We took a charter of 4 to the Blue today looking for their first AJ experance. We put to sea with 5 doz spot and croaker in the well to make their last trip and a energetic crew that was ready to do battle. We cleared the cape and started our 50 mile trip to the tower into a head on sea (thanks for missing the forcast again NOAA) so we slowly plowed our way to the spot. After 3 long hours we saw the erie shape of the tower loom out of the smoke and we pulled back the sticks and gotthe rods ready. Made one pass around to mark the fish and it looked like they were READY nothing but streaks headed up to see what the noise on top was. Out went 4 live baits and down went 4 rod tips in seconds and it remained that way all day we jigged, live baited and then i got told that there were two spinning rods that i needed to put through the ringer so we grabed a big zara spook and within 3 ft of walking the dog a 52 in AJ crushes it so i put the stops to it and after a 15 min battle we grab him then we did the same a few more times and switched to a jig and continued to crush them. Around 1:30 the charter said somthing like we catch one more and i'll have a stroke so we pointed the bow north to hit a few bouys on the way back among other things. When we got to the first few bouys we saw a trio of cobia swimming around the bouy but were being picky then the phone rings. One of the other Charter Capts at the dock was watching the weather and saw a set of boomers heaeded right down our gullets. so we bagged it and started to play dodge the storms all the 12 miles back to the dock.

Final Tally
28 Amberjack to 52 inches
1 sore crew the next day

Way to go Capt!! Sounds like a battle-royale with a mess of Reef Donkeys...congrats!!

That sounds great, but 33 hours?

Yah yah i know i suck i got a case of the turbo finger on that one LOL