Left a little late and broke the Jetties around 5:15. Ran straight out to the ledge at 24-28 knotts. 2-3 foot seas as expected. When we go to our honey hole saw a thunder storm brewing to our North West and one to the North East. Half hour later it was one big mean son of a gun North and spread out over 20 miles wide. Tried to go through it but the heavy beating rain 40+ mph wind and lots of lightening made us change our mind. Ran for almost 20 miles to get around it, and even then we got really wet. Finally got to fishing and put 2 nice Mercury missles in the boat in about 30 minutes. Then I got a nasty tangle in the flat lines and had some other rigging trouble. By the time we got this figured out the seas had built to an easy 5-7 footers, with about a 4 second period. Decided to call it early cause we did not know if things would get worse.
Long painful ride home.
By the way there was some beautiful weed lines inside the thunder boomer, but we did not want to stay and find out if they held fish.
Good luck
JF
How deep and what was the water temp?
Sawdust,
We started at the ledge which is about 300 feet and the water temp everywhere was 82 degrees. The deepest we ran was about 1000 feet and the fish were caught in roughly 400 feet.
I did not mention it before, but I saw a Wahoo or King come flying straight out of the water about 300 yards from us. I know that fish was 12 or 15 feet out of the water. It was a pretty wild sight.
JF
judo - just so you know, the ledge is not in 300’ - its 150-180’. if you ran out to 1000, then you were roughly 10 miles offshore of the ledge.
Carla Dee,
When you get to the ledge it gets deep pretty quick. The location in our GPS, that we call “the ledge” is about 210 feet deep, but just a couple of mile or so further out it is roughly 300 feet. That is where we dropped lines. We fish this area quite often.
It gets deep pretty quick, which is why it is called a ledge. Also if you read the original report you would have seen that we ran a long ways to get away from the storm. I would guess it was about 20 miles roughly South. That puts you in well over 1000 feet. Then we started fishing our way home. I am not sure of the exact coordinates. But when we got bit I hit the MOB button and looked at the depth, both times we were in about 1000 feet.
JF
jf - just trying to help, not dispute your facts. when someone refers to “the ledge” in ctown, they are refering to the continental shelf where it generally drops from about 150’ to about 180’. there are quite a few other ledges and troughs around, but “the ledge” is a description that is used just like GTH, 226 Hole, etc… that is commonly understand.
So where’s “The Grillage”?
Fishing is a need
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Originally posted by WingDragger
So where’s “The Grillage”?
Fishing is a need
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Fish-n-Kid
I fish alot more than you.
Freshwater is for drinking.
Sorry to hear that! The weather can get pretty nasty out there!
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