Day 1 left the dock around 4:30 am with my buddy and my daughter. Eased on out under a bright moon and welcomed a nice sunrise half way out to the break around 65 miles from the rocks. The plan was to troll until noon then drop back in to a spot in 120ft to bottom fish. Trolling was slow but we managed 3 dolphin with one bull around 24 lbs. Bottom fishing was great and we loaded up on red porgys, beeliners, grunts, and a trigger.
Day 2 left the dock around 5 am with my two other buddies and my daughter once again. Had a little issue right out of the gate. I went to plane off and got confused on my red right return...see where this is going????.....and tried to go to the right of a green can....needless to say old blue runner came to a screeching halt on a pluffmud flat. OOOOOOOOPS! The four of us get out of the boat and push on the bow. Cannot budge it. So we move aft and push on the rear. Finally we were able to get BR's @ss end in about 2 ft of water and were off to the fishing grounds once again, a little wiser and minus one of my buddies flip flops lost to the pluffmud. Thank goodness for washdown as there was pluffmud everywhere!
Plan on day 2 was same as day 1, troll then bottom fish. This day we only boated 2 dolphin with one being a 25 lb bull. Also had a few other short strikes and a cuda. Dropped in to the bottom fishing spot and it was on. Limit of beeliners, nearly a limity of nice porgys, big grunts, and the kicker was the trigger bite went off at the end. One of the big triggers went 5 lbs. Between the dolphin and the bottom fish the V21 fish box was completely maxed out! It was a great day.
All totalled, we covered over 300 miles in 2 days and caught a bunch of fish. I was running on ~3 hours of sleep both nights so by the end of day 2 I was whooped. On top of that, I had the fuel restriction issue on the way in day 2. No issue day 1. As I was doing the normal fix (blow out the line) I BLEW out my back. After that I tried to drive the boat another mile or so but the pain was debilitating so I had to turn over the captain seat to one of my buddies. I crashed out in the bean bag for the rest of the way in about 15 or 20 miles. I did as destroyer suggested and saved my 6 gallon reserve tank for a backup when heading in the rock jetties. Did this just in case there was the fuel restriction so I could quickly switch over to the reserve tank if needed.
carrie day 2
All fish day 2
Day 2 left the dock around 5 am with my two other buddies and my daughter once again. Had a little issue right out of the gate. I went to plane off and got confused on my red right return...see where this is going????.....and tried to go to the right of a green can....needless to say old blue runner came to a screeching halt on a pluffmud flat. OOOOOOOOPS! The four of us get out of the boat and push on the bow. Cannot budge it. So we move aft and push on the rear. Finally we were able to get BR's @ss end in about 2 ft of water and were off to the fishing grounds once again, a little wiser and minus one of my buddies flip flops lost to the pluffmud. Thank goodness for washdown as there was pluffmud everywhere!
Plan on day 2 was same as day 1, troll then bottom fish. This day we only boated 2 dolphin with one being a 25 lb bull. Also had a few other short strikes and a cuda. Dropped in to the bottom fishing spot and it was on. Limit of beeliners, nearly a limity of nice porgys, big grunts, and the kicker was the trigger bite went off at the end. One of the big triggers went 5 lbs. Between the dolphin and the bottom fish the V21 fish box was completely maxed out! It was a great day.
All totalled, we covered over 300 miles in 2 days and caught a bunch of fish. I was running on ~3 hours of sleep both nights so by the end of day 2 I was whooped. On top of that, I had the fuel restriction issue on the way in day 2. No issue day 1. As I was doing the normal fix (blow out the line) I BLEW out my back. After that I tried to drive the boat another mile or so but the pain was debilitating so I had to turn over the captain seat to one of my buddies. I crashed out in the bean bag for the rest of the way in about 15 or 20 miles. I did as destroyer suggested and saved my 6 gallon reserve tank for a backup when heading in the rock jetties. Did this just in case there was the fuel restriction so I could quickly switch over to the reserve tank if needed.
carrie day 2
All fish day 2
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