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Soggy but Sweet...
It's been a while since I shook the dust off my skiff. I was happy as a clam to see the bottom patch show no signs of leaking and despite thunder storms through the night I was packin a dry bilge.
Randy and Joey have fished with me before and it was good seeing them. Bookings have been sparse but starting to improve. We slid out of the dump and to the inlet. I saw jacks blowing up on some straggler mullet but had no net to give it a try. This was a basic troll trip any way.
I ran that whole brutal mile to the edge and started kicking flyers immediately. These guys had done the neeter gathering stuff before and wanted to target dolphin... I sent out two dk/hoo combos on the riggers and two swimming nakeds on the flats. I was going to run a black red over hoo down the middle for wahoo but there was a lot of junk. Instead the center was run up close with a day saver. A fair edge was formed up in 290' and I plodded along iit. The water was kind of dirty and scattered junk grass was making life irritating. I started to slide to 500' and saw the grey sky now growing darker...
I slid back to 280 and could see the rain comming. I usually keep trash bags in there for emergency rain gear but they were not anywhere to be found.
This was not lookin good. The shore got blurry and I knew the wet down was commin and nothing I could do would stop it. A lone dolphin of about 4 pounds nailed the left flat and it was game on. A second one bowed up on the now idle day saver so that was ebven better. Three or four swam to the transom but disappeared when I tossed some chunks to keep them around. Both fish were boxed and I began trolling back south west toward the inlet. I was paying attention to the oncomming rain instead of watching the baits.
"Fish" randy blurted. As I turned I saw the day saver rod bend then let go. I scanned the water and there on the day saver was the first clean sail of the season. Then the flat line let go and stood up. A second fish!
Then two more came up on the right andthey kept comming. Probably eight or nine raised.
The riggers went down and everone started dropping back. "Yeah! On!" Joey was bowed up . It took three trys for me on the left rigger fish but steel finally found its mark. Randy finally bent his stick and a fourth fish bowed up and jumped off on the original flat line that had been hit. As I reeled the day saver in, two followed it to the transom and sank away as the rain began to fall.
I cleared the two dead rods and looked to see mine that I had left in the rod holder now stood traight too.Randy's fish did a series of greyhounds up the side and when it passed us that one also joined the gotaway club. Rain poured and even thunder grumbled as Joey worked his to to the boat for a clean release (Got my hook back
).
We put her back on the troll to the south as now the current had carried me about five miles up the beach. I was making little ground and the rain kept falling. We hung it up after anitehr hour or so of getting wet.
At around 30mph rain hurts like hell but I had to let the guys duck behind the console. One flag flyin for a cover up was a low ratio but was a good time! We got back to the dump and while I knocked the sides off their dolphin, the boys sought shelter and beverages at the Tiki Bar... I swear I could hear the rolling tackle box grumbling about my wet ass getting her seats soggy on the way home but now I'm dry and wearing my favorite SFC shirt and back among my favorite people... You...
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Originally Posted by HOLWACHAGOT
