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[Old salt]

Matt, Matt's dad, Jay, Frank, Aggie, KingKilla, Steve, Spooner, Brian Curry, Scott Hansen and I headed out to the floaters Friday morning, December 4. The 10 hour trip out was fairly rough, with consistent 6 to 8's.

We trolled for marlin, wahoo and yellowfin without success at the rig prior to dark. That evening we caught 15 nice yellowfin, mostly in the 60 to 90# class. Most of the fish were caught on castnetted flying fish. We also got 5 decent dolphin and a lot of blackfin.

The yellowfin were thick but incredibly picky, turning down live bait, sardines, topwaters, chunk baits, and artificial flying fish. Spooner did hook 3 nice yellowfin on his new 6 ounce offshore lure.

At any given time, you could see several HUGE tuna in the lights next to the boat. Whenever a flying fish would come around, the water would erupt as the tuna fought over the meal. Actually, whenever we would see a flyer, we would try to castnet it before the tuna ate it. KingKilla threw a castnet on a flyer and accidently netted a yellowfin, which obviously was not landed and messed up the net. My biggest yellowfin was caught on a flyer which flew into the boat. I pounced on it like it was gold, put it out, and had a yellowfin on in 15 seconds. During the night, a storm came through with driving rain and 40 knot winds, bouncing us around pretty good.

The next morning, we headed to the inshore rigs to catch some AJ's. We hit 3 rigs pretty quickly, picking off a few here and there. Aggie got a nice ling at the second rig. At the final rig, we slammed the AJ's, catching the boat limit (30) in about an hour. I caught what I thought was a real nice one, until Matt pulled up a MONSTER AJ.

That night, we headed back out for some more yellowfin, but only managed a nice Almaco jack and a bunch of blackfin.

Overall, we ended up with a ton of fish (almost literally): 15 yellowfin, 39 blackfin, 30 AJ's, 5 dolphin, 1 ling and 1 Almaco. After cleaning them, we had about 600 pounds of fillets.

Thanks to the guys at Deep Sea Headquarters for another fine trip. KingKilla, Aggie and some of the other guys have some sweet pics of their tuna, which hopefully they will post.

Old salt

[am3]

sounds like a hell of a fishing trip.

[C.A. Golla]

Way to go Old Salt & Gang!

Now let me say again, if you guys are a little short on freezer space I'd be more than glad to help. Or maybe we could trade?
1) Flounder for Tuna stakes
2) Smoked Mac for Tuna stakes
3) Axis stakes for Tuna stakes
4) Deer back-strap for Tuna stakes
5) Elk stakes for Tuna stakes
6) Dried Deer sausage for Tuna stakes
7) Home made fig jelly for Tuna stakes
8) Home made dill pickels for Tuna stakes
9) Home made wine for Tuna stakes
10) Stone or Blue Crabs for Tuna stakes
11) BDO's or BDOIT"S for Tuna Stakes

Note: BDO= Bait delivery operators
BDOIT= Bait delivery operator in training

Just kidding!

Great report as always and thanks for sharing,
Charlie

[Old salt]

Wow Charlie. You and your family always eat well! Give me a call and we can discuss the situation, buddy.

[Oz]

You guys tore them up!!!


CONGRATS GUYS!! simply awesome.


I finally got the pics up w/ the report Scott, sorry for the delay. I wish I was able to go with you guys.. next time though for sure. I'll have to stick to the ribbonfish slaughter for now.


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- Oz

eXtreme coast international

[Old salt]

Thanks Oz! Wish you had gone with us bud, but I'm sure many cool offshore (and beach) adventures await us.

[am3]

damn now thats a fish.