HOOLIGAN
08-18-2013, 10:25 AM
Team Yellowfin broke Squan inlet at 215am early Saturday morning....we were pulling baits by 430am. As the sun was just cracking the horizon we found ourselves all by ourselves on a Saturday morning in the deep...doesn't get any better than this I thought!!
Well guess what it got way better!!! The first 2 rods of the day go off and Johnny Tuna takes one and his son Cory takes the other....they make quick work of 2 30 pounders!!
Put the rest of the spread back out.....ten minutes later the screen lites up 2 rods go down again.....one comes tight the other unbuttons after a nice run!!
I mark the spot......and start our assault doing figure 8's on this location......Come around again I see loads of marks high in the water column and a few big boys sitting below them.....Bamm one rod goes off ....but after a quick short run it comes unbuttoned!!
I make a poor decision to get away from the piles of longfin because I wanted Mr dream Tuna and the rest of his family before the sun got to high!!!!
Bad decision as the screen becomes totally blank for about a half hour....so I head back to original spot.
Come around the spot again the way way way back goes off but comes un done....then the starboard long squid spreader goes off...at first it didn't start to scream and Im thinking what the hell....then it starts to smoke!! I call my good friend Capt Dave on the Jenny Lee who has been helping us get trips on Captain Evan's Head Hunter (thx again Dave) and let him know we got the right kind on!! Amazingly it was the only one that came up and ate!!
Johnny Tuna volunteers again ( god I love this guy I'm thinking!! What a tuna fishermen ).
We get Johnny buckled in and the battle commences!! Johnny is doing just fine for the first 30 minutes....but then starts to struggle standing and fighting this beast!! I ask him to maybe give the rod up to my son......but he refuses!! ....I think again now that is a tuna fishermen....but he is having trouble keeping his balance...I tell Roy hold on to him as we got at least 30 lbs of drag on the beast!!
Johnny starts moaning and groaning but still refuses to give up the Rod.....What a TUNA MAN!!
After another 20 minutes....Johnny starts to break down....he's complaining about his back....I ask him again to give it up....he finally agrees and my son Dan gets a shot at the brute.....after 15 minutes of some quick short fresh pumps we got him boat side and Roy fires the Dart right into him!!! Not huge by any means but a nice small fatty!!
He is now ours....we bleed him boat side cause Roy(boat owner and my Bro) says no more blood in the boat!! I crack up laughing!! And so does the rest of the crew!! But then again Team Yellowfin is a sweet ride!!
In the mean time we sink another gaff into his head and bleed him out perfectly...we gut him and pack him and put him to rest over the longfins we already have.....I then reach back out to Davey(Jenny Lee) and tell him maybe to come pay us a visit but Davey had a nice trip of his own from the previous day....and wanted to take a peek at the bluefin grounds on the way in!! But his buddy Jimmy takes us up on the invite and so does a few other Cappy's
We get set back up......and again come around and the way way back explodes.....but was definitely not the right kind but a nice one....Todd volunteers for this one...he gets settled in but has 3/4 of a 30 torsa out ....But Todd has done this many times and makes a sweet but quick 20 minute battle of a nice 80 pound yellow belly!!
I now look over to Roy and say lets go find the pointy ones....he looks at me and says next time bro....I got a hot date tonight and we got some fishing cleaning and boat cleaning ahead of us!!
So Roy takes the wheel and starts our run back to the Barn!!
I am catching up on some much needed sleep and start hearing the Bluefin boats and get the itch to stop!! Amazingly he agrees because I promised to let him jig and pop for them!!
We get into the bluefin grounds and I take the wheel.....I quickly make a boo boo and some how cut someones way way back!! Sorry man I owe you one!!... Roy jumps in to cut the mess off the prop...and decides it's too close to Hot date time and requests to blast back in to the Barn!! We are back in the inlet @230pm a little tired but proud of our success!! He makes a call to his neighbor Tommy and requests his presence to help me clean the fish as I am the only one of the crew that can handle that task properly!!
