GEM Trip History

Oh yeah, here is one more picture from the TAG-2 trip on the Dolphin! One of the deckhands!

He looks like a perfect fit for that boat. You would have to be a little crazy to work as a deckhand on that POS.

MrBill,
Capt Dean put us on fish.
One funny story I remember from that trip was some guy who was complaining about the amount of gear (you know about Rick) that was brought aboard by our group. This same guy was complaining about some of us trolling and he couldn't. Deckhand asked us and I told him to take my spot. About 15 minutes later the decky comes up to me and says that b*%^&*#'s rod just broke off below the reel seat and he lost it all.
I guess a wad of bills large enough to choke a horse handed to the first mate with the words 1/2 of your tip made an impression on the crew. Those deckhands worked hard for us as did the captian.
That was my first tuna trip.

I checked my records and the 7 allcoasters on the TAG-I trip caught 39 of the 56 yellowfin the Dolphin brought back. I remember Earl getting hammered by a yellowfin on a spinner, DeepBlueGulf kept going by with a YFT on 30#, TJ had more exotic tackle than I'd ever seen, and Kevin hooked up on the port side. It was a great trip and the most YFT the Dolphin ever brought back when they only allowed 20 anglers. It was one of their first trips to the floaters. We didn't even know that the 3 fish limit was the same as the possession limit.

Those were some nice trips you guys made. Before this thread, it had been years since I had seen a photo of Scott and Earl. I know Scott vanished, but what happened to Earl?

He still emails me every 2-3 months, but he's been lost since everyone left Allcoast Gulf board! LOL

He does some private boat trips.

Capt Dean retired or something? Whats's going on with Dean? Is he taking the skippers spot on the Big E? He's the BEST SKIPPER I've gone out with many times.

He left the fishing busines, he's running crew boats now from what I understand.

Earl