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Man what a beautiful morning one ft sea little over cast. Had Catman1 Robert, Zack, Kevin and Charlie onboard, what a great crew. They asked questions, watched how I did things and just gelled into what was going on, great crew, I'd fish with them any time! Chunked the mess in at the same place we finished yesterday. But...... we didn't start the same way. After about 15 min into the troll I decide to check the planer. Trip, crank crank crank stop, WHAM!!!! Got him on, man on the reel few more turns and off, ouch, not again today. Rerig and down she goes, went a bit more and boing boing got his ass this time and slithered a nice little hoo in the box off the planer rod. Tim was working the break just great, seemed every time we started down we'd get a nibble. We had 2 fish slam the planer and break the 100lb Ande before I could back the drag and I was standing right next to the rod. Had steady action all morning but all on the planer. Went through a lull for about an hour. I was half way up to the bridge asking Tim something when his eyes got as big as dinner plates and he pointed to the rt short. I am running wire on all the longs and bridge, mono on the rest. A 60lb Hooskie shot out of the water like a ICBM with the blue and white witch out the corner of his mouth and was headed to the Bahamas. All the man in the chair could do was watch the spool getting smaller. He finally turned and we were gaining when he made a move to the other side and SNIP GONE! Finally, some up top bites. Wasn't long when the lt short gets hit and cut then the lt long starts screaming, here we go...............planer is up, what, yea double header. We make short work on the planer, DAMN reef donkey, here comes the lt long, stick a nice hoo to keep his friends company in the box, Okey doke. Back out, and it wasn't long before the lt long starts ripping again with a nice 15 lb Blackfin. Picked up another little blackfin and a king to end the day. Ended the day with 4 nice hoos, 2 Black fins and a nice king. Lots of pull-offs and cut offs today and reminded me of the wahoo bite last fall. not many YFT's caught today, heard of one boat had 2 whites, a few black fins and quite a few hoos caught today. Don't really know whats going on with the YFT bite this year. If the weather would just cooperate for more than a couple days at a time maybe we could figure it out. It was just great being back out on the deep blue. Thanks to the great crew and Capt Tim for giving me another awesome day on the water.
God I love this Job
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