as many Stell as International on a long range boat ?

Ist report from Tuna Slayer from his wife

I'm posting for my husband. Please forgive my translation, as I don't speak "jigging" fluently.

Report from Greg on the Royal Star:

Arrived on the Royal Star today to find 7 jiggers from Thailand, including the head of Seven Seas. Their gear is unbelievable. It should make for a very "interesting" trip.

I'll post the first fishing report tomorrow night or friday morning.

Update from 2/11/10 - Fishing San Benedicto Island

Gear - Black Hole 350gm Rod and Jigging Master PE6 Reel (note from the wife - Sorry, I'm not 100% certain on this I can't read my handwriting.)

"We got off to a trememdous start with the jig bite starting early. I hooked 8 tuna on a 180gm FCL Labo jug. I managed to land 3. There were lots of sharks and pulled hooks. We're fishing barbless because this is a strickly catch and release trip. Eventually the jig bite died out, but live bait fishing was wide open. Anytime we got near the bottom there were 3 different species of jack. I landed 5 fish upto 105 lbs. in about 4 hours. "


This post edited by TunaSlayer 08:41 AM 02/12/2010

350g jigging rod is normally not for big tuna, but I have no doubt Greg can handle big yft with 350g Black Hole jigging rod as it is one of the strongest blank ever introduced.

I landed several bluefin in 150 - 180 lbs with PE5 reel and the wider version of PE6 reel should handle 200 lbs yft.

It seems FCL Labo jigs are not secret anymore. Labo jigs along with Nature Boys Swim Rider Short jigs will be new stars for tuna this season.


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updated report from the Royal Star

02/13/10
Posted: 14:23:00
We made a move last night and awoke to conditions that were not conducive to fishing. We looked around for nothing and made a run back to salvage the afternoon. This sometimes happens. The positive side of things is that the travel time gave our anglers a time to get a little rest before we were hard at it again.
For the afternoon we had some action on 60 - 100# tuna, deploying a couple more archival tags in perfectly healthy tuna. Also we enjoyed a few wahoo stops just to get the adrenaline really racing through our veins.
We are opting for another location change tonight and are hoping to find better conditions tomorrow.


02/12/10
Posted: 14:22:00
We enjoyed good action this morning on 20 - 50 # yellowfin. By late morning we went looking for something bigger. It took us till early afternoon to get on better size fish. We spent the afternoon in a couple of drifts on 50 - 130 # fish. So far we've had steady action and tagged a good number of fish.
We are off to look at different scenery for tomorrow, hoping to put out more tags and have a little more fun while we are at it.



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Greg's updated report

Update from 2/12/10 - Fishing San Benedicto Island

Gear - Blew up a BX2 600 Reel on a med. tuna

"Today was sharky and casualties were high. Fish were smaller. Managed to conservatively hook 25-20 tuna, only tagged 6. Had about 6 tuna on jigs. Lost 3 jigs, 2 to tuna and 1 to a wahoo. Fished mainly bait. Had a wahoo skying out of the water. Fought a medium tuna (possibly a shark?) for about 45 mins with a belt and harness.

There were many a sardine being fished on jigging gear (not by me.) One of todays highlights, caught a 25lb. amber jack."

Update from 2/13/10 - Socorro Island and San Benedicto Island

Gear - Blew up Saltiga 50 on a wahoo

"We road 35 miles to Socorro Island to be turned away due to Mexican Naval exercises. After riding back, the fishing wasn't as good. I got 1 nice tuna and 2 heads. 4 wahoo on raider jigs.

Update from 2/14/10 (mid-day) Roca Partida
Roca Partida is 80 degrees and sunny.

"Today is a bad day to be a jig on the Royal Star. All out ripper jig bite from grey light to 1 hour after dawn. Sharks were a problem again and casualties were high. Lost 15 jigs. It was about 1 fish per drop. I landed a 40lb. yellow fin in 92 seconds on Black hole rod and jigging master PE 6 reel. Several larger tuna to the mid 100's hooked and caught, but they were not biting jigs.

We had several trolling stops. I hooked 4 wahoo on jigs and lost several others. Wahoo fishing was fun today. I have NO raider jigs left, but 8oz. chrome hammered diamond jigs seem to be working just fine."

Not as part of the fishing report from Greg, but I thought that I'd include this. He stopped using the "expensive jigs" and started using the cheap "flea market jigs" because he's not throwing the good stuff at the sharks any more.

Update 2/14/10 late day
"We spent awhile looking for tuna in shark free waters off Roca Partidia, but we were unsucessful. We headed back inside. I hooked 3 wahoo 40-50 lb. on 8oz. hammered diamond jigs. Tonight we head 160 miles to Clarion Island, we hope to be there for 5 days."


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