Saturday OI

[Carson MAC]

Connor and I trailered the boat down to OI Friday night and met up with Jay and Mike Voci. Stayed in Hatteras Campground, nice place with fish cleaning station. Got to the ramp at 4:45 with intentions of being the first boat out to the Point. Seems like everyone else had the same idea. We finally make it throught the maze of the inlet and its calm seas to the point. We were running 40 mph and passed about twenty boats. Lines in about 6.30 and we troll over the point and SE. Water was 78-80 degrees. No tuna bites for the first two hours and I didn't see many boats hooked up. Finally planner goes off and a gaffer mahi skys out of the water. Don't know what happened but the fish comes unglued. A couple minutes later I hear Capt BC on the radio talking about how bad luck it is to lose your first fish. ^$%$&^%. Back to trolling, planner gets bit again and we get a baffer in the boat. Trolled over the best looking slick I have ever seen, no takers, and water still hot. Connor and I start seeing the Charters packing up and running North. I have been thinking about looking for cooler water anyway so we follow. At about the 650 line I am wondering were the f we are going. We ran for about 20 NM north all the way to the 825 line. Lines in and all hell breaks lose.

We had only three lines out and all three go screaming, definetly the tuna bites we were looking for. Free spool a naked back and it gets bite. Connor's tuna is not slowing and its going to spool a tld50 if we don't do something. Can't turn becuase we have four on and Connor starts to thumb the drag. Hook pulls so we will never know how big, but it was real big. That's fishing though and we got the other three in. Meat in the box and we are all smiles and high fives. Back to trolling. I think we got two lines out and bam, both down. One is a good fish on the bird/gm. Some moron put the bird on the 6ot Senator. The fish kicks Connors ass but we get both in the box. 5 tunas, 45 minutes into trolling. Finally get all the roads out and troll for another five minutes without a bite, what the hell. Bird goes off again. I'm up and who gets who gets the bird? #$%$%$%. 45 minutes later, 40# in the box and I switch the bird to a Penn50. First line back in is the bird and it gets 20 yards back before big explosion and Jay almost gets pulled in. 20 minutes later 55# tuna in the box. No more 6ots on the bird ever. Highlight of my day was feeding a short bite naked to a 60# tuna. He finally ate it on the second drop back. He took off a lot of line but we got him in before long. Caught fifteen tunas up to 60# and 2 mahis. The tunas were deep and we caught all our fish AWAY from the fleet. They were two miles north and ended up the day fishing near us. We covered the same water and had non stop action till the fleet joined us. The tuna hit mostly green machines on bars and the bird. The bird was hot early as was the planner/spoon. Ended up with the spreader bar being hot with my secret weapon doing major damage too, (and it wasn't a flying fish dropper). Great day on the water and thanks to whoever called the fleet up. Also want to thank Mike for his accident and ceremonial throwing of the drawers into the deep blue. It really seemed to raise the tunas up. Oh, and when we fileted the tuna, squids were on the menu.

Cmac

[surfperch1]

You crushed them alright. Glad to hear you did well. Even the fleet had a hard day of it.

[HIT N RUN]

Fantastic!! I knew they would be there. Man why couldn't fathers day of been next week. Tuna at the 850 comping squid. This is great news. Bill [excited][excited]

[jimmy k]

NICEEEEEEEE...Pretty work .........

[c-note]

The fleet that was with us probably did pretty well. They looked to be stopped alot. I think the key to our success was multiple hookups coming away from the fleet. I heard alot of single bites on the radio. Water temps were 73 and we were in 50 fathoms. Water was deep blue and clear.

(Carson again posting from Connor's computer)

[JUGGERNAUT II]

Great work guys.....Good to hear that picking up and running paid off big time for ya.....

Kelly "JUGGERNAUT"

[c-note]

I just want to say thanks to the crew. Everyone worked thier a$$es off when the action got hot. Carson jigged two of our biggest tuna after the initial strike which was sweet to watch. The coolest part of the trip for me was the tuna were very aggressive and the boils on the baits were huge. Tword the end of the day we ran two spreader bars down the middle the bonita would sky out of the water on the spreaders and a large yellow would crash the "secret weapon" chase bait. Carson set this up as well. Cleaning the fish I found many 6-8 inch squids. Some tuna had 7-8 in thier bellies. My highlight of the day had to be when Jay we letting the bird back and a strike almost ripped it out of his hand. Speaking of Jay he has been offshore twice. First in November when we caught 14 tuna betwwen 50-70 half on the chunck and yesterday with 15. That has the beginning of a shoe written all over it. It was great to see Carson getting the meat in the box. My brother is becoming a great fisherman and is fun to watch. If anyone chunked overnight last night I bet they had an incredible night. We almost went back. Its time for some tuna steaks on the grill.

[Ben S]

Great job!

I wish I was there so bad I don't know what to do!!!!

Ben

[bonedaddy25]

Thanks for the report

[john pearce]

nice job, good decision to run with the fleet sometimes, any pics?