March 24 and 25, 2012 – Trent Fishes An Overnighter

Trent works on a charter boat out of southern california.  He wanted to fish an overnighter and hopefully get some fish to take home for dinner.  The ono bite has just started up so we headed south in hopes of making it to South Point.  On our way down we ran into a small pile of porpoise that just didn’t have any fish in it so we decided to head offshore insearch of more productive water.  About 20 miles offhshore we ran into a nice cargo net that was holding small big-eye tuna in the 10-20lb range.  We pulled in the heavy gear and brought out my new 30lb Fin-Nor Marquesa outfits.  Trent loves to jig so he tied on some of his chrome jigs and sent them down.  There were so many big-eyes and yellowfin tuna that he couldn’t get his jig more than 20 feet down before he was bit.  Fish were everywhere and we could see them swimming just a few feet under the boat.  He even caught one just dangling his jig of the rod tip while we were taking a break!  After catching about 40 ahi in the 10-20lb range we decided to head back inshore and anchor for the night.  On the way back in we had a nice short bait bite that screamed out about 30 yards before coming off.  We never saw the fish but we thought it might have been a nice size bigeye tuna.  Later in the evening we finally made it to Okoe Bay where we set anchor and had a nice dinner.  We got a good nights rest and woke-up early the next morning to hit the 40 fathom ledge for ono.  There were already boats fishing the lane and we just couldn’t get an ono bite nor did we see anyone else get any.  So again we headed offshore insearch of marlin and ahi.  As luck would have it we ran into a big pile of porpoise that was holding fish.  We trolled the school for about an hour and marked two fish down deep.  We went to the greenstick and started to work the school.  We made pass after pass without a bite when finally a nice ahi exploded out of the water and ate one of the squids.  Trent got in the chair and landed his ahi in about 15 minutes that weighed 135lbs!  It was getting late so we worked our way back to tthe harbor where I filleted a few big-eyes for Trent to take home.