02/07/08 - 3 in the box

[ProfessorO]

Went out with Tony and Cyndi; another friend had to cancel at the last minute. We picked up a dolphin on the way out. We tried deep dropping without a bite but the methodology is converging. We set up for a night drift way inside given the fast offshore flow, like 30 degrees ENE at times.

Slow night for swords but we did catch a nice tripetail that ate a whole tinker mackeral on our flat line. About an hr later we hear click, click on our flat line, the fish then takes off and we come tight, but just for a second. We put out another tinker and about 15 minutes later, click, click, I let it really run this time before setting the hook. It comes in fairly quickly and we see a nice looking dolphin that doesn't know that it is hooked. We get it near the boat and he wakes up and jumps out of the water and then tears off a couple hundred feet of line in a blistering run. Cyndi is now on the rod and she brings it close to the boat but at the last second it is under the outboards; Tony gaffs the fish and pulls it out the water and the fish goes beserk and ends up on its head sandwiched
next to my marlin door slamming Tony and me with its tail; It ends up back in the water. Cyndi luckily is still on the rod and she brings it back in again. Tony nails it with another gaff shot, this time on the side of the boat, and we strain to put the dolphin in the boat. I said it was 50 lbs on the radio last night; I was wrong, it was at least 55 lbs (I need a bigger scale!). We went home with 3 fish in the box. cheers, arthur

[Captain Juan]

Wow, nice bonus. Sweet!! What a fin!!!!!!

It was indeed a slow night. Conditions were really nice out there except for the southwest breeze and the Gulfstream ripping north - 4.8 even with two sea anchors. We started near the Port on the 49 surrounded by boats and buoy gear. We wound up off Boynton when we called it quits around 2:30 a.m. We caught and released one pup, at 2 a.m. after moving in to the 52 and the 26. Our only hit and fish of the night. It was caught only with sheer persistence.

Also, a highlight of the night was seeing a massive Thresher swim into the light and under the boat. I had never seen one come near the surface, thought they stayed deep. It circled a couple times and then swam around our sea anchor. We had been chuming heavy with ground squid right off the bat and pulled it in. This was around 8:00 p.m.

The lowlight of the evening, was the dumb azz radio chatter that started around 11 p.m. when the booze and herb started kicking in. What a bunch of light weights out there. I heard heard yammering for more than an hour about wanting to kill all the buoy guys and even heard some idiot send out a false mayday which was as f*cking as stupid as you can get. Azzholes, please spare us the bullcrap on the horn.

Finally, speaking of the buoy guys, there was a buoy guy that was hooked into a huge sow from 10:00 p.m. until the time we headed into Hillsborough at 3:30 a.m. and he was still hooked up. He'd thrown extra buoys, acorns into it and could not tire it. He saw it jump knew it was a sword. Anyone know if and when he caught it and how big it taped out?

Thanks!!

Laters.

J

[WhItEoUt 23]

Nice fin

[Sopla2o]

WOW... That is nice fish for "La Caja China" The roaster where you slow cook the darn thing with vapors....

Congratulations....

[tunaman81]

Awesome dolphin!!! Congrats man.

[Disco Lady]

COÑO!!!!!!!! nice dorado.

[Boo's Cruise]

Pretty Dorado there Professor O ! Congrats!

[ProfessorO]

thanks!

It's been 8 trips for me, about 1/2 on my boat, with zero swords in the
box. At least I've caught dolphin most of those trips, usually around
2 from 8-20 lbs. I like to put out a dead bait on a surface line with a
very small float and keep it right at the light/dark boundary of the
hydroglow/swordlight. Chum up the ocean with Capt Mark's sardine
chum; I've seen dolphin race down the surface chum slick, pretty
cool. In the last few yrs, doing this has also produced a few swords
on the surface even using ballyhoo for bait.

I'm still wondering how that tripetail ate a large tinker and a 11/0
hook?!? cheers, arthur

[snooknreds2]

Originally Posted by Captain Juan

Finally, speaking of the buoy guys, there was a buoy guy that was hooked into a huge sow from 10:00 p.m. until the time we headed into Hillsborough at 3:30 a.m. and he was still hooked up. He'd thrown extra buoys, acorns into it and could not tire it. He saw it jump knew it was a sword. Anyone know if and when he caught it and how big it taped out?

Thanks!!

Laters.

J

Cap Juan,
the fight was 10:30-1:30..yea we got it in the boat, didnt measureit but it was BIG

[bajakian]

Good going Arthur. I'm glad that you had a good night. Lets get out soon and get one.

Richard

[Mike]

geeez.. that is awesome!!!

[CaptKen]

Thats a good one O ! too bad you wern't in a tourney with that one.
Tony has been having issues with outboards lately .lol at least he won this time.

[Cutler]

congrats on that bull...he is a piggy

[chumrunner]

Originally Posted by ProfessorO

thanks!
Chum up the ocean with Capt Mark's sardine
chum; I've seen dolphin race down the surface chum slick, pretty
cool. In the last few yrs, doing this has also produced a few swords
on the surface even using ballyhoo for bait. cheers, arthur

Congrats Arthur,
Thanks for the mention...
Cheers,
Capt Mark

[DORADOsteve]

DORADO

[Tuna Devil]

Nice work Arthur and crew.