Video: live bait wahoo on San Diego LR boats

[Tunanorth]

[alantani]

gentlemen, please take note.....   

[akfish]

Some good information. But I have to disagree about the state of tuna fishing. I returned on 10.27 from an 8 day on the Rooster. We caught very few tuna and no big ones at the Ridge. The captain and deckhands said that factory seiners had wrapped most of the tuna in the area and drastically reduced the tuna catch. However, the wahoo fishing was great, and the fish were huge. I caught a 75# fish on the troll with my favorite pink DTX 220. I was ecstatic; my best wahoo by far. But three people caught wahoo over 90#!!

[Tunanorth]

Some good information. But I have to disagree about the state of tuna fishing. I returned on 10.27 from an 8 day on the Rooster. We caught very few tuna and no big ones at the Ridge. The captain and deckhands said that factory seiners had wrapped most of the tuna in the area and drastically reduced the tuna catch. However, the wahoo fishing was great, and the fish were huge. I caught a 75# fish on the troll with my favorite pink DTX 220. I was ecstatic; my best wahoo by far. But three people caught wahoo over 90#!!

I returned on 10/19 from an 8-day on the American Angler, and we had excellent tuna action, on fish mostly 30-90 pounds, but some larger ones too; "big" is very relative. The factory seiners don't go after anything under 50 pounds, so there are plenty of those, plus whatever big ones are hanging in those schools.
Our wahoo fishing so-so at best, but we did get some. They are indeed exceptionally big this year.
It definitely shows that out on the big ocean, things can change a lot day to day.
Photo of our biggest tuna @ 260 pounds [I didn't catch it!]

[Tunanorth]

Of note:
That big 260 pound tuna was caught by a Dentist from Georgia, who fishes San Diego only once a year.
He was using the standard PFU "demo" rig; a Penn Fathom 40N 2-speed and Penn Carnage III West Coast rod, 80 lb. Pro-Spec braid, and 80 lb. Big Game mono, on a flylined sardine.
I tied the splice at home, but was thinking about 80 pounders when I did it, so was just a little nervous while the 90 minute fight was going on.