Fog!! It was terrible. We left Wappoo Cut at 4 and made it out somehow through all the thick fog. You’re face was litterally dripping with water as we drove through it. And it didn’t quit. Stayed thick all the way to where we dropped lines in 160’ near the SWB. Action for us was slow all morning. Caught 4 between 160’ and 220’. Lost one near boatside. All small fish. Trolled deeper out to 400’ for two hours and not one knockdown. Temperature deep was 76ish, most of the day is was 75 around 200’. Missed a few other fish. Went through a school of AJs and three lines went down. Came up with two out of those three. Caught a cuda and had another cutoff due to a toothy critter. We had good action, just the wrong fish.
After 11 and only a few fish in the boat, the general consensus was to bottomfish, and so we did. Caught the usual suspects and Duckcommander missed a stud grouper. Good sized Red Porgies were thick in 150’. We kept our limit and moved on. Beeliners were thick around Y-73 area and the seabass were chomping as usual too. Caught five or six triggers and DC was happy.
Ran into a buoy out deep and put DC in the water to look for some quality fish hanging out. Him and Jerms actually got in the water after we chased around about 10’+ Hammerhead for about ten minutes harassing him for a good photo op. DC came back with this:
Threw the flyrod and played around at the buoy for a while trying to get a stupid baracuda to bite the fly, they did not want to play.
It was a weird weird day on the ocean, had problems with the GPS all day long. At first I thought it was the heavy heavy fog making the antenna reset, but as the day went on and the sky cleared, it kept happening. The GPS “Module not responding” error would come up for a minute, then it would track us again. Disconnected all my GPS cables and looked at them, reconnected everything. All the connections looked good. I’m thinking I have a sma
I have had the same prob with mine but it just resets itself and gone for another little while and will do it again and just like JWS said bame another one on standby…mine is a 2010 garmin…about 7 years old
I just want the chance to prove money cant make me happpppppy
I was @ SWBanks too and not 1 knockdown! Ocean looked so earie out there yesterday. Fog until 11:00AM with a few breaks here and there. We had a longliner come next to us at the SW Banks asking for beer and smokes in exchange for some of their fish. We only had 6 beers left so we declined! Weird though.
By the way, this was the first May trip where I failed to see even 1 flying fish all day. Water temp @ the banks was 76. No weed lines on the way out or in either! It looked like we were in the desert while trolling the banks. So strange.
Decided to bottom fish in 120’ and loaded the cooler with gag, bliners, triggers, blackfish, and porgies. Had to release 2 keeper ARS! No dolphin but 40 fish and a 2 man crew was all the cleaning we needed.
Glad you guys made it out there and at least caught a few on the troll and more on the bottom.
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