March 26th Report - Jiggin on the Bite Me

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

Tough day, I think the bluefins won today.

Same crew as yesterday on board for more Jiggin and topwater action.

We had a hard time finding a mark, finally about mid morning we found some marks and Keith hooked up. Shortly after breaking the rod (his second for the trip) he landed about a 60 pounder. The fish was released before we could decide weather to keep it or not, probably would have released it anyway.

After another long drought of jiggable marks, we found a huge area of fish, the marks were deep but our crew hooked up on a triple header!

One reel was flirting with getting spooled. The main line on Andy's fish parter while it was out about half a spool. John's fish was almost to the leader when it changed direction on him and the main line chafed off on the boat, looked like a fish in th 75-80" range and fat. We still had one hooked, which everone fought over the next three hours, breaking a fighting belt in half in the process, don't think that has ever happened on the Bite Me.

I was determined that we were gonna stay as long as we needed to catch this rascal, but at about 3:00 and after he had pulled us about 10 miles up the beach, the line broke.

The tunas have to win sometimes!

Thanks guys.

Broken Tackle.......

[paul708]

nice report.
that belt must have been getting a workout

[Sea Draggin]

Dang.





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[chumslicker27]

Man those are some powerful fish. We tore up some more stuff yesterday too. Another TLD50 busted apart off the rod... Not to mention numerous things on the boat from all the banging. Its the best way to break it all though.

[Questsportfishing]

after all your not dip nettin' guppies..

(just remember the more you break the more it costs..)

[gottaflylee]

Them were some mean fish Jay, broken line, broken rods and broken fighting belt, wow. At least there was no broken boat. Guess that is why it is called fishing...

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

I gotta tell ya, I have really enjoyed all of the jiggin trips for the bluefin. It is reall cool to do something different, and catchem too.

Lots of fun on the Jig.