With much anticipation to kill dolphin i stayed up all night rigging new lures and getting the boat ready. We left the dock early and as the sun came up there wasn’t another boat anywhere near us…then i lost power in my port motor in 120ft. After taking the cowling off, we found the problem of a cracked high pressure braided wire/metal fuel line. We weren’t able to ghetto rig it successfully so i made the call to turn around and bottom fish on the way home rather than risk going deeper and taking 10+ hours to get home in the dark.
We stopped at a special spot in 100ft and had non stop bites. We didn’t have much cut bait and caught majority of fish on a variety of jigs. We caught many stud c bass up to 20in, triggers, red porgys, a few sharks and some gags. We had cobia follow the baits up twice and the second cobia was close to 60lbs but we didn’t get either of them in the boat. It was absolute torture watching boats going past us out to deep water and hearing the dolphin and billfish bite on the radio. We made the best of an unfortunate situation and had fun
We trolled the whole way in at 6mph with no bites at all. Stopped at some other bottom spots in 60-80ft but didn’t get any great bites. We got to the charleston 60 looking for another possible cobia and found a big school of spades. I always have the speargun on board so we hoped in and each took a turn shooting nice spades. Well, the tough guys on the boat stepped it up a notch and we started swimming with the gaff. We had just masks and no fins and we were swimming down 10-20 ft and freegaffing these spades and swimming them to the boat. There were some huge cudas that liked our feet but they left us alone.
My new yeti cooler kept the ice tooo well and broke half our beers on the ride out and throughout the day so on the way in we stopped at morris island and traded 2 spades for a 6 pack to continuing drinking away our no-mahi-depression.
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