Today was our last day. During breakfast on the hotel, we were talking about how the fishing was going to be today. Nikolaj and I had a feeling that this could be the day. Perhaps it was the last hours of yesterdays frenzy that gave us THAT feeling. Would the tuna switch still be on?
Today was also the day where we would make friends with renowned Italian tuna whisperer: Michele Meggiolaro. Michele knows everything there is to know about BFT and he had helped us organizing the trip, gear etc. Besides that, Michele is just as crazy as we are so everything was a match!
Alessio had to stay at the Maretta Club to prepare the Exteme Tuna Spinning Cup that was going to take place the day after. In stead of Alessio, Matteo was at the steering wheel.
The conditions were quite the same as yesterday morning: Glass out and easily spooked tuna. We all started out with the most efficient lure from yesterday: The Tackle House Britt 145 sinking but the tunas refused.
Michele suggested to try a floating lure and Nikolaj had convinced himself to try the Upekari 190. In the first or second cast, he had a big boil at his lure. In the next cast, he hooked a nice fish. What a start for the Urpekari!
Jacob had continued to fish the Britt he borrowed yesterday but while Nikolaj was fighting he asked me to find a lure in Nikolajs box - "Just anything that floats", he said. I gave him a Maria Loaded 180F and it wasn't long before he hooked a nice fish!
On the next bust up, Nikolaj had a strike on his Urpekari again but the leader was cut in the strike. Bye bye fish - bye bye Urpekari. The fish busted up right away 100 meters away and Michele said grab my rod, Nikolaj. He casted out and sweeped twice and BOOM. Fish on!
I had tried a Shimano Ocea Head Dip 175 on which I had a strike on Day 2. I had a boil on it this morning but I didn't trust it 100 percent. I changed to a gamma 105 and at the second big frenzy, I had several boils on it. Next bust up and I came tight:
Michele tagged the fish, so now there is a tuna named Peter in Italy.
Some of the bust ups were very big today. The frenzy was suddenly too much for Michele so he made sneaky cast from the back of the boat with his Gamma 90. A fish followed the lure zig-zagging checking it out until it attacked!
In the last couple of hours of the day and the packs were getting smaller. I think that some of them were single fish. So when the boat would arrive there were no tunas to see. We made some casts anyway and I managed to catch two fish - both were on a Shout Entice Seduce 190. One of them missed the lure at the first attempt. Accidentally I pulled the lure out of the water and soon as it reached the surface again, the fish hit it full speed. I will never forget the sight of that.
So the winning lure in terms of boated fish was the Britt. But relative to the time it was in the water, I would say that the Urpekari was the winner. The sinking Pelagus also produced a lot of strikes but they were not converted into boated fish.
Today was also the day where we would make friends with renowned Italian tuna whisperer: Michele Meggiolaro. Michele knows everything there is to know about BFT and he had helped us organizing the trip, gear etc. Besides that, Michele is just as crazy as we are so everything was a match!
Alessio had to stay at the Maretta Club to prepare the Exteme Tuna Spinning Cup that was going to take place the day after. In stead of Alessio, Matteo was at the steering wheel.
The conditions were quite the same as yesterday morning: Glass out and easily spooked tuna. We all started out with the most efficient lure from yesterday: The Tackle House Britt 145 sinking but the tunas refused.
Michele suggested to try a floating lure and Nikolaj had convinced himself to try the Upekari 190. In the first or second cast, he had a big boil at his lure. In the next cast, he hooked a nice fish. What a start for the Urpekari!
Jacob had continued to fish the Britt he borrowed yesterday but while Nikolaj was fighting he asked me to find a lure in Nikolajs box - "Just anything that floats", he said. I gave him a Maria Loaded 180F and it wasn't long before he hooked a nice fish!
On the next bust up, Nikolaj had a strike on his Urpekari again but the leader was cut in the strike. Bye bye fish - bye bye Urpekari. The fish busted up right away 100 meters away and Michele said grab my rod, Nikolaj. He casted out and sweeped twice and BOOM. Fish on!
I had tried a Shimano Ocea Head Dip 175 on which I had a strike on Day 2. I had a boil on it this morning but I didn't trust it 100 percent. I changed to a gamma 105 and at the second big frenzy, I had several boils on it. Next bust up and I came tight:
Michele tagged the fish, so now there is a tuna named Peter in Italy.
Some of the bust ups were very big today. The frenzy was suddenly too much for Michele so he made sneaky cast from the back of the boat with his Gamma 90. A fish followed the lure zig-zagging checking it out until it attacked!
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| Michele bending his beloved Souls rod |
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| He clearly took the lure head first |
To sum this day up, we caught 7 tunas - all on floating lures. If Michele hadn't suggested to try the floaters, I don't think we would have caught that many fish. Local knowledge is gold. Thank you Michele.
The lures that produced fish were:
Tackle House Britt 145 Sinking: 3 fish
Jack Fin Pelagus 165S: 2 fish (many more hookups not landed)
Homemade sinking stickbait 170 mm 88 gram: 2 fish
The lures that produced fish were:
Tackle House Britt 145 Sinking: 3 fish
Jack Fin Pelagus 165S: 2 fish (many more hookups not landed)
Homemade sinking stickbait 170 mm 88 gram: 2 fish
Carpenter y-105: 2 fish
Shout Entice Seduce 190 mm, 79 gram: 2 fish
Homemade sinking stickbait 170 mm, 77 gram: 1 fish
Shout Entice Seduce 190 mm, 79 gram: 2 fish
Homemade sinking stickbait 170 mm, 77 gram: 1 fish
Carpenter y-90: 1 fish
Maria Loaded 180F: 1
Amegari Urpekari 190: 1 fish
Maria Loaded 180F: 1
Amegari Urpekari 190: 1 fish
So the winning lure in terms of boated fish was the Britt. But relative to the time it was in the water, I would say that the Urpekari was the winner. The sinking Pelagus also produced a lot of strikes but they were not converted into boated fish.
Rods:
Carpenter TBL 84/22, TBL80/35, TBL80/40, Coral Viper 79/40, Endless Passion 85/36, Shimano Kaibutsu Pencil Instrument, Souls Performance Studio XVI - 7'5" Level 8.
Reels: Stella, Stella, Stella
Braid: Tasline Elite White 80 lbs, Power Pro Hollow Ace 80 lbs, Daiwa Boat Braid PE6.
Leader: YGK Castman Absorber 130 & 170 lbs.
In the evening we were kindly invited to dinner for all the participants in the Tuna Cup on the following day. It was nice to meet guys from Jack Fin, Glide and Megabass.
The dinner included an awfull lot of white wine and it evolved into a party. We had an awesome time with crazy people but we will keep the details to ourselves :)
This operation works really really well. The reason why it works so well I guess is a good mix of knowledge about the fishing, friendly and very helpful people and the perfect tuna weapon: A very fast inflatable boat.
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