Saturday, July 28, 2007

lick-snapping mustache-lickin' lip-flippin' doo dog dippin'

I never heard so many lick-snapping mustache-lickin' lip-flippin' doo dog dippin' before in my life. I added bladder tanks, I'm gonna beat you this year, We're goin' deep, We're going farther than you, These are the lippy-dipp-doo comments I heard before the Tournament. There's only one thing all the lippies forgot - That it takes many many years of experience doing deep water drops just to get the bait to the fish, not including getting the fish to bite, and then the fish to the boat. Two years in a row, prehistoric mammoths come to the scale. Including 25lb+ Red Snappers to take the trophy, the money, and the glory. Starting our trip out, in 500ft+ of water, the bite was slow to go but the fish were huge as you can see. Most of our fish came from the 100 fathom curve. On radar, I saw multiple boats bill-fishing within 15 miles of me. Not quite to the steps just up inside in the flat mesa. Most of these people don't know about these places, they only fish the brakes. But a lot of the bottom fish come just inside the drop to get away from the current and onto the feeding grounds. Our biggest fish was caught on chub-mackeral and sardines. Live baits work okay out here, but not as well as the big stinker! All in all the weather was great, the bite was slow but sure, and it took patience, experience, and refined technique to pull these mammoths from their slumber. All I can say is good luck to you all, and I shoulda gave that DeSoto blanket to Travis and his team to cry on on their way back home. I have to give them a little shizzit, guys, it's my old fishing team. Like they say, "Out with the old, in with the new."














Saturday, July 7, 2007

French Kissing Gags,and a nice mixed bag.

Well it all started at 4am Friday morning. Met with our buddy Mike and his 3 friends for a day on the water in the new 31 Fountain. What a nice ride and killer boat overall. They had gotten some nice live baits the day before. The forecast was kinda sketchy. 15 knots for sure from what we could tell and getting rougher that night. So we decided to play it safe and stay close to home.

We started fishing around 50 miles out(in 137 to 145ft) and the shows were good but the fish didn't want to cooperate. Even the jacks where kinda finicky in this depth. We tried a couple spots and the same results. So before it got to rough I said what the heck lets go a little deeper. With all the bad weather lately and the fish were on the move I didn't want to pass a big school of movers up.

Next depth 165ft and the bite was on. nice Scamp, Red-grouper, Gags, Mangos, and Triggerfish. O yeah, the Red-snapper also bit every spot as well, and had to be thrown back. Moving 20ft in depth was the right choice. The fish where starting to cooperate. We tried 2 more spots and pulled the same mixed bag.

The bait of the day was Pinfish and Sardines.The wind picked up to 15 to 20 and we said let's get it inshore before it gets any worse. Over all it was a good day some real nice fish and no boat problems. We wanted to go deeper but mother-nature wouldn't cooperate with us. Thanks Mike and the boys, Until the next one.