Weekend Report 8-1-09 & 8-2-09

[Tuna Meltdown]

Saturday I had 2 of my best friends aboard Mike (Chasin Tail) and Brandon (Brokenrod) and my girlfriend, Kirsten. The plan was to try and fish pogies under the kite somewhere on the SEC of the bank. My friend DJ was supposed to pick up 50 livies in Scituate and split them with me on the bank. Long story short, the pogie man never showed and the game plan was scratched. I then jumped to plan B which was to run way east and pray that the fish that I was into 2 weeks ago were still there and hungry. Well it was something like out of that National Geographic T.V. Shows. I saw more life way out there than I have on the bank all season. Acres of crashing tuna and I was ALL BY MYSELF.........for a while. Anyhow out came the spinning gear and the Ron-Z's and I worked 2 or 3 schools. Anyhow I stayed patient and waited and the school surfaced 5 minutes later within casting distance and I dropped the Ron-Z into the middle of the feed and got bit immediately. About 35 minutes later and a switch of the rod so Mike and Brandon could tug on it, we had color and Mike got to harpoon his first tuna. The fish accually broke my leader and Mike threw as the fish was trying to make it's get away. Well he didn't get to far. That fish taped out at 66" long.











Well Sunday started just like Saturday. I had my father, my uncle Richie, friend Ricky, and my girlfriend Kirsten. Well the new pogie guy that promised DJ 36 pogies couldn't deliver to DJ or the other 5 guys waiting at the dock. So DJ only got 7 pogies for himself. He went 5 for 7 with all the pogies getting crushed under the kite. It was his first time fishing with pogies and a kite. I guess they really are the "magic bait". So plan B was in effect again and I ran out twords my numbers from Saturday and ran into the fish about 8 miles shy of where I saw them the day before. It was a little rougher and the fog rolled in shortly after arival which made the schools harder to find. I ran around for about 20 minutes and found a few shearwaters with their heads down in the water like they were anticipating the next feed. I waited paitently and the fish cooperated and started busting all around us on small 4 inch herring. Ricky casted the Ron-Z and hooked up but dropped the fish 5 minutes into the fight. The fish spit the hook. I then pushed a little further east and came accross another good surface feed and again Ricky placed a nice cast into middle of the feed and almost got the lure back to the boat when out of no where a tuna crushed the Ron-Z about 15 feet from the boat. Ricky fought the fish for about 15 minutes and then passed the rod to my uncle Richie and he fought the fish for another 15 minutes. This fish would have been landed alot sooner but sometime during the fight the fish spit the hook and got foul hooked in the belly. The fish was definately hooked from the begining in the mouth as there was a hook mark and line witness marks all along the fish comming out of its mouth. We were really lucky to land this one. I think we accually drowned it as it came up side ways and life less. I still pooned it. Practice makes perfect. That fish taped out at 64 inches long.

[gman]

Congrats Dan. Great fish, kick ass shirts LOL and nice rod. That zenaq was my favorite for a long time. Looks like you have it all dialed in. Thats two great days on the water with friends and some wicked pissah toooonah LMAO

[paul708]

nice report.
great pics.

[edgewater_245cc]

hey dan, glad to see you got into some nice fish. did you find them when you started steaming south? It was looking very fishy when I left and knew something was going to happen. I could have stuck around all day, but it was nice to be back at the dock by 9am with a fish

[Dads Dream]

Outstanding Dan!

Way to be under the pressure on Sat AM without the pogies and going to plan B....don't you hate that....??

[AlloyToy]

Nice job Dan on the spinning gear...looks like you had some visibilty on your side too......WTG!!!

[Charlie Wade]

Way cool Dan, nice report! I ran east today but for groundfish. We hit them pretty good too. The only tuna we saw were up and down very quickly. Not a lot on top where we were.

[Shark Bait]

Dan,
Way to get it done but I do have one complaint. Next time can you include more pictures of your girlfriend. It is the only thing us old guys have to look forward.

Just kidding, nicely done.

[Bigeye10]

Danny you killin babies with spinnig rods again, dont you know you are suppose to let thos fish grow up so they can be can be killed by a 130 fished out of the corner rod holder and sold to japan...

NIce work..Keep it up

[fish4stripers]

Awesme report Dan!