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Plan B Bluefin...
Last week my buddy Eric wanted to get tuna blood all over his pretty 27Contender... The tuna obliged and the wish was granted... Seeing this, his buddy Charlie wanted to get a little thunnus hemoglobin on his Contender 31 WA too...
We loaded up the boat with Charlie, Eric, Erics dad, Charlies boat washer and Frank (Juango), leaving me at the helm of this rocket...
Rounding Sandy Hook at around 4 am we could see that the wind was not the variable 10 or less called for. Instead it was steady 15 and the chop was growing. Roughly half way to the Hudson, it had grown sporty at best. Slowed to 20 kts by now it was decision time... Abort? Clobber another 2.5 hours into a growing sea or go with plan B?
I havn't caught a bluefin in a long time and was worried about that prospect but it out weighed possibly hurting some one in the now 3-5 slop.
I carry a kit just for this occasion in myt offshore bag and soon we had cedars, spreaders and hoos in the wash... We covered the monster ledge to the Mud Hole to HA buoy then off to near the glory before the hatch match Offshore Innovations bar got clubbed. A cedar soon folowed. Ok not giants by any means but these footballs made a great way for Charlie to break in his boat and his guests to have some fun. That pair was followed by another by another and a single that we dropped... All in all not red hot but enough action that everyone got to pull on something. The light tackle and cedars were the kings of the heap today...
Here is Charlie beating up on one... Take a close look at the rod... A work of art with an exotic bird feather from Charlies place in Belieze wrapped intjust above the fore grip...
Frank (Juango) holds one of the wonderful day savers for a quick pic before letting it go...
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IF I missed that many times with my job...............I'd be fired!!!
