Yesterday was a bone jarring 70 miles to our spot... Forecast was of course wrong and with 20+Kts and 3-5 quartering on the bow we were sore and whooped before splashing a bait. Our E120 GPS and depthfinder croaked on the way in so it was blind fishing for us on the menue... In the first hour we had a rat blue knock down the rigger but never ate. Weeds poshed us to a different area within the spot and the only other boat from our tournament in the area had the same happen to him.
Second hour we were protected a little more by the bank and fishing was easier. Dirty white boy snuck in and popped a dink. All was right but the circle never found its mark. Early afternoon we had a trio of sails raise and we popped one. First one ever on a circle teardrop so the new rig does work.
Saw one more white just cruising but couldn't interest him. As slow as it was for the fleet seeing six and getting bites out of a couple with a release was fine by us.
Basically at this early point one boat with two sails and five of us with one.
Today was calmer by a lot. Conditions were as close to perfect as you could hope for. The other guy that was where we were poked a white where we had the bite yesterday and got it early. His only important bite for the day. Our day was a battle of cudas that chased me to 2000' feet of water. Around noon we hooked a very small "billfish" ... a houndfish . Kept hammering the area and with ten minutes to go had a good blue come up. Ate the rigger and again the circle didn't find a spot... That was it.
Three whites and two sails for the fleet for the day.
Tired and sore will try to post pics tomorrow. Our Raymarine e120 crapped the bed and we are flying a new one in so that will be our big lay day project.
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I am fairly new to offshore , and never have used circles, I am entering a few tournaments this year, Me question is do i have a better hook up chance with circles and bait or pulling just Plastics? It seems to me that I may be better off just pulling plastics. Sorry box
Good job on the sail. We managed to hit exactly one 19.5lb dolphin giving us the smallest fish on the game fish board yesterday. Other than that we had a few hookups, but they all threw the hook.
After spending two nights in the square, I wish I had brought an audio recorder because the conversations I at the bars are fantastic. Drunk college kids + even more alcohol = absolute hilarity.
Took a pic of the square this morn... You could see the priority here is not fishing. Oh well not my hangover to deal with...
Had to fly in a new Raymarine e120... Because were not home they couldn't do anything with warranty so I'll have to get that done when I get stateside. New unit shows me just how f'ed up the other really was. Our way expensive platinum chip now works like a charm, she reads her df and gps without any error signals and is way fast. The other one was screwed up since brand new and I hope I get no crap about getting it replaced. We'll keep this new one on this boat and use the replacement one on the other contender the boss just got. Can't believe ho much faster and how sharp this one is compared to the bad one...
Still anybodys game. I think the one other boat and I have them rounded up and just need to get one to stick to win this thing. Saw the direction other boats pulling zeros were comming from and feel good about our spot... One white or three sails or a blue would put us back in the lead and all three live where I'm workin...
Biggest white I ever saw... 150 class. looked to me to be a mix between blue and white. Had a round anal fin but pointed dorsal and pec> Even the biologist was torn. Finally they had to settle on using jaw length to determine being white. Near record class...
Blew up a battery and tore the running light off in some 5-7' crap on our 74 mile run this morn. Feel like jello right now. Dead tired...
Over all we're in first by time. Third for the day... We are ahead of rum bum by only an hour over all so its close... Cross your fingers ....
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In the first hour we had a rat blue knock down the rigger but never ate. Weeds poshed us to a different area within the spot and the only other boat from our tournament in the area had the same happen to him. 
. Kept hammering the area and with ten minutes to go had a good blue come up. Ate the rigger and again the circle didn't find a spot... That was it.
