Got lines in on time Saturday for the LCO after running 40 out. Mojo and all her systems are running better than ever it seems.
Started above the hole and found scattered, smothered and covered stuff as we worked south. Rips everywhere in between nasty green water, and weed patches not formed up good enough in between.
Two small blackfin snagged immediately and then a micro bonita that should have gone back out as bait. Picked up a big cow dolphin and switched to dredging and a close spread as soon as we got her boxed. Had 2 more knockdowns in the same spot before 9 but only one more dolphin to the boat. Fish were showing 200ft down and hanging under scattered grass.
Picked at the weed patches and got a couple more dolphin and tuna, and then checked the planer once again to find it untouched. Next thing you know, it was 10:45 and the radio chatter reporting the same as us- bite dead.
We ran out and got a snowy and other deep dwellers and then came back in to set the wahoo trap since we had the 3 dolphin and 3 tuna for the LCO already and doubtful we would get more bank for our buck than if we just got a single wahoo to weigh.
Got side tracked on the way, though- witnessed a giant AJ wad on some deep bottom and decided to catch 3 of them for the nearshore aggregate in the tournament also rather than coming in shallow on the way in for whatever kings and AJ’s we could get on lures.
Spent an hour breaking AJ’s off on lighter tackle in 400ft but got 3 in the boat for 123lbs at the scales. Wish I had our grouper rods on the boat so the aforementioned process would have taken merely 10 mins!
Did get to try the wahoo for a bit next but had to pull them in after only a hot bronze fin bite on the planer rather than what we hoped was at least a weehoo to weigh in. Called it, and then made 40mph again until the last 15 miles back into Winyah Bay.
I think we ended with 4-5 tuna, 4 dolphin, some tasty deep dwellers, 80lbs of worms and 43lbs of AJ. Got into some big fish money with one of the do
Prototypes you say? you aren’t giving the rest of the industry a chance to even find your footprints! Keep the bar raised.
Glad y’all were able to get on some fish. I don’t like reading the skunked reports, lol.
Prototypes??? Didn’t know they still made them things.
Yeah we are like a 1949 operation up here. We design, test, redesign, test, fill up the garbage, redesign, talk to people smarter than me in person, get help from said people, help people in return somehow, test some more, redesign, test some more, delete emails and voicemails from chinese companies trying to get us to let them build something for us to sell (aka attempt to copy and sell to all our competitors if they buy 10,000 units of them) since we are on their radar now, call local suppliers and tell them how we said no to china again and ask them if they want to go fishing one day when we strike it rich, tell customers who want to buy cheaper since they’re comparing our product to cheaper stuff from china that we’ll look forward to talking to them again in a year, then we test some more, get a patent, then sell some stuff finally, listen to what people say can be made even better, smile when we know china can’t do what we do, nor can the people who sell stuff made in china, and then the process all starts over again every day.
1949 I tell you…
