Still Battered but Better...

**Deep C** · 12-10-2007, 05:52 PM

I don't know why but the wind took a short nap this morn. Todays guests were my regular, Curt accompanied by our own PURPLE CEDAR PLUG and his lovely wife. At five am it was cookin at 20. As we slid into the spot it was glassy. Fifteen minutes later we were looking at 20 again.
Oh well. Spread was splashed and first pass was going smooth. At 160' a little deeper than normal I saw purple on the inside right rigger. I moved to the stick and saw another comming for the left rigger with my newly designed circle rig. The inside fish was indecisive but the rigger fish wasn't. I switched, dropped, and the new rig went straight home.
I was busy passing it to Mrs Plug when the inside fish crashed and yet another on the right rigger crashed. Purple missed. Nobody to handle the inside fish cost us that bow up too.
The circled up one though was part of the furniture. Slow run at first then it hit the afterburners. The 15lb outfit screamed and the trannies whined as I brought the Deep to hard backwards mode... It was getting rough quick water flew. And this fish was a hot one. At about twenty five minutes we had the leader for the release. We wanted a closer look but despite ten more minutes of some hot boatside maneuvering it just didn't get closer. Still a release is a release and I was gonna get the chance to throw Mrs Plug into the ocean...

It brisked right up by now. 4 foot and growin. Six foot by the time I had trolled back to where we hooked up. We had a pick of neeters and dolphin through the day to keep us busy. About 2 o'clock the ocean laid down some and the air began to fill with birds and flying fish. Neeters, blackfin, dolphin, sails all taking turns at running acres of the little flyers. Tought to get bites with that much natural food. Still exciting to watch. We did pick some neeters in the midst of it. Raised a window shopper sail that turned back into the flyers after a few seconds...
Great day was had by all...

**Jack Hexter** · 12-10-2007, 06:43 PM

What is a neeter? I've fished So Fla for over 30 years and have never heard that term.

And BTW, how did you do in the ICBA Tournament?

**Deep C** · 12-10-2007, 06:49 PM

Bonito... Squiggle back, false albacore, little tunny...

Won the one day Kick Off with seven... Only had a couple in the main event at ICBA but took outstanding catch trophy for that one...

The lamp from the Kick Off, The Scupture from ICBA, The Grey Goose was a raffle prize...

**Jack Hexter** · 12-10-2007, 07:18 PM

Thanks. Learn something every day.

**Deep C** · 12-10-2007, 07:21 PM

Not a real common nick name for em... Kinda came up with it in Key Largo about 30 years ago with a few friends and it stuck...

**brandon558** · 12-10-2007, 08:02 PM

Nice work deep...so when you gona share your Circle Rig with us?

Reguardless..it seems to be working.

Pretty work

Brandon

**Deep C** · 12-10-2007, 08:11 PM

I'll get to sharing that later this week. I wrote yesterday about it being a hybrid kind of thing. Using some pointers from basic circle, the guac, then adding my favorite lip locking wire stitch... A long way from what I was using and other rigs I have seen. For me it gets exactly what I'm looking for from the bait. Natural as hell looking. Not stiff nor so serpentine as I see some swimming baits. It looks like a hoo doing what it would be doing if it was alive...
Dialed it in on dink size to match the hatch thats here right now. Want to experiment and make sure I get it dialed in on other sizes too...

**PurpleCedarPlug** · 12-11-2007, 06:54 AM

Deep, the new rig is a "Master in Disguise"...

Looking forward to the rest of the week.

PS. Although it wasn't the Ocean, I did throw Mrs. Plug into the Tub when we got back to the hotel, so she did finally get wet..