Nice report guys, great set of photo's. Wish you continued success throughout the rest of your trip.

Nice Nice!!

Good evening guys,
Just finished a dinner consisting of sushi, local shrimp and fresh Cajun seasoned tuna.
We decided to take a chance and head for some larger fish.
Capt Hoop headed to an oil rig 60 miles from shore.... a little bumpy on the way out but nothing that the Glacier Bay Canyon Runner couldn't handle.
We arrived at the wreck and put out some lines.
A quick hit and we bring in a cuda.
We are marking fish and have a couple runoffs, one had teeth because it severed the line.
We set up for another chunk drift while tuna are busting the surface. Bobbie's rod goes off and she lands this tuna in an outstanding 15 minute battle.



We continued to work this rig with out any more luck, headed to another with no luck.

Headed to a third and Scupmaster picked up this nice Scamp Grouper! A 27"er that is large for this species, but we had to release it because the season does not open for a few more days.



We decided to call it a day and head in.

While at the dock, I didn't feel too bad when a really nice contender powered with triple 275hp verados asked us how we did and showed us their one black fin for the day! Today was tough fishing, but still a lot of fun!!!!

Tim

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.

Good to see you got into some fish. Always good to experience fishing in a new location.