ANOTHER GIANT TAKEN BY CRIMSON TIDE CHARTERS

Wow!!!!! Where to start with this one. After Saturdays dissapointing 0 for 2 (pulled hook and broken leader) I was ready for some redemption for sure. Well we GOT IT and boy did we get it.


The crew for Sunday was the Jennarose clan. This was the first charter booked by Crimson Tide when Fred and I decided to start the business. Good Karma for sure. The only problem was they wanted to go bass fishing. Well lets say it didn't take long to convince them to drag a few bars around.

We depart Green Harbor a little after 5am and I point the boat to the exact spot where the BFT won the day before. I had bites there at both slacks and we marked good fish all day. We arrived to the same scene the day before - birds, bait and busting tuna. Fred sets out the spread in record time and after a few passes the short corner rod goes ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. The 50 is screaming and the rest of the spread is cleared. Well let's say this fish was pissed. He worked all anglers on board for a few minutes each until we finally get color and a nice toss of the poon by Fred and bam game over. Taped out at 81" and weighed 260lbs. So I ask the crew if they wanted to go bass fishing and they so F-no lets get another tuna.

So I work the area until about 9am and we are off to the race for some bass. We spent all of an hour putting a few blues and bass in the boat before deciding to run 10 miles south. I told the crew that the bass were thick there a few days earlier and there were also tuna mixed in and it didn's take long for the tuna crack heads to want their next fix.

We arrive to a desert but a good one. NO BOATS and pods of tuna busting everywhere and feeding in reckless abandon. Spread goes out and just after the last rod is out. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz fish number two is on and landed in somewhat deteriating sea conditions. He visits Akula's deck, a tag is inserted and he's on his merry way. 55". Spread goes back out and just after the last rod is set ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ fish number 3 is on. Rod is passed a couple times on this one and we have a nice 71" fattied boatside and is safely released.

Well the seas are building fast and the Akula is steaming through 3-6 foot seas on its way to port to meet "The little white truck". Fantastic day with great crew and REDEMPTION is ours.

Two tuna today...and the first GIANT OF 2010

To say that the fog was thick today is an understatement, it was the kind of fog that collects on you eyelashes and leaves your hands wet all day- even with a heated wheel house it was uncomfortable. Our first hookup was at 8:22 am, on a trolled bar and P.J. put his game face on to winch this fish to the boat. In recent days a few commercial sized fish had been landed and I was hoping to be one of the lucky ones to hook a fish just north of the 68"-72" mark that have been the norm so far this year.




22 minutes into the battle we get her boatside, and although its a big fish, its not really what we were looking for- and easy boatside release and we were back on the hunt...



Just over two hours later I had my head sticking out the wheelhouse door checking out the spread- and I witnessed one of the most violent tuna attacks not 40 yards off the transom. The tiagra began singing that sweet love song that I crave so much to hear and we were in battle mode once again. Again P.J. gets in gear and curses at the fish the entire time (we both agree that it breaks thier spirit). We get the fish into the wash of the boat as I try to determine if this is the one. What a tough call....is he? Isn't he? I dont care.... this ones coming home..... A deep drop of the poon results in a clean buttonhole shot.... and victory is ours.



Once hes on the deck bled out and washed up, the tape comes out- and what do you know...73" Thats the ticket. Heres to the first giant bft (large medium) taken aboard our new boat AKULA, who is proving herself to be a worthy contender. Capt Fred

Incredible tuna fishing in May

Let me tell you guys that I feel trully blessed to have already landed 4 fish ...... in friggin may! whats that all about????




Today I had Fissues, Dunn, Will and my co-captain Chris as crew. We stopped at the SWC where I had gotten tight two days earlier to fing hardly any signs of life, but put the spread in anyways. One hour here and I decided to pull em up and go looking elsewhere. Stopped at the SEC to find the same conditions. OK, so I steamed off to PH where I had had fish up two days earlier.....nothing WTF???



Lines went in anyways as you cant catch fish without hooks in the water. Off in the distance Chris spotted a flock of birds that were decimating the surface, in went the lines again and we were off. Two miles later the spread was back in and we had tuna rippin up the surface all around us......and were tight. Chris works the fish for 5 minutes but the hook simply pulls....... oh well, thats fishing. they are still busting all around us as we try to weave through the dozen other knuckleheads that are working the area with us. The fish were tormenting us as they would come up and feed wrecklesley right where we had just trolled over. But if you put your time in you shall be rewarded, and were tight again. Dunn takes the rod on this one and begins working him to the boat. We were in shallow water surrounded by lobster pots and I did my best to move the through them without getting tied up, but the fish was not being cooperative and got himself into one, and all as the lobsterman who owned the pot, sat and watched. I swung AKULA back around and backed down to the pot with a sick feeling in my stomach that this was going to end in tragedy, but as we neared the buoy Dunn shouted color!! The fish had wrapped himself 15ft down from the surface and was dong circles wrapping himself tighter and tighter. Ethan grabbed hold of the line and slowly pulled the fish to the surface untill Will buttonholed him with a clean shot of the poon. 71" of beautifull tuna beating that hardtail rythym on my decks.



Man was that a hairy few minutes. All was well and we were off on the troll again. We called a few people over and watched them catch fish with us untill the life had begun to dry up. I decided to hit one more area before we headed home, and again after a few minutes with lines in the water there we were tight to tuna #3. Dunn worked this one to the boat again, and with no hindrances from anyones lobster gear we got an easy boatside release on another 68"-72" fish. I really do live for this kind of stuff. The crew was awesome, all I had to do was drive my little boat all day and rock out to Bob Marley. Awesome work in the pit boys.

The tuna fishing is in full swing, NOW is the time to go! Capts, Fred & Chris