any size bluefin to reduce stress on the capture when live collecting. Now- we use anything we can- to try and catch the fish. Today we worked the same waters we've pretty much been in the entire trip to find bluefin tuna na??ve enough to bite our large sardine baits. We are pleased to tell you all that we did get 3 more bluefin in the 15-20 lb size class in our wells. But we as a team felt a minor bit of frustration as every school of bluefin we approached- either did not leave the anchovy bait ball it was on- or barely noticed our sardine baits. We know that the fish class we are trying to collect (young 2 year old bluefin tuna) are most likely 2007 arrivals ??? born in waters off Japan- fish that have swum this year to the eastern Pacific. The recovered archival tagging data shows that once here most of these fish will ply our California Current waters for up to 3-4 years prior to going back to the western pacific presumably to spawn in the warm waters off the southern Japan islands. Some of the fish we've tracked, as small as 30 lbs will swim back and forth across the Pacific- confounding all our theories, moving to the Emperor Seamounts when production in the California Current is low.. For now- we're focused on finding more bluefin of collecting size, and with the promise of good weather tomorrow- we hope to snatch a few more fish from the sea. I'm thinking smaller baits- and wondering how one rigs an anchovy.