We closed out the following day in high spirits well prepared to continue the catching trend by taking full advantage of the eager tuna being up and biting. By about eight or nine o'clock this morning, it was painfully obvious that this day would be very different as the sign of fish was scant and a far cry from what we were looking at the previous day. So often such is the case when offshore fishing. Most times it is just a matter of dividing up as a group and heading off in different directions to collectively cover as much ground as possible and get ourselves relocated on the fish - preferably with enough time to take advantage of whatever we find. Today we did exactly that but either never did find the main vein of albacore or did find them but they were down again. There was certainly enough sign to indicate that the albacore were around, and all the accompanying tuna sign was definitely up and obvious, but the catching can best be described as a scratch with some extended lulls between opportunities.

By day's end we were ready for a change of pace and will be fishing on the anchor tomorrow in several different places. In all likelihood we will return offshore for our final day but that of course will depend on tomorrow's results. Regardless it is safe to say that after a couple of full days of moving around offshore these anglers are ready for some scenery to compliment the fishing effort.

Beautiful weather continues to grace our voyage and thankfully more of the same is forecast for the next few days.