CAPT. HOOP
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Registered: 11/02/02
Posts: 7540
Loc: Empire / Venice, La
The day started out very foggy. Tim and I had discussed trying something different today instead of repeating yesterday. We went to a different area in search of just yellowfin. Due to the dense fog I chose to run a pass that is one of the safest under dense fog conditions. It is like running up the Lt. river but much deeper water and just a little wider. We ran the 8 miles at about 28 mph and soon were in the gulf. Our next 12 miles had about 1/4 mile visability but we were able to up the speed to 32 mph safely. Before anybody starts picking this apart; the open areas, the lack of misc. boats, and the familiarity fo our radar allow us to do this safely. I did not run the river or other passes just in the intrest of safety. These conditions forsed me to run to a rig I had not planned on but had caught 5 yellows 3 days ago.
We set up a trolling pattern as I trolled the rig looking for balls of fish in my depthfinder. They are all around the rig from 50 - 120 feet down. We get a hit and quickly put a baracuda to rest. I tried several ways to get things happening but after a while we moved next door to find nothing but slowly building seas. We went back to stop one and still marked fish but nothing biting.
A few weeds drift by and the water started to boil. After yesterday everybody knew what to do. We hit them on the head with 3 popers at once but they only wanted to feed on one thing. While all our intrest was on the blitz our bait rig goes off screaming.
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.