Well, I managed to put a 5-man crew together in less than a day Monday. We fished out away from the pack in the AM and found some dolphin offshore of the EB in about 250’. It was fairly slow, but we picked one up here and there for a while. After getting about a half dozen, we started hearing a lot of chatter about billfish being sighted and a couple hooked up and about a thick weedline having been seen in 600 feet the day prior, so we ran out deep to find nothing there, and then over to the parking lot to see what the chatter was all about, but I think their bite had shut down by the time we got there. The radio was silent, and we got a skipjack in about a half hour there. There were a LOT of boats there, and I figured they had been hammering them all day (and I really don’t like fishing among large quantities of boats, and prefer being off to ourselves if we can find fish elsewhere). So, we headed back south a little and found another little trashline with some dolphin schools on it and caught three or four more rather quickly and headed in.
We ended up with the following:
10 Dolphin
2 Skipjack
The ocean was beatiful yesterday. Thank God for another good, safe day on the water with fine friends and safe return to all our loved ones.
Gotcha Covered,
Lee Strickland
Strickland Marine Insurance, Inc.
843-795-1000 / 800-446-1862
had a great day again with Lee onboard the Gotchacovered…after cleaning the boat came home, fixed dinner and fell asleep with my plate in my lap:smiley:…downloading pics now…Lee thanks for the patience you show with us “greenhorns”…and for taking us fishing…
BTW…if you folks catch soem dolphin that are minus part of thier lips…they are the ones we missed:wink:
heres the pics…had a blast…lots of laughs…we were clearing some lines and Stan had been reelin’ in for a while on the long line…said “man…my arms are tired…this is one heavy pile of weeds…here matt…you reel it in”…and handed it off…well Matt starts reeling and when it gets almost there says…" Ha!!its got a fish on it"…and it did:sunglasses:
Heading out…
Fish on!!
playing the waiting game…
man those fish go crazy when they hit the deck!!..have a nice bruise where I got “tail whipped”…fish was faster than me!
driving the “go fast” boat…I did some driving too and managed not to caus a disaster…all i could picture was me throwing the guys off the back …too much power for me!!
heading back in Lee has it set on autopilot…we are all cruising at 25mph…ok…so you know lee better than that…we were CRUISING…and nodding…look up and stan has this head bobbin deep sleep going on…I yell FISH ON!!!..and he jumps like someone put a st
Many thanks Lee, I had a blast. Great crew, great fish, great boat, great ocean…good times. Enjoyed meeting everyone and hope to see you all again real soon.
Had an Outstanding time with a fun crew. Many thanks, Lee.
The workhorses . . .
The fish dance . . .
Fish on . . .
Bloody Decks . . .
And I had to tease Penny, we may have not had any girls in pink bikinis (for those who follow the weekend cut pics) but we had some pretty pink toes . . .
Penny (et all), glad you had a great day. Looks like you had fun too. We fished with all the other boats s. of 226 on a LONG weed line. Picked at them until 12:00 when bite shut down. Came in to ledge and picked a few more. Highlight of day was dropping lines to bottom in 165’ over good structure and immediately pulling up a nice trigger fish and pinky. Glad you all got to go out on such a beautiful day!
…fish was faster than me!
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Glad ya’ll made it out there and home safe.