Short trip out 12.20.07 around noon til 4:00 with PGP. I've never seen the sonar so loaded with fish. The jig wouldn't reach the bottom before it was hit multiple times. Jigged up a load of nice 12"+ BSB and three times as many released. One nice 45 lb drum, and 40 blue fish. Just a nice afternoon on the water and sauteed BSB for dinner.

We scheduled a departure for 5:00 AM and attempted to leave the dock in a thick, thick, fog. Visability 100 yards... at best. We arrived back at the dock at 5:30 and redeparted when the fog lifted briefly only to see the fog to settle back on top of us at the mouth of Broad Creek at 6:45. After turning the corner at South Beach we continued another 30 miles in the thick fog with no visibility until we broke out in the beautiful sunshine as you can see with the photos! Nice day on the water, but we had some disapointing tackle failures. A new crewmember's knot unraveled on a nice fish, and a leader broke when the drag was too tight on the steel cable line down deep with a wahoo lure on a BIG fish. We picked up some fun 15lb little tunny, and fought a couple of nice amberjack. One cobia, a school of dolphin around R-8 which came up in our chum, but wouldn't bite and not too much on the bottom fishing as we didn't have time to get on the good numbers. As Tom would say, I may have "cut" someone off who ended up in our "fishing zone", but my appologies as our plan was to troll around R-8 then bottom fish in that location (Marsh Monkey seen in photo). I think I was forgiven.

We had hoped the fog had lifted the island, but to our disappointment we hit the fog AGAIN 30 miles from South Beach and dealt with that all the way back to the island to 300 yards into Calibogue sound where we imerged from the fog wall. It was an amazing site for Hilton Head. I'd never experienced this zero visibility into bright sunlight, but the sun was a relief. Ended up back at the dock at sunset 5:30. Nice day on the water, but I can do without the fog!