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jaredchasteen · 01-21-2007, 10:03 AM

The trip was a sucsess in my book, we came hgome with fish just not as much as usual. The first day was fun with only 3 anglers plus the captain on board. The ticket on the first day was a carolina rigged pogy, freakin insane. i think the sinker wouls slide down the line and dislodge the circle hook. We lost about 4 yft on this setup after about 30 seconds but at least it was producing. When the bite was slow we were trying everything even using water bottles as bobbers(which did produce a strike). Ocean tackle wqas kindf enough to give us some jigs to try out, i didnt get to fish them however the first day NIck caught a king(one of two that we saw the entire time) and several bonita on them, as well as got wahoood on one. The wahoo were all over our slick the first day as we lost at least 15 hooks. At the end of the day we trolled for 25 mins to see if the wahoo wanted some lures. WE had a double knockdown and both came unbuttoned. While we were trolling we saw a school of HUGE tuna crashing topwater for about 20 seconds they wre larger models creating splashes 10 ft high. I think there was only one or two boats at the lump that had fish over 100 that day.

On the second day we awoke to drizzle and a north wind, i should have called it but i didnt know that half of my crew would react to large seas. When we broke the jetties we were greeted with a nice 1.5 ft wind chop that made the ride very uncomfortable. This was protected waters so we werent even in the rough stuff yet. The seas were a sloid 4 untill we reached wd143 and the blue water were it was 6s with a few 8 thrown in. Capt set up anchor and i started chummin with day old pogies(i still stink). First chunk produces a bonita so it looks promiosing, we put a few more in the boat then we get a good strike and give the rod to don since me and bret caught on the first day(this was a mistake) it was a wahoo that i hoookes at least 100 yards back before don knew what was going on it had already went 50 yards in front of the boat, no pressure kept on him you guys know what happens next. he fell twice while on this fish with a tiagra 50w on a cape fear fod nouncing on the deck. Captain wasnt pleased that people couldnt stand up and i think we knew then but decided to try and stick it out a little longer. Me and bret then took over all chunking and chumming duties as our crew just couldnt stand up in 6 ft seas. This day would have produed good action on yft as i caught a small 25#er and the other boat had 5 in 1.5 hours fishing. By the time we pulled anchor the seas had built to solid 6s with 10 thrown in. TYhe ride home was cold and slow, however we still made 12-20 knots in the glacier bay.

Thanks to Capt. Devlin, Captain Mike Ellis, Capt. Rimmer Covington, Ocean Tackle, and cypress Cove marina for making it all possible.

01-21-2007, 10:03 AM	#9 (permalink)
jaredchasteen Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 329	The trip was a sucsess in my book, we came hgome with fish just not as much as usual. The first day was fun with only 3 anglers plus the captain on board. The ticket on the first day was a carolina rigged pogy, freakin insane. i think the sinker wouls slide down the line and dislodge the circle hook. We lost about 4 yft on this setup after about 30 seconds but at least it was producing. When the bite was slow we were trying everything even using water bottles as bobbers(which did produce a strike). Ocean tackle wqas kindf enough to give us some jigs to try out, i didnt get to fish them however the first day NIck caught a king(one of two that we saw the entire time) and several bonita on them, as well as got wahoood on one. The wahoo were all over our slick the first day as we lost at least 15 hooks. At the end of the day we trolled for 25 mins to see if the wahoo wanted some lures. WE had a double knockdown and both came unbuttoned. While we were trolling we saw a school of HUGE tuna crashing topwater for about 20 seconds they wre larger models creating splashes 10 ft high. I think there was only one or two boats at the lump that had fish over 100 that day. On the second day we awoke to drizzle and a north wind, i should have called it but i didnt know that half of my crew would react to large seas. When we broke the jetties we were greeted with a nice 1.5 ft wind chop that made the ride very uncomfortable. This was protected waters so we werent even in the rough stuff yet. The seas were a sloid 4 untill we reached wd143 and the blue water were it was 6s with a few 8 thrown in. Capt set up anchor and i started chummin with day old pogies(i still stink). First chunk produces a bonita so it looks promiosing, we put a few more in the boat then we get a good strike and give the rod to don since me and bret caught on the first day(this was a mistake) it was a wahoo that i hoookes at least 100 yards back before don knew what was going on it had already went 50 yards in front of the boat, no pressure kept on him you guys know what happens next. he fell twice while on this fish with a tiagra 50w on a cape fear fod nouncing on the deck. Captain wasnt pleased that people couldnt stand up and i think we knew then but decided to try and stick it out a little longer. Me and bret then took over all chunking and chumming duties as our crew just couldnt stand up in 6 ft seas. This day would have produed good action on yft as i caught a small 25#er and the other boat had 5 in 1.5 hours fishing. By the time we pulled anchor the seas had built to solid 6s with 10 thrown in. TYhe ride home was cold and slow, however we still made 12-20 knots in the glacier bay. Thanks to Capt. Devlin, Captain Mike Ellis, Capt. Rimmer Covington, Ocean Tackle, and cypress Cove marina for making it all possible.