December Tuna

It is rather nice in Virginia right now. Yesterday, we ran to the Norfolk Canyon to try for some unusually late-season tuna. Before the day was done, we were all fishing in short-sleeves. Fishing was good. We caught a few dolphin for the first December dolphin we have caught out of Virginia. We caught 5 yellowfin tuna out of about 8 bites. Late in the afternoon, we had a very impressive explosion on the flat-line bait closest to the boat. The bigeye tuna came half out of the water. After a long fight, the hook pulled but now we had to fish longer. It was not too long after that when we had two big explosions on the short riggers. One came tight and we managed to hold on to that one. It’s tuna for Christmas dinners at our houses this year.