Tuna continue to chew, still no great shots…

We’ll be headed out to the Washington tomorrow to give it a go! Sounds like it should be lights out fishing we will keep you all posted! Tight lines and stay bent!

Overcast conditions make for poor shots, but tuna are still biting!

Well it is a beautiful site to see, even though we don’t have a picture perfect eddy to work at the moment, enough of that good water moved in and brought those yellowfins in a little closer. Yellowfin were chewing again today!! We ourselves caught 3 Thursday morning in 3-400 fathoms east of the Washington, then went back out Friday morning for tunas and tiaras to the same numbers, which we also gave to our friends and fellow members Full Service and their crew went out early Friday morning and stuck a nice big eye right on our numbers! When we showed up Friday morning it was slow we did have one mini cover up and one decent 35lb tuna came tight that we killed, but it was slow after that we went another hour or two with no bites ao around 10-1030 one of our members James who also has starlink told me him and his buddy boat were both doubled up if I wasn’t getting bites it might be worth the run, so we picked up and ran up there about 15 miles north of where we were east of the Washington and luckily it worked out we ended up killing 5 yellowfins total and had a ton of bites that just never came tight, one really big good bite that screamed drag off the 80 but unfortunately our main line broke, it may have chaffed on the tip or got wrapped when it popped out of the clip on the rigger, either way an awesome day of fishing and action but the fish seem spread out and the bite was very sporadic. Only a few little tuna birds here and there picking but usually when we saw the birds a bite was coming, but we have received reports over the last two days of people catching yellowfins and bigeyes from south of the Baltimore all the way to south of the Washington and almost everywhere in between, mostly deep though 200 fathoms or deeper as deep as 800-1000 for some of the big eye bites. Hopefully we can get some better shots here soon when weather improves, in the meantime I still like the Washington it’s a safe bet its known to hold fish and whales, or south of the poormans those two areas were in the reports the most, and you can see it in the app as well! Hope you all are enjoying the app and getting familiar with how to use it! Tight lines and stay bent!

yellowfins everywhere, big eyes in the mix!

Well we fished Thursday and got 3 yellowfins and rolled out by 10am, went right back to same spot Friday for the tourney and only jigged up one nice yellowfin, so a member told us they were chewing just north of us, south of Poormans, we made the run and ended up catching 4 more yellowfins! However we also heard if we would of stuck it out in Washington the tuna were there as well, and eve south of Washington, we got bites on every rig we had out expect the side tracker, so many short bites that never came tight!! All in all great signs for this summers tuna fishing!! we are gonna get back out asap and get after the big eyes! Tight lines and stay bent!!

Pre fished for tiaras, got 3 yellows early and left…

Well it was a beautiful morning to scout and prep for tunas and tiaras tomorrow and we did just that! Skeleton crew of Me(Taylor) Jeff and Alex, bite turned on around 8-9am got 4-5 bites only 3 fish came tight and all 3 were landed, and in the 30-40lb class with the last one 45-50lb, we had dense dense fog we were dealing with so only had our radar and chart plotter or structure to go off of, and our app of course! We found a nice little 1-2 degree break in 3-400 fathoms and plucked those 3 in 2 passes, trolled another 45 mins and decided to call it early around 1030-11 and save our energy for this weekend, but we must have been in Chris Little aka Talking Trash’s way, cause soon as we left he said it turned on for him and he ended up catching 14! Keep in mind he’s a tuna pro and has omni, but a good sign for the rest of us, I truly believe the fish were north of us in poormans as well on other parts of the same temp break, but the blue water in still outside the 100 line, the deeper you go the bluer it gets, but we had most of our luck closer to the Washington than the poormans in 200-400 fathoms, I’m sure this info is traveling fast, but try to keep it between us members and your close group of buddy boats or intel circle as we approach the tournament season!! Poormans and Washington are the move for now, but it will be a parking lot tomorrow between the good weather, good reports, and ladies tuna tourney. Tight lines and Stay Bent! We’ll update y’all how we do tomorrow, hoping and praying we get some decent ones really worth weighing in for the girls!!

Still no great shots, but yellowfins caught today!

