What is the best day offshore you have ever had and why?

[zar2754]

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last september CARTERET CANYON.

[Tunaman40]

Every time I get offshore is my best day on the meat or not. Why, because terra firma gets boring

[WAHOONBOX]

The day my dive charter asked if I minded them sunbathing topless on the bow.

DUDE............

DUDE.....................

DO YOU NEED SOME HELP UPLOADING? WHAT'S THE PROBLEMO?

[Gibzilla]

it was my first time and first day ever in costa rica....the night before my new found "family" had given me one hell of a sugar cane headache.....people got in to fights..we laughed we cried...i tried to drive stick....it was an all out unforgetable fiasco........

when i wake up the next morning i hear the engines running....i could barely see through the amount of chrome gnats, but i could tell there was someone standing over me.....My Brother in law!!! WAKE UP RICKY.....WERE LEAVIN!!!!!! i stumble out of the bedroom and realize we are on are way....it was noon!! How long have we been fishing is the only thing i could manage to say.....apparantly we all had a pretty rough morning and we had just left! so i quickly get a shower...try to revive myslef with a philsen and some pineapple and make it up to the bridge......First thing i see is a giant sail free jumpin in the distance....HOLY CHIT! there he is!..........lets go check him out...Nah, im not were i want to go yet.....then another one...and another one...i think i saw 12 billfish free jump before i finally realized.....i wasnt in cape may any more.............so i finally go down stairs and apologize for my behavior the night...and yell at the two brothers for getting me so tanked before we were supposed to go fishing!!!

Line go in, spreads been laid out.....and were off. The humm of the motor matched the humming from my headache....it was rough (but it was great at the same time)....no more than 10 mins go by and we got up in the spread...pitchin a bait to him...aobut a 175lb. 200+ sailfish....Im ecstatic......

"Ricky....he is all yours, get your butt over here!!" so i put the belt on and were off.....captains backing down like a maniac....waters is drenching me..(I AM TOTALLY AWAKE BY NOW) and he is released.......Awesome!!!!.....sent the spread back out...and 5 mins pass and theres another one.....RICKY ITS ALL YOU....... multiply that by 18....yes 18.

my butt was whipped from front to back........everybody thought it was hilarious....im in the corner of the cockpit by number 12 sayin i cant catch another one!!!...they called bs and straped the shoulder harness on me. 17 sails and a blue.....nothing has ever topped that day since then.....It was a dream, and i sometimes still cant believe it happened. once we decided to pull everything in and head back....it was around 5pm............im helpin put everything away and out of the corner of my i i see one brother lunge to the left and one to the right. they had me by both sides....picked me up....and yelled 1......2.......3 - they must have thrown me about 15 feet off the boat in to the middle of the pacific ocean.......im cursin, and yellin and gagin on water ( i wasnt prepared at all)..................they finally get me back up...and all i hear is "thats what you get for sayin you cant do it"

Those words have never left my lips again. When we got back in........i was showered and dressed and ready for another night out......with out the rum

sounds like a hell of a trip! could you even swim after reeling in all those fish? i probably would have sank like a stone! ahahha

[bigfish4me]

