Yesterday was the best ocean I can remember being on in a long time. It started out a little chunky early but laid down perfectly by the time we hit 200 feet. About 35 miles out I hear something bouncing around behind my head and our stainless antenna bracket had sheared off from the t-top. Luckily I keep some small diameter nylon rope in our ditch bag so we bridled the antenna down to the t-top and everything still worked fine so we rolled on. Pulled back the throttles on my first spot to start the troll in 200 feet and the bottom machine was lit up on a big hump, so fired down a butterfly jig really quickly to see what was down there and on the second drop the reel starts screaming. After a good fight we look over the rail and see a hefty blackfin pinwheeling up. First tuna in the boat within five minutes, try a couple more drops and nothing happening. Put out the spread and before I get the last rod out the starboard deep rod goes off and it’s another blackfin the exact twin of the first one. Got one more king, some tiny dolphin off of a weed line and a barracuda on the troll before we switched to try for grouper. Amazing day, flat ocean and great crew. We ran back in at 35-40mph the whole way home.
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My kind of ocean.
Great face fuzz…
nice report, congrats on the footballs and the brown!
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Thanks for the report Josh. We are heading out on Sunday…praying for a slick day like that.
Thanks guys, it was definitely a great day. That was only my second trip offshore in my own boat, done plenty of trips 30-40 miles out but its definitely a different ballgame out there. Needless to say I am hooked!
Polar 2300 Twin Yamaha 150’s
Good job there Josh,I’m gonna buy you a top shelf bourbon if I see you at the bar.What brand do you prefer?
Sman, if its top shelf and its bourbon its dealers choice ha
Polar 2300 Twin Yamaha 150’s