After quite a bit of trash talking between myself, Chunky Dunk, and Pallet we headed out to the Scarp. Chunky made a huge mistake and decided to leave his crew and go along with Pallet on what he thought would be a more productive trip in the Kat. So the Judge, T-top, Lex, Uncle T, O-line and I headed out with alot of pride at stake.
Started at the Scarp but the fish did not seem to be there. Caught 4 in about 3.5 hrs and decided to run southeast in search of a temp break Big Easy had seen on the net. 21 miles later still 76 deg. I decided to turn toward the GTH and go where we should have started. Another 15 mile run and we had lines back in the water. Action picked up a bit but the day was getting late and all of the crew had to work on Tuesday. After much hesitation we left them biting and headed to the hill at 4:45. Numbers were smaller than previous trips and so were the fish but we covered a BUNCH of ocean to catch them and burned alot of gas. In the absence of Chunky, Lex ran the spread and did a fine job. The crew worked well together as I drove, the Judge leadered, T-top, O-line, and Uncle T did the fighting work. Lex stuck em and boxed em.
Lehi’s and Islanders were the baits of choice. Bleeding dolphin and Lex’s new colors of Islanders he brought worked well.
10 dolphin
2 Black fin
1 Wahoo
1 Big nasty cuda
Highlights:
Both T-top and O-line deployed quite a chum slick early in the morning while O-line kept it fresh a few more times throughout the day. Nothing like honey buns and coke through the nose in the morning:smiley:
Small black fin making an impressive initial run and singing a 50W. Really thought we had something for about 30 seconds.
Uncle T’s epic battle with a poormans wahoo.
O-line completing a meat fish slam on his first trip offshore. (tuna, wahoo, dolphin)
178 gallons of gas $534
3 gallons of oil $32
4 packs of Ballyhoo $40
Beating Chunky and Pallet at their own game…
You might want to try gaffing the fish closer to the head. It saves that shoulder meat and gives a little better control over the fish IMO.
Chunky took the good gaff with him. We had to use the longer one. I will give Lex your ■■■■■■■■. We had another fish on and accuracy was not his primary focus at the time.:wink:
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming–WOW–What a ride!!!”
-Stuart Wilde-
All Rise - 31 Contender Fish Around with a pair of 250 Yamahas
Congrats on beating Pallet and Chunky. They’ve been talking a lot of trash.
Sorry you did not find the temp break. It’s on the SST chart but only 1.2 degrees.
It’s good to see that Pallet and Chunky are being good sports about they’re defeat. Anybody can be a good winner but it takes a true winner to be a good loser:slightly_smiling_face:
Sure Pallet, I will get a Contender visor and sign it for you. It can be your new lucky hat!
Thanks Chunky, it will be good to have you back on board. Maybe Pallet can come along with his new hat and we can show him how the Ox66s raise fish.
Big Easy, thanks for the numbers. It gave us hope and forced us to leave. We may have run further offshorse and found it but I headed for the sure thing. Thanks for waiting on us as well. I was cutting it to close for comfort on gas. My story my have been a bit different if we would have run out.
EF, I have 13 of those Pinnacle Marine rods and love them. Great rod for the $$$. Few problems with some of the newer bent buts but John is going to fix them for us.
Saltydog, it was alittle bumpy running out into them but I let her eat on the way home. Made over 40 most of the way back in the following sea. Fuel burn was an issue on the ride home but I found tabs up motors up and staying on top of it did the best. Keeping the bow from digging in was the ticket.
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming–WOW–What a ride!!!”
-Stuart Wilde-
All Rise - 31 Contender Fish Around with a pair of 250 Yamahas
S4G, I solved my problem with the new bent butt rod the day before we fished with a little J B Weld. It held up fine all day without slipping.
“Double Play” 26’Glacier Bay Honda 150’s
Does Pallet know that? He was crying about it Monday while fishing.
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming–WOW–What a ride!!!”
-Stuart Wilde-
All Rise - 31 Contender Fish Around with a pair of 250 Yamahas
SGF I would love to go fishing with you again but I was wondering if you had a spare mouth guard and hemlment I could wear Im not used to getting my brains beat out. PS not very excited about having to weld my brand new rods before I go fishing, but thanks for the advice BE mabe I will try it.
SGF I would love to go fishing with you again but I was wondering if you had a spare mouth guard and hemlment I could wear Im not used to getting my brains beat out. PS not very excited about having to weld my brand new rods before I go fishing, but thanks for the advice BE mabe I will try it.
22" lowe puntun
350f yamaha
Sure, my little girl will probably let you borrow her snoopy life jacket and Barbie rod if you ask real nice.
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a
pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming–WOW–What a ride!!!”
-Stuart Wilde-
All Rise - 31 Contender Fish Around with a pair of 250 Yamahas
