Between working at the house I decked for Eddie yesterday. Our customers wanted tuna so we headed out to Who Dat. Yes that is the name of a Transocean drill rig. We picked up a few baby yellows that went back and some small blacks we kept for bait. We did not stay there long. The next spot was to be our lucky place. Our first fish came on a chunk. It was a very nice 160 pound class yellowfin. I got a vidio on my olympus camera that I down loaded but I can not get it onto this. (Old man with modern electronics) We had orientals with thier stellas and other (BLING) equipment.
Getting them into the rythum was a challenge. The old guy in the back is feeding out a chunk. when the fish hits he pulls on the line. Fish gone. 2 others jigging and another chunking hook up. Tripple hook up Great. Some how we lost all 3 in about 2 minutes
The second was an 80 pound class yellow that he caught on a Quantum cabo 60 with 50 or 60 pound braid. This took a lot of our fishing time away because we drifted so far off the fish waiting for him to land that one on light tackle. We also hooked up 2 smaller fish when he did and had them iced and the boat cleaned waiting for him to finish playing.
Back up to the rig and back to fishing. These guys insisted on useing the smaller equipment, thier own setups, instead of our heavier tested equipment. We were lucky to get 10 yellows for the day. I know for a fact we lost at least 6 good fish.
Our last fish was the tough one. One guy useing our equipment hooks up and gives it a "Bill Dance hook set". Damn another fish lost but now the guy next to him hooks up. Figured the same fish running through the chunks grabbed his bait next as tuna often do. You guessed it the clown with the cabo 60
. THIS ONE WAS ALSO A HOG. We battled it for almost 2 hours before it broke the braid. The closest we got it was 180 feet down and it looked very big on the sounder. It held at 180 and 200 feet for a very long time and when it wanted to dive it was very hard to turn. I guess this was just like the first one from what I saw but we will never know.
With 10 in the box we head in. They wanted to go for Amberjack so we stopped at a near shore rig. This was the same one I hit a while back and the jacks were waiting for us. They dropped jigs and it was a tripple hookup. We had a couple get in the rig and a few throw the hooks but we made short order of a limit of Aj's. We got a scamp grouper in the mix also and headed in for a late night fish cleaning party.
.jpg)
Got these from Eddie.
Life is Good!
Forced to Work 
Previous Topic
Index