It was October of 97, our annual overnight tuna trip on the ursula out of sea isle, i put 12 yellow fins from 75-90 lbs in the box, couldn't do nothing wrong that night.....my uncle worked this live squid for 2 hours without a bite, i had already put 6 in the box and was keeping the chunk going when he decided he had enough and was going to get some shut eye. So i dropped that slimy little sucker down and it didn't make it 10 feet off the stern and it was fish on...Now not wanting to be a fish hog i tried passing the next 2 hook ups off but the guys were too proud to take a hand off, they wanted to feel the runoff and cross the tunas eyes themselves....cant say that i blame them.So its midnight and i have put 9 fish in the box so far, a few guys are getting some sleep and there's 3 of us working the late shift...after a little lull in the action i started getting bit again, i would land a fish and then the next 2 drops would hook up immediately, didn't matter if it was the flat line or one with 10 oz of led.....drop down and the tuna were committing suicide on it. By 1;30 am i had 12 tuna in the box and it slowed down, since there were 6 of us +mate&captain that meant we could keep 24 tuna...with 20 in the box we decided put out a few fillets for a mako and leave the other 4 empty slots for the guys snoozing their trip away. We didnt have the spread out more than 20 minutes when a decent 150 lb mako came buzzing through the lights...no sooner did we say did you see that it looked like a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz never got to finish the sentence and we were hooked up, my cuz put a whuppin on that fish in short order and a well placed slug from an old 308 the cappy had on board and we tied that baby off for a bit.We made a move around 4 am and that woke up the sleepy heads, we got the chunk going again...and since i filled a good portion of the box i designated myself the chunking ***** for the duration of the chunk. The boys picked a few and we went a good hour and a half without a bite and i hear the grumblings of...were gonna pack it in soon here fellas, we got a long ride back....so i grabbed a rod and slapped a frisky mac we had swimming in the bait well and sent it down for one last shot......that mac didnt make it very far and i was hooked up again....this time one of the boys was more than happy to relieve me of the pole and top out our limit....24 yellow fins and a 150 mako...A dam fine night if you ask me....aside from the catching it was a crystal clear night and the sky was spectacular....i couldn't do nothing wrong i tell you..i had the touch, graduated from being called junior since i was the youngest guy in the group to being called slayer....as far as fishing goes it was some of my finest hours.

[Ace1st]

My best day offshore was last spring during the Inaugural Martinis HOOK A HOO RODEO. After planning the weeks fishing and untold hours of planning and execution, we finally ventured offshore with 41 boats competing for $10,000. $10,000 you say....Whoop TEE Doo!! So what?

I'll tell you so what, one boat two friends with grandfather, son, grandson and grandaughter all enjoying a great day on the water with one intent.....to raise money for the SHRINERS HOSPITALS of the CAROLINAS. And raise money we did....$10,000 was donated and we only caught one fish. But it was the best day offshore ever!

[WAHOONBOX]

MY BEST DAY(S)..........TOUGH TOUGH QUESTION HERE....

THERE ARE MANY GUYS WHO CAN LAY CLAIM TO BIGGER DAYS THAN I.....BUT SOME OF MINE HAVE INTANGIBLES THAT CAN NEVER BE UNEQUALED IMO

I'LL JUST LIST SOME OF THE FUNTIMES THAT STAND OUT IN MY MINDS EYE AND NO PARTICULAR ORDER

1.WADING IN THE NEUSE RIVER WITH CAPT BRIAN IN 40 KNOT WINDS AND CATCHING 4 POUND PUPPY DRUM SEPT 2000.....WITH A TROPICAL STORM ON TOP OF US

2.FREEGAFFING A 35 LB COBIA SWIMMING AROUND MY OUTBOARD AT THE CHICKEN ROCK 1991

3. 24 WAHOOS IN A DAY WITH CAPT BRIAN SWANSBORO HOLE 2003

4. FIGHTING A BLUE ONE FOR 5HR 40 MIN WITH CAPT BRIAN AND MYSELF ON DOUBLE MATE DUTY ON THE SCARLET FEVER 2001 DUCKS UNLIMITED

5. WINNING THE CAPE FEAR BLUE WATER 1989 WITH A 431 BLUE ON THE NEXT TO LAST DAY OF TOURNY AND KNOWING IT WAS GOING TO BLOW 30-40 KNOTS THE LAST DAY AND GIVING US A LOCK.

6. CAPT BRIAN SETTING ME DOWN IMMEDIATELY IN A POD OF SAILFISH (WE CAUGHT FIVE IN 30 MINUTES) AND THE PARTY DEMANDED WE NOT CATCH ANYMORE BILLFISH AFTER #2 WAS RELEASED UNLESS WE KILLED THEM...THEY SAID THEY WERE NOT PAYING US FOR THE TRIP UNLESS WE PUT THEM IN DA BOX........I THEN TOLD THEM I WOULD PAY FOR THE TRIP BECAUSE THIS WAS WHERE IT WAS AT!!! ....AFTER 5 DOGS WERE RELEASED WE PROCEEEDED TO CATCH 500 LBS OF YFT.....THEY SURE TASTED GOOD CAUSE THE YFT WERE NOW MINE

