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Barf · 04-21-2004, 09:52 PM

You said you were going to be swording out of West End last weekend. How'd you do?

NightStalker · 04-22-2004, 09:27 AM

Never ended up going out for swordfish, high speed trolled for wahoo without much luck. Bottom fishing was decent, although the wind made less than ideal conditions. Deep dropping was also average with a few yellow eye and queen snapper being caught. Overall fishing wasnt too great. the wind was coming out of the ENE 15+ knots everyday and by looking at how the other fishing was below average we decided to give it a shot some other time.

Barf · 04-22-2004, 02:37 PM

I prefer to avoid dropping in front of West End. The snapper are usually small and everyone and their brother has a spot or two there so they get hit hard. Any wind over 10kts makes for horrible deep dropping. The boat moves too fast to allow fish to find the rig.

As far as wahoo, with a NE wind, you probably had dirty water on the edge. Oftentimes I'll drop down to baits and 9kts when the water's dirty and I can't fish somewhere clean. Its a bit far to run from West End but if you were in Freeport I would have suggested running to Issacs for wahoo with a NE wind. It pushes that blue water right up onto the edge and you could have looked for yellowfins along the way.

NightStalker · 04-23-2004, 10:58 AM

Yeah the water wasnt the best and like you said we were drifting quickly when we were deep dropping but still did ok. We ran up 7-8 miles above memory rock and that was where the best fishing was.

04-21-2004, 09:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Barf Grunt Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 13	Nightstalker You said you were going to be swording out of West End last weekend. How'd you do?

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04-22-2004, 09:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
NightStalker Lines In Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 37	Never ended up going out for swordfish, high speed trolled for wahoo without much luck. Bottom fishing was decent, although the wind made less than ideal conditions. Deep dropping was also average with a few yellow eye and queen snapper being caught. Overall fishing wasnt too great. the wind was coming out of the ENE 15+ knots everyday and by looking at how the other fishing was below average we decided to give it a shot some other time.

04-22-2004, 02:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
Barf Grunt Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 13	I prefer to avoid dropping in front of West End. The snapper are usually small and everyone and their brother has a spot or two there so they get hit hard. Any wind over 10kts makes for horrible deep dropping. The boat moves too fast to allow fish to find the rig. As far as wahoo, with a NE wind, you probably had dirty water on the edge. Oftentimes I'll drop down to baits and 9kts when the water's dirty and I can't fish somewhere clean. Its a bit far to run from West End but if you were in Freeport I would have suggested running to Issacs for wahoo with a NE wind. It pushes that blue water right up onto the edge and you could have looked for yellowfins along the way.

04-23-2004, 10:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
NightStalker Lines In Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 37	Yeah the water wasnt the best and like you said we were drifting quickly when we were deep dropping but still did ok. We ran up 7-8 miles above memory rock and that was where the best fishing was.

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