Sorry this is a late report, but there is pictures circulating about it on other websites.
So we, a crew of three, left out of Shem Creek around 5:00am, saw a local mate prepping for his trip of that day. Asked if they planned on doing a half troll and half bottom fish. He said yea and I responded thats what we are going to do the same.
The judgement call of where to go, was based on the winds and waves. I had hoped to go and have gone north, but instead we went in a different direction.
As we got closer to our destination, we noticed a big rain cloud sitting on destination. We stopped in 150ft, put lines in and began our day. 15 minutes in a knock down and cut off. Rerigged went on our way. We noticed a few commerical bandit fisherman working the ledge. We trolled out to 180ftand saw a nice weedmat that holding together with a nice piece of bamboo on it. We made a pass by it and had a double hook up of wahoo. So by 9:00 am, we had some fish in the boat. We looped passed it, another time and pulled a peanut dolphin off of it. We looped by it again, no hits but noticed a weedline that extended out to deeper water and got distracted. After following the neverending weedline with no luck, we decided to work the ledge since we lost track of the ‘Lucky Bamboo.’ We trolled past the bandit boat and not to far passed him, my buddy’s 50 started screaming. It was nuts, but of course whatever it was, got off. During the process of fixing the 50, we got another knock down, turns out to be a barcuda, one of many of that day. As we loop back inside the ledge and pass behind the bandit boat, we noticed something breaking in the water behind the boat. And within twenty seconds later we had a line going off, after a fight and a gaff swing. We had our third wahoo in the boat. Then came big decision, should we keep trolling or go bottom fishing?
It was noon and we had 3 wahoo in the boat, we probarly could trolled for 3 more hours and maybe put more in the boat or run out of baits. We decided to give it a shot at b
