Fished Friday and Saturday. Beautiful ocean both days. Friday was a sight to behold. We were in the sailfish all day, but luck was not on our side. We jumped off 7. Caught one. Had right around 20 bites. A good many more in the baits. Unbelievable. Talk about rubber hooks. Saw some 10’ sharks balling bait. Caught a little jaws. Also caught what appeared to be my first SC bigeye. It was a monster, and quite a battle on the TLD20. I will call it a “pocket” bigeye b/c it was large enough to put in your pocket. Just large enough for two orders of sushi rolls. It looked like a tasty treat, so Joey decided he was going to eat it whole. He had the wasabi out and the soy ready before the fish came over the transom. Just in the nick of time we saw his preparations and quickly sent the PBT over the side and out of his reach.
Saturday we headed back to the same area, but it was a different ocean. Had 5 sail bites and didn’t see any others in the baits. Caught one and jumped one off. First fish of any kind for one of our lady anglers. Picked up at noon and went scouting. Found a few mauis. Our other first time lady angler caught a 40lb maui on a TLD20. It was a battle. Caught 3 other mauis, a bonita, and a little jaws. Had a remora come in lit up but he was too much for us to handle.
David You need to make sure you are putting hooks in those ballyhoo when you are rigging them!!! We wil get you down to Mexico with Skinne and work on that technique. Nice to see the fish are around. Good job on the others. Slow for us . Getting fuel in the am and will be at it here in VZ. Met your boss down here. He is fishing with Edwin Pearlstein. He is fishing his new BUDMAN, 68 Bayliss. Pretty boat. Having a good time. Talk highly of you. They had a slam +1 yesterday. HOPE ALL IS WELL OTHERWISE.
Now that we discovered the need to fish from the inside out and not the outside in, i’d love to get another Friday. I think it’ll be a whole new ballgame without the rubber hooks onboard. Thizzle did discover a banana hidden in the lady’s bag on Friday which may account for some of the luck.
Yeah… I consumed that yellow jimmy, which may explain the next 4 hours of that day. The inside out treatment proved to work, the rubber hooks were just a distraction. If we had just had a saftey meeting before we may have figured that one out earlier. Where is ole’ Dez when you need him. We’ll be back there this week. D, youve been to waay too many weddings, come on let’s go fishing. Maybe we should use your headbutt move when the sailing fishes start to jump like they were on Friday… or there’s always the lepricon
Sounds like an exciting day. Glad y’all diagnosed and repaired the directional problems. You know, for a nice XL Polo shirt from Homewaters clothing I might be willing to share the secret cajunsan circle hook ninja crimp. It makes sure the hook is at the right angle when you engage pressure and keeps your snell wraps from rubbing on the fish’s mouth during a long fight.
Were you Brainstormin back on that sail? Also were you using the circle hook? Sittin here in VA havent fished much. Flat calm today but what do you know no trip. Sounds like good fishin down that way. Go get em again.
Ben
oh you know we were brainStormin all over the ocean. and we were using circle hooks, but we had to fire our mexican hook sneller, as we had severe and repeated technical issues.
I think it was the driver that made all the fish jump on and off the lines. D taught us the triple jump and release method. Wanna try and see if we can even the score this weekend? Greg, you got mail.
