The last seasons fishing is also discussed including when the fish were wherever they were etc. A common phrase used to discuss the previous season is weird. I hear it every year. The fish weren t where they usually were, or showed up at the wrong time of the year, or were the wrong species. Actually when it comes to tuna there is no standard season.
Every year is different, even if only a little bit.
Big eye are rarely ever caught inside the canyon, which is almost seventy miles from Montauk at its closest point. Bluefin on the other hand are a near shore species, rarely caught at the canyon, and quite often being taken just into the blue water, eight to ten miles out. Yellowfin and albacore can be caught anywhere. In 1998, the bulk of the tuna caught were albacore and most of them were taken from 40 to 55 miles out. Sprinkled around in the same area were occasional yellowfins.