MHC 1 Oct Trolling / Bottom Fishing

[Ponce]

Headed out at 0500 to calm seas ran out at 30 mph. First lines in the water at 0645 in 25 fathoms temp 78. Trolled until 1200. 3 Gaffers, 3 short strikes, and a boken wire leader on what I think was a very nice Wahoo. Funny thing is that it was a new #9 piano wire leader, so I don't know if it got a kink going out or was wrapped by the fish. It was broke at mid leader. Anyway those are the breaks of the game.

Then on to bottom fishing we went to the area we have caught Scamp and Red Grouper before and last week I caught a big Trigger there. We had a guest that has not done much offshore fishing so we had him put on a rig with squid and some slightly smaller hooks. Ended up with 5 5-7 lbs Triggers, 1 Red Hind. I did manage another big Trigger on a jig. On the last stop to jig AJ's and maybe AP's we could not get anything to bite.

Beautiful day on the water, with good guys and some meat to bring home. If there was any down side once again the Wahoo alluded us once again.

Hopefully I have pics to follow, they are from the other guy's cameras.

The first is Mitch with his first Dolphin caught, notice he looks a little down
The Second is Doug with his Red Hind
The Third is the one Trigger I caught on a jig, (Eatern Tackle Flat Side Pot Roast come through again). All the Triggers were that size or bigger.

[merry marlin]

Pretty Work Jeff, sorry that leader busted off a good fish. Those big deep water triggers sure look good when they come out of the water and a couple fillets fill up the pan...
MM

[calebw]

Nice work on the dolphin, No pictures? I presume you went south

[2kidsfishing]

Fish in the boat, beautiful day, trigger fish sandwiches; does it get any better!!!

Nice work!

[Ponce]

Nice work on the dolphin, No pictures? I presume you went south

Yeah we worked south, there are some good pictures, just not on my camera. When I get them I'll add them to the report.

[Nauti Natured]

Glad you got some Ponce! Looking forward to the pics.

[gottaflylee]

Triggers, yummmm. Glad you got out and found some. It will only get better... Looking forward to the pictures.

[clt_capt]

Congrats on your fish. It sure was a pretty day on the water

[reelreturn]

Wanna trade some triggers for some Wahoo- nice talking to you out on the water yesterday, I'm trying to finish my report now. I think citation size on the triggers is around 5lbs so you had some quality fish on board

[weekender]

yum yum triggers, good eating