Mass Bay Guides Tuna Report

[Rodney Davis]

is that with or without cheese wiz

[chathamblue30]

You should be writing fishing reports/articles for The Fisherman or On The Water. These are the funniest and best detailed reports on the net. Thanks for the laughs and all the stuff I learn from your column. We see you on the water quite a bit as well,you need to fix that rod that always looks bent over,they sell them in strait models too

[Captain Greg Sears]

Shark Day 2009 ( Bad Luck v/s Good Luck )
One of the Best and Worse days of the summer.

05:00 ; Depart Scituate harbor with “Harry the Redneck” and his son and friends
05:01 : Harry makes his presence known by Hollering like a guy in a strip joint. Harry is right out of the Blue collar comedy show (Larry the Cable guy)
06:30: We arrive on the backside of the cape.
06:35: We have the “Eveready Pogie” on the kite
06:40: Balloon bait is going out and gets smashed by a nice fatty ( Steals the bait)
06:45: Balloon bait number two going out SMASH “Fish On”
07:30: Harry’s Son has the fish close to the boat I play the Fortuna Song,
07:31: The Red Neck is up in the fly bridge yelling get the Bat ( He sounds like a little cowgirl)
07:32: I explain we don’t use a Bat we use a Gaff
07:33 Harry is yelling no get the Bat it’s trying to bite me.
07:34 We realize the fish is foul hooked in the side (no wonder it fought like a giant) I harpoon the fish and look up at Harry ( He has a bat flying around trying to land on him) The Bat was living in the loud speaker of the boat and came out when I played the music.
07:35: Harry swats the bat into the water.
07:36 We put the fish in the boat and the Bat is trying to swim back in the boat too.
07:38 I feel sorry for the Bat and save it in the dip net. We put him up with Harry to dry out but I don’t think Harry is interested in drying out he cracks open a beer.
08:00 My son Taylor and Captain Tom King are running the “Grace” for me on a charter with the Mayo Family ( two 12 year old kids and the Mom and Dad) They tell us they have hooked a large Mako and are fighting it on a fifty Shimano.
08:30 Tom calls to tell us he is still fighting the fish and he thinks its pretty big.
08:50 Tom calls to tell us the fish is a big one and it ate their tuna when they where reeling it in.
09:30 Tom calls to tell us they had the fish to the boat and harpooned it it ran and took all the harpoon line and ball but they are still fighting it on the rod.
09:45 Tom calls to tell us the line broke but they are chasing the ball.
09:50 Tom calls to tell us the ball went down and they lost the fish.
10:00 Tom calls to tell us they got the ball and are fighting the fish by hand
10:30 Tom calls to tell us the fish ran and took the ball down again.
10:31 Bob Paine on the “Wake-up Call” tells them to put the scuba tank in its mouth.
11:00 Tom calls to tell us they have the fish tail roped but they can not get it in the boat.
11:01 We start to head to them to help get the fish in the boat
11:02 The Fortuna breaks a belt and we are dead in the water.
12:30 Tom and Taylor arrive at the Fortuna to tow us in.
13:30 Grace has engine problems but we fix it
13:40 Towing line breaks.
14:30 Towing line breaks and we need to fix the Grace again
15:30 Still heading home
16:30 Still heading home
17:30 Still heading home
17:50 we arrive at the docks to find at
least 500 people waiting to see the shark.
19:00 They weigh the shark to find out it is the Largest Male Mako Shark ever recorded in the world.
22:00 Get me a cup of coffee and sprinkle "allot" of water around ( what a string of good and bad luck?)
23:00 We Laugh about the Bat.

[Captain Greg Sears]

I thought Bryans thread should be on this collection very funny!

5:00am - Charter arrives with the "dream team" crew on board. The first time in almost 2 years that the Sears boys and dad fished together.
5:30am - Shove off the dock, with a crew including a hilarious MBG charter regular from Newfoundland.
5:31am - "Newfie" we will call him, packs first ridiculously huge lip of scoal...needs to calm his excitement.
5:32am-7:00am - Arrive at destination after "Newfie" has packed about 6 cans worth of scoal and has been mumbling scoalish-Irishish-French stories for the las 90min.
7:30am - Decide to move to another spot because of a severe seaweed issue.
8:00am - Arrive at next destination...fish EVERYWHERE. We begin debating switching to live bait...
8:30am - RIGHT RIGGER! We hook a fish. CENTER RIGGER! We almost double. Newfie's dip shoots out of his nose during the excitment.
8:33am - 46" Fish in the boat after a 3 minute fight landed on a 130...
9:00am - Switch to live bait.
9:30am - Boil on the balloon bait. Dorsal comes up...I instantly yell Mako! for no apparent reason...Taylor and I begin to argue as to what kind of shark it is. I realize that I shouldn't question a world record Mako fisherman. It is a Mako when he says it is.

Big Greg opens the chum bucket and begins throwing chum. Taylor clears the pogie out of the water. I tie on a shark leader and pitch out a butterflied pogie.

1 minute later, the balloon dips a bit. Fish starts taking line on free spool. Taylor and dad are yelling at me to wait. Taylor says, "We know its a Mako if it jumps..." I give it a 5 count, set the hook...7 ft Mako comes flying 6 feet out of the water. Newfie nearly swallows his 37th dip.