7. 12 BILLFISH AT PIRATES COVE TOURNY WITH GLENN , SQUIDNATION & CREW...RUN-OFF

8. 7 BILLFISH WMO ABOARD THE SEA SPLENDOUR

9. FISHING WITH PITCHBAIT ON THE SUREPOWER AND CATCHING SEVERAL WHITES IN MID ATL - WMO

10. CATCHING 11 MAHI IN ONE DAY....IN MY C/C....AND NONE WEIGHED LESS THAN 40........TRUE STORY

11. WATCHING PONEYTAIL FIGHT A BLUE ABOARD THE "JOBSITE" MHC ON A FIFTY WIDE...#9 WIRE...8/0 HOOK...MED HOO...SAILURE...BRIDGE POLE.....AND GET THE RELEASE...... EST WEIGHT 700 EASY

12. CATCHING A 250 LB BFT TROLLING AND THE LURE WAS A MERE 23 FT BEHIND THE STERN.....CAUGHT ON TAPE.

13. LOSING 2 TOURNAMENTS IN MY CAREER BY VIRTUE OF A TIE BREAKER (ON TIME) AND NOT WINNING ONE THIN DIME.....THINK ABOUT THIS ONE

14. BEING KNOCKED OUT OF 3RD PLACE IN 5 TOURNYS IN MY CAREER FROM THE TIE BREAKER OF "TIME RELEASED"....THIRD PLACE AIN'T ALL THAT MUCH BUT I STILL HATED THE HELL OUT OF IT....AND NO CHECK TO BOOT!

15. GROUPER FISHING WITH THE BISCUIT IN WB AND RUNNING FOR OUR SOULS IN LIGHTNING STORM THAT NIGHT....

16. OBSERVING/FILMING BASKING SHARKS WITH SHURDZ AND GOTTAFLYLEE AT POINT BLANK RANGE

17. CATCHING RED DRUM WITH MY BROTHER IN THE NEUSE

18. FISHING THE GREEN RIVER UTAH....

19. TEASING UP SQUADS OF MAHI ALL DAY LONG ON A FLY FISHING CHARTER ABOARD THE RUN-OFF

20. CATCHING A SAIL AND A BLUE WITH BISCOTOS BOYS

21. WINNING THE FIRST BARTA TOURNY ON THE RUNOFF


I COULD GO ON AN ON...SORRY FOR RELIVING SO MANY MOMENTS

[dunn6253]

4. FIGHTING A BLUE ONE FOR 5HR 40 MIN WITH CAPT BRIAN AND MYSELF ON DOUBLE MATE DUTY ON THE SCARLET FEVER 2001 DUCKS UNLIMITED

What was the estimated size of that blue, Box?

[WAHOONBOX]

What was the estimated size of that blue, Box?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT...PRO ANGLER ON THE STICK...80W...106" 485LB.....DEAD ON DA DOCK ...DUCKS UNLIMITED A FEW YEARS BACK

VERY STUBBORN FEEESH

[Double D]

I agree with Marty, too hard to pick just one

1. First canyon run at age 12. 6 guys on board and all 8 rods covered with bigeye. We boated 3, smallest was 235 (and I landed mine). Start of a lifelong addiction (does that make it my worst day?)

2. Charter with my buddy Fred out of Hatteras - we each caught 1 of everything - wahoo, tuna, whites, dolphin and blue marlin

3. Catching a 535 mako at age 16 to win the tourney and get an ovation at the dock

4. watching my dad fight a 700 plus mako for 6 hours on a penn 6/0 only to have the leader part at the boat

5. First trip to CR - crazy amounts of big sailfish

6. Anytime my kids catch their personal best

Probably my favorite - down in the keys with nothing to do on a beautiful day, so I took Di for a ride. ran out to the edge of the reef and conditions looked good for sails, so I put out the 2 livies I still had from the day before. She ended up with a 70 lb sail on 12 pound tackle, probably the coolest fight ever. got the release 7 miles from where we started.