Tenderloin

Had family come in for their once a yr. tuna trip. We headed to horn mountain for tuna as it looked to be in cleaner water from the sat. photos. Ram Powell, Beer Can, Marlin are all in a pea colored green water with no visibility one foot under, I have never seen this green colored water. We crossed a nice line trying to form 10 miles South of Ram Powell, and the water went to a cleaner green, no bait what so ever on the line though. When we made it to Horn Mountain, water color was still the a cleaner green, with no bait. I tried live baiting with some perfect sized threadfin hearing I picked up 55 miles out, only one toothy critter cut me off. Once dark hit, we tried to jig some blackfins for bait to no avail. Around midnight, I started seeing some flying fish and the water looked cleaner, with a slight blueish tint, definitely not cobalt blue, some weeds started showing up moving to the north. We caught 4 blackfin, and missed several others, so we tried chumming to no avail. Then i tried trolling diving baits to no avail. I noticed on satellite weather some light rain moving in from the west, it kicked the seas up to 5-7's, but dissapated before it reached us, so I just hugged behind the rig till it calmed back down, had one fisher still up and he caught a barracuda and an undersized yellowfin on a jig that we threw back. By daylight the dirty green water had moved back in and the rig was dead, so I ran back in 2-4's. That weedline was now 5 miles South of R. Powell and trying to push, but no significant color change. I knew the water was bad, but they were diehard on going that way instead of east. Oh well, thats how it goes. We never had a rain drop hit us and we never saw lightning, it was all way North of us by looking at the sat. weather.

TOBO

Thanks for the info. Better luck next time and next year when they come back.

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