Offshrore Saturday.

This was my first real offshore trip this year. Took the advice of you all on here and found a guy who was expereinced with this kinda stuff. 6:00 AM boat was wet and we went off to catch the haden. 3 tosses behind morris island and it was off to the charleston 60. 8 am and 4 lines in the water. Trolled for about 2 hours and only one bite. Action was light so we headed to the garden. Trolled from the start of the garden to the y-93. Picked up an sharpnose. Then trolled back to the start of the garden and the king bite was on. We boated 5 kings and 1 shook off right at the boat so 6 kings total. (yes I horsed him to the surface but im learning!). They were all about the same size im gonna say in the 15 to 20 lb range.

At this point its about 2:00 and I raidoed out to see who was listening. Not sure how far my radio should work from the boat but a boat probabally 2 miles away answered. Said they were watching it too so at this point we decided to head in. We are 30 miles offshore. So I point for the north jettey and off we go. We were crusing at about 30 mph and all was good. Well about mile 25 wham were doing 19 and were getting slammed by the waves. I mean slammed. Rolled down the spray curtains and kept pushing. The boat got a nice salt water bath thats for sure. Then about mile 19 it flattened back out and we were rolling at 34 miles per hour.

The funnier part (or not so funny) was that I had filed a float plan with my girlfriend and gave her all the numbers to call if we dident call by 4:30. Well I guess there were some wicked storms in west ashley so she decided to call Sea Tow (im a member so its one of the numbers I left her) and see where she could go to see the weather offshore. Well apparently she called in while there was a distress call going on and she could hear the people in the background. And the weirder thing was it was a boat that matched mine almost perfectly. 20 foot scout with a blue hull. Well mine is the 22 foot with a dark blue bull. Needeless to say

Congrats on the trip. Scouts are great boats. I’d get an E-pirb (sp?) for sure though. It’ll make you feel a lot more safe with only 1 engine. We also take a backup handheld radio & gps. Don’t you love spending all the $$$$$.

21’ Boston Whaler Outrage
‘Big Tease’
Twin 115’s

I love seatow and am a memeber. Towboat us has a great Epirb rental program. 40 bucks for the week. They send it with a return label and even the tape to shut the box. even if you fish offshore 10 weeks (70 days) a year, still only 400 vs north of a grand.

16 mitzi 40 Merc
240 0utrage 250 verado

Thats useful information. Espically after reading all of those horror stories about this weekend. Im starting to see how lucky we were. Do you know if Sea Tow offers the same service? I was thinking about increasing my saftey equipment and this is one item I was looking for. I am also interested in a sat phone if anyone has a line on one of them.