To the best of my knowledge, no one played hide the bananna on this trip ( I drove the boat most of the time, so I can not be certain what happened in the cockpit at all times) With that said, there was a bananna hidden somewhere on the boat…and here is why…
Was a few minutes late leaving due to messing with the riggers. Got in the river and realized we forgot the tackle bag. Lost 15 more minutes going back for that…by the time we were out of the creek, first light was peeking over the horizon, so we made 40 knots in the harbor to make up some time. Hit the rocks and was welcomed to a tight head sea. Found out the trim tabs broke again on the brand new Sea Hunt. Fooled around with that for a while. Decided to keep our heading and go to the Terrace where we thought the warm eddie was gonna be. Made between 18 and 22 knots in the head sea. It was dry because there wasn’t much breeze, but we were getting beat up a little. If we tried to go 26 knots I am pretty sure the boat was going to come apart. As it was, screws were coming out of multiple locations and the tee top appeared to be cracked in a few spots. That is quality right there. I took it very easy so we did not get beat up. I could not imagine what would have happened with a more “aggressive” driver.
Got lines in 30 minutes late. Trolled for about an hour if that until we found the rip we were hoping for… about a 1.5 degree break with weed mats, scattered weed, and a long line bouy. Probably pulled a dozen dolphin off that bouy. About the third pass we hook a real nice bull on the wayback. Well over 30lb fish. Guy fights it really well all the way to the boat…maybe 15 yards away it jumps and throws the hook. That **** does not seem to happen too much to me for whatever reason. So we lost one fish that was possibly a money fish. Troll some more and get a triple hook up. Eventually got all rods on fish during the next 5 minutes as well as Dug hitting a few with a jig.
We get another nice dolphin on. Same guy… he is a good fisherman
