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Left out of the Beaufort inlet at 5 am to a slick calm sea, punched the numbers in that we had discussed on the ride to the inlet. XM weather was showing a couple nice storms sitting squarely over our destination so we headed to the low 400's to avoid getting wet. Our plan was to find some wahoo's and maybe a sail.
Baits deployed about 25 fathoms with no love so we push off a little deeper, in 50 fathoms the right long get's hammered with the tell tale sound of a good wahoo, unfortunately after a few minutes the fish pulls off. Make a few more passes in the same area without a sniff so we continue to push offshore dodging the rain and lightning. At 80 fathoms we find a nice little edge with a small temp change so we work it when the right long takes off again, this time with an aerail display a sailfish put's on. Davey (gotnoboat)is on the rod and makes short work of his first sail.
Hi fives are exchanged and we get the spread back out and make a circle back to the break, continue on down the break when the right short and wwb both go off, this time it is a double on sail fish and Thom and Davey go to fighting while I clear lines. Both guys do a great job on the rod and we release both fish to fight another day. Hi fives are exchanged again as Thom got his first sail and Davey his second of the day!
Reset the spread when three rods go down this time with some nice size gaffers, all three make it to the fish box for the ride home. Make it back to the break and a fourth saildog tries us but does not come tight. Start to push back inshore to the 30 fathom range looking another wahoo bite when the planer bounces as well as the right short, two wahoo's come to the boat to meet the steel..another pass with the same result.
Decided we had enough meat for the day and picked them up for a nice ride to the hill at 40 knots
Hot color of the day was a purple/chartruese seawitch
Great day on the water guys
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Originally Posted by SeaBiscuit
