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[neilinov]

Whitey:

I have a fish down at Gray's in Pompano beach. I asked them if the blue marlin in the front of the building was just an eye catcher. They said it was a comercially caught blue that was 28' and 4000# caught off of Venezuela. I had a hard time believing this, but Capt. Gray doesn't seem like a guy that has anything to prove. If I was monster chasing I would either be in the South Atlantic in the winter or the North Atlantic in the summer. I think that the remoteness of Ascencion and its center in the South Atlantic make it a prime place to find giant fish roaming.

I do think that Roddy's opinion of Brazil is spot on. That area is where I think big fish are roaming. I also think they are at our lats in the summer.

In the summer we basically have one bait out for Blues. This year we pulled a spread a couple of times. Each time we had takers, but no real big fish. Biggest one was around 400#. I think that you have a good shot out of jersey in a cool patch around the warm water out over the 1000 to 1500 fthm line. I like the idea of going on just a big blue hunt. I don't know why more people don't do it. They are off Bermuda in the spring and they have to be going somewhere.

So if you are up to it this spring let me know I'm ready to go deep and pull a big spread for a few weeks looking for the big blue girl here!!

[Current Affair]

Someone once told me that big blues live in 50 fthoms. If i were gonna try to catch one this is where i would fish.

[neilinov]

Bob:
We have caught a lot of blues in the 50 fthm area from the spencer to the norfolk, but what we are talking about here is the big mamas. I know of a quite a few that have been hooked in the 50 area inside the baltimore. I think that the reason is that the deep water really comes close to the shallows in the Baltimore. My father in law was running a boat about 6 years ago and released an estimated 900# fish. I think however that these fish are rouges and they are there, but the abundance of them is out a little deeper and feeding on big mahi and large schools of tuna. It seems that Bermuda gets quite a few shots at granders every year and the abundance of big fish is in the deeper waters. I think that they may stray into the shallower waters when the fish they are feeding on do, but most likely they stay deep.

I think that you need a combo of a good warm core eddy pushing against a really cold block of water. That happens a lot in the spring, but it is a run. I have punched it in and it is about 140-150 miles one way. But man if we can start catching granders out of IR I will make the trip.

[DropinBack]

Fish hatterass peak season you should expect one shot a day, with very little chance of a grander in a week.