Saturday Night. Just got in at 9:00 Sunday

[Mike]

Hey guys, went 3 for 5 last night with one that weighed in at 478lb on the lighthouse point scale? I'll have the pictures up and the rest of the report up when I can open my eyes. They were biting good out there!

[Litetackleredneck]

thats getin-r-done, what they eat lives or dead?

[doublej2]

Wake up Mike! I want to hear about this fish. Guess the 418 didn't stand long, and tstrugg's 472 has finally been beat years later. Nice job, can't wait to see the pics of this monster.

[ReelIntubaiter]

Awesome!!! Can't wait for the "story", Congrats. We're going out tonight. Complete Angler went 3 for 3. Good luck to all! :P

[LHPfish]

What time did you guys get yoru bites

[Anonymous]

Way to go Mike.I'll be out there tonight looking for your swordies twin brother!!!

[hannaman]

Holy crap, what did I miss last night? I went in about 12:30 am and went 0-3 with small fish. I heard you calling me but I couldn't get your response back.

[Mike]

Hey guys, I started out the night going 0-2 before 10:00 and after that I only had small squid and runners and from that point we had action all damn night long. I'm going to get the full story and pix up by tonight, just waiting on the pix... The big fish took us from the 26.13 all the way to Delray and out to the 45 line.

[CaptKen]

Wow Mike what a horse ! you must have been the ones that was on for 5 hours when I left. Heard of one about 260 lbs, We went 1 for 2 ,ours was a rat.
bout 70 lbs.
Ken

[Anonymous]

Nice going Mike, Great fish. I can't wait to see the pictures of the beast. Not detering any praise from Mikes fish, there is no way you could. Did anyone hear if the other boat that was on a fish for over 5 hours boated their fish or not?

[Captain Joe McGivern]

way to go mike,slasher ill see ya out there! good luck man!

[Mike]

Hey guys, sorry but we screwed up on the weight . You would think the guys at the marina would know to let the winch freespool once the fish is on the scale.. Now I know better... I was hypnotized from watching the green electralume come and go for 4 hours. I'm pissed, I wanted an accurate weight!

The final measurements were:

length 81
girth 52

[doublej2]

Still a great fish Mike, I'd guess in the 250-300lb range. It's the curse of the LHP scale, I'm sure plenty of people can remember last year when a fish we all thought was around 200 weighed 396 . I'll be out there tomorrow night, hopefully the fish will cooperate. It seems like its been real hit or miss lately, either a multiple fish night or nothing.

[Anonymous]

Originally Posted by Mike

Hey guys, sorry but we screwed up on the weight . You would think the guys at the marina would know to let the winch freespool once the fish is on the scale.. Now I know better... I was hypnotized from watching the green electralume come and go for 4 hours. I'm pissed, I wanted an accurate weight!

The final measurements were:

length 81
girth 52

Mike if you use the formula the fish you caught was around 274 pounds. That is still a nice fat Slob. Good going, your the man.

[Mike]

June 13, 2004


I have been planning to fish with a buddy from work for sometime. I told him I was free Saturday and the venture began with his 2 of his buddies on their Bluewater. We met at the dock at 4 anticipating catching some dolphin on the way out, but it was pretty dead and we didn’t want to put anything less than 5lbs in the boat anyways.

The guys had spent Thursday night catching some nice blue runners and I picked up some squid from Custom Rod & Reel. Rocky hooked me up with a nice big one and a couple packs of the mediums along with a few of my favorite hooks. What a tackle shop!

We cleared the inlets and headed SSE from Hillsboro. Got to about the 25.58 and 50.20 and setup our first drift. The current was slower than normal at about 3.2 and there was not a breath of wind. The sea anchor was barely catching, but it did its job to keep the lines off the side of the center console boat. By 10:00 we had our first hit on a monster squid down 300. The fish was on for a few seconds but never got hooked up. Bummer. At this time, most of the boats were hooking up nicely, and a few friends of mine already missed a few bites or boated a nice fish.

