Overnight Tuna fishing trip

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Last week I got the chance to do an overnight tuna trip out to the canyons 70 miles south of Montauk , NY with Cutter and some of his friends from Noank. We left the dock at 5pm and were out to the tuna grounds by 9pm. The overnight bite never really got going, but we caught a Mahi and a 3' Mako shark. At 6am we started trolling and it was not long before we caught several albacore tuna. The fish of the day came late in the am and it took Cutter an hour and a half to get it to the boat. The end result was a 150lb big eye tuna. Needless to say the Sashimi was wonderful. We did see a huge bluefish boil on the way out which is always an impressive site.

The Big EYE
Weigh in at the dock
This was my first fish of the day
The bluefish boil