We travel many miles, night and day to reach the albacore fishing grounds in either the north or south pacific, up to 40 days when the fish are in the South Pacific. When people hear we travel to the South Pacific to fish, they imagine tropical breezes, Palm trees, and beautiful sunsets. The breeze comes from the frigid Antartic and pushes cold air from south to north. As far as Palm trees, we see them at the beginning of the voyage and again five or six months later when the fishing is done.
Sunsets are, however some of the most beautiful, when the weather is good .
Once we have reached our destination we begin trolling lines with jigs on the end. Jigs are the fishing lures used to catch albacore. They look like small plastic squid. Squid are one of the main food sources of albacore. Approximately 12-20 lines are deployed from the ship at one time, when the fish bite the line is pulled in by hand.