We keep sailing down the line and had nice hit on the 100ft squid and released a little guy about 10 minutes later. We were chatting up front by the tip rod when we notice the line is slack, so we reeled like hell and got tight on him. Good observation by the Captain. I’m always amazed that even the little guys can rip 12lbs of drag nicely.

Now at about 2am or so we had a 100lb plus fish take a squid at about 125ft and come to the surface and dance 5 feet from the boat.. He circled the boat one and half times and we got wrapped on the sea anchors for seconds and when the line went slack the hooks pulled.

About 30 minutes later we hook up with a nice fish that we get all the way to the leader and pulled the hooks. Fought it for a good 20minutes with some serious heat. Felt like a really nice fish. This fish hit a blue runner.

I am completely out of squid now, so we fish 3 runners as it is getting late. It is now about 3am and we are at the 26.10 and 50.00 when we get smoked on live runner down 125. The fish was on a 9/0 senator with 60lb test and my 250lb leader. Absolutely smoking line from the rod holder. The reel was just on fire, we dumped fresh water on it and got “Fresh” into the belt and harness. The fish was deep and then on the surface and a seesaw battle for the next 3.5 hours. We would get to the leader and I would grab it but he was just too strong and I didn’t want to take a chance with no harpoon. So I began to do some maneuvering that I learned about in the Southeast Swordfish Club. Got some serious angles on the fish and made him uncomfortable. Made him come to the surface and we would circle him and pull the line across his body, just wearing him out nicely. When the fish settled we busted the drag up to get the weight of the fish in.

We continued to do this for about an hour and eventually tail wrapped him and brought him to the boat gulping for air. Took 3 of us to drag him in, but we did it quick incase a mako was lurking to steal our catch. Boated the fish around 7am and he took us north of Delray and out to the 45 line. We got to see the moon rise, and heard of another boat got a nice fish and someone was still hooked up. About a 3.5 hour fight was not too bad, but to the guys that fought that fish for 9 hours the other night, I salute you!

We proceeded to head to Hillsboro to weigh our fish. I am not from around that area, so the dock masters kind of took control to weigh the fish. We cranked him up out of the boat and hung the bill in the water off the scale. The scale read 478lbs. But the winch was still locked. Drew from Full Moon Adventures, Inc. gave me a call and let me know that we probably added about 200lbs to the fish by doing that. We were supposed to free spool the winch. Makes perfect sense, but I think we were fried from an all-nighter.

The measurements were a length of 81 and a girth of 52. The formula puts the fish at about 273. It’s usually pretty accurate so we will take it.

All in all and great night on the water with flat calm seas.

With only 2 weeks away from the Darkside of the Moon Tournament, the anticipation is killing me. Register today! http://www.fullmoonadventuresinc.com/

I want to thank Doug "Fresh" for the invite, and the Captain Mark for doing a great job steering the boat and helping me rig the lines. A total team effort all night... Mark was the one who insisted on staying out after 3... I was tired as hell :lol:

Pictures to come shortly!!! Hey guys e-mail me the pictures….

[ReelIntubaiter]

Great Story and fish Mike. Congrats! We fished Sunday night with 0 hits and no slashes. Got back in at 11 PM.

[Mike]

Hey guys I am still waiting on the digital pictures but here is one that I did a picture of the picture of the big one... Will have the others up shortly.

[hannaman]

Now that's a trophy fish, awsome job Mike.

[Mike]

Thanks Capt. Now if I can just find her twin next Saturday :lol: I'm still debating where to fish to get away from the crowd. I might pre-fish this friday to test out some water away from the crowd. :doubt:

Mike

[bullfighter]

That's what we've been looking for. Congrats on a great BROAD. Were you wearing "THE SHIRT" during the battle ? We hope our search for the fat boy that's been alluding us comes to a conclusion Saturday night. I don't think the ocean will be big enough on Saturday but I like your thoughts on seclusion.
You work hard on this site and help a lot of us rookies out all the time. It's nice to see the good karma pay off for you.
Lota-bull