Still no great shots but our new Always Bent Intelligence App (top left under available services) is showing the Washington and Poormans area is a hot spot of activity, so we will be headed to that area tomorrow and will report what we find or hopefully catch! Talking Trash and Marli both caught yellowfins today between the Poormans and Washington as well, we’re not sure how deep but we’ll find em and report back tomorrow! In the mean time enjoy that app and learn and explore how to use it and let us know any feedback you may have! We’ll post live updates on snapchat and instagram if we find anything interesting or noteworthy and if the fishing id good enough maybe go live on YouTube! Tight Lines and Stay Bent!

Still waiting on a good shot, more yellowfins caught…

Well the boys from PYY Marine made the long haul on their new 39’ Yellowfin and got into some similar action as we did! There is still a small piece of that eddy left about 120-130 miles east, and clearly was still holing some nice yellowfins! They had multiple cover ups and ended up going 8 for 11 with the biggest at 80lbs! We also heard whispers of a couple yellowfins in the Washington at sunrise, but then seemed dead the rest of the day. Based off what we can tell, it appears that eddy has begun blending in and breaking apart, with some getting sucked back into the gulf, and other small bits and pieces pushing inshore, maybe that explains the few random yellowfins in the Washington, either way we are excited and waiting for our next opportunity to get out and get after em! We’re also getting closer and closer to our app being ready to use, it is gonna be awesome and soon as it’s ready we’ll have more details on how you all will be able to access that! If you are fishing in the next few days, Baltimore or Poormans seems like a safe bet and Washington could be worth checking out as well, the big eyes are around, still some bluefin, and the yellowfin should be shown up more and more as the water continues to heat up, a good Sat shot will help tremendously! Tight lines and stay bent!

still no great sat shots, but another big eye caught!

Well unfortunately still lots of cloud cover in the area we fish, so no great sat shots again, but we did receive reports of big eyes in the Baltimore! Loaded Up crew came home with a nice big eye, we are still waiting on confirmation on where they caught there’s, but another one of our members fished the Baltimore and had a big eye in their spread, whacked a chain and came out of the water enough they confirmed it was a big eye, they also released a few small bluefins! So if you are thinking about fishing in the next day or two the Baltimore sounds like the safe bet until we get a decent shot to see if and where the Eddys are etc. We will continue to update you all! Tight lines and stay bent!

More rain, more crappy sat shots, and not the best report…

Unfortunately with all this rain and overcast foggy weather we are unable to get a good clear SSt Sat shot, but from what we can see there’s a chance it moved south and could be sucking back into the Gulf Stream, or a piece could break off and slide in to the Washington or Norfolk, we are keeping an eye on things for now, but also dismal reports from the few boats who went deep, hard to find the break, not much life, no bites. Still some bluefin in the canyons and along the 100 line, as well as tiles and other bottom fish, and the one big eye that was caught. We’re hoping for good weather and some good shots between now and Monday. We’ll update if anything changes later. Tight Lines and Stay Bent.

No great shots today, but Full Service was 2 for 4….

Well with the rainy overcast weather we most likely aren’t going to get any great shots today, or any shots at all for that matter, but we know our friends and Always Bent members on the boat Full Service made the long haul out to the southern side of the eddy where the hardest temperature break is, (as pictured above, they’re the orange dot) and sure enough the yellowfin were there and fired up! First pass through em hooked 4 and killed 2! Gotta love it! Not sure if they caught more but we’ll see when they get in. Now all we can do is hope this hurricane system coming up the coast shakes things up and pushes that eddy in closer, or for the boats who can make it, it could still be worth the long run. Battle for the buckle is under way but we haven’t seen to much action, a lot of catch and release bluefins in the canyons and along the 100 line, but it’s gonna be tough, good luck to anyone fishing it! We are looking at possibly making a trip out Sunday or Monday depending what the weather does and what kind of SST shots we can get between now and then, we will keep you guys in the loop! Our new video from Monday is live on our YouTube channel check it out! Tight Lines and Stay Bent!

First big eye caught, eddy could push in….

