Couldn’t get a crew for the big boat so said screw it and brought the striper rig down(21 ft carolina skiff).
Headed out to red banks to some spots i wanted to explore,paid off kept 5 big BSB,4 b liners,5 triggers,i speckle hind grouper and the worst feeling of the day having to release 4 big wouldn’t even have to measure endangered ARS…the Minn Kota with i pilot is the bomb,the virtual anchor works great and holds you right over your spot.Someone needs to develop one of these for a big boat…
well after 3 hrs of bottom fishing i had some super duper secret trolling lures i have wanted to try,headed in and south trolling the hogy baits behind some 2 oz weighted mylar lures,passed by the garden a few King fisherman there about 3 miles south from there 1 of the reels goes off(oh yeah it was a penn 330 gti)reel in the other line to see it was bit in half,Cattadict is handling the other line,looks like a small dolphin,it jumps it runs,get the gaff ready as it gets close and i notice its not a dolphin its a slinger sailfish how cool is that,get it along side the boat,remove the hook revive and sent back to grow bigger.
bumpy ride home but hey its a Skiff,great day tried some stuff that most say won’t work and we brought home some fish,which we actually hadn’t planned for,hard to throw back 17-19in BSB…
