Courtland,
I thought by the title of your post that you were telling stories about your time in Alaska again. Looks like a good day. Did the Wahoo show up boatside?
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I’m a pitcher- not a catcher, you of all people should know that.
No wahoo boatside. Water was frigid, just over 60.
We had the same thing happen Sat. A small Grady crashed our party and was so close they could have tied off to our anchor line. Once we moved and waved good-bye, they didn’t follow. Congratz on the grouper and snapper!
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what’s up with all the blue fish. stopped at some numbers in 115 on the way home. We must have caught 30, couldnt find a snapper.
OTM got a big bite on one that came loose. I hope to fly a few of them on the kite at the ledge b-4 they dissappear. If not, atleast there fun 6 at a time on a sabiki.
“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
— Thomas Jefferson
TO COURTLAND:
I am the owner of Big Foot. I would like to set the record straight.
To all who have responded in support of Courtlands comments: You have been given one side of the story.
First of all we left the dock at 2:30 am and were trolling at 5:30. We DID look at the SST web site and we were at the temp break. We Did not have much luck and decided to bottom fish with several sets of numbers that we already had. These numbers are easily accessible and you do not have a monopoly on them.
Second: We were never more than 150 - 200 yards from you. Thats not that close. They were our numbers and we did not encroach upon your space.
Third: You left and we continued to fish. We did well on our numbers. Then We caught several Amberjack and decided to leave. We had another set of numbers at the deli- numbers that everyone has. We went to these numbers and there were 2 boats there. We were as close to you as you were to the third boat. Again, about 150- 200 yards.
Fourth: One of the crew on your boat was a friend of one of my crew. When you drove your boat at us and flipped us the bird, we were waving at you to throw you a beer and say hello.
Fifth: I own a 38 Rampage. You have stated that you clearly saw the words CABO on my boat. Maybe we were further away from you than you think if you confused Rampage for CABO.
Last:
The next time you have this type of situation offshore I recommend you think before you react. You were clearly the one who lost control offshore. As you stated you drove your boat “right at my beam” without ever having a conversation with us. You would have realized that we were not “stealing” your numbers and we never meant to be too close. In fact as it turns out we were friends, as stated above, one of our crew was a friend of one of your crew.
Courtland has always been a joke if you ask me. Everybody hold on for his boys to jump in soon to say how great he is. What a laugh. I bet hes a yankee. You can tell by the picture its not a Cabo, but courtman knows everything!
With respect it’s easy to see how one would get pissed off at another knowing that they moved spots 8 miles away and you showed up in the prop wash again. I know you don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but when people are railing fish it’s easy to track someone with radar if someone is jealous or eager to find NEW fishing spots. You have to remember the ocean is a BIG place with plenty of fishing spots available.
Out of curiosity how many quality fish did you catch trolling that day where you were at???
Go figure… two sides of the story and someone willing to tell the other half, in my opinion it’s not worth the discussion. Page three - here we go. Tight lines fellas