WOW!!!!!!!!!!! Once again I had a memorable trip on the Covert Mission!!!
We had owner Sandy (of course), Samantha, Sue Shaw, myself, and the dynamic duo of Capt. Keith Greenberg and First Class Mate Jeff Theill! We left the dock while the stars were still twinkling and the girls took our naps while the guys took us to our destination.
Woke up to some flat seas and beautiful weather. Saw a couple of boats already there and we set up for our troll; about 8:30 we get our first hit and Jeff gets it ready for Sami to fight the fish. Sami's a trooper and gets her to the boat in about 10-15 minutes for Jeff to get the release and take some pics for the memory book.
Our next hook up happens by chance while Jeff is teaching me what to do when a white does come up. He's a great teacher and is showing me what do on the flat line and we go thru the motions, after about 10 minutes of this we happen to look down and as we see a fin Capt. Keith yells down "LEFT FLAT!!!!". Jeff no sooner get me ready to fight the fish than the other flat goes off and we have a DOUBLE HEADER!!!! I'm on one rod and owner Sandy is on the other. Jeff patiently coaches me thru what I need to do and Sandy and I go over and under about 2 times. Capt. Keith manuevers the boat to try and help both of us and Sandy generously yells up to Keith to make sure we get my fish first since it's my first. He's like "we can get them both"!! After about 15-20 minutes I finally see the leader on my white and Jeff goes for it to get the release. He quickly gets the leader I get to see it jump a couple of times (AMAZING!!!) and then she's released. I get my gear off and now we're off after Sandy's white. She's kept her fish out there while we've been playing w/mine and she quickly gets it in for Jeff to work the leader and get the release. WE GET THE DOUBLE HEADER!!!! My first white and it's a double header!!!! WOW!!!!!
Here's Sandy's beautiful white before it was released.
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