Giles is off to Morocco Chasing Blue Fin Tuna Again - Sept 2022

[Giles]

Nice new Japanese Meiho box….

Which includes all the bits and pieces I need, including ample first aid bits and pieces…...

[louisbosco]

have a blast, bring back new scars. live to tell the tale. safe trip xx

[ROman]

Have a great time, and safe travels.

[Matt]

I trust you’re current on your tetanus shots.  Honestly  I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the type of thing you have lying around the house.

[Giles]

I had one, just in case, in Oman….

[Twistlock]

Safe travels G and good luck with the tuna.

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[Kasi]

@Giles:

What's careful?

Lol [emoji23] be ruthless

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[Giles]

Got Tangier in one piece. It’s 1:15 and I am in a taxi blasting east through the night, and it’s moderately alarming

[Matt]

Sounds like living to me. 

[goosehd]

Either your autofocus isn’t working, you had too much of what the guys partook at the party, or you’re flying…

[Giles]

Taxi driver keeps on putting his head out of the window to keep him self awake 

[Giles]

Made it, in my apartment…..

[Anesthetist]

Always love seeing the pics from these trip, looking forward to following along.

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[Giles]

[goosehd]

The skies don’t look promising.  How are the seas and is that good fishing weather for tuna?

[Giles]

Often like that here. Probably better than pure blue skies, my mates had 20 hits yesterday I weather like this

[Giles]

From the balcony, best fishing just off the point on the left and in the bay around that corner…..

[Giles]

So, today was hard.  A lot of chasing birds (because under birds, there are flying fish, and behind the flying fish are the Tuna), I reckon I got no more than 100 casts in all day.  I ended up getting hit once (and dropping it).  Szymon had 7 hits and landed 2….

[jordanscollected]

Do you fish morning and evening Giles or are there mid day feeding times too that you target?

wishing you better luck in the upcoming days.

[Giles]

We started at 13:30 today.  Hit a mass of busting fish after 5 minutes, but both Szymon and I had left our brains and brawn in the apartment, and fucked up the only chance we had at them. This is what busting Tuna look like, so it sort of messes with your brain…..If you look carefully, you will see 2 flying fish in the image

It was then pretty quiet for about 4 hours, with just the odd fish showing.

At about 18:00 it picked up, and it was in the next couple of hours we got all the hits.  Trouble is, when one of these fish is on, fishing basically stops for a minimum of 20 mins, whilst we deal with it.

The day before the fish were showing all day all over the place, guys never managed to get back for lunch.

Tomorrow we start at 09:30.

Basically, there is no rhyme nor reason to when they show (well, I am sure there is, but none of us has managed to work it out).  The more time we spend on the water, the more chances we will get.

This is what Szymon did in the lulls….