November 08, 2003. - November Kicks it off!

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November 08, 2003.
November kicks it off!

Bring your rain gear and come aboard. In between cold fronts the rain has been dumping on us. It's actually kind of fun, once you get wet it doesn't matter to much anymore. The fish still bite. This past Thursday the rain came down in buckets, one black cloud after the next. My client didn't mind staying out since the seas didn't blow up to much. His patience paid off as we scored schoolie Dolphin, a smoker Kingfish at 30 pounds and another nice Kingfish. That smoker hit the blue runner rig and didn't stop for over 100 yards.

On Friday, cool Dwain and friends came aboard for a beautiful day of fishing. Seas were 2-3 feet with winds from the northerly quadrant and sunny skies. We caught a couple dozen Blue runners and bought us some smaller Pilchards. As we slow trolled our baits a pod of Sailfish came in our spread. We emmediately hooked up and had a chance for a double header but the hook pulled on the 2nd one. What a sight to see a school of Sailfish around your boat. Dwain brought his fish to the boat within 30 minutes. We took a quick picture and made a fine release. Later on we put out a nice spread of baits on our drift and caught a gorgeous skipjack Tuna and also schoolie size Dolphin. It's not over yet. Next, one of the rods got picked up gently and headed slowly to the left of the spread. Finally Matt grabbed the rod and got it tight and a Sailfish stuck his beak in the air and the battle began. This one was about 20 pounds heavier than the first and stripped over 300 yards of line. We watched him jump when he was all the way out, we couldn't believe that was our fish. After about 40 minutes we got him to the boat for a picture shot and made another fine release.


Today, Saturday, Kurt and his son wanted some of the previous days action but we couldn't find a Sailfish for nothing. We did run into a nice school of Dolphin and managed to get 2 schoolies in the boat for dinner and lost a few others boatside. One fish literally stripped all the 30 pound line off the penn 4/0 right to the knot, then snap? I Don't know what it could of been, it never jumped and it only took about 90 seconds to strip all the line off. We had a few mystery fish that pulled hooks but that was our day. Then the storms came upon us but that finished our trip anyways so we headed in as it came down.

Don't miss out on some great fun and action. Book a trip with us today! Captain Cary Hanna