11/23/2007 Palm Beach Florida

It sure is nice to go home and be with family for Thanksgiving. I am fortunate enough to have parents that still live in Palm Beach..One of the best Sailfishing grounds on the east coast. We made it down there on Wednesday and after unpacking the truck spent some time working on Mark's Boat. Mark is one of my buddies from way back in middle school who I have kept in touch with and fished with for over 30 years now. We always have a great time. We got the boat working right (22 Foot Edgewater) and planned on leaving Friday morning at the ungodly hour of 7AM. Now mind you, that is still considered an early start by palm beach standards.We pulled out of my Dad's canal into the intracoastal waters to 72 Degree sunny morning. we decided to buy a dozen Goggle Eye...the preferred bait for sails down in Palm beach. So loaded up with some fresh live bait we made out way out of Lake worth inlet past the old Pumphouse where as kids we often skipped school and went surfing amongst other things I really don't want to get into...lol...The ocean was flat as could be and the sun was shining just as I remembered as a kid fishing out of there on my Dad's old riveria and many other boats later in life. We decided to put our baits out inn 100 Feet just off the breakers, with Palm Beach Island and the Kennedy compound as the backdrop we really couldn't ask for much more. about 10 minutes after we got our lines in the baits start freaking out...ok this is it....tighten up on the drag and bam..slack line...pull em both in and both have been lazered by something toothy, probably Kingfish !..this happened many times before Mark finally said screw this and made a couple of 1 Foot wire leaders and put the remaining few goggle eyes out....My fish starts doing the oh shit dance and I see a bill slashing my bait...I freespool the TLD25 and hook up with a really healthy sail..mark is feeding his fish also and comes tight but the fish Mark had on threw the hook. This sail is pulling drag pretty steadily so we decide chase her down. A couple of jumps and about 20minutes later she's boatside and I hand the rod to mark while I bill the fish to get a few shots. we spend about 10 minutes reviving the fish and she kicked a couple of times and waiver her sail at us as she swam off back into the blue looking for the next meal.The winds had shifted and kicked up to the NW at about 15 - 20 so we decided to float one more time before calling it a day. one more sail piles on our bait and is hooked up, this fish jumps and is the smallest sailfish I have ever seen. Probably not much bigger than a small gaffer dolphin but just beautiful...Well he spit the hook also.... Had a wonderful time but the wife and both kids had come down with a bad cold so we decided not to fish on Saturday so I could get them both home so they could recover.....as always I had a blast seeing family and friends back home. I

11/17/2007 South to the 000's

Beautiful 32 degree departure from Owls creek this morning with Black Pearl following us out. We dropped in at about the 940 line 50 fathoms to 68 degree water...trolled down to the 930 and then turned north. Ran into Silver Lining up around the 000's. Lots of scallop boats out there. Saw some busting porpoise about the 030 line 100 fathoms and turned on them..hooked up on the shotgun and Don's on the rod. land first YFT of the day...40# fish.....Follow the porpoise and get anothe YFT on the shotgun and Rockn Robin is on this one...mike works it hard and Don gaff's the fish in the Tale...Captain Fatbeard was on the leader for both fish and did a great job....Andrew got some pretty good video today...so..we went 2 for 2 on the YFT...water was 69 degrees and dirty at the 030 - 040 line...100 fathoms

12 November 2007 Report

Had a really nice run out..big swell out of the east with about 12 second intervals...Sunrise was awesome....Found the break out at about 500 fathoms on the 340 line and started putting lines out...before all lines were out the long left rigger Pink G&H Sea witch get hit....then goes slack...then the shotgun goes off blue and white islander behind the boon bird....we strap Andrew in and about 10 minutes later landed what turned out to be a Citation Wahoo going 35 Pounds at the scales. caught this fish at 0730 and that turned out to be it for the day...Lots of boats out there not doing much..few wahoo, scattered Mahi and somebody said they had a Blue Marlin hooked up briefly...fished the while range today from the 400 line all the way down to the 180....Wind kicked up a bit for the ride in...SW wind against a East swell..little bumpy but smoothed out nicely at 20miles out.....Great day...Tks to Steady, Don and Andrew for a great day..congrats to Andrew on his Citation...I think we're done Tuna fishing out of VB and will be heading to OI for our next Tuna hunting adventure....Enjoy some Pics.