Congrats to Capt. Chris Huk on the Restless Lady 2 he got the first big eye of the year today, he seems to have a good relationship with the big eye tunas lol pretty work! Man that eddy looks so good and is full of life, we are getting reports of birds and schools of yellowfin chasing bait skippies, mackerel, some other smaller fish, but the boats who were in the right areas of the eddy did the best a couple people struggled or got a morning bite and got one or two and then didn’t get any more opportunities, it’s tough when your that far out there and only have so much fuel and time, that’s why we got the helm link system and can use apps and software to check SST and Chlorophyll shots etc. and soon we’ll have our own app we’ll be testing and you all will get to try out! This image was just so crisp and I truly think you wanna be on those hard breaks and edges near where I have the distance circle or the southern piece but again that’s a long haul depending where your leaving from you have to strategically pick a piece of water you can make it to and work and troll etc. and the other thing is that water is moving around so fast out there, one minute its one shape and the warm water or break is here then 2 hours later you go back to where you marked the break or got a bite and all the sudden its 64 degrees now and not 69-70 anymore, so the waters moving you just gotta find that hard break and look for the life look for the birds, use your radar if you can to look for birds further out then spot em with binoculars, that’s what we do and you’d be surprised how often it leads to bites or fish! For everyone waiting being patient or simply don’t have the fuel capacity to make it, don’t worry it looks like it could possibly push inshore to the west between this storm system coming up from the south and then some easterly winds forecasted too, it could all line up perfectly! We’ll update the report if we see any significant change but for now its still the long haul for yellowfin. the Bluefin are stacked up in the Baltimore and are always a good time, some boats are choosing to do that instead but you can only kill one then its catch and release, still fun fishing though! You guys should all be familiar with how to catch the bluefin by now after this past winter haha if you’ve been a member that long we gave a ton of info on the bluefins this winter but now we are in yellowfin/big eye mode!! Tight lines and stay bent!

More yellowfins caught today, still far out….

This is a 6.4.25 1am shot from a new imagery provider we got for the app we’ve been building more about that later! Another day and boats are making the trek to that eddy and it is continuing to produce great fishing, with boats catching both trolling and casting, we got all of our bites trolling on Monday and as we said they mostly ate the meat they were keyed in on the ballyhoos, we’ve also heard plastics are working well too. With the hurricane system to the south moving north towards the east coast it may shake the water up a bit, we’re also forecasted to have some easterly winds which also could help blow the eddy closer into the 100 line and canyons. When and if that happens the fishing will be lights out, it has continued to provide great fishing, yellowfin have been caught in that eddy everyday since last Saturday, we’ve been blessed with calm conditions and there’s been at least one or two boats or more that have made the trek, and not one has been skunked that we know of so that’s 5 days in a row of great fishing, hopefully a sign of a good summer of tuna fishing! As you members know (and new members you can go back through the history of our reports and see) we’ve been tracking and following this piece of water since mid May and already made the trek once as far back as April (that was a different piece of water) but this is our passion its what we love to do go out and hunt down these fish and figure out where they live what they eat where they travel, and then using tools like oceanography, SST Satellite imagery, chlorophyl shots, and other data we’re able to predict where these fish will be and we love sharing that with you all and helping each other out and get what edge us “little guys” can without using omni sonar or paying thousands of dollars for multiple different reports. So we have been working hard behind the scenes to build a user friendly app that takes all the specific data we use from all the other different sites and apps and puts it all conveniently in one place. Imagine google maps or OnX maps etc. but you can overlay SST, Chlorophyll, weather, commercial fishing activity, literally all the tools we use to make our reports and decide where we want to fish, you’ll have real time live data on everything you need for pelagic species and even bottom fishing and contour maps! It is gonna be awesome, and you guys our members are gonna be the only ones with access to the app! It won’t be available in the App Store or google play store, you’ll be helping us test it and give us feedback on how you like it or things we can change! Of course that’s all optional and these daily updates will still continue as normal, it will just be another added bonus for members who want to try the app and dive into oceanography and predicting where these tuna will be! The shot above is one of the multiple SST imagery providers we’ll be using! We are so stoked for this summer and seeing how good the fishing gets and how good our members do! We may compete in tournaments verse each other sometimes but at the end of the day were all one big team at Always Bent! Tight lines and Stay Bent!

