Our Lingcod charter decided to hit the Bluefin!

At the eleventh hour our group made the wise decision to make the switch from Lingcod to Bluefin tuna. We proceeded to make our barrel of mackerel and had our first Tuna hookup within 5 minutes of reaching our grounds. We fought the fish for 1/2 hour but pulled the hook next to the boat. Near 100 boats were on our grounds which may have been what attracted the blue sharks and depleted our potential numbers. After 1:00 between blue shark bites we hooked and boated a 45lb Bluefin. After that we couldn’t seem to escape the blue sharks.  Weather was perfect, seas were nice in the morning but got a little windy in the afternoon. Water temp 64′, air 65’…