The unusually warm spring and summer helped. Water temperature of 68-72 is ideal. A couple of years ago, the water here reached 78 degrees. Tuna don't like that. It's too hot.
Dolphins are about the only fish that can survive in that kind of weather.
The tuna just ran away. The only things that ran Tuesday were Fisher's twin-diesel engines. There were plenty of school bluefin in the waters at The Dump. After each angler was guaranteed at least a fillet or two for the charcoal grill, they released every tuna they caught. Few skippers have been more successful.