Could we be so lucky to repeat the last 3 days?

Today was a different day for sure. We had no fog. We wanted to get some wahoo on the way out to the winter tuna grounds. No runnin and gunnin just a straight line out and only hit the few rigs we have to run past. The first rig we get hit right off and loose 3 wahoo. This was going to be a day that would make our 4 for 10 day we had look like a banner day. We lost over 25 wahoo just to get 5 and a half. Yup one got hit by a baracuda. What a messed up day we were having. The wahoo bite was on fire and our catch rate sucked. Will wall was doing the same thing in our area but he was not getting hit as much as us. He was not missing his fish either. He nailed a nice wahoo that when weighed in at the dock tipped the scales at 97 pounds. Our frustration was getting worse.

Meanwhile Willie B. was on the tuna grounds after hitting a shrimp boat on the way out picking up a few blackfin. He was getting distroyed by sharks and kings. We decided to move out there and see if we could get lucky and pick up a yellow or some blacks. We did manage a black and got distroyed by kings and sharks. After a few hours of this discoursging abuse we called it quits. Will wall came out to join us and hooked up to a 600 pound class mako. They hit it with a flying gaff but it ripped the gaff out. It made 3 nice leaps but eventually got into the props and excaped. We went back to trolling for wahoo but this time it was finally fishing for the day. We trolled up a nice amberjack and a blackfin along with our 2 biggest wahoos of the day. Not fat wahoo but long.

There is a shrimp boat off in the distance so we try to salvage things by picking a few blackfin if it is holding any fish at all. As we approach the boat it is not pulling nets but there are birds on it. When we get to the boat it is holding birds and fish. We put out chum and the blackfin are thick but there is also something there that is a little bigger. A fat yellowfin. We toss a bait out and the yellow goes the other way. our bait is hit by another fish and it is not long before we realise it is a good yellowfin by the fight it is giving us. Everyone on board had a hand in landing this one and I sunk the hook in it to end the fight.



This was the iceing on the cake. Our day was made. We go back to the boat after the celebrations and the hog is iced down. There is another hog yellow foraging on the bycatch but we were not lucky wnough to add that one in the box. We did manage our biggest blackfin of the day before taking it to the barn.



We ended the day with 4 blackfin, 1 ambedjsck, 7 & 1/2 wahoo thanks to a baracuda and a yellowfin that was an even 130. We were to take these same people out again tomorrow but the 3 big coolers they brought were already full and one of the 3 people dropped out because he was sea sick all day.There will be no day 5 report.



BTW The fog did not let us down. We hit it on the way in and the river traffic is shut down again due to zero visability.

Life is Good!

Can't wait 7 days
stop catching all the fish you said you would save some for me.
JHoop

Don't worry Jan I will be sure to introduce you to the Venice disease. Can't wait to spend a quality week with you. We will fish and put up posts to show these guys what the Hooper brothers can do. I want you to teach me how to fish the "Green Johnny Roach" way.

Conrad the seas were uncomfortable and it was a busy day. I spent most of the day holding on to her to keep her from being pulled over by the large fish she was catching. Trust me she was Too bad we filled all the coolers because they were scheduled to go with us again today

Hoop, that's a great haul...how did you loose the wahoos? biteoffs? How do you rig you wahoo lures?

You could be going there in March if you grew a pair ?!!??!

We must have had short bites or foul hooked them. I do know the customer thought they lost them when the hooters were charging the boat and stopped reeling which did not help. It was just a lot of bad luck. We use bombers and x-raps with 4x owner hooks and 140 wire. That is all we need to troll with. We like to limit our wahoo to about 8 per day if we are that lucky then we go for other fish.

They will be back in about 4 weeks. Don't think it will be hot enough for a bikini but that will be fine by me.

Tmack9200
Team break a tear while sitting down when BlueH20 is in Venice.