Phew!

Warmer water to the South of the island had brought bait, birds and life to the South side of Argus.  With this activity came a flurry of Marlin and Tuna activity for the fleet.  We all feel much better now.

We had a good week with the Tuna and caught a couple of White Marlin.  Still waiting for our first Blue, but we are getting shots so it’s just a matter of time now.

We had Mike and crew, Black & Blue members, for much of the week.  They did their usual thing…Wahoo, Dolphin, White Marlin, put out a propane fire, Yellowfin Tuna…they managed to fill up their week!

On Friday we went 1 for 4 on White Marlin, the fleet went 2 for 10 on Whites and 0 for 3 on Blue Marlin.

Sunday was a great day with 6 Yellowfin Tuna in the 50 pound range caught in the chum, followed by going 1 for 2 on White Marlin on the way home.  We also missed a Blue that was FIRED up back there in the spread.  We saw a big one that did not want to eat.  She just swam under the right short and scared all of us.  You obviously want them to bite, but even seeing one of those big girls is exciting as hell.

- Capt. Allen DeSilva

Blue!

Blue water is good if you are looking at it from the bridge while trolling. On a sea surface temperature chart it is not so handy. The good news is that the cold water is finally giving way to some at least reasonable water – we got 74 degrees yesterday for the first time all year.

You can see the signs of the warmer water even without the gauge. Bait is showing up on the south side of Argus and there is some bird activity starting. It kind of reminds me of the second week in May instead of June.

We have been out pretty steadily. We have hooked and jumped off three Blues. Haven’t caught one yet – maybe today! I think the fleet is up to 3 Blues caught for the year. I hope that with the warmer water the bite picks up steam.

We have been seeing some really small tuna as well as some Yellowfin in the 60 pound range. They seem to like to bite on the troll more than in the chum so far.

The Wahoo are slow but steady. We catch one or two most days. We got a couple in the 60 pound range this week.

I am hoping this will turn out to be a transition week and we hit summer by my next report. I guess we will all have to wait and see.

- Capt. Allen DeSilva

We just finished up a few days fishing with Chris Woodward and the gang from Sport Fishing Magazine as well as Eros from Bluefin USA. We were concentrating on using top water plugs to try and scare up some fish. The water was cold and bait was scarce, but we managed to get quite a few shots of the guys with Tuna.

Have you noticed the new(ish) format for Sport Fishing?  I think it is really cool how they take a subject and really go into detail on it over a number of articles.

We had a great time fishing with everybody and I hope we can lure them back for another visit later in the year.

The link to the Sport Fishing web article is here.

Things seems to be picking up with water temp and life on the banks.  I am looking forward to this week.

- Capt. Allen DeSilva