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Pin Fish
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| Does anybody know if the yellowfin have been out at the ram powell in the last few days? we are thinking about making the run out on saturday.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| They live there. The tuna migrate but there are thousands that live around each rig over 50 miles out year round 24/7/365. The ones in deep water. The problem with tuna is that they are like squid, they feed at night and live deep during the day for the most part. They are easy to hook, but difficult to reel in. You should try an overnighter trip with a group first time out. You will figure it out quick like. They eat diamond jigs at night near the rigs every night. Butterfly jigs work, but @ 25 bucks each ain't worth it. The tuna swirl between 150-200ft down (you will see them on your sounder) and will hit the diamond jig on the drop or the rise, but usually not both unless they are turned on. Some nights they won't eat, but may at another rig. If you find a rig that they are biting at, stay there and fish till you catch your fill. It is easy to catch 1000+ pounds of the things, but it becomes like work and do you really have enough friends to give that much tuna to? You get my point, fresh tuna is the finest thing from the sea, but you can easily over do it. Have fun and be ready to stay up all night!
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Night fishing is for those who can't catch them during the day!
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Ruby Red Lip
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| You can tell from my "name" that I may not know too much about tuna fishing. I am going to have to disagree with a few of those statements though. I try to research these fish to learn more about them but from what I have read about yellowfin aggregation around offshore FAD's I don't think they actually "live" there. And... I don't think they are always there. From what I have read they use the rigs almost as a place to congregate, and there happens to be a lot of bait around. I just don't think they necessarily live at any one rig. Maybe you could say a tuna spends its life moving between the "Gulf rigs." The time I have spent out there, I've found 2 situations when you don't catch them: they are there but not biting what you have to offer, or they are simply not there. They may be several miles off of it, where you can't see them on the sounder. As for it being easy to hook them... I don't agree with that! But, it may be easier for some people who actually know what they are doing, unlike me. I'm not trying to start an argument but I basically I don't think they live at a rig, and it is not always easy to "catch 1000 lbs" of the things!
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Sailfish
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tuna are at the rigs 24/7/365. whether or not they're biting is a completely different story. the blackies are usually pretty consistent biters, especially at night; but those are puppy tunas and no fun unless on spinning tackle. tuna will often move off the rig during the day; as we have caught yellowfin within a several mile radius around a rig; but they typically will congregate back at the rig at night where the lights generally attract flying fish, hardtails, squid, and other bait which thus attracts the predators. i have found that an open water tuna bite such as off at the double nipple or squiggles, etc. tends to yield consistently larger tuna (140+ pound MAN fish) but it can often be like finding a needle in a haystack. most people don't know what they're doing when they see tuna busting in open water and will troll right thru the schools ultimately (often) driving the fish down. or sometimes, you just cant catch up to them. tuna are not a lethargic sloth-like fish like snappers or groupers. they are VERY fast, much faster than their seemingly fat bodies give them credit for. a tuna is also a ram-powered fish, (i think that's what it's called) meaning they constantly have to be moving to keep water rushing over their gills yielding oxygen. a well prepared fishing team will have about 9 different methods for catching yellowfin once being marked on the bottom finder; be it trolling, chunking, the kite, etc.
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White Marlin
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| Tuna can swim as fast as 25MPH, maybe a little more and have to keep moving at the rate of about 2' per second to breathe, if I remember correctly. I just read that Yellowfins can attain 50MPH by folding their fins back...thats hooking it
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