Well the stars finally aligned to get offshore with my neighbor in his 34’ Regulator for it’s maiden voyage to the gulf stream Monday. Nice ride out to 300’ inside 226 where we deployed. First blood on the boat 15 minutes later, decent mahi. Continued heading out for another 30 minutes with no weeds, no rips, no flyers when the shotgun starts screaming. Holy @#$! if it isn’t a beautiful blue! Anyway, a little over an hour later and at least a dozen trips from one side of the boat to the next we leadered it for a nice release. Got some fun video we will try to post eventually. Managed to scratch out another 6 mahi on a barren, weed free but beautiful ocean. Stopped at Commanche on the way back to torment some AJs with hookless poppers - all the action without the drudgery! I have to say if you are going to break in a new boat, yesterday’s trip was definitely the way to do it!
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26’ Glacier Bay
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