Thursday Oct 9
3 Day Tuna Charter (Mon thru Wed)
The Viking Star returned yesterday from a 3 Day charter with Marc Wyman and company who were full of smiles. We left the dock on Monday morning and started trolling at around 9am. It didnt take long before we started catching some nice size Mahi Mahis. All day long we picked at the Mahis but that was about it. Then at around 6pm at almost dark we picked up a nice wahoo weighing in at around 60lb. We anchored up for the night and caught a few Mahis and that was it until around 4am when we hooked into and landed a nice pinkie Swordfish weighing around 100lbs. After that as the sun came up we had a run of Yellowfin Tuna and landed some nice fish all between 50 and 60 pounds. After the Yellowfin stopped biting some Albacore started and we boated some of them. On day 2 we trolled again fro a while but again only caught Mahi Mahi. That afternoon we got ourselves set up for some bottom fishing and we were very well rewarded. Captain Steven Jr stopped for a couple of drifts and we caught 18 big Wreckfish up to 21lbs as well as some nice Tilefish and some Hake. We again anchored up for the night and almost immediatley hooked into a large Albacore and landed him. We got one more right away and then the night slowed down. There were tons of Squid around the boat both Ilex and Loligo and we filled bags of fresh Calamari and plenty of baits. Besides that we hooked into a couple of Blue Sharks and one short Swordfish. Again once the sun began to rise we had a good run of Albacore for about an hour putting a few more Tuna in the boat. By the end of the trip we had a very mixed bag of Species on the boat which was split up between everyone on the charter allowing everyone onboard to leave with some Yellowfin, Albacore,Swordfish, Wahoo, Wrecfish, Hake, Tile and Mahi. All in all a very fun trip with a great bunch of guys.

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