Finally had a day off and good weather on the same day… beautiful ride out, and a pretty ocean when we arrived at about 7:30. Lines in with no problem except that the electric downrigger didn’t work… guess I should’ve tested it at the dock before lugging it all the way out there. Ran 7 lines plus two teasers, and trolled… and trolled… and trolled…
Ended the day with… wait for it… nothing. Nada. Zip. Not even a peanut. We only had one knockdown (and we didn’t even have to re-rig the ballyhoo on that one!) Didn’t see a single flyer or any other type of bait the entire friggin’ day, and didn’t mark any down deep either. We looked in vain for a piece of plywood or anything floating like flatlander found, but all we saw all day was one lousy mylar balloon.
Even the radio was quiet… we only heard one other boat say they had anything, and that was 1 hoo and 2 BFT. At one point, we saw what looked like a bill in the spread, so I circled back to see if I could find him again… there was a big (60’+)sporty in the same area, and I saw him hooked up and backing down on something about two minutes later.
Oh, well… at least the 120 gallons we burned was cheap… oh, wait. Nevermind. Better luck next time.
It looked to me, according to terrafin, that the water was over Bubble Rock yesterday. Did you go out that far?
I went to the Scarp on Saturday. Beautiful ocean but slooooow.
One dolphin (about 30# in the water, 20 in the boat and 15# at the dock) and one small wahoo.
Don, we thought about it, but I got a late start at the house and forgot to check the SSTs before I left. My temp gauge apparently needs some calibration, since it was telling me the water at the Hole was 76 (it picked up what little breaks there were just fine, but I think it was reading about 4 degrees too warm.)
All three of us knew not to bring the bananas… I really don’t know what went wrong. Our baits were swimming well, the spread looked good, beers were cracked at appropriate times… wish I knew.
Ryan, hate to hear about the doughnut…sounds like ya’ll tried hard enought but nothing would cooperate. If it were me, I’d blame it on the downrigger…yeah, the downrigger is what did it.
Oh, well… at least the 120 gallons we burned was cheap… oh, wait. Nevermind. Better luck next time.
Ryan
Worldcat 266SF “Little Miracle”
Garden City Beach
Well I burnt 187 gallons. Those OX66s run good and when we bought the boat at $1.65 a gallon they did not seem to be such a big difference in costs. Well you do the math NOW!
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Better luck next time.
