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Pretty Sick Fishing today. by, Steve Lassley |
- By Steve Lassley
- Published 10/7/2008
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The whole trip down we were counting on the bite on the Finger. Our theme was "BELIEVE". It didn't let us down. Pretty good fishin today. We spent the first couple hours looking for a Blue. I should have been in the shallows on the bank. (Saw a huge Blue feeding on Dorado later in the day). Beat up some area that we have caught some huge Blues in the past. Lots of food. 20 to 30# Tuna everywhere. No bites.
Headed up onto the flats. Feeders, lots of feeders . Early on all we had to do was find a Whale or a Seal and cast at the Animal. It was doubles and triples. There was a couple other boats on the bank and they weren't catching too much. After a bout an hour of watching they came over and poached our Whale.
I hate crowds, can't stand 'em. Time to make a move. Got in the goggles for all of about, oh,,,,,,,, 2 minutes, and saw some Shearwaters a couple miles away. They looked pretty wound up so I headed over there at about 30 knots. Sick , Sick volume of fish. It was full speed for about 3 hours. We had Chris Bishop, Rick Krome, and Dan Dixon hooked up non stop. There was one point where I had the boat sitting between 2 meatballs for about a half hour. We had the whole boat hooked up the entire time. After those three were on, Pete would cast a bait and we would get a couple in 30 seconds or so. He would wire them helmself. A couple times when Pete couldn't get it fast enough and the Marlin took line, I ran off the bridge and caught a couple real quick with nobody driving . Full drag, thumb in the spool. Run back up and drive. Fun. Really fun.
We had several almost jump in the boat. One actually would have broke it's bill off in the transom but it's head went in the hause pipe in the transom and got stuck, just below the cap rail. It was pretty cool watching from where I was up on the bridge. It went airborne like 8 feet back about 5 feet in the air, flying right at the boat. As it was in it's decent it just creamed the transom. I saw it stuck there and thought "Owe, that had to hurt, rub a little dirt on it"
It was total chaos. Full contact sportfishing. Pete took another swivel in the chin. He had the leader bent over the rail but when the line snapped it flew around and nailed him. Dinged him pretty good. Not as good as the 8 stitches he got last year, but, pretty good. I got dinged up too.....leadering with no gloves, took a swivel off the bone on my finger.There were so many fish all you could do at times was Just Stop And Stare.
Several times I was backing down pretty good and I was yelling "grab the leader" and I would look down, nobody there. They were all hiding from the fish that were almost jumping in the cockpit. Standing up by the mezzanine. Think I had too many Monsters.............
It was good, really good. WYWH.
Anyway we had 50 Marlin in 4 hours or less. We agreed we would quit at 50. It was just getting really good when we left. Finished at noon, the Cape at 2. Fueled, cleaned the boat and at dinner by 8.
Headed up onto the flats. Feeders, lots of feeders . Early on all we had to do was find a Whale or a Seal and cast at the Animal. It was doubles and triples. There was a couple other boats on the bank and they weren't catching too much. After a bout an hour of watching they came over and poached our Whale.
I hate crowds, can't stand 'em. Time to make a move. Got in the goggles for all of about, oh,,,,,,,, 2 minutes, and saw some Shearwaters a couple miles away. They looked pretty wound up so I headed over there at about 30 knots. Sick , Sick volume of fish. It was full speed for about 3 hours. We had Chris Bishop, Rick Krome, and Dan Dixon hooked up non stop. There was one point where I had the boat sitting between 2 meatballs for about a half hour. We had the whole boat hooked up the entire time. After those three were on, Pete would cast a bait and we would get a couple in 30 seconds or so. He would wire them helmself. A couple times when Pete couldn't get it fast enough and the Marlin took line, I ran off the bridge and caught a couple real quick with nobody driving . Full drag, thumb in the spool. Run back up and drive. Fun. Really fun.
We had several almost jump in the boat. One actually would have broke it's bill off in the transom but it's head went in the hause pipe in the transom and got stuck, just below the cap rail. It was pretty cool watching from where I was up on the bridge. It went airborne like 8 feet back about 5 feet in the air, flying right at the boat. As it was in it's decent it just creamed the transom. I saw it stuck there and thought "Owe, that had to hurt, rub a little dirt on it"
It was total chaos. Full contact sportfishing. Pete took another swivel in the chin. He had the leader bent over the rail but when the line snapped it flew around and nailed him. Dinged him pretty good. Not as good as the 8 stitches he got last year, but, pretty good. I got dinged up too.....leadering with no gloves, took a swivel off the bone on my finger.There were so many fish all you could do at times was Just Stop And Stare.
Several times I was backing down pretty good and I was yelling "grab the leader" and I would look down, nobody there. They were all hiding from the fish that were almost jumping in the cockpit. Standing up by the mezzanine. Think I had too many Monsters.............
It was good, really good. WYWH.
Anyway we had 50 Marlin in 4 hours or less. We agreed we would quit at 50. It was just getting really good when we left. Finished at noon, the Cape at 2. Fueled, cleaned the boat and at dinner by 8.
1 Response to "Pretty Sick Fishing today. by, Steve Lassley" 
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said this on 08 Oct 2008 12:12:26 AM PST
Glad the fish had good aim and got through the hause pipe, would hate for that nice yellow gil coat to get all dinged up. Great report Steve, sorry I missed it...
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