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[captjameswheeler]

I took 10 people out Friday morning and made the run to Discovery India for the first night. Got there and saw no bait and no boilers, even though I was marking a TON of fish. Tried all sides of the ship for 4 good drifts that only gave me 5 YFT. Was kinda disconcerting since my 3rd cast caught a YFT on a popper. Drove to the other drill ship and was given a half mile CPA and was bummed. started a 20 minute drift a half mile to the side of it where I was marking a few, and saw a handfull of YFT on the first drift. Decided to make one more drift on the same line just to see before tucking tail and running 28 miles to Gunnison. Then the first part of the front hit. We were covered in HARD rain and wind when we started seeing sky rockets with yellow sickles about 5 miles from the ship... Anyway, for the next 3 hours we drifted with a non stop bite on everything in the hardest rain you've ever fished in... it was pretty awesome.... we had a simultaneous hook up of 7 topwaters on the same cast and they were all over 100# ... anyway in 2 hours we threw 25 YFT In the box and probably lost 40 or so... at least a dozen we lost were in the 130 - 160 range and we lost one after 3 hours that was every bit of 180#. all But 2 were lost fair and square after long fights, not angler f ups... ...



Anyway at day light it didn't seam feasible to troll around with the .5 mile CPA so we motored to Nancen with one dorado in between. We caught one YFT at Nancen trolling and then hooked into a huge fish that we fought for 3 hours. I thought we had the one since it was just dragging us around on my T Rex pushing 80+ lbs of drag on it trying to either land it or bust it so we could start fishing again. When it came up it was a dead blue that had never jumped... around 400#...felt bad boating it since I haven't killed one since the 90s, but better than letting the crabs have it.... anyway, about that time the real storm hit.



We started our first night drift at Nancen, with the wind blowing a steady 35+ kts.... casting topwater was very easy lol.... Anyway, I figured it would be a bust, but suddenly the water was full of fliers and YFT.... Everyone that put anything in the water was bit. We lost 2 more good ones, but got our final 4 with the largest at 118# in the next hour.



After our limit of YFT we decided to head on home, whew good decision... we had the next 13 hours with 6-7 very steep seas almost directly on our stbd side for the ride home, instead of the 4-6rs off our stbd corner that the radio had predicted....

Home safe and sound and sore and tired at 7 AM this morning for a very decent rough water catch!



There are still 6 openings for Fri the 20th trip and we need 4 for it to go, If you want to come to the end of the world with me to have a shot at some massive YFT call Deep Sea Headquarters at 361-749-5597



Capt James

[awesum]

What an awesome trip! my aging bod wouldn't last long with those big girls .... no suh. I'll stick to those 50 - 75 pounders, thankyou

[shallowsport]

WOW!!!
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[Stinger-A]

How long of a trip is this? We are scheduled a 24 hour trip in Feb with DSH. May have to lengthen the trip a little.
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