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After weeks of preparing gear and Chuck speaking moving the 37t via water from Miami to Annapolis then Annapolis to Sandy Hook to pick up crew then to shinnecock. Shoved off Weds morning for yet another pit stop at the fishtales for a fun day of yellowfins and skippies. Managed 4 yft's and a handful of skips. Then the long awaited Monster Shark finally arrived.
The weather across the board looked to be a 50/50 with storms to the south and in the mid west the weather was pretty unknown.
Thurs was a bluefish, rigging , and capt's meeting day. Plenty of live bluefish in the wells and some deads.
As thursday afternoon progressed the weather slowly progressed the wind picked up little by little each hour. Then rain started heavier and heavier straight down to sideways . Not a pretty night!
By 10pm friday's weather was pretty clear after updated after update it got worse and worse 7-10 7-11 on and on and harder and harder .
Went to bed pretty much knowing that friday was going to be blow out. Set the alarm for 5am just to double check I really didn't need to get out of bed and check you could hear the trees the wind and the rain.
Pulled up NOAA and low and behold my ears served me right. Woke the Chuckster up to give him an update and got the confirmed go back to bed.
Hoping it would lay down and just be a late start I went back to bed. To wake up at 7 walked out on the deck and the wind had laid down rain had stopped. Woohoo just maybe it would be a go.
Get down to the marina and started kicking it around about sticking our noses out. The reports started flowing in...35 cabo an hour outside was said to have its bridge windows knocked in. Heard the coast guard on the radio responding to a 29 luhrs going down.
We had some minimal wood chips on the rubrail but no damage. The boats closer to the harbor entrance of oak bluffs was not ao lucky. A big Hatteras was piked up and set down on a piling and punched a hole right below its rubrail. A post took out its finger pier broken many lines and popped many bumpers till the ran out of lines and just held the bumpers by hand for hours. Another 35 cabo the coast guard was looking for not sure what the outcome was there.
After a long morning of sorrow 11:30 became margarita thirty.
Sat morning was much anticipated by many finally a shot of finding a Monster Shark.
4am came early but ready as ever a quick shove off at 4:45 and life was good greeted by a head sea and a boat that just ate it up. God this boat is great trip 350's , 590 fuel , full water, 6 guys , full upper station tower turning 42 mph burning 38.6 gph. NICE NICE
Any way away from my fascination with boats. Set up in 62 degree water with plenty of structure and signs of life. A lil colder than I personally like but it had 3 blue sharks, the last one was a pretty good beast unfortunately he doesn't make the grade blue dogs don't count
We picked up and moved away from the doggies and blues to hopefully find a little better water and a variety of structure . To come short with notta.
We moved on one last time and had at it with everything we had. The hours rolled by nothing more than a nibble here and there by the dearly lives doggies.
Its now 3:15 with 15 minutes to go the sourness is setting in. I headed to the back of the boat to start cleaning up loose odds and enda when I seen the green ballon do a zig and a zag grabbed the 50 out the holderr to feel what was going on. Mr. Mako had the bait and he just surfaced .
After smiles and cheers the game was on. Mr Mako took his time to fully show himself he didny feel big and when he aired out he wasn't very big at all. Just a pup at 60-70 lbs.
We got him to the boat to learn he wasn't even hook he tailed rope himself with the hook and the cable.
Pretty wild.
After we got him cleared it was game over . Dumping the balance of the chum and getting the deck ready to roll. We had another mako come up and start munching on the bait ball. With all the rods derigged we quickly rigged a pitch up with a mack to hook at least some supper .
After few minutes we were hooked up only to get him to the boat and spit the bait never had the hook in its mouth .
We messed with him for a lil while and called it quits ab headed for home.
Thank you everyone for their help and efforts. Good times with good peeps and good friends .
Back to the water balloon fight pics to come
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No broken bones !!!! Say hi to the Big Dog and everyone else. Still waiting for the pics.
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Glad you were able to make it out on Saturday, the new boat sounds great. Hope you are going to the ASA in Sept up at the Cape. Keep us posted, M
