Did a day trip out to the Dip/MiddleGrounds/Fish Tails 8/5/08 with Kevin B. and my borther John.
What a tough day!
We left at 3:30AM from Shinnicock LI and had lines in by 6:20 AM. south of the Dip in 700 feet of water trolling south.
Within 15 minutes we had a white come crash the spread and take off on a spreader bar...make 6-or 7 jumps and than spit the hook....OK Its gonna be good...or so I thought...
Found some porposies and whales and trolled around them for 45 minutes for not a touch...worked our way south down to 500 fathoms and it was like a ghost town! water temp 76-77 blue green kinda cloudy.
And basically thats how it went for the whole day. Trolled east to the middle grounds, picked up a few Skip Jacks and that was it.
EXCEPT for this little birdie that paid us a visit....I thought we were gonna knock em dead after this little fella landed on our boat around 1 PM...good karma u know! But that wasn't to be for us today.
Oh well, still a day on the water and thats good enough for me! Looking back in self analysis maybey i should of bridled those skippies and focused on Marlin for the day??
Talk on the radio was of near 0 hooks ups on tuna from the dip to the tails and everyone was very frustrated.
2 Blue Marlins were landed and released though around 500 lbs on other boats. Congrats to those captains & crews!
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