4/3/07

[Lowcountryboy]

Fished the Georgetown Hole off of Charleston on Tuesday. Slow day, but as always, a fun time.Caught 3 tuna (2 Black, 1 Yellow) and 2 Wahoo. Pulled the hook on a few screamers ( 1st time anglers and WTFB baits don't mix) and lost a few Wahoos to cutoffs. Thank God for the planer rod. We caught the 2 'Hoos and the Allison on the meat plow.

[pitch bait]

Meat Plow I like it, never heard that before. Congrats on a good catch.

[daytripper]

we were out there as well. Like you say, it was so-so. Managed to boat 3 YFT's and lost as many more (Same deal on the anglers). Had a few smaller dolphin mangle a couple baits and a hoo to eat a squid chain. Coolest thing about it all was my girlfriend, who had never been really fishing, much less offshore, whipped two of those tuna all by herself!

[WAHOONBOX]

CONGRATS GUYS!!!THANKS FOR BRINGING US SOME ACTION!

[Lowcountryboy]

we were out there as well. Like you say, it was so-so. Managed to boat 3 YFT's and lost as many more (Same deal on the anglers). Had a few smaller dolphin mangle a couple baits and a hoo to eat a squid chain. Coolest thing about it all was my girlfriend, who had never been really fishing, much less offshore, whipped two of those tuna all by herself!

We never saw a dolphin, but the 'cudas were out and about. Good job on the Yellowfins, they were biting late in the day, and a boat we were fishing with/around caught 5 from the school, but we could never get them to bite. I guess they did not like the outboards...Had to snatch 'em when they were deep. Had a mark at about 200' and pulled a Yellow off of it. Could not repeat the trick though...

[driftwoodcowboy1]

Glad to see one of my Charleston boys holdin it down.

[gottaflylee]

Fished the Georgetown Hole off of Charleston on Tuesday. Slow day, but as always, a fun time.Caught 3 tuna (2 Black, 1 Yellow) and 2 Wahoo. Pulled the hook on a few screamers ( 1st time anglers and WTFB baits don't mix) and lost a few Wahoos to cutoffs. Thank God for the planer rod. We caught the 2 'Hoos and the Allison on the meat plow.

First off I want to give you both a big congratulations on a great day of fishing!



Next, I noticed that both of you said that you lost fish with 1st. time anglers. My question to you both is this...were the anglers pumping the rod with a fair amount of line out and 2 were you keeping the boat in gear (not in and out of gear) with forward momentum of the boat at all times during the fight?
I know that it is in my opinion (for what its worth) when a fish is way out behind the boat pumping the rod will loose a lot of fish, especially when you are using braid with top shots...why, slack, and it does not take much to let the hook cone loose. Rod pumping at best needs to be used when the fish is straight up and down.
The other question is were you using mono. If you were remember the line stretch video we did where we had 24" of stretch in 25' of line, which in a 100' of line = 8' (96") . The reason I bring this up is did you get a good hook set to begin with. With mono I will set the drags a little higher than I will with braid.
A lot of guys see anglers doing it on TV and really don't understand when the people are doing it, (pumping the rod) why, or the reason behind it, but if you will look closely the anglers most of the time (that know what they are doing) are pumping the rod when the fish is straight up and down.
Anyway I hope this helps you guys out and maybe I'm wrong with what I am reading into this. Just my 2 cents and some "food for though". Hope it helps. Capt. Lee

[#1Gaffman]

First off I want to give you both a big congratulations on a great day of fishing!



Next, I noticed that both of you said that you lost fish with 1st. time anglers. My question to you both is this...were the anglers pumping the rod with a fair amount of line out and 2 were you keeping the boat in gear (not in and out of gear) with forward momentum of the boat at all times during the fight?
I know that it is in my opinion (for what its worth) when a fish is way out behind the boat pumping the rod will loose a lot of fish, especially when you are using braid with top shots...why, slack, and it does not take much to let the hook cone loose. Rod pumping at best needs to be used when the fish is straight up and down.
The other question is were you using mono. If you were remember the line stretch video we did where we had 24" of stretch in 25' of line, which in a 100' of line = 8' (96") . The reason I bring this up is did you get a good hook set to begin with. With mono I will set the drags a little higher than I will with braid.
A lot of guys see anglers doing it on TV and really don't understand when the people are doing it, (pumping the rod) why, or the reason behind it, but if you will look closely the anglers most of the time (that know what they are doing) are pumping the rod when the fish is straight up and down.
Anyway I hope this helps you guys out and maybe I'm wrong with what I am reading into this. Just my 2 cents and some "food for though". Hope it helps. Capt. Lee

Pretty work on the fish guyz!


Great advice lee,

Lets here more about this subject.

[JMS-ILM]

thanks for the report. we dont hear much from the SC fleet. i spent all last week in charleston.....something about that town has always made me happy. could be the scenery on king street in the evenings ....i kick myself for not going to CofC!

[hotrodmarlin]

thanks for the report. we dont hear much from the SC fleet. i spent all last week in charleston.....something about that town has always made me happy. could be the scenery on king street in the evenings ....i kick myself for not going to CofC!

No kidding- I went to App and it was 3-1 guys to girls. Back then CofC was 11-1 girls to guys. I think it is still like 6-1.