BRING YOUR CALIFORNIA FISHING LICENSE!!!!!

[Tom McKinney]

I will smile and have a good time whatever we do . . . but I have chased Bluefin on trips like this before and never seen em on the deck in any numbers.  But one Bluefin 40lb puts the same meat in the freezer as a bunch of reds.

[alantani]

this has been billed as an inshore trip from the beginning.  it will take something pretty amazing to change that. 

[natch!]

Isn't there an Ocean Enhancement stamp required for SoCal?

Jack

[Aiala]

Of course I will pop for a CA license if I must; however, to quote Bartleby the Scrivener: "I would prefer not to."   

~A~

[alantani]

so noted!  back to plan A!

[MarkT]

Sweet!

[Tightlines667]

so noted!  back to plan A!

Those pesky Bluefin don't like to stay put...always swimmimg places

[Porthos]

Conditions are always changing...173lbs FIVE miles out of Dana:

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/threads/173-bluefin-5-miles-out-of-dana.587562/

[joel8080]

Just read the current update at the NHC, another tropical wave just crossed El Salvador / Guatamala into the Pacific nothing formed yet but worth watching.

Joel8080

[sundaytrucka]

Conditions are always changing...173lbs FIVE miles out of Dana:

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/threads/173-bluefin-5-miles-out-of-dana.587562/

Ok, ok...I may be open to this whole bluefin option.

[Reel 224]

Conditions are always changing...173lbs FIVE miles out of Dana:

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/threads/173-bluefin-5-miles-out-of-dana.587562/

Diving and fishing are different ends of the spectrum. My son and his good friend dove for years in our waters as I sat to wait for them to emerge with there stringers, I can't count the times they would come up with fish and anglers were in the same area catching nada. Divers have a definite advantage over hook and line.   

[Aiala]

Conditions are always changing...173 lbs FIVE miles out of Dana.

I'd lots rather catch five 35-lb YTs at Cedros. 

~A~

[Tightlines667]

When the tina are feeding on crab/crustaceans, small squid, juvinile, mesopelagics , or other massed slower moving smaller prey, they tend to be a bit more sedentary, location focused, and feed more frequently.  They are also a bit lazier, and line shy.  When they transition to higher trophic level, faster moving finfish prey, they are more mobile, and aggresive, but they feed less frequently (i.e. 2 or 3 Xs daily instead of 5-8Xs.  It is a little more key here to be in the right spot at the right time, but if you are the action can be hot n heavy. 

*Based on published research, talks with biologists, and personal experience.

Personally I like it when they are focused on big schools of larger squid the best.  Agressive, location-oriented, and feeding more frequently.

[Reel 224]

Cold I have a definition of this "mesopelagics" I'm guessing smaller bait fish. Am I rite? 

[Tightlines667]

Cold I have a definition of this "mesopelagics" I'm guessing smaller bait fish. Am I rite? 

These are the deeper dwellimg spp.  (Such as Hatchetfish and Lanterfish) that spend most of their time around the sound scatrering layer (often 100-300 fa deep), then migrate up at night (how far is somewhat moon-phase-dependent.  There are other nonfish spp.(like paper nautalis, small biolumincent squid, etc)  here as well.  Bigeye Tuna are meso-oriented specialist.