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Fish a thon!!!
Head spinning. Don't know name. Uggg. Must post. Dilithium crystals running low but must post! Ugg.
Started yesterday. Cousin dave and his Iowa buddies chartered me. We slid off into a beautiful blue ocean and bluebird perfect skies. They were stretching getting the charter and live bait at $100 was just over the top. Out went the dead spread and we went to work. Weworked the flyers being pushed inside. We worked the edge. Evenry time we got next to a boat they hooked up while we watched. We went deep until it was too bumpy to stay. We tried it all but only bonitos to show for it.
We slid back inside and banged the flyers again and this time we had a sail rasise. Swated the right rigger and just went away. A half hour later we had one come in and eat both flatlines in rapid succession the hooks actuelly hung on each other and neither found fish.A third sail came in and I had trouble working through the crowd of Iowas finest . I got there too late and the fish just flipped me the fin. We banged and banged but neeters was our only score.
I slid the Deep into her slip and dashed to join up with Double D, Key Lime Pie, and their buddy who's proline 29 would be our swording platform. They asked where to go and Ipointed out that as far south would be the ticket. We got to the Pompano beach area and set up in 1500'. I was wondering just how the night would be and pondered the goodies the guys brought with them. Key Lime Pies blankie and pillow indicated that he might have thing other than being hard at it. The boat owner also had sleep in his eyes. DD though was on his game.
Just after dark the deep bait was first to sing out... As We tried to come tight the fish launched next to the boat. Nice 52" class keeper started flopping but we were having issues catching up to the 300+ feet of line belly we had. eventually we came tight but the fish wasn't there. Heres where its weird. When the fish was jumping there was no light stick with him. When we brought up the rig. It's light stick and bait were un touched. I guess we just had it lasoed...
A while later I was dropping a bait down and it stopped for just a second... I broght it back up to see a bare hook...
I guess it was around 9:00 when the mid bait came down and all the way tight. Stalemate. No run nor any line gain. It didn't last long as that stick also stood straight...
We gave it up and as I hit the pillow a shade after 1:AM I could only shake off double 0-3 billfish events in the same day.
I was back at it with a 7:AM charter today. An 8 yearold, a teen ager, grandfather of around 80 and my buddy Bruce joined for the fun. First stop was in the inlet. We jigged and jigged for a couple hours besting one 15lb class permit. I was tickled but the kids needed action so to the rock pile we went.
It was grunt city today. Wave after wave of the little salt water piranahas kept me baiting and un huooking non stop all day. We had some guest stars including some noce sized porkfish, blue runners, a deadly scorpionfish, a margate, some horse ballyhoos, and even a spanish hogfish joined us briefly before being released.
Leaving the spot was an adventure. As I pulled the anchor I had my buddy Bruce drive me up to it. Well he accidently hit the throttles and soon I was hustling to keep the line out of the wheels. It was pileing up on the deck fast. I told him to take it out of gear and he hit the wrong levers. Duming it hard in reverse. a coil of line wrapped around my ankle and came tight!
I cleated to keep from getting dragged over and the line just got tighter on me. The tines of my rock anchor finally straightened out and I put her away.
I heard things pop and crack so I'm not sure what the extent of damage is. It doesn't feel right and walking is awkward at best. I don't ever bruise so i cant tell from that. I am swollen and I think I may be looking at a splinter of busted bone Where the leg meets the ankle just near the skin surface...
Ishould get it looked at, but thats going to have to wait. I have a tarpon trip (my first in years) in a few minutes and a sailfish live bait trip in the morning...
See what I go through to keep you guys enetertained!
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Originally Posted by Deep C
