Phenomenal week of fishing: "After fishing four straight days on private boats (with Recess on Saturday) I was fortunate enough to be invited to fish on the Annie Girl with Captain Mike Rowell out of Zekes on a 36 hour trip. We left Zeke's Tuesday morning at 6:00 AM. The plan was to head out and put the smack down on some yellow fin, bottom fish and hopefully pick up a Marlin. I had to convince one of the newbies that he needed to leave his bannans on the dock, first crisis avoided. We pick up several hundred live baits thanks to our deck hand Nick.
We left the pass and were met with seas less than one foot. We head South and pick up 10 AJ's on our first spot in about 25 minutes. Lets just say that the Amberjacks were very willing to take an ice bath. Captain Mike has a meeting with the crew to see if we want to make a change in plans since no one was catching much around Horn mountain or the Deep Water Natluis. We decide to go to the Southwest in search of better water. At 16.8 knots we were in for a long ride but we had high hopes and boy were we ever rewarded. Finally after being in green water with no life we get into cobalt blue water. We pull up to a rig that was 20 miles short of our destination and put lines in.
It doesn't take long to figure out that we don't need to go any further. Bait is running on the upcurrent side of the rig and yellow fin are starting to roll everywhere. After a few laps with only a small skippy to show for our efforrs we pull the lines in and try to kite fish but there just wasn't enough wind so we decide to get a chunk line going. It wasn't long before it was non stop action for the next six hours. I'll just let the pictures do the talking now.
First Tuna hooked up most were caught on penn 50 wides. The water color was amazing you could see at least 50 feet down."
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