7-6, 7-7 Offshore West Atlantis

[Tight]

Just want give quick report on the trip I took with friends(Jay, Steve, Andy, Frank, John, George and myself) on the Carly II out of New London. Got out to west corner of Atlantis at about 12:30 pm. Lines in and after about .5 hrs. Had our first yellow in the boat. Managed to get 2 more yellows and a couple of real nice Mahis before dark. Set up for the night at about 9:30 and got a yellow an hour after setting up. Thought it was gonna a busy night, but, not a damn thing after the lone yellow. Started to set lines out for the troll at 4:30 am. Got a yellow about an hr. later. Another hour goes by and then it happens, 4 lines go off and we go 3 for 4! About another hour 6 lines go off!! We go 4 for 6 and the fish that I was reeling in blew up the drag on the Penn 30 that I was using!! I thumbed the spool so I wouldn't lose the $150 of braid while the other 3 fish were gaffed in and John managed to tie on a barrel swivel onto my line and splice it onto a working 50. I fought the fish the rest of the way in!!! That teamwork at its best!!

Final tally: 13 yellow from 30 to 60 lbs. and five nice mahi
Great trip in my book, all the way around!!! Thanks to everyone, especially Jay for the invite!!!

[MarkP]

Nice trip. Looking fwd to hitting it next week...

MarkP

[Corneroffice-NH]

nice pics, looks fun.
Q though, what does one do with 13 tuna looking to be 30-60# each, 390-780# total?

[tunaddiction]

nice job guys...looks like theres some good water out there

[Tight]

There was seven of us and its not all that hard to find someone to take some fresh as fresh gets tuna off your hands. Actually pretty damned easy.

[rmoody79]

thats awesome, man the canyon reports have been off the charts lately

[backman]

canyon trips are all solid B's - the troll bite is superb, except for the odd mahi or yellowfin the nite bite is slow.

Add in a 5-8 runoff night and we move from B-range into A range

[CindyLou]

There was seven of us and its not all that hard to find someone to take some fresh as fresh gets tuna off your hands. Actually pretty damned easy.

I don't doubt that, but where do you store that many fish on the boat? Does it have a huge hold, or did you have a bunch of bags? That's a lot of meat to keep iced down.

Nice work on the trip, looks like a blast!

[Tight]

Oh, believe me, we stuffed fish in all sorts of spots! 1000 lbs of ice at Montauk is key too.

[Reel Pursuit]

Nice job fellas!
I think I've fished on that boat. Owner is Jay, right?