Wed. SWC

[Mainepriority]

Lines in on SWC around 6:00 AM. one xrap, one braidrunner and a few sluggos way back...Birds on the sluggos all morning. Swapped the unweighted sluggos out with some 1.5oz OWNER jighead sluggos and set them wtfb.

Saw fish on the surface on and off and had fish in the spread throughout the morning without a knock down. Saw a few boats hooked up, and a saw a few fish landed on black squid spreader bars.

Noon-Steamed east a mile or so out of the boats and found fish jumping. Put out two spreader bars, two sluggos and two divers, started casting to the fish while we were trolling but they were all over the place and unorganized..Bird bar crossed the diver, and I started to move them around when the sluggo on the Penn 50 took off-Shannon grabbed the rod and 30 minutes later a fat 58" was beside the boat, I was ready to gaff and he got tangled in my transducer!! Freaking out knowing we only had seconds before the line snapped as it rubbed against the boat and engine bracket. Had to gaff the fish back by the tail, pulled the tail up out of the water and got a tail rope on him and then cut the leader to get the line off the transducer. Put him on the deck, Shannon started to bleed it while I got the lines back in.

I was sitting in the back of the boat holding the fish up for a quick picture after bleeding it when the x-rap in close on the 80 went off...Turned to see a handful of boils behind the boat and the reel unloading. Rich (dads dream) jumped on the 80 we strapped him and cleared the remaining rods. This fish would turn out to be smaller (57") but a lot more aggressive than the first fish. Gave Rich a good fight and I think it was 45 minutes to and hour later we had a quick measurement and then a clean and quick release on the fish.

Pulled the lines in and returned to Green Harbor around 2:15 to beat the traffic through Boston. A great day on the water with tons of whale activity and perfect conditions. I said this would be the last of my season but not sure that will be the case any more!

[KnotGolfin']

Good looks. Makes me with the boat wasn't pulled almost a month ago. This season just keep on going!

[shoefish]

Nice guys, way to find your own fish and make it pay!

[Bigeye10]

Hopin to get one more shot

[chumtini]

Quick thinking on the gaff. Nice work.

[Magnanimous]

Nice job.....looking to get out this Saturday.....

Mark

[Seaker]

Nicely done guys.....

I can hear it now Turkey Day and the men from Maine are playin the game ....on da bank!!!!!

[Dads Dream]

If you name your boat NINA....don't you know she's gotta be HOT !!??

Nina was on fire yesterday- and with a little more luck, we'd have had a few more fish pulling on our line. We had a few fish pass through our spread without a knockdown~ one BIG boil on our shorter sluggo....

We worked hard for 5 hours without a hit~ and a few hundred casts from over-anxious baitrunners in the bow while trolling~ that's an ART FORM, if you know what I mean!??

Capt Jeremy put us on fish~ Shannon is an animal in the standup position ~ thanks for the action boys!

Tell me these fish haven't put on some fat in the last 1.5 months!!!!

[captkev1]

Nice job Rich, looks fac behind you in that pic.

[Dads Dream]

That was a hog tuna, huh?

It was FAC all day....so much that the fish were a little boat shy....obviously

How often do you have those kind of seas in November in New England????!! Nice!!! NOAA didn't screw us!