OC Report - Tues

[Mako22]

Short report - 1 mahi, no tuna.

Left the dock in OC around 9:30 monday night, stopped at harborside for dinner, then rolled out to the Fingers for the night. No hotel room, so figured we'd just head out and catch some sleep on the inshore grounds, and be on scene and ready at first light.

Set the rods for the night at about 12:30, put out a glow light and had tons of jellyfish, but not a whole lot of squid. Pretty good marks, though. Nothing overnight (not too surprising), and chunked in the morning until about 7:00 or so. Switched over to trolling, and gave the BFT another shot - no dice.

At about 9, rolled out to about 6-7 miles outside of the Hot Dog, where we stopped on hundreds of tuna birds and whales - - too much life not to stop, even though we had wanted to make it out to 60 fa or so. Fished the area for a couple hours, with tuna birds everywhere, whales abounding, and YFT skying out as well. Probably saw at least 8-10 YFT skying out. Could only manage 1 Mahi in this area for a few hours effort. Green/gray blended water. Heard of a few tuna caught, so we rolled out to about 60 fa, had deep blue water around the pots. Didn't see nearly the amount of life, and the boats we saw were widely scattered, so we trolled back in to where we were before - gave it another shot, then ran home at about 2:00.

Stopped at the fingers on the way in for a short troll hoping for a BFT. Struck out on that one, too.

Oh well. Great day on the water - felt like we made the right calls, but it just didn't happen.

[DLKster]

You should have gone to the Sausages!

We left the inlet at 0430, and started trolling around 0620 at the 20 fathom line south of the fingers. Picked up a peanut dolphin.
At the intermediate sausage (between the middle and baby)
we hooked a white marlin, that busted the leader after about
20 leaps. 20 minutes later we got a 60lb BFT, followed by a 16 lb bull dolphin. All over by 10:15. Trolled in to the Jack Spot -- nothing.

pictures are posted at www.woodyboater.com
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Dave[/b]

[krabill]

DLKster,

You have to tell us more about your boat? Is that really what you ran out with the other day?

Any electronics on it?

What year is she?

[DLKster]

The boat is a 1954 Chris Craft Sea Skiff 22 footer with the original flathead 6 cylinder 95 HP marinized Hercules tractor engine. I have a hand held radio and GPS, also a SPOT messenger device. Tuesday's trip was 110 miles RT to Fenwick Island, and it cruises at about 15 kt. Top speed is about 20, but there is no point to push it. I burned +/- 30 gallons of gas, including down the bay, out the inlet and to the 20 fathom line south of the Fingers east of Twin Wrecks, trolled to the sausages and back to the Jack Spot, ran home from there. BTW we had a planer down and were trolling really slow when the WM, BFT and Dolphin hit.

Sorry I don't have pix on my laptop -- the movie of the restoration is on you-tube but they took out the sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8gFd--Ldco

tight lines - Dave