Well the fishing certainly didn't slow down other than a few short lulls from a mid day tour of the island that provided both incredible spot action on thirty to fifty pound yellowfin tuna and spectacular scenery with the lush, brilliant green north side of Isla Socorro providing a magnificent background.

We set our strategy to focus again on the bigger fish during the afternoon and were not dissapointed as the scene unfolded according to plan with fantastic action again on yellowfin tuna from one hundred twenty to one hundred seventy pounds with two coming in over the two hundred pound mark and a couple of other heartbreaks that were guaranteed jumbos.

Exhilarating, exhausting, and immensely satisfying is how I would describe the present setting that has all of these incredibly fortunate anglers working away to keep up with the number one rule of thumb down here of maintaining your equipment in perfect condition. This sometimes challenging requirement however is an integral part of the bliss of long range angling and is generally a welcome indication of the very good fishing that anglers are hoping for. Such is the present case and rest assured that every angler on board is in long range fishing heaven.

Taking this into account, we plan to give this at least one more full day before tearing ourselves away from this incredible giant yellowfin tuna fishing to fufill our wahoo tagging goals. On that note, the tagging is proceeding as well as we could have ever imagined with close to one hundred fifty tags deployed in yellowfin tuna here at Socorro. Especially noteworthy, is the fact that twenty five of the electronic or "archival" tags have been deployed in yellowfin tuna over one hundred pounds, with close to ten of those in fish over one hundred forty. Our enthusiasm for this project, and it's future potential, is fueled by exactly what we have seen in this group of anglers during the past two days. We will report in again tomorrow.