I didn’t do my job as well this trip and so I don’t have many pictures to share but at least we all had a good time. The Anglers Dream is having scheduled motor service and so I went with Captain Greg on Miss Emily. We left early for the GTH and had an immediate hookup an a ~40 hoo that dove to the depths like a nice tuna and never made a run. Very odd winching a wahoo straight up. After that it was ON! Non stop action, 12 cudas in 150’ We had enough of that so we ran out deeper and it was totally dead. Water was all the same temp everywhere which is what we expected based on SST. Two of the people I brought had never caught an offshore fish so they were super stoked by all the action so the day was going well.
We headed back in and picked up a slinger in 150’ and that was it. Liz did manage her first dolphin and was super excited to learn how to clean it and cook it - I’ll circle back to this in a bit.
We stopped for some bottom fishing on the way back in and managed a few vermillion that were not that big and a bunch of amerjack on the jigs which was great fun for the newbies on spinning gear. I don’t mind fighting them either because you have to work you way through plenty if you want grouper and cobia sometimes. After that we dropped some divers but there wasn’t much going on where we were so we picked up and ran back in for an early day.
At the dock we were all having a good time drinking and unloading the boat and taking pictures and of course we had to get one with Liz and her prized fish. Unfortunately I think all the amberjack wore her out a bit.
Her Fish:
Suddenly, tragedy! We tried to find it and Ed even jumped in but it was nothing down there but fish guts and razor blades. Props for trying to help her out Ed.
[img]http://cdn-2-service.phanfare.com/images/external/2011492_14298075_262385020_Web_2/0_0_971de0d5f0e0cdca12193cde6c598f80_1