Sun/Mon Overnight Report - 520 lb meat We left Pirates Cove around 530 am Sunday and headed out to the Gulfstream at 30 knots landing around the 500 line just south of The Point. We found a nice weedline on the edge of the Stream and caught about 15 mahi-mahi up to 25 lb each before the fleet converged on us and the bite shut down. We then worked our way north to The Point and on up to the 690 line where some commercial tuna boats were working with some charter boats. We set out the tuna stick rig at the 690 line after some of the commercial stick boats started catching a few yellowfin tuna. The pilot whales and two-tone dolphins started to gather up and feed on the squid and bait around us. Within 30 minutes we had two yellowfin tuna crash our stick baits and we got one of them - about 40 lb. A picture-perfect sunset followed in 2000 feet of Gulfstream water 36 nautical miles offshore. Darkness came and we set up for the night chunk and live bait fishing. We immediately began catching hammerhead sharks to 10 feet long and dusky sharks to 6 feet. Then the tinker mackerel showed up around our boat and we caught a couple dozen for live bait. We set out the tinker macks along with our whole squids we had brought with us, but there were so many sharks we couldnt catch anything but them. So much for sharks being threatened and low in numbers, as usual. At 5 in the morning we ran back south to the Gulfstream edge and found another weedline - catching another dozen mahi-mahi up to 25 lb. We then trolled the stick up to the north and set up to bottom fish for blueline tilefish and sea bass. We caught our limit of 3 tiles per person within an hour and had a surprise visit from a mako shark at boatside. We rigged a fresh tinker mackerel on steel cable leader and caught our mako, releasing it healthy after carefully measuring at 52, slightly under the legal minimum size of 54. A beautiful and healthy neon blue mako. We then headed inshore and jigged up our limit of amberjack up to 30 lb each before heading into the beach where we sight fished for cobia briefly, seeing a couple and casting but spooking them with the jig. Nice to see them showing up near the inlet finally. Ran home at up to 41 knots at 1950 cruise rpm with a nice following sea. We finished up with about 520 lb of fish back at the dock and just finished a fresh grilled yellowfin tuna steak dinner, marinated in olive oil, a variety of dry herbs, sea salt and sesame seeds. Another great overnight trip. Thanks to Matt Miller & the Stockdrehers - we hope you enjoyed your trip! We have another open boat overnight trip this weekend for Sun/Mon. Cobia should be thick out front by then. Call or email to book. Thanks, Charley 252-216-6291 cell
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 04:34:05 +0000
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