Catching Sea Bass and Watching Tuna

We ran out after sea bass yesterday. We wanted to catch some before the season closes at the end of the year. We started seeing working birds about 20 miles from the beach. Then we saw bluefin tuna crashing the surface. We saw signs of Bluefin throughout the day, all the way out to the 50 fathom curve. The thickest of it was in the SE Lumps/Hot Dog area. We did not have our tuna (or rockfish) stuff with us. We did have some jigs and did try to get on them and jig. We had one hit that did not come tight. In every direction, we would see flocks of working birds and breaking fish. We had a big whale swim right under the boat making me a bit nervous but it did not touch the boat and the guys got their jigs out of the water in time. We tried to ignore the tuna and went on to a wreck. The first wreck already had a boat fishing it, a head boat was sitting on the second wreck. Our third wreck was empty except for big sea bass. We caught a bunch of really nice bass and we caught a couple of 17-18 inch flounder and a triggerfish. We then slipped on out to the 50-fathom curve to try for blueline tilefish. We caught some but mostly we caught more jumbo sea bass. We ended up keeping 93 big sea bass with multiple weighing more than 5 pounds with the largest weighing 7 pounds. Our largest blueline tilefish weighed 14 pounds.