S of MV 7/5

[backman]

lots of birds and bait from Nomans down to the middle of the dump where it dissappeared.

2 small bluefin in the fingers.

It was neither light nor variable today and it was more 4 than 2....

Thank goodness for the express enclosed helm though - someone in a big fast CC's crew are going to have welts from the rain squalls all day.

[fin-chaser]

I think I know who you mean.... they are not back as of yet. At least I haven't gotten the call to expound on the quantity of YFT.

Fin-

[Reel Poker]

Thanks for the info. We want to try next weekend, if the weather will be good. How were the temps and water quality?

[Hardtail Hunter]

What kind of bait? When you troll s of MV do you downsize the size of lures in your spread? or do you use the same stuff that you use east of chatham?

[backman]

there was a nice break from 64 and change to 69.something between the bottom of the Claw and the top of the fingers. The tempclimbed gradually to 71.3 in the {empty} flyer fiele below the dump.

Water was mud above the Claw cleaned up to green at the break and somewhere at the bottom of the dump was green blue and lifeless.

We saw bait sprays of either tinkers or half beaks on 3 occasions; wasn't clear what was pushing them. There were also deep balls (sandeeels??) as well as a couple 50' wide clouds on the screen. I also marked either squid, krill or copapods around the thermocline; sometimes 30' thick.

I have not seen the finder like that in a number of years; it gives me hopes we might have a decent inshore fishery for a change.

And yes the spread is entirely different to the south.

As for Terry and his pirates - think 1/2 mile squalls of rain going horizontally so hard they flattened the chop and slicked out the water -hopefully they didn't get it all day; 'cuz it sure was persistent up north.

[Riptide Charters]

Rippy ROCKED! The big CC ran 30-35kts in that crap all day. Radar dodging the the rain. Report tomorrow, been up for 23+ hours, floor is moving and swaying right now. BIG YFT!!!

Remember Speed kills........Tuna

[iguana1]

I ran the same trip as Backman today. Solo as I could not find crew. Left Wesport @ 5AM returned 12:30 PM.

Temp break runs along 170 foot curve between the fingers and claw. Lots of life there. Raised a big thresher but could not get a bite (of course I was in the process of wiring up a marauder when he came into the spread). Saw a few footballs bouncing on halfbeaks, but no bites for me. One knockdown on a bally but it was small and did not go tight.

[Animal 1]

Originally Posted by iguana1

I ran the same trip as Backman today. Solo as I could not find crew. Left Wesport @ 5AM returned 12:30 PM.

Temp break runs along 170 foot curve between the fingers and claw. Lots of life there. Raised a big thresher but could not get a bite (of course I was in the process of wiring up a marauder when he came into the spread). Saw a few footballs bouncing on halfbeaks, but no bites for me. One knockdown on a bally but it was small and did not go tight.

Iguana,next time you need crew,send a pm this way,please.

[Hardtail Hunter]

Backman or iguana Could you better discribe your inshore south of MV spread
Thanks

[backman]

In a nutshell - books are written about this and years on the water help a bit also

* 7-9 rods depending on conditions and expected targetted fish.

* W shaped spread except the center of the W is longer than the legs.
* 2-3 small bars as teasers/focal points
* 2-3 pieces of meat; some long, some behind the bars
* something small and dark either on the long rigger or WWB depending on conditions a bird shows up on the WWB.
* at least one large lure or plug in close with meat behind it.
* close means 5 yards or less
* at least 2 jet heads; possibly a jet/meat combo in the spread.
* nothing more than 8" ,long out there.


What's a green machine? I admit when I am really desperate to going to the bird and green machine combo for the WWB.