Sick tile fishing

[dfish28]

Had the oppurtunity to go on a 48 hour offshore trip with a kick a$$ crew and an even sicker boat- 21' beam 62' long private boat "Steel Leader". Left Clark's at 5pm Friday got bait and off we went to the canyons... We anchored up once out to deep drop for swords , and shark... No love that night, current was screaming and it was a bit sloppy. No love that night other than squid. Picked up anchor after setting up for troll and off we went at sunrise, troll troll troll. We got 4 mahi total 3 gaffer and 1 dink. They went on the on custom installed ceramic charcoal grill for lunch and dinner, along with chicken , brats, burgers, dogs. Right near the end of Saturdays troll we had longfin come in the spread and went two for two, one at 48 and another at 56 and fat. Trolled past sunset grabbing some skippys and two more mahi. Had a wwb on the tower that had something small on it started to reel in then something else ate it.. Don't know what cause someone forgot to remove the plastic sleeve on the hook -doh... That was it for the not so eventful full day troll. Went to setup for the night chunk on the hook... Nothing to say about that night other than... Really long, that's where it was nice to kick back in the galley watch some DVDs and wait, alternating of course. At two left Jimmy Jam on the deck in his slickers and rubber banded the rods to his arm in case of a hit( figured that would wake him). 4am Sunday - pull hook, troll to tile grounds and drop the 5#ers and Dave's super tile rigs wayyyy down. Instant drop and reel action on a piece about a mile wide..I must say I have never tilefished before nor used an electric reel but am now in love with both! To keep it reel I borrowed crew members Bryan black hole and dropped it down, almost full spool- this is one situation I have to say I don't like depth hunter braid- you see all the colors go by. Down for two minutes then wham fish on-20 minutes later- slob 30# and sore a$$ everything - those rods can put on the heat! All in all the 8 of us totaled apx. 45 tiles most large and jumbos to 46# in 4.5 hours- you want to talk about a trip saver, and a new found love for tile this was it.