Left the house at 3:00, and got stuck in the McDonalds drive thru while they figured out whether it was breakfast or supper time…Wasted 25 minutes…at least the crew got coffee…Left MI with Capt Seakoon, Ol English the gaff man, Outlaw, Mr. Fixit, The Preacher Man, and Casper(sunscreen boy) on board. After bumping our way through the inlet(man what a low tide), we let Undecided eat once we left the jetties…seas were head on…took it easy and dropped lines north of the hole in the cold water…hoping the reef would still hold the fish…and it did…right out of the gates a stud dolphin…hit a pink and white sea witch on a cigar weight…he did not become a stud by getting gaffed during his lifetime…he used the weight to his benefit, and still swims free today…but that was the last one that got away…picked at the dolphin and wahoo through the morning…Big fish hits about 9:30…got Mr. Fixit in the fighting chair and everybody got the lines cleared…that is when crazy happens…went to get some gloves to handle the wire leader and there are none to be found…a goat must have come on board over night and eaten them…dug through the v-berth and found a pair of gardening gloves Miss Daisy used…outlaw put them on and instantly knew what OJ felt like…they don’t fit, you must “Acquit”…soaked them in water and finally got them on…back to the fish…everybody is thinking nice tuna, staying down, no head shake…outlaw grabs the leader at the back of the boat and a nice wahoo shoots up out of the water…Ol English had the steel waiting…in the boat he comes…Outlaw grabs the hoo and performs a textbook belly to belly supplex into the box…nice 40# wahoo to keep the morning spirits alive…Mr. Fixit was pumped, at the ripe age of 72 he looked like a kid who just ran all the way across town to ice cream cone…excited, but tired…the preacher man was speaking prophecy throughout the day…as times would get slow, the words “we need a fish” would come out, and it would happen time after time…”fish on”… Preacher man finally got that tuna…the thought of
that report made me tired
glad you had a good time, let’s go again…
tk
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Sounds like a good time Captain Tripp! Nice catch! What’s up with your boy giving the Blue water candy the snub nose?
Anyone in the MI area give Tripp a call for an affordable trip to the Gulfstream. These guys fish hard and long everytime they go. Give them a shot and don’t forget to ask for the fresh ceviche!
Lou Holtz for Prethadent