Getting it done, in late October 163 miles out from port.

[Fortunate One]

Well,

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, I saw that on a post after some pictures were posted about someone's trip and thought it was funny.

Anyway, I as posted in another thread, we did go to Welkers. Left in 6' seas and was a little apprehensive as the wind was still blowing pretty good and the buoy south of nantucket was showing 6.9' seas about an hour before we were headed that way. I knew it wouldn't change much as we headed south and east, but as my 5 year old niece once said "you get what you get and you don't get upset".

So I wasn't upset, we just took what we could get. Full fuel load, gear, bait and food for the crew and the Stradivarius left the dock slightly before expected.

We got to Hydro and found the breaks and got into 72 degree water. It had pulled off the shelf a bit but wasn't far from where the limited sat shots indicated. We set in and blind trolled in nice water and for what I could tell it was void of life, so picked up lines and off to Welkers. That's turning out to be one of my favorite places.

I found life in Welkers and tuna, picking up some on the troll and a couple at night on the chunk. There's a lot of bait there and I marked tuna below them.

There may be too much bait there because we only scored 2 on the chunk. We scored one Mako which was over 6'. Got that on the tuna set up. Once again I'm surprised we didn't get bit off by that guy.

That's 2 for 2 on Makos in the canyons on either a tuna or sword rod. I thought it was a tuna and I was lying down in my cabin as I listened in on only one rod scream. One of the guys come into the salon to get one of the guys to help. Then I heard someone dancing on the forward deck. Shortly there after I hear the percussion section playing on the boat, fish landed. Good job crew. I heard about the dance about an hour later once I got up. They did a bang up job nailing that Mako, passing the rod between all of the other rods, dancing on the deck and gaffing and tail roping like a well oiled machine.

We took 3 nice tuna on the troll, biggest being in the 80 lb range. Got 2 early on the night chunk, boated a Mako over 6' in the middle of the canyon, landed 5 Mahi largest being 18.4 lbs. Nice Mahi.

We could have done better, but we had a couple of big fish come unbuttoned. It was nothing anyone did, from the captains perspective I can tell you that tension was always there and nothing was horsed in, we just lost a few.

Had a sword pup on and too the boat before he got off, he was small and would have been let go anyway.

Had blus sharks in the butterfish chunk a few times, messing things up.

Those 6' seas took a toll on the burn rate going out at 28 knts.

Not the epic trip we were looking for, but we got out, once again we had a great crew we caught and we're fueled and ready to go again. The crew consisted of a charter captain, an outfitter, 2 guys with degrees in fisheries and one has been a mate for a long time and now has his own captains license. It was a great crew. And we had fun. There's nothing like trying to get some rest only to hear a line go off and then someone dancing on the foredeck.

Other than a lobster boat, I only talked to one other boat that was in Hydro as we were in Welkers. That boat was the "Tiger Shark". I'd like to know how they did in Hydro. I called them over to Welkers with enough daylight for them to make it, I'm thinking they may have found the fish. I could hardly hear them on the radio.

Once again it was us alone in the canyon with the commercial guys. One of the lobster boats gave me a shout out as he was approaching the area while pulling gear. Probably wanted to see if we were on his stuff. That's a game I don't play. I don't have any right to tie off to someone's equipment so I don't. I respect the fact that they are out there making a living and a hard living at that. The last thing they need is a recessional boat to drag their stuff around. He told me where he was headed pulling his trap line and I assured him that I was on the drift. He called me when he was at the end of his line which was close to us and he said that he was turning back around. It was nice of him to communicate his intent as I had communicated my intent to stay on the drift. Com and rec guys can fish the same waters.

Seems to me that all of the guys buying boats based on adds stating " Get out when the others stay tied to the dock" seem to stay tied to the dock themselves because we're not seeing them out where we play.

Here's a couple of unedited videos.




Believe it or not this was passing the dumping grounds in seas that were 6.9' at the Nantucket Buoy.

She took a little spray, but that happens while running 27 plus knots with some decent waves and a 25knt wind from the West southwest.

Someone pass me a Klondike Bar.

[Albatross32]

Great report and effort with the late season canyon run!

[Agitated88]

First video was blocked "private", but, second one looked pretty sweet. Glad the "Most Expensive Cabo Ever" is performing as advertised.

[Fortunate One]

First video was blocked "private", but, second one looked pretty sweet. Glad the "Most Expensive Cabo Ever" is performing as advertised.

LMFAO,

Funny thing is unless they're making Cabo's in 70' steel hulls now with trap pulling gear, I don't believe I saw one out there.

I corrected the default on the first video. It's public now.

[Agitated88]

LMFAO,

Funny thing is unless they're making Cabo's in 70' steel hulls now with trap pulling gear, I don't believe I saw one out there.

I corrected the default on the first video. It's public now.

First video looking good...great to see some blood on the deck, even if it was for only about 8 seconds before the hose and buckets came out. Again, congrats on seeing your vision come into fruition.

[SportFishStaff]

Great Report, Nice Late season Yellowfins there.
Thanks Tim

[CaptKevin]

I love that sound of a Diesel Engine whistling, such a nice soothing sound.

Good catch guys.

[MermaidHunter]

What no swordfish????? Must not have been that delicious calzone on board. What was the name of that place again?

Was there any video from the other trip???

I personally think it's awesome that your still taking trips and finding fish. Stradivarius is a class above those" go out when others are in port" brand of boats. If we get a couple 500 gallon fuel bladders together are you interested in trolling over to england???? I hear there's a nice break about 3/4 of the way there.

Glad to see your still at it.
Anthony

[On The Edge]

Yup running 27kts in 5 to 7 can be a hard on the kidneys and fillings (for sum)

"What would you do for a klondike bar"?

[SaltyDog]

Nice job making it out to the East canyons where the water looked good and not pulling up short. Any more video or pics of the boats interior and exterior, looks amazing!