Still Thinkin

[Aquatrax]

What chance does a Vah Beah outboarder have against the mighty O/I fleet? Got a call from Bob Dubell last night who fished in that Tuna Tournament out of Oregon Inlet Friday and Saturday. Showing again that you always have a punchers chance in fishing the "Still Thinkin" crew had the second place tuna and the second place 3 fish total for the tourney. Bob's 106 lb big eye was only 1/2 lb shy of the leader. They were really stoked and on their way to the party last night. I'll let Bob fill in the blanks. Dave

[jgray]

That's great. Congrats to Bob and crew for getting it done on a smaller boat.

[Chumlord]

WTG!!!!

[surfperch1]

Way to go guys. I have seen you out there putting your time in. Congrats!

[bobdu11]

thanks...we had a couple of good days of fishing.....On Friday we decided to check out that body of warm water out at the 800 line in the deep. water/break looked good, lots of life and marks....right after we put our spread out a Monster slob of a fish crashed my shotgun spreader bar but didn't come tight...he was big....lots of marks out there but that was the only Tuna we saw...did catch a couple of small gaffers....Decided at about 10:15 to hit the 700 line in 100 fathoms where we had caught a bunch the week prior..while running in at about 500 fathoms we saw a couple of charter boys stopped and looked like they were bailing dolphin off the bow....Not Dolphin...50# class YFT..they were on top destroying some little tinker mackerals and the charter boys were netting bait and live baiting them....we circled and circled around them and pulled 4 nice fish off that bunch of fish...Friday was epic..the most air time I've ever seen for the Tuna they were flying everywhere....anyways...we ended up weighting in a 55, 50 and 43 for 148# for the first day....put us in 10th place..

Talked that night and decided it was going to be quality vice quantity on Saturday so we rigged all big baits and islanders to try and get a Big-eye bite....had the big bars and big islanders out all day....only had two hits...first one was a 45# YFT on the pink spreader bar shotgun....2nd 1 was the money fish...he half spooled a 50 with about 20 pounds of drag set and it was on....we harnessed up Steady and he put a hurting on the fish and his back !...he fought for about 35 minutes before we got color....we were all business until we actually got the fish in the boat.....Mike Winner stuck him in the throat and Otter was right behind him with a 2nd gaff shot to the head....got him in the boat and it was party time....he ended up going 106#...nice fish .....we fished until three (lines out) with only a couple more hits but nothing came tight.....Ended up with 3 fish cumulative 211 pounds which put us in 2nd place by 4 pounds......big fish 106 and somebody had a 106.5, half a dam pound !...but we were stoked....the winner board looked pretty funny


1st place "first Crack" 55 Spencer 215 pounds
2nd place "Still Think'n" 28 Southport outboard 211 pounds
3rd place "Sea Wolfe" 65 foot something (Hatteras) 205 pounds

We got 2nd biggest 3 fish, 2nd biggest fish and 1st place outboard divisioin...of course we were the only one in the outboard division !...hahah..but we'll take it.....Good time, good crew...had a few drinks with Bob Sinclair and his crew.....outstanding food and drinks...good run tournament.....Bob

Team Still Think'n

[TommyTuna]

congrats - that's awesome!

[c-note]

nice work bud, we will have to fish it next year. Cant wait for the VB tourney.

[HIT N RUN]

Pretty work. Thats just getting it done for sure.

[alhamilton]

Good work, we saw you come in to OI on friday afternoon and talked to you when you were getting things strieght on the boat WTG......................LEON

[greg 1]

That just points out there is no substitute for experiance in fishing except luck!!! My guess is you guy's had a lot of the first and a little of the second. To place in company with such in expierenced fleet is quite impressive. congrats on win.