Met up with a new friend JPATT24 with a buddy boat at the dock so we headed out to the 226 hole to find a broken up weed line and scattered weeds everywhere. We push on through just offshore of the 226 hole to find some clean water. We picked at the mahi all day just like everyone else on the radio was doing. Headed back in just inshore of the 226 in amidst of broken weeds we managed to get a triple hookup with loosing one of them right at the boat while boating the biggest bull my boat has ever had on it lol. Pictures to come says file is to large from my phone.
This trip we decided to pick up a few high speed 32oz trolling lures for wahoo to give it a shoot sense normally we can’t run to fast heading back in anyway in my 21’ boat. Well…just like the guy said at Haddrells our tackle was just a little to small for high speed trolling and we were only able to hold 13 knots before the brake on the reels would start to let go on full brake. Guess my Okuma 30’s are just to small. If anyone has 2 big 50’s or larger reels they would like to sell let me know and any advice would be much appreciated also.
It’s been about 3 years sense we have been out and it was nice to leave with 5 Mahi in the cooler instead of nothing but ice
To the boat that had 3 motors with only 1 working just offshore of the Y73 wish I could have help you but I didn’t have enough gas to make it back out to you then back to the hill. If it had been a emergency I would have but I know the long ride back had to suck.
I’ve got two okuma 30’s and you can definitely pull some weight at high speeds. Open the drag all the way and adjust it on the right and you can get plenty out of em. It takes some fine tuning but tweak it till it stops creeping on ya.
Fishcamp i will try that the next time we come down. I am running 50 pound mono and it seems like if something hits it the line will snap first easily. I have been told the bigger reels can handle the heavier braided line.
A small reel can do it, its just much more likely to do damage to the internals over time or if you get the big one. Its also much easier to reel in with a bigger reel. Some of the older reels handles binds with heavy drag, ive personally have experienced this with the old penns. The triton trolling series 80w is a beast of a reel you can fine online for like 200 to 250. I got two of them and they can throw some drag ive had mine at 80lbs at full and still have perfect freespool.
Fished the 226 area. A lot of thanks to The Mann for partnering up with me. Didn’t fill the box but managed to fool a few. This was my and my son’s first time at this. We had an awesome time. We had enough for blackened mahi for Sunday lunch and some for the freezer.
LOL! Yes sir…we sure did. 7cs it was caught on a Penn 7600 live liner with braid. Of course it’s top with mono. As a matter of fact, spinning reels loaded with braid are what we caught our fish with. To add more to the story, it hit a ballyhoo with a mono leader. …you can’t beat luck! Like I mentioned earlier, this was our first time fishing for dolphin so I wasn’t going out and buy rods and reels until I knew what I needed or wanted. We played him a little and brought him right beside the boat. It did make for an exciting situation.
Jay
Bulls Bay 230cc Yamahaf200
Alumacraft 1860 Yamahaf90
War Eagle 1432 Tohatsu20
