Aug 17 Overnighter 1-4 Whites, 1 bull Mahi, 5 gaffers, shark release

**Big Jay** · 08-17-2009 01:11 PM

We left the dock 1:30pm. Absolutely bluebird day in all aspects. Around 5:45 pm about 15 miles inside the tip, brother says he has to take a pee. Stop the boat...see a floating board. Toss a chunk and before we knew it had a small gaffer Mahi in the boat.

Lines out trolling at the tip 2 hours before dark. Had one run off which turned out to be flipper tail wrapped. After that had a massive boil behind a bar but missed all the squids.

We set up just before dark on the chunk in about 800 ft. of water. Drift was almost non existent. Had trouble getting lines from the boat. Around 11:30pm we released a big blue shark off the sword line. Then the squid showed. And boy did they show.

We spoke to Bear who was jigging them and my buddy wanted to do so as well. I rigged him up with a diamond and squid droppers above. Told him to send it on down. Moments later he says "I'm on the bottom" I look over to only see him about half way through the mono topshot. Told him to reel it in and he says i have a squid. Rod bows a little...then a little more...he says "It's heavy". So i asked to see the rod. He hands it over..right as he does whatever it was turned on the afterburners and started melting line. I threw the drag to full (20 lbs. or so) still melting. Then i sacrificed my thumb. Almost spooled she pulled the hook. Thinking big sword. Nothing else on the overnight

Morning we hopped on the troll and the dirty white boys immediately crashed the party. First one came to the boat for some pics and a healthy release. 4 more gave some good shows. One came through taking out the entire left side of the spread then straightened the hook on our spreader. And yes, it was a white not a blue. These whites were dirty filthy supercharged.

Pulled in lines. Salvaged the trip boxing a nice bull mahi and 4 more gaffers on the 40 line along a massive debris line.

Still no tuna. We heard of VERY FEW caught with most being random wolf packs crashing the spreads. Few and far between though.