Over Nite in the Wash 10/5

[fowlscay]

Well decided at the last min to make our Mon trip to be a Sun/Mon over nite trip to the Wash . Our crew was Bill Stephens , Dan , Josh , and Noah . We took Bills 320EC got there right at sunset so we did not have to much trolling time but we tried for about 20 mins . No bites so we went to the Wash and and set up in about 700ft . Started off by jigging up some live squid for bait . 1st bite was a 150lb tiger shark . 2nd bite was jumping out in the dark and i couldn,t ID him before it pulled the hook and that was it for the nite bite . In the morning we trolled in to 40 fathoms and caught a nice wahoo and some dolphin and got our planer bit off (guess we need to paint them black )and had 2 more cut off bites . All in all it was a good trip we caught our wahoo and got bill a cooler full of dolphin . My customer was happy that he got to use his boat and we were happy that he put the gas in it
Tommy

[gradywhite273]

nice looking catch guys, congrats.

[92 feet down]

That's a beautiful splatter shot, Tom! Pretty work.

[fowlscay]

It looked better on the grill !!! Bill just sent me his pics with the shark .

[OCcaptain]

You got any of that left on the grill! I'll stop by on my way home Sounds like a great trip, nice pictures. Always nice when you don't have to pay for gas

[fowlscay]

Yeah we were thinking the same thing . Now me and Noah got this want to catch a sword fish thing in our heads ,so we are trying to figure out to fill it back up and do it again .

[Salty Tiger]

we were catching swords (4 for 5) in 50 fathoms inside the east notch of the washington, ours were short but another boat by us had a keeper @58", i moved in to the 100 fathom line where there were about 10 other boats and only got 1 and it was shorter than the fish in 50 fathoms, probably should have waited it out in the shallows, good luck and nice report and pics.

ps: we were using live squid netted off the back of the boat and down 240 feet with a green glow light and blue led strobe, we were in the 50 fathom range on the gps, the sounder showed 288 feet, hopr this helps someone.

[fowlscay]

We were there too we started in about 700ft and drifted east over nite . We were using live squid too . We had one down about 200ft that the tiger shark bit . My mystery fish that was jumping out in the dark ate one that I only had about 30ft down with a glow stick about 10ft up I put it on Noahs butterfly jig but it pulled one of the hooks off before we got to see it . I think next time we are going to fish higher up closer to the boats lights .

[jtocean]

Tell Bill, JT from Millville By The Sea says "hello".

[MAKO19]

Nice trip and report! How long of a leader are you guys using for the wire rigs? It almost looked like you are winding that onto the reel? We are currently using about 36" of #8 piano wire with a haywire twist and then connect that to our 150# ball bearing snap swivel connected to our double line. Any tips would be appreciated.