It’s far out there, but it’s holding yellowfins!

As most of you probably saw by now we went 5 for 7 on yellowfin’s yesterday! Right in that eddy we’ve been watching and talking about, would of been nice if it slid in closer but we couldn’t wait any more so we made the 130 mile trek 40 miles past the Baltimore and found the hard break! Once we did it was game over, multiple cover ups, they seemed to want meat/ballyhoos, we only got two bites on a spreader bar, the rest were all on meat! Break went from 64 to 70 degrees, nice hard break and beautiful water, but once we had 5 nice yellowfin in the fishbox we decided it would be best to head closer to home lol we didn’t end up stopping for bluefins but did see a few breaching along the 100 line just south of Baltimore and heard boats caught them in the Baltimore canyon yesterday as well. That long run isn’t something we do to often, but we are stoked it paid off! Really hoping this is a sign of a good summer of tuna fishing ahead, and hopefully a piece of that water will slide in closer so we don’t have to go so far lol

New shot, is it sucking back out, or slingshotting in?

Hopefully we get another clear shot at some point this evening and can see what’s going on…

Curiosity is killing us, we may head out into the deep tomorrow…

Welp conditions are looking great for tomorrow, light and variable winds all day, not to big of seas or swell, and 75 degrees so we are most likely gonna head out early and go deep and try and find that temperature break and see if we can’t find some hungry yellowfins and hopefully come home with a limit! LOL It’s still a good ways out there, about 105nm at least, but we’re hoping it is balling up to break apart and push west and slide closer in. It has defiantly changed shape over the last 24-48 hours and moved around a little bit, hopefully it’s not getting sucked back out into the gulf stream, but based off the altimetry and currents and wind, I think there’s a good chance a chunk of that water will break off and come our way. We will keep you all up to date and let you know what we find out there, if it’s anything crazy I’m sure we’ll go live on our YouTube channel or instagram one or the other! Tight lines and stay bent!

More Yellowfins caught, but still a far ride….

Well Mother Nature just doesn’t want our summer tuna season to start! They’re out there but unless you have the right boat, the fuel capacity and the right conditions it is a still a hike to get to the temp break. As of 4am this morning its about 40-45 miles past the poormans. We had a couple reports of boat who did catch Yellowfin yesterday in 69-70 degree water in that exact piece of water. Hopefully we get a piece that slides in here soon, but if you're willing to make the 250-275 mile round trip it could be worth it! We are trying to stay patient and wait but we might have to poke out there on Sunday, we’ll see. Tight lines and stay bent!

Battle for the Buckle Postponed….

Funny you can just look at the chlorophyl shot above and see where the warm/good water is LOL but not much has changed in the way of SST shots and offshore water since yesterdays report, however there has ben some changes to the tournament schedule! Unfortunately the weather is not looking great at all for this weekend, so they have decided to go ahead and postpone the Battle for the Buckle tournament to June 5-7th with registration being June 4th. I think this is for the best not only because of the rough conditions and weather forecast, but it will also give a chance for that good warm water holding yellowfins to push in closer to our canyons and the 100 line, otherwise if it did go down this weekend, it would have been a bluefin tournament for the most part lol only certain boats with the fuel capacity and ability to handle those conditions would be able to make it out far enough to even catch the yellowfins, so all in all I think it worked out for the best! Also just to update you all Jeff has been working super hard finalizing and finishing up this app we’ve built, you all our members will be the first to test out and try the app, and the only ones who will be able to see or use it! This is going to be a game changer! The only way I can explain it is one app/place/tool that has everything, you’ll select what your looking for whether its fishing vessel activity, chlorophyl, SST, altimetry, it will all be there, and pulling live real time data from all of our favorite websites and databases and display to you in the form of an overlay on “google maps” super cool high tech stuff, we are so excited! Gone are the days of having to go to 7 different websites for this or that, now you’ll be able to use “Always Bent Intelligence” and have everything you need all in one spot! Gonna be a game changer! As always thank you all for the support, as I’ve said we will still be using RipCharts as well and still doing these daily updates and reports, and giving our opinion on what we see, and catch reports etc. but for those who want to nerd out on ocean data the way we do, this tool/app is going to be your new favorite! Tight lines and stay bent! Talk soon!

