Decided late last night to make a run today before the wex turned bad. Went out to the 440 line where the break went from 72 - 77 within a mile. Found a huge weedline and trolled it for a while, pulled 10 really nice dolphinn off that weed line. made a turn through the canyon and picked up a skippy. Ran through Waynes world, very slow, we saw one school of YFT but they went down by the time we got to em. Decided to go back to the weedline and get some more Mahi. Long story short, bailed 33 Dolphin and most of them were gaffers.

Had Don, Dave (billable), Brian Stedman, Otter onboard. I'm sure Don will have more details as he wrote everything down !......Here's a couple of shots...Bob

good stuff guys! i was that guy inside rudee inlet that yelled at you from a boat. me and jimmy (jimbob) were out there messing around with the spot. the one you held up looked pretty damn good. congrats on the catch!

Awesome trip. While we were cleaning the boat we found blood everywhere.

Great guys to fish with.

Thanks for the mahem

-Otter

Thank's for the report bob meat on the table,are you guy's going next weekend

Wow! Great work. Sounds like it was a blood bath!

Look's like you all had a great time and some good table fare to boot.

Nice job to Capt. and crew.

Ray

I expect no one but the today's crew to get this but........ it was the best Mahi fishing since that day back in 1984. Check the record books and magazines!

Had a blast all day turning that beautiful yellow Southport rig blood red.

Nice work guys! Glad you hooked up. Looks like the Mahi are getting bigger and other reports show some YFT are getting more frequent.

I obeyed the NOAA forcast and went surfing instead of fishing. Sounded like it was going to get too big for my britches (23 CC) but after all the reports - I SHOULD HAVE GONE FISHING

To make things worse, I'm booked for non-fishing events both days next weekend. I may try to sneak out on Fri or Mon if possible.

Bob and crew,
thanks for the call to go! This was one of those times where we out smarted the weather man, but by days end, you could tell it was going to get really nasty. If we stayed an hour longer, it would not have been pretty.

It was great first thing to have 3 spreader bars get knocked by cutting dolphin. We had 2 rainbow spreaders out and a pink squid bar that Billable had put together. The dolphin were crashing the spread from under the weeds and you'd see their dorsals as they raced acrossed!! Hot baits on the troll were Blue/White Get Reel Conga Line and the rainbow spreader bars of Bob's. On the bail we used ballyhoo, shrimp, skipjack belly, then skipjack guts, then skip jack. It was aweseom to see a school of over 100 baffer dolphin under the boat, all between 10 and 15 pounds. Even chunked up a Sun Fish, aka Mola Mola!.

Thought we were going to get into the tuna thick when we saw several leaping out of the water, but..not to be.

Great fishing with you guys!!

Andrew, thanks for the victory salute on the way in. How'd you guys do??


PS I've got some action shots I'll post once I get the pics developed...digital

Bob,
Thanks for the opportunity to fish with you guys and enjoy the Southport! While I missed the hot breakfast sandwiches from the galley, it sure was nice to get out to the fishing an hour earlier via the smooth, fast run from Still Thinkin. You and the crew worked the boat to perfection, and the comaraderie was first class. A fishing day to remember and be thankful for. Your wife is a fish-packaging machine, and she had her work cut out for her yesterday! Thanks again.
Tight lines.
Dave

Pretty work Bob and crew!

What? And I thought sweet 16 powdered doughnuts were as good as it gets!!

Nice job boys wish i coulda been witcha!!! Maybe next week.
-Mike

Nice dolphin and beautiful boat. Hopefully I'll get back out there soon. I've never caught that many at once. Looks like you guys kicked ass.

Great job guys...Thanks for calling me !

we did ok, bunch of decent spot, we were mainly out there to take jimmy's son fishing, i more or less went along for the ride. glad you guys did good.

can't wait to see the pics!

Pretty work guys all that fun and some fine meat for the grill as well!! Sorry I couldn't make it but duty called and I'm back in South Dakota. One of the locals told me this morning that he caught a 5 pound small mouth in the river last week. I told him to bring it on over and I'll teach him how to rig it on a bridle for marlin. I'm not real popular with the natives now.... Looking forward one day to a ride in that rapidly becoming ledgendary Southport Bob. Catch'em up gentlemen!

Fishard - no,fishing for me next weekend... gotta go out of town, should be a good weekend if the seas lay down...

Dave - great having you onboard, hope your "butt" feels OK today !....You have officially fished on Still Think'n when you hear the Rev Limiters

Jeff - Sorry buddy...it was a late night call and had 4 people already lined up..You know I'll get you out there When the Tooner come home (they're on their way, this is just the first fall wave)

Don...great having you onboard as always...great job fileting those Mahi last night...oh yea...nice job on the underway cleaning of the skippy, we got ever piece of meat off that guy to feed the dolphin...

otter...as always great job....I'm glad we got to fly the beer flag upside down again !.....

Brian...great job yesterday...roger on catching 5300 tuna back in 84 that was in the magazine the other day back in the day ...all that chatter on the radio definately kept the day interesting !......bob

Bob,

No problem!! Thank Jeanette for bagging up those fillets. I put them on the scale and we must have well over 110 pounds of fillets between the 5 of us...neighbors are going to be happy!!

What were you doing cruising the Oceanfront at 3:30 this afternoon?? Ocean was ugly, Huh?!?!

Great looking catch ya'll... Good to hear someone is able to go fishin' with the weather getting nasty again. See ya at the M&G

Tight Lines
Mark

I was seeing if I could get out and do some King Fishing....No Go today !....

MM, you ought to take advantage of being in SD and ask that guy to take you fishing. A 5 lb smallie is an acomplishment and a lot of fun.

Great Job Guys!!!!!!!!! Thats the kind of day we all DREAM OF!!!!!! But rarely get.

Nice job guys!!

I guess you did not have any bannana's on board

Wish I could go fishing, but we are working on building a house so there go's all the extra $$$.

Oh well I still have half a freezer full of fish.



Todd

You're absolutely right Splitshot. A 5 lb smallie is a catch of a lifetime. Best I've ever done was about 3 lbs up on the James River. I'll have to bring some gear with me next time.

Here's some action shots from the trip. I miss my digital camera!!

Great day!! I'm envious.