Our Thanksgiving week began with big catches of yellowfin tuna, jumbo sea bass, and big speckled trout. After Turkey Day, we were going to start looking striped bass to get ready for the arrival of George Poveromo and his TV crew but….we had run into some young-of-the-year bluefin tuna while catching yellowfin tuna earlier in the week. These fish are very valuable to scientists studying these fish so the striped bass were put on hold and on Friday, we went out on one of our dedicated science trips. We ran out to the warmer water in the Triple 0s area and put out a spread a lures that you would use to catch Spanish mackerel. The few boats around us, were catching yellowfin tuna. We had a number of bites on our little spoons. They all resulted in either pulled or straightend hooks. We covered a lot of water but never could find the baby bluefin. On the way in, we stopped on the Chenango to try and jig up some bluefish (for a global genetics study). The bluefish were there and we got all the requested samples. We also caught a few nice sea bass and an Atlantic Bonita which became Sushi.
Sunday, we jumped on Charles Southall’s Albemarle we spent a half-day in the waters off Cape Charles. We drifted eels through good bait marks but we never had a bite.
