Made plans with good friend from college to get offshore this weekend out of charleston in my boat , got an invite from Phin on Sun so immediately changed plans to go with him. Phin, myself and buddy met up and heading out of Georgetown. Line 1 in by 7:30 on long rigger, almost immediately fish on, no other lines in the water yet. nice cow mahi. we would get 2 lines out then another hit, blackfin comes for a ride then 3 and another hit bonita, maybe for bait later in the boat. finally get all the lines in. We had non stop action all morning. But couldn’t connect to a ride in the boat. During one of the rare times we had all the lines out, we get a multiple hook up and the man in the blue suit shows up during the chaos. We stayed hooked up a good while, I was on the rod and wore out before the leader snapped. Got a great show. By far biggest fish I have never had on the end of the line. Deployed the spread again go back to work, short rigger gets nailed and get a big bull over the side. We missed too many fish yesterday on the troll. We did not have the needed hands, I was rather rusty on the troll, and my buddy had never trolled. We decide around noon to hit up the bottom for the rest of the day and got some good bottom eats. At one of our bottom stops we got a few fish before a bunch of sharks show up. Got some good video of the sharks circling the boat before we moved away since they killed the fishing. A special thanks to phin for taking us, showing us the ropes and getting us on the fish. Pics and video will be coming. Getting to fish on Mojo was amazing, the work Phin put into the boat is top notch, and those outriggers he made are awesome. I am ready to go again.
Phin,
That ledge you’re fishing on looks awesome! Did you bottom fish at that spot in 300 ft or is that where you were trolling? I’d love to see the monster grouper hiding on that ledge! Good job in the mojo. I followed your build thread and was amazed at the work you put in. I think you have a beautiful fishing rig.
Capt. R. Killin
“Day Tripper”
Shamrock 20 cuddy
Ford 351W
Phin,
That ledge you’re fishing on looks awesome! Did you bottom fish at that spot in 300 ft or is that where you were trolling? I’d love to see the monster grouper hiding on that ledge! Good job in the mojo. I followed your build thread and was amazed at the work you put in. I think you have a beautiful fishing rig.
Capt. R. Killin
“Day Tripper”
Shamrock 20 cuddy
Ford 351W
Did not bottom fish much at all. Deep dropped and put 3 fish into the boat before the shark fiesta complete with fish pinata beatings began.
Dropped one time on the ledge in the pic above and had a nice grouper on then got rocked and broken off. They’ve got that natural protection unless the current stops some days and you can pull them out of their caves!
The left side is 200mhz, and the right side is High Chirp. You can tell how it distinguishes individual fish a bit better.
I don’t notice much difference until past 250ft honestly. I could tune it where you’d see the individual fish on the bottom on spots like above with the CHIRP, but 200mhz is starting to struggle showing separate fish on the bottom. Those are tuna up higher in the water column showing better on the CHIRP than the 200 (left side of the screen). Note how the CHIRP isn’t even breaking a sweat. Gain at only 72 out of 100…
Fished some much deeper stuff later on Sunday where I went to low sweep chirp, and it was drastically better than what non-chirp could do in a 1kw ducer.
I have been telling people that CHIRP is a waste of money unless you’re really going to get out past 250-300ft when you fish. It shines when you get out there.
The left side is 200mhz, and the right side is High Chirp. You can tell how it distinguishes individual fish a bit better.
I don’t notice much difference until past 250ft honestly. I could tune it where you’d see the individual fish on the bottom on spots like above with the CHIRP, but 200mhz is starting to struggle showing separate fish on the bottom. Those are tuna up higher in the water column showing better on the CHIRP than the 200 (left side of the screen). Note how the CHIRP isn’t even breaking a sweat. Gain at only 72 out of 100…
Fished some much deeper stuff later on Sunday where I went to low sweep chirp, and it was drastically better than what non-chirp could do in a 1kw ducer.
I have been telling people that CHIRP is a waste of money unless you’re really going to get out past 250-300ft when you fish. It shines when you get out there.
