Me, rub it in and Got2Go rolled out Winyah as day was breaking. It was nice for Got2Go to ride and fish on the boat after he’d helped me with it very early on when I started that project in North Charleston!
Ocean was a little sloppier than I thought it’d be, and we could run only 35 for stints but mostly had to stay around 25-28 to the break. Not wet, but could never get comfortable at a particular speed for more than a few miles before seas would change. Lot of little square stuff before finally finding a 4ft swell in the gulf stream.
Dropped the way backs and planer in at 8:15ish, and saw the tuna deep on the sonar. A minute later, a small blackfin started skiing on one rod. As we were bleeding him and almost back with the baits over the fish, the tuna started busting 150ft off my beam. Rub it in tied a popper on and went to the bow to throw it in amongst em. The only boat on the radar all morning then decides to keep plowing at 8-10kts right at the tuna and cutting me off from getting my long baits pulled through where they are heading. The fish were busting right off his bow, and I don’t think he ever saw them. You guessed it, by that point in the morning, the tuna bite was about done anyway. What the other boat had done had us sour for sure. About that time we got a strike on the planer but missed.
While unsnapping the planer to get a new bait on, the carolina gold started to come into our trap. Brought the baits in closer, and it was on for the next 2 hours. Triples and doubles started happening. Stayed in the same spot on a small temp break all morning. May have seen a dozen flyers all day and no weed mats or anything. The fish were showing deep but were coming up every pass.
Ran out of ballyhoo and ice basically at about the same time and decided to see if we could squeeze some brown or gray into the boat on the way in and use space in the beer box.
Only got a couple short scamps and of course red snappers while my anchor wouldn’t catch. Longer chain will be added before next trip. Fe
Nice going sir! We need to talk about outriggers ASAP! Had some local pros on the boat with us Sunday. They were not impressed at all with the riggers we had. Screw retractables need some fixed length with some ass and pulleys set up right.
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Nice going sir! We need to talk about outriggers ASAP! Had some local pros on the boat with us Sunday. They were not impressed at all with the riggers we had. Screw retractables need some fixed length with some ass and pulleys set up right.
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Got you covered on internal rigging or external. 100% sure I’ve found the absolute best hardware there is. Amazing how much better good stuff is.
No way to describe the strength and smoothness until you use them out on the water and think for a second, “This isn’t like what I’m used to dealing with at all…”
Fun, safe day aboard the Mojo. It was really cool to actually fish out of the boat that I once sat in “bare bones”. Learned a lot! Thanks again for the trip Wes and for all the help Rub It In. As the pics showed, all smiles.
If i remember you had your boat Line-Xed. How do you like it and hows it holding up?
I need to knock down the verticals a little with a sander and 120 grit. The women don’t like that on their skin!
The only real drawback, and I guess it’s just the other side of the sword, is that the stuff stains and won’t come clean for anything unless you bleach it. Spray on foaming bathtub cleaner and wait 5 minutes, and it hoses right off looking good as new.
You could never bleach gelcoat and not have it oxidized and chalky. I haven’t found a way to hurt the stuff yet really. Really nice to be able to bust bags of ice on the gunnel and drag stuff wherever and it not hurt the boat at all. The boat is stored outside without a cover also, and it’s coming up on a year now without any change in the look of the coating.
I’d do it again, but not on the verticals I don’t think. Definitely want it on aluminum pipework on any future boats. It is awesome protection.
