We cleared the Inlet at 0430 with Capt Scott (On Course Charters) and Colt to a flat calm sea. Head to the 680 line. Dropped in on a temp break that went from 66-77 degree marked the break with MOB and starting putting the spread in on the 50 fathom line. (SST Online AM SAT shot was spot on..... Great Service guys!) Get the spread out and started working to the MOB mark, shot gun rod gets hammered, nice class of fish started getting Scott in the belt and the line snaps.... Damn, not the way I wanted to start day! For the first hour and half went 2 for 6 on Tuna (ended up with one YFT and one BlackFin) Trolled the rest of the day and picked up a Mahi with several other mystery knock downs (most likely mahi) on an awesome looking slick line... Lots of life, a bunch of Fat Alberts breaking on the surface.... Got to spend a beautiful day on the water with a great crew! I am sure Capt Scott will post some pics....

Phil

Nice work guys! I was out there with the fleet on a buddy's boat. We ended up with 3 Blackfin and missed a few as well, all on planers with tuna feathers. It was frustrating seeing tuna skying around the boat but not eating and we also came across a patch of weed with bailers but they wouldn't eat either. The weather was perfect.

Yeah we had BIG A$$ tuna crash the surface right next to the boat. He sure was pretty.... Planer rod! Damn... I didn't put it out with all the surface activity.

NIce job guys....beautiful weather and fish make a great combination !...>Good job...Bob

good job

About the same down south fished the 490 down to 470 two yellow's 4 black's.

Nice job Phil at least you got off the dock.

We were out there too. Started somewhere around the 700 and went south. Got 2 alberts early and thought it's starting but then nothing for hours. Put the planer down later and got our only meat for the day a nice wahoo. Seas couldn't have been any nicer, running out at 38 knots and back in at 33. Watching the whales and tuna busting all around helped make it a beautiful day on the water. If I had brought my spear gun I could have just jumped in the 80+F water and shot a few of those tuna busting around us. One day I will try that. Martin

Did you try a rebel popper? Pulling up to busting fish and casting into them has worked for me ....

We did some experimenting once on some busting tuna that wouldn't bite ..... they were feeding on little minnows (not sure what kind). Closest thing we had OB that resembled them were our little clark spoons. Whipped out the light tackle and it worked! Got hookups, but the hook wasn't strong enough. Went through all my clark's pretty quick.

IV also had luck throwing diamond jigs into them and jigging while retrieving ..... when they won't take anything else...

Great day on the water with good friends!!

As Phil stated before, ran out of the inlet to flat seas and it stayed that way all day. When we left the water temps were 55 inside and Phil found the temp break right on the money. (Thanks Capt. Tony at SST). It was like we had arrived in the bahamas. Sweatshirts & Foul Weather gear came off.

Big man "Colt" had the shotgun get blasted right off the bat. The big Penn 80 was a howling!! Then the line snapped. Picked up a nice yellowfin and then a Blackfin in the break. Then it was small blackfin and fat alberts until we found a couple mahi. Lost one and caught one.

As we were trolling thru an awesome slick we had a MONSTER tuna crash with 10 yards of the boat. This immediately engauged the pucker factor. However nothing came out of it.

Rode back on the G&H Cape Horn at Mach 1, and enjoyed some fresh sushi for dinner.

Thanks Phil & Colt.....................Awesome day Amegios!!!!

Pics to follow!!!

Thanks for a great trip goes out to Phil and Capt. Scott. The water was alive...jelly fish, minnows, sun fish, rays, tuna and mahi skying all around the boat, a bill or two messing with the spread. That 80 degree water was amazing.

Congrats on the fish guys. Tony you are right when they are feeding on those sardines or smaller bait I stole a trick from Conch. I pull or throw 6'' Bass Assassins with heavy duty jigheads and hooks. I even convinced Still Think'n one day to pull it on the the flat short ( well I actually put it out without telling him ) and almost imediately hooked up with a nice gaffer. Think outside the box and match the hatch even offshore.
Todd

Right, if the fish are there and NO ONE is hooking up try something off the wall. One June we found a HUGE school of bluefins on the surface about 15 miles off OI and they were not feeding or biting. The charter boats stopped and trolled pass them on there way out without much success. A couple jigged drones along the edge on the school and got an occupational hook up.

After a while we where by ourselves on the biggest school of tuna I've ever seen. I mean these things changed the water color as far as you could see. Once everybody else had left I quit trolling the edge and eased right into the middle of them and cut the engine off. You could see these refrigerators swimming under the boat. We started casting large sting silvers and med to large diamond jigs and wham! We used 30 pound test on Penn slammers. We olny caught one because everytime we hooked up the other other fish brushed our tight line and broke us off. The fish were in the 100-150 pound class.

We were just SE of the 60 degree tower. Will never forget that scene!