Well Done to ForTuna !! We were out there aswell but got no strikes !!
There was a lot of activity out there, from swordish jumping out of the water to dolphins surfacing and swimming underneath my boat to other fishing jumping out that looked like tuna !!
Hope it will go better next time

Chris  

prosit ForTuna....

well done. 

Proset ForTuna nice catch Jien wahda tellajt u l ohra inqalat kif waslet mad daghajsa

Best morniing ever.

We got thirteen alongi this morning. About 10 miles out of cirkewwa. All in the same area. Decent sizes also....

Ed

Good to know there are some on the West Coast but up North off Cirkewwa/Gnejna.

Well done guys....

True as Ed explained... we were fishing in 300 m depth ... and strikes were concentrated in a particular area ....we had the 1st strike around 7am on a surface lure and as the sun came up we had strikes couple of metres deeper

To be fair with everyone, I caught the 8.5Kg Alunga which Benri and Robby are claiming to have caught   

And i have the pictures to prove it!!!!!!!!!

Prosit guys! It sounds great to hear that the alungi are finally with us!  
Fortuna and Ed, did you get multiple strikes or several single strikes?
And Fortuna what system would you recommend to keep the lures a couple of meters down at alungi trolling speed which is quite high?

went out on sat but got nothing. was trolling south of fifla. can someone suggest if i should try further north of fifla?

I followed some good advice I found on the forum (I think it was gaffer) and waited 10 seconds before slowing down after getting a strike. We got at least three double strikes like this!!

We had both surface lures and rapala type lures and we were catching on both. Speed around 6 knots, and lures quite close to the boat.

We could not weigh the fish on board cos could not find the scales and since we were gutting them immediately could not weigh them at home but we had a couple which I am sure were over 10kg. I will put some pics up and maybe some one can maybe guess the weight for me.

Thanks

Ed

Well done Ed.

Guys,

Where do you suggest I try first for Alungi, outside Filfa or outside Gnejna/Cirkewwa area? I leave from Xemxija so Cirkewwa/Gnejna area is closer for me......

Thanks

Steve, I'm gonna try around 12-16nm outside of Gnjena/Cirkewwa saves me going all the way down south. Might not be so productive but worth a shot.

Yes, was thinking of doing that due to the fact that some Alungi where caught in that area. Maybe whilst I'm out there and if I do not have any takes will move a bit towards the south. Maybe Gaffer will let us know from where he caught this morning!. Should be going out on Thursday!

Thanks