Weather looked great so we headed out to find a sailingfish yesterday. I guess the line of thunderstorms angered the wind gods. It turned nasty and NE in the middle of the day. Wind was blowing better than 20 knots for a while. Also saw a water spout that Sarah thought might carry us away. Managed to find a few fish nonetheless. Had a double header sailfish bite in the nasty weeds in 300’ early and caught both. Slow for a little while with the exception of a few popcorn blackfins. Also jumped off a maui and had a slinger transom release. Moved inshore to 230’ and had some bites. Had at least 5 wahoo attacks and several other mysterious shortstrikes. Raised another sail and wiffed. Then we managed to raise a 4th indecisive one that kept switching from dredge to teaser to flat to rigger. Not sure which one we snagged him on but the line got wrapped around the other rod zing bam pow oh well. Had a chance to redeem ourselves a few minutes later. Had a fish all over the teaser and he stayed glued on to it until I had the squids vertical from the rigger. Thought he was going to climb the ladder. Theo finally reeled a cricket all the way to the tip and stuck his pole toward the bow and bounced the cricket off the dorsal. That must have pissed the fish off and he wheeled around and inhaled it. Just them we saw a second fish and he inhaled a bait twice but we didn’t come tight. Caught the fiesty one making us 3/6. Congratulations to Dr. Chaudry for his first billfish and I got to toss him off the bow back at the dock. Not sure how he felt about that. The Oregon Inlet folks have been smushing them.
Hopefully a few will swim down our way in the next couple months.
MM hope you are trying to be funny b/c your sarcasm is lost on your poor gramer. Your is possessive, unless you want CD to own the goodness… you are or you’re would be more appropriate.
George Carlin said it best, ‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that’’.
By the way - great report and picture. Must be in the lee of your boat 'cause that water looks alot calmer than 20 kts. Beautiful! Those water spouts can be tough to judge as far as where they are headed.
caught the double header before the wind blew. it was slick out there in the AM. and it actually laid back down again by the ride in. in btwn, the wind was whistling and blowing from the NE. i was not looking forward to running into it… the only other boat i spoke to, a new 50+ bertram, was worried about the high sea. it was a surprise as both sailflow and noaa predicted it to be flat calm all day.
Good on you, we could not get a bite at all. Blew NE the whole day for us. What a difference 60 miles makes! We had the weeds too, could not go past 250, Ours were all just below the surface, impossible to see.
We had plenty of scattered weed. We only managed one hoo, a peanut and a few cudas…
Looks like it will be a few days, at least, before we get back out there…
“Miss Amanda”
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Got that right for sure Lynn! Great report and pic Carla Dee! nice to read a report with a “bit of flair” in it, rather then,(3/6, 240ft, weeds, winds at 20 in am) Yours makes a person antsy to get out there again soon!!
Russ B.
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