Bluefins still around deep, yellows mixed in, but deep..

I’m sure most of you have been seeing Bluefins and even a few yellowfins being caught! A great sign to see, finally! However don’t be fooled, these boats are going well out past the canyons to find the water, and good temp break, out past 1000 fathoms, that warm water and hard break is still out in 7-9,000 fathoms, if you are willing to make that run I’m sure the fishing is lights out! Primary Search had as many bluefin as they wanted in around 1000-3000 fathoms east of the Baltimore and Poormans. I haven’t confirmed exactly where the yellowfin were caught but if I had to guess Id say that same piece of good water east of the Wilmington and Baltimore is most likely where they were caught, it’s really the only good water with a hard temp break, that is somewhat within reach (depending on the boat/fuel capacity) from OC or IR. There is also a nice filament out east of the Washington and Norfolk but we’d like to see some of those pieces break off and separate completely from the Gulf Stream and slide west in towards the 100 line, that’s when it will be go time for us! Hopefully we will see that happen over the next 4-6 days. You know we’ll be keeping an eye on it! Tight lines and stay bent!

It’s getting close…

The ocean continues to tease us, with little spin offs and eddy’s just a little too far out, but we are optimistic as there is another filament of good water separating from the Gulf Stream. We really could use some strong south west winds for a few days to blow that water in towards the 100 line but we will keep an eye out and see what happens! We are getting so close to finishing our new app/tool for you all! It is gonna be so easy to use and a total game changer!! We will still do these short reports of what we are thinking and hearing etc. but this will allow you all to look at SST shots Chlorophyll and everything else we look at with your own eyes and be able to learn, then whether you want to read these little reports and confirm what your seeing or not that will be up to you! Thanks for all the support, this summer is gonna be awesome!!

The water is getting closer, and now the weather is crap…

I’m sure you all are anxious as we are, just watching the water and waiting on the weather window to get out there and look for some tunas! The two pieces of water we have been keeping an eye on are still slowly moving towards our canyons, slowly but surely, it appears to be about 30-35nm east of the Wilmington, but the shots have also been iffy the last couple days, and will remain that way with todays rainy stormy conditions and overcast cloud cover. We will be using all the data we can to make the best predictions we can, but at this point its a waiting game, waiting on the weather and water like we said! Maybe Memorial Day tunas? We hope sooner but we’ve seen it in years past! Tight lines and stay bent!

Also heads up for members who are reading this, thanks for all your support and we have some VERY BIG news coming!!! I have to be careful here, we are working on developing an app, I can’t say to much yet, but it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before, especially in the offshore fishing world, and even inshore too but we’ll be able to share more info soon, it won’t be available in the App Store or Google Play Store, it will only be available on our website, like I said more details coming soon but we are so excited we wanted to share a little with you all, especially since most of you have been with us from the beginning and we really appreciate it! This app will be a game changer!!!

We may have jumped the gun, we called off our trip this am…

We are so excited and itching to get out there we may have jumped the gun, we thought that water was moving faster than it is, and west winds don’t help matters both holding the water to the west and would of been a rough ride home from the canyons, and the water is still just to far out past 1000 fathoms. We are hoping by Tuesday pieces of that water east of Baltimore could at least be inside a 1000 fathoms, but we will have to keep a close eye on it. We’ll also be keeping an eye on the Norfolk, right now there is a beautiful piece of blue warm water just a little to far south for us to run, but it could slide north. There’s def some beautiful warm water also pouring into the area around the tunnel and also sliding up our coastline, which is why we went on a bit of a unicorn hunt in search of bull reds or early cobia close to the beach, we cruised south down the beach and then. out to winter quarter, but every time we saw fish or had marks it was bluefish lol lots of them, every cast, but was still fun on light tackle! Never know unless you go! We keep hearing reports of bluefin spotting in close within 5-20 miles but we have yet to see them inshore only out on the 100 line and in canyons. Again we’ll be keeping a close eye on things over the next 24-48 hours, sorry for the false alarm, tight lines and stay bent!