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I am taking an informal poll on the full moon and the tuna bite. I haven't seen any smoking reports in the last 24 hours on the net. It has been a full moon phase. So I am using circumstantial evidence at best. Maybe the hero reports are coming in late? Maybe it is an early season, mid-week thing?
But in my limited experience, I can get skunked on tuna in a fish store during the full moon.
Anyone want to share their results from the last 48 hours or so? Anyone want to share their opinion?
I haven't been out in the last 24 hours but I will share my experience with full moons......I don't like fishing during that phase. When hunting for blackfins, phins or hoos off GA I have found a full moon kills the bite. We had two trips in the last year during that phase and both were almost a complete waste of time. We weren't skunked but there was a stink on the boat. We marked blackfins at 100 to 150 feet and they never came up even though we were fishing at dawn. That's my two cents......
Looked for wahoo on thursdays full moon and caught 7 to 60 pounds and a single yellowfin in a half day. other boats that looked for tuna caught some small fish, but though they saw the bigger fish, they didn't bite.
on another note, three of the last 4 full moons i have fished, we have released marlin.
Left Port Canaveral,Florida for a night trip with my neighbor and his son. The boy got sea sick as soon as we stopped but told his father he won't go back and mess up his fishing trip. He just curled up in a ball and slept all night. We felt bad for him but he was a trooper.
The bite was slow and it took a long time to get a few Lanes in the boat and a few keeper Black Sea Bass. When the sun went down the moon was almost full and visibility was very good. At about 11:30 the bite turned on and we caught well over 40 Atlantic Red Snappers with just about 80% of them in the 16-18" range. They were all caught on squid. All other baits just got grunts. We didn't get one keeper and no Mangrove Snappers but it was a very good night of catching and enough caught for a dinner.
There were was only one other boat fishing and a sail boat cruising. The ride back was calm with waves 1' every 10-11 sec. so we made good time on the way back. Returned to port at 4:30 to clean fish and rinse the boat.
Night time full moon fishing = great fun....
__________________ Glacier Bay 2670, Twin Yamaha 150 Four Strokes.
I used to have terrible luck in the NE Canyons on Full moon trips - to the point that we did not go anymore. While we still would manage a few fish on the troll though usually an the small side and less of them. Nighttime chunking was always a waste of time to us. Usually, as a a rule of bad luck we would have the tide/current against the wind and though we would have great visibility - we would be watching our lines go straight to the bow - and get tangled in either the anchor or painter if tied off to a pot (with permission of course). On full moons we would stay in and fish striped bass.
Who went, who got skunked? Moon phase? 