Thank you Tommy for speeding that step up I owe you one!!!
Anyway till the next time in Team Yellowfin Land!!!
Well guess what it got way better!!! The first 2 rods of the day go off and Johnny Tuna takes one and his son Cory takes the other....they make quick work of 2 30 pounders!!
Put the rest of the spread back out.....ten minutes later the screen lites up 2 rods go down again.....one comes tight the other unbuttons after a nice run!!
I mark the spot......and start our assault doing figure 8's on this location......Come around again I see loads of marks high in the water column and a few big boys sitting below them.....Bamm one rod goes off ....but after a quick short run it comes unbuttoned!!
I make a poor decision to get away from the piles of longfin because I wanted Mr dream Tuna and the rest of his family before the sun got to high!!!!
Bad decision as the screen becomes totally blank for about a half hour....so I head back to original spot.
Come around the spot again the way way way back goes off but comes un done....then the starboard long squid spreader goes off...at first it didn't start to scream and Im thinking what the hell....then it starts to smoke!! I call my good friend Capt Dave on the Jenny Lee who has been helping us get trips on Captain Evan's Head Hunter (thx again Dave) and let him know we got the right kind on!! Amazingly it was the only one that came up and ate!!
Johnny Tuna volunteers again ( god I love this guy I'm thinking!! What a tuna fishermen ).
We get Johnny buckled in and the battle commences!! Johnny is doing just fine for the first 30 minutes....but then starts to struggle standing and fighting this beast!! I ask him to maybe give the rod up to my son......but he refuses!! ....I think again now that is a tuna fishermen....but he is having trouble keeping his balance...I tell Roy hold on to him as we got at least 30 lbs of drag on the beast!!
Johnny starts moaning and groaning but still refuses to give up the Rod.....What a TUNA MAN!!
After another 20 minutes....Johnny starts to break down....he's complaining about his back....I ask him again to give it up....he finally agrees and my son Dan gets a shot at the brute.....after 15 minutes of some quick short fresh pumps we got him boat side and Roy fires the Dart right into him!!! Not huge by any means but a nice small fatty!!
He is now ours....we bleed him boat side cause Roy(boat owner and my Bro) says no more blood in the boat!! I crack up laughing!! And so does the rest of the crew!! But then again Team Yellowfin is a sweet ride!!
In the mean time we sink another gaff into his head and bleed him out perfectly...we gut him and pack him and put him to rest over the longfins we already have.....I then reach back out to Davey(Jenny Lee) and tell him maybe to come pay us a visit but Davey had a nice trip of his own from the previous day....and wanted to take a peek at the bluefin grounds on the way in!! But his buddy Jimmy takes us up on the invite and so does a few other Cappy's
We get set back up......and again come around and the way way back explodes.....but was definitely not the right kind but a nice one....Todd volunteers for this one...he gets settled in but has 3/4 of a 30 torsa out ....But Todd has done this many times and makes a sweet but quick 20 minute battle of a nice 80 pound yellow belly!!
I now look over to Roy and say lets go find the pointy ones....he looks at me and says next time bro....I got a hot date tonight and we got some fishing cleaning and boat cleaning ahead of us!!
So Roy takes the wheel and starts our run back to the Barn!!
I am catching up on some much needed sleep and start hearing the Bluefin boats and get the itch to stop!! Amazingly he agrees because I promised to let him jig and pop for them!!
We get into the bluefin grounds and I take the wheel.....I quickly make a boo boo and some how cut someones way way back!! Sorry man I owe you one!!... Roy jumps in to cut the mess off the prop...and decides it's too close to Hot date time and requests to blast back in to the Barn!! We are back in the inlet @230pm a little tired but proud of our success!! He makes a call to his neighbor Tommy and requests his presence to help me clean the fish as I am the only one of the crew that can handle that task properly!!
Thank you Tommy for speeding that step up I owe you one!!!
Anyway till the next time in Team Yellowfin Land!!!