Day 9 (Friday): Early morning trip with Tom, AKR, and me on the Down-Time. We had one small blackfin tuna on early which I promptly tried to surf into the boat without success; fishing North of the Lighthouse, chasing birds, then chasing a "bat-man", and dealing with offshore weeds (of the right kind finally) out to the bridge without a single other real knockdown.
Ran in to pick up the next fishing crews and boats for live bait catching, using our newly found land crab chumming technique, and fantastic "silversides" for bait, or the live bait Trey, Laura, and Andrew caught under the docks near Taloo. The last bottom fishing trip we caught 30+ livies (grunts, sargent majors, yellowtails, etc.), and this morning we caught another 20 or so prior to running off-shore to get out of a rainshower.
All three boats went out. The T/T My-time caught alot of smaller strawberry grouper, lost a couple of big ones in holes, and Laura caught a very nice trigger, Trey a nice eating size grouper, and the captain the largest yellow-tail I've every caught... all on light tackle in a boat with no modern electronics. The fish-boy on the Playin Thru did his usual nice grouper catch... very nice naussa grouper, and fought another one under a rock for a long...long time. The Down Time was having a "downtime" while going 0 for 0 as the fish story goes, despite the hard work of the crew. Great time and a slick ocean. The fish was all cleaned and given to Junior at the marina for the goodwill investment.
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Glad the trip home went well. I've got tomorrow off so I'm heading out for some trolling near shore. Last weekend a guy at work caught a nice sailfish 9 miles south of the pass while there was talk of another at 3 miles south. i'll see what I can rig up for that and the more likely kings and maybe dorado.
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