The fish takes 200 yds of line in the blink of an eye. After about a 45 minute fight we get color. The hook pulled out of the fishes mouth and somehow we had him BARELY snagged in the side. Taylor throws the stick...he may as well have punched the fish because the dart just bounced off of him (Dull as Hell...). I have the fish on the leader, reach along the gunnel with my right hand and I grab the fly gaff. I stick him near the tail. Taylor throws a tail rope on...game over. Nice 150-175lb Mako.

10:30am - Dad wakes up from his nap.

11:30am-1:30pm - Went brown backing and got 10 nice keeper cod. Lots of throwbacks.

3:30pm - Arrive at dock. Dad goes to Dunkis and takes credit for all the work, while Taylor and I clean the boat and the fish. Haha.

Fun day out there today. Love fishing with Dad and little bro.

-Bryan
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[Clint3240]

i need a mako, nice job

[Captain Greg Sears]

05:00: Departed Scituate Harbor with a crew of guys who go out with us three or four times a year. They always seem to have good luck.
06:30 Arrive twenty five miles offshore to find fish everywhere feeding hard.
06:31 Rigs are in, we are trolling right toward a big school of busting fish.
06:32: Just before reaching the fish we are smack dab in the middle of a huge weed line
06:33: Every rig is covered in seaweed salad. Fish go down
06:40: Cleaning weeds off every rig again.
06:50: Cleaning weeds off every rig again.
07:15: Cleaning weeds off every rig again.
07:30: Cleaning weeds off every rig again.
08:00: Cleaning weeds off every rig again.
09:00: Need I say More?
15:30: Todays Catch 43 Metric tons of Endangered eel grass, 27 metric tons of bubble weed. (I should have just trolled rakes.)
15:31: Just sprinkle a little water around and get me a cup of coffee.

[southport05]

I feel your pain Greg!!! Went Sunday, it was ridiculous! Someone should invent a John Deere riding mower with pontoons.

[clcharette]

Greg,

I feel your pain, same scenario happened to us over and over today. We had some nice fish on the afternoon slack up on top but couldn't get a clean line to them.

[blackhullcharters]

We had fish up north and it seemed they wanted to hang in the friggin weed line all morning

[Captain Michael Buffington]

Shark Day 2009 ( Bad Luck v/s Good Luck )
One of the Best and Worse days of the summer.

05:00 ; Depart Scituate harbor with “Harry the Redneck” and his son and friends
05:01 : Harry makes his presence known by Hollering like a guy in a strip joint. Harry is right out of the Blue collar comedy show (Larry the Cable guy)
06:30: We arrive on the backside of the cape.
06:35: We have the “Eveready Pogie” on the kite
06:40: Balloon bait is going out and gets smashed by a nice fatty ( Steals the bait)
06:45: Balloon bait number two going out SMASH “Fish On”
07:30: Harry’s Son has the fish close to the boat I play the Fortuna Song,
07:31: The Red Neck is up in the fly bridge yelling get the Bat ( He sounds like a little cowgirl)
07:32: I explain we don’t use a Bat we use a Gaff
07:33 Harry is yelling no get the Bat it’s trying to bite me.
07:34 We realize the fish is foul hooked in the side (no wonder it fought like a giant) I harpoon the fish and look up at Harry ( He has a bat flying around trying to land on him) The Bat was living in the loud speaker of the boat and came out when I played the music.
07:35: Harry swats the bat into the water.
07:36 We put the fish in the boat and the Bat is trying to swim back in the boat too.
07:38 I feel sorry for the Bat and save it in the dip net. We put him up with Harry to dry out but I don’t think Harry is interested in drying out he cracks open a beer.
08:00 My son Taylor and Captain Tom King are running the “Grace” for me on a charter with the Mayo Family ( two 12 year old kids and the Mom and Dad) They tell us they have hooked a large Mako and are fighting it on a fifty Shimano.
08:30 Tom calls to tell us he is still fighting the fish and he thinks its pretty big.
08:50 Tom calls to tell us the fish is a big one and it ate their tuna when they where reeling it in.
09:30 Tom calls to tell us they had the fish to the boat and harpooned it it ran and took all the harpoon line and ball but they are still fighting it on the rod.
09:45 Tom calls to tell us the line broke but they are chasing the ball.
09:50 Tom calls to tell us the ball went down and they lost the fish.
10:00 Tom calls to tell us they got the ball and are fighting the fish by hand
10:30 Tom calls to tell us the fish ran and took the ball down again.
10:31 Bob Paine on the “Wake-up Call” tells them to put the scuba tank in its mouth.
11:00 Tom calls to tell us they have the fish tail roped but they can not get it in the boat.
11:01 We start to head to them to help get the fish in the boat
11:02 The Fortuna breaks a belt and we are dead in the water.
12:30 Tom and Taylor arrive at the Fortuna to tow us in.
13:30 Grace has engine problems but we fix it
13:40 Towing line breaks.
14:30 Towing line breaks and we need to fix the Grace again
15:30 Still heading home
16:30 Still heading home
17:30 Still heading home
17:50 we arrive at the docks to find at
least 500 people waiting to see the shark.
19:00 They weigh the shark to find out it is the Largest Male Mako Shark ever recorded in the world.
22:00 Get me a cup of coffee and sprinkle "allot" of water around ( what a string of good and bad luck?)
23:00 We Laugh about the Bat.

that is a funny story and I love the helium action

Mike