Well, Honsu was bugging me for only putting up one fish, so I thought I'd add what I got last saturday for the nor leg off the fishwrecked comp.

We were heading something like 12nm offshore, trolling some christmas trees as we were heading to the spot. We both had a rod out with Mako Magic driving, I turn to ask him what we would expect to catch and zzzzzt, both the lines start peeling off. The fish crossed paths so we had to duck and move the rocks over. Mako's fish came off during this maneuvre but mine stayed on (which was odd as I had braid and he had mono and monos usually more forgiving in situations like that).

Pulled it in and got my first tuna (first fish caught when trolling too).

Tried some bottom bouncing, but the winds made for a fast drift. I think I ended up using 24 oz and still wasnt quite holding the bottom in 40m of water. Only got a undersize (just) flattie and some nibbles. Drift speed was 2 knots (too choppy for the sea anchor) so I thought to myself that thats the speed a short bibbed minnow would work, so just chucked 20m or so of line out and continued bottom bouncing. When we were about the leave, the lure got hit and managed to get a second tuna (released at the side of the boat). Bit surprising that it was fast enough to hold the lure under, and also that a tuna would take a lure at 2 knots.

Traveling about 7 knots and getting quite wet getting back, we tried a patch, and pulled up a few whiting.

Then headed back and tried for some whiting or garfish near the marina but didnt pick anything up (which was annoying as one more fish would have put me in the top 5 :p). Mako picked up a herring pretty quick but nothing after.

Not amazing fish, but managed to have a bit of fun landing some fish I havent caught before, and got a feed out of it too (mmmm, sashimi)

I'm not too sure what kind of tuna it is, i'm leaning southern blue. The fins didnt look anywhere near as yellow in real life, the flash just brought it out.