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deputydawg · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:59 pm Post subject: Blackfin on the Pelican

I got the opportunity to take a 24 hour trip on the Pelican with Capt. James Wheeler this weekend. I had a great time and was very impressed with the capt, crew, and this trip! Unfortunately my regular camera decided to go bad so I didn't get many pictures. Here's a few random ones I took with my Cell phone.

The group gathered and we left promptly at 7 PM saturday night with high hopes!

Ended up being a very diverse and interesting group of anglers! This "fisherwoman" was a schoolteacher from Austin and was on the trip by herself! Let me tell you she could fish, she schooled me and the rest of the boat on catching huge B Liners!!!

We caught B Liners from around midnight till 6 with most of us catching limits. There some small ones but a lot were the biggest I had ever seen at 3 to 4 lbs. Here's a few of my limit.

As the sun rose it turned into a beautiful morning!

We headed to the first shrimp boat and got busy!

The mates kept the fish busy with some "yummy" chum!

It was a beautiful day!

Here's what we ended up with as a group.

Here's one of my chunky blackfin! I had 5 at 21, 20, 19.5, 19, and 16.5. Really solid beautiful fish and great fighters!

Here's what I brought home. 5 beautiful blackfin, a 2 day limit of b liners, and I kept a few Bonita for a buddy for shark bait. In addition to those i caught probably 6 or 8 AJ's that had to be thrown back. That a shame because some were nice keepers! Also caught way to many Bonita!!! Those dudes can fight!!!

In my opinion it was a GREAT trip! I can't say enough good things about Capt. James. There was absolutely no dead time in this trip. If we wern't fishing we were hauling butt heading to the next spot. He also explained every move we made and why were doing it. Just exceptional service in my mind. The crew was also very good at their jobs. I had absolutely no complaints about the Capt., boat, or crew and would highly recommend it!

Okay maybe I do have one complaint. It's been almost 2 day and my arms still hurt from reeling in fish!!! Very Happy

kweber · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:26 pm Post subject:

dang fine haul, there..
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hickroots07 · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:37 pm Post subject:

So so so so cool. One day I'll get to do that
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deputydawg · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:22 pm Post subject:

shallowsport · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:22 pm Post subject:

Sounds, and looks, like you had a great time. That's a great group to go out with.
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Ice in the chum ice chest? That's the one I fell into on the 12hr on 9/7 and there was no ice in there making it extra stinky! Those are some huge beeliners!

Glad you had a good time. Just wondering Dawg when the crew had a chance to sleep.
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deputydawg · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:37 am Post subject:

rcw · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:01 pm Post subject:

How far out did you guys have to go to find the shrimp boats with BF on them?

ironmanstan · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:30 pm Post subject:

Alright great pics and a nice report. Glad you had a good time and better yet put some tuna in the box. sweet!
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:41 pm Post subject:

Great report, thanks!

Still on my bucket list.....
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deputydawg · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:25 am Post subject:

snakecan2 · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:57 am Post subject:

very nice post. wish i could have been on that trip...hopefully the next one
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