Gambler bloodier decks

[Pennsy Guy]

This'll be a quicky, I'm whipped. Just back from a tuna 36hr trip reminiscent of the '90's. Jeff took us back to that shorter point which has produced YFT's since June. Lines in noon or so at anchor since a drift wouldn't work due to wind. Hook-ups started soon after start with, I think about 10 Y's in the slush tank with several dropped, broken offs as well. Around 7 PM we left for the Toms for the night. Anchored again with nothing happening except for 2 Mahi-mahi not that big all night. At 7AM headed back to "the spot", anchored and it started within one minute with slow hookups and dropped/boated Y"s until it was a steady multiple hookup situation. At one point we had 3 fish on on the port side and 3 on the starboard. 5 of 6 landed--how cool is that...NOAA was a bit off again...seas a bit larger with more wind than forecast for Wed., wind never quit at night but did during Thurs. with lessening seas but the rain came on Wed. night and throughout Thurs.--mostly light but at times pretty hard. Water temp at the Toms--70*, at "the spot" 63*. Not everyone caught but everyone got bit multiple times. Lots of spiny dogs caught--bigger PIA than blue dogs.
Fish totals: 40+/- Y's (most 65-90#+), 1 Bluefin(on the jig), 2 mahi. A very few tuna were jigged and the bait of choice was sardine and then frozen squid. The bigger the fish, the meaner and greener they were and it didn't matter about leader size---80# leaders caught as well as 40#.
Kudos to our crew of Chris(2nd Capt.), Nico, John & Ricky for dealing with the many tangles & managing the deck and fish expertly and to Capt. Jeff for getting us to the fish and back to port.
Been a long time since there's been 40+ big Y's on deck. You gotta love it!
Two more trips(24hr) scheduled for Nov.--I gotta go, how 'bout you?