OI may 31 billfish starting to show

[HIT N RUN]

Boat: Reel Fancy
Crew: Bert, Joey, Tilley, Bryan, Jeremy and Me

Fished with buddy boat Poor Boys Toy & later with others, from the 600-650 in 71.5-73.5 degree clean aqua green blend. Had a good stretch of virgin sulfur/dead/older grass edge to fish in the am & we both managed a good # of early morning bites form the gaffers. Later we spread out & found some mammals on the 615-620 overboard & managed a handful of Yellowfin bites from repeated passes along the leading edge of a pod of 2 tones moving south like wild fire. Only held 1though.:helpsmilie: Must have been smaller class based on the misses + the overall size of the one we boxed but were cool to see regardless, darting through the flats & shorts. The high light of the day for me was seeing 2 separate shots at billfish. One only window shopped my right long but wouldn't commit despite my best repeated attempts while the snd blind sided us on the left middle & took to the air before pulling the hook. Both looked to be nice fish. Oh well. Kept us on the edge of our seats if nothing else.:rolleyes: All in all another beautiful day on the water out of OI. Man I can never get enough. Can't wait to get back next weekend. See you then. Good fishing with all the buddy boats today!!!!:fishing2:


Jeremy's first ever tuna.:thumbup:
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Dock Shot
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[TAT-TUNA]

Pretty work once again Bill and crew..Good talking to ya out there..

[c-note]

Nice fishin brotha I didn't even sniff my boat which sucked may fish the next two weekends...

[The Mitigator]

Great looking fish. Sounds like alot of fun. Hope I do as well in July.
Chuck

[striper_on]

WTG Bill and crew

[Rebel]

Nice work Bill and crew!!

[want dem reds]

Thanks again Bill...
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As smooth as the atlantic gets...

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[hd232]

Great work on the dolphins guys. Bill looks like Blue Suites were around pretty good this weekend. Didn't try the greenstick this weekend?

[whitebite]

nice - congrats on a good day

[jfish]

Bill,

We started alittle further south down at the 400 with the same sulfur/dead grass. Found a steady gaffer bite for the first couple of hours and like you mentioned had a few bills showing. Had one all over a short rigger but couldn't get a a hook up or a good view to see what it was exactly? Could see the bill but never got hooked up. Later on saw one free jumping several hundred yards out behind the boat either a small blue or a white. Heard one guy on the radio saying he saw five.

Did have a first at least for our crew. We worked inshore and there was about a mile of cooler 68-69 water in between 72-74 water. As we crossed through seven lines went down. For a few moments I'm thinking pay dirt. As we start working our way through I see the first fish coming up and its a Reef Donkey. Apparently we crossed over a big school and they covered us up. Fun to watch and great practice but not what I was hoping for. 7 for 7 on those guys,, why can't we do that when it's Charlie?

Finished the day with some tiles and SB.

[J_MAN]

Nice work Bill.
I am going to be back in Ohio for about a week starting Thursday but then will be looking for a ride.

Jason

[alhamilton]

:thumbup::thumbup:Bill and crew, great day we ended up with 10 nice gaffers missed some and had a wahoo bite off on the planner and missed another. Have issues with starbard motor not starting will try to resolve this week thought it would not start Sunday but finally it did now it will not start at all. Suppose to have a mechanic tomorrow will try to resolve.


LEON :thumbup:

[pipeworks]

Looks like a Lake out there.great job guys.Hope to get out in the blue soon.

[jengel]

Was it that calm the entire day? Awesome pics, congrats on the first tuna! Looking forward to this weekend

[joenboo]

Thanks again Billy for another great day on the water with a great crew and Capt. Next time we’ll be prepared with a drop back bait for that billfish. Good work with the gaff on those Dolphin Tilley, I feel bad I interrupted the fine job you were doing, sorry bout that.
Joey