The Carolinas - Need help figuring out OI YFT

We fished out of OI Sat and were in the area of the Point and the Tuna Hole.
We took no tuna even though we were amount 35 boats, mostly charters and saw them collect tuna eerynow and then. Apparantly they caught record numbers for Friday through Sunday.

We simply pulled ballyhoo rigs in various colors and two spreader bars which happened to be like the successful boats were pulling. We thought we were far enough back although maybe not as far as the fleet boats. Speeds were 5.5 to 8.5 mph.

We are all quite experienced in bluewater fishing but less so with the YFT for the last few years.

We had fished YFT feeding on the surface over acres of water but these fish were surfacing in 30 yard circles and were quickly overrun by overanxious (dangerous) moves to include near headons.

There were no baitfish on the recorder all day!
thank you in advance

Yeah, we were in the same area and totally stumped for hours until we luckily got covered up and boxed 4, cut one open and found small mackeral(?). We went to jigging same sized/color baits over marks and got 8 more with 6 keepers over our last hour. Numerous wacks on the jigs. Earlier we were trolling a similar spread to yours but noticed the OIFC vacuum cleaners were not pulling anything causing a comotion, for good reason we suspected: calm seas, lots of condensed pressure and a preceeding full moon. So we switched to all circle hooked nakeds on 50# floro. Really dumbed it down. This was absolutely no skillful move on our behalf, just some brainstorming and having an alternative to plan A.

Thanx finrazor for the quick answer. We were all about the jigging but never had marks on the screen all day even after seeing small outbursts of jumpers. You are absolutely right about the calm seas which would have created great visability that would have likely caused my 80 lb mono to show. I didn't realize that mono could be bad for trolling when visability is excellent.What do circle hooks do for your hooking up?

We only pulled the circles, rigged like you might for whites (floss over the noses), because we figured this was the best way to get our baits to stay just below the surface AND were the smallest stout hooks we had in the boat. The bait the tunas were chasing didnt seem to be making too much surface chatter, so... it was all about stealthing those baits the best we could figure.