11/05/2007 2 men and an outrigger

Well..nobody answered the call for anglers so Steady and myself left Owls Creek at 0445 to a beautiful morning. Headed for the 500 line where we thought the break was. Got out to the 100Fathom line at the 506 and water was 63 and ugly...saw the Rudee Angler out there so we put lines out and messed around for a little while. Water on the canyon was 62 - 63 max and didn't look good. We finally pulled lines and went hunting. Headed south and ended up around the 420 line in 200 fathoms and water went up to 66 and we saw acres of two tones.Put the spread out and got hammered on the way back boone bird with blue/white islander. Steady's on the first fish so I clear lines while trying to keep the boat straight...get the fish to the boat, I get on leader and steady puts the rod in the holder and sticks the fist one....\get lines back out and the boone bird/Blue and white islander gets hammered again in the two tones...I'm up on this one and steady clears lines,,,stick another YFT and put in the box...two 50# class fish.....We had a beer and looked up and the Porpoise were gone...spent the rest of the day looking for them.....so we went 2 for 2...with 2 guys...that's alot of meat..

QUick report for those going out tomorrow....we fished from the 200 line south..50 - 100 Fathoms.....Had porpoises early and called Good Grief into them..he picked up the 1 Tuna that was in that pod...we fished them for a long time but no bites...marking fish about 300 - 400 feet deep but couldn't get them to come up.....Caught a 25Lb Wahoo and about 5 mahi...had several bite offs...weeds were terrible but I think they may form up as the wind layed down really nice at the end of the day.....I have no real info on what happened north of us today...I will post some pics later...good luck...Bob

10/7/2007 fishing report

Yesterday was the kind of day to remember how much you really have to love this stuff to keep offshore fishing...The fishing was slow all around, the weeds were terrible but the company and the weather was fantastic....Had Don, Steady and Captain Fatbeard onboard. We rolled out of RUdee at 0430ish to a beautiful slick calm day with clear skies and bright starts. The 1/8 moon lit the way straight to the canyon which we arrived at 0630 and put lines out as the sun was just peaking up above the horizon. water temps ranged from 74.2 - 75.8 with scattered weeds and gentle rolling swells. There was a small school of porpoise which we worked to no avail, one of the porpoise actually flipped his tail and hit the bow of my boat....I"ve never had this happen before and this would turn out to be one of 2 fish hitting still think'n today !Found a formed up weedline and trolled it for a while, pulling one Mahi out from under the weeds. There were so many big weed patches but almost all of them were empty all life except these little Jacks that were ferocious and were magling our bait but not big enough to stay hooked.We trolled and trolled, found a weedline next to the triple buoys North West of the Canyon tip and the Planer rod trips and starts pulling drag. Don't on the rod and knows we have a nice Hoo on...saw him a couple of times as he got close to the boat before making another run. I'm gonna say he was bigger than the 83Lb Wahoo I caught a couple of years ago...Dam fish threw the hook right behind the boat...During the ride back Don spots a Giant Ocean Sunfish..he tells me to put the boat in neutral as this gian goes under my boat...we hear a THUMP as the boat glided slowly over the Giant Mola Mola making this the 2nd fish of the day to hit Still Think'n...luckily no damage....SLow the rest of the day....gorgeous ride back in with Slick Ass calm conditions...the crew was hilarious today ....Got back to the house, cleaned the fish and boat and hung out at the bargola for a while...went to bed early...Good times and good crew....can't wait to get out there again

23 September fishing report

Great day....met up with my crew for today....consisted of Steady, Keith, Surfer Dave and Scott Sinclair...all on time and ready to roll.....put the boat in the water at 0400...Not a hint of wind in the air on the beautiful clear morning....Water was flat ass calm...upon leaving Rudee...my boat looked like it had Neon lights underneath from the Phosporus that was in the water....neon Blue was under the boat, in the wake and the spray off the side of the boat..it was really cool...Ended up at the mark we were shootin for prior to 0600 and there was no light to speak of...we ended up waiting for the sun to come up and made a couple of passes at the weather buoy...nobody home....headed east to 100Fathom line and found a really nice weed line with tons of Sulpher....trolled that for a while and picked up about 8 Mahi...mix gaffers and bailers....had one really nice hit that screamed drag like a tuna but came off...pulled lines and went to shallow water to see what was happening west side of the Cigar...found another line and trolled it but nothing came of that....Put still think'n in gear and headed north...found a 4x4 with loads of bait underneat....trolled it a few times and pulled a Mahi and a nice Wahoo off it....went north again and the winds started howling....pulled lines at around 1400 and was back in port before 4PM...ended up with 9 Mahi and 1 Wahoo....Had 1 bite off from the board also...Oh yea..Scott Sinclair ended up catching a Citation WEEDFISH...he has a Mahi on and the fish went right back into the weeds and ended up pulling about 20 pounds of weed out of there...the fish was gone after a 30 minute fight on stand up gear....Great job Scott !......Bob