1 June Oregon Inlet Tuna Tournament

What a nice day Friday was....The absolute calmest conditions I have seen in a few years.....Ran out with Kent and the rest of the Pirates cove fleet and I must have looked at my position wrong when Water Dog asked for my position, I guess I was about 20 miles off.....in my defense however...Kent was about 15 miles off of where he said he was...I guess he must have looked at his GPS wrong also !...lol......conditions looked good where we set out....Tinker makerals everywhere...nice water...a Green sticker working the area but it was not to be in that location so we trolled to the Tuna hole looking for a good bite.....decided at about 1030 to head up to the 950 line to fish a little sliver of water I had seen on an Ocean temps s hot and found a 67 - 71 degree hard break with slicks everwhere...we're thinking it's gonna be loaded with YFT...well the Mahi onslaught ensued and never stopped the rest of the day....we landed probably about 60 mahi from 10 pounds up to 26 pounds....we kept 26 of them for table fair and commenced to release another 25 - 30 20 pound class Mahi !.....ran in at about 40 knots and weighed in our Mahi 26 pounder and held onto first place in that division for the remainder of the day.Day 2 we decided to pound it out with the fleet in the Tuna hole area...we laid down in fishy looking water and got lines in at 0730, fleet immediately laid down all around me but we worked it...marked fish several times but only had the Tuna come up for me once.....had a crash on the Get Reel TIki Bar...he comes off, then the left short gets hammers and Don's on it...then the left long gets hammered and mikes on that one....Don's comes unglued about five minutes into the fight....big Tuna but gone....Mikes fish comes to the boat all lit up and steady is on the leader...fish is doing his death circle and never gets up enough for a gaff shot when he comes unbuttoned at the boat....this one looked about 40 - 45 pounds to me.....Get lines back out and continued to troll from the 640 line to the 660 line with not another strike....winds are steadily increasing going from about 15 knots to about 25 knots around 1345 we take one over bow and over my console completely drenching me and the rest of the crew...we decided we had enough and with the seas building started heading in...the Inlet was howling..thank god it was a SW wind so it wasn't stacking up the waves but it must have been 40 knots as Kent said....three boats were blown ot out of the channel at various location from the inlet to the OIFC.......Had a great time working with Grady Man (Kent) and having a few beers with Randy and crew.....Neal (Wired up) and Dave (Billable Ours) were up there supporting and made some kick ass Mahi Taco's Friday night for us....I heard Felix the Kat, was there but didn't see him, saw Jeff from black Pearl on his way down to Hatteras, Shortcomings and his motley crew ( didn't see him 2nd night)......Just a fantastic time....We locked up the Outboard division and took some cash home...What a crew...Otter, Steady, Don and Mike worked like a well oiled machine....Dave has video of the Mahi Madness they were definatley on their A-Game....Huge thanks to MIke and Phil from G&H Lures who overnighted some new colors I wanted to give a try on Tuesday night...they were actually what got hit by the YFT on day2 and were absolutely destroyed by the Mahi on day 1.....Congrats to everyone who fished.....it was a good time and day 2 was not a day for the feint of heart for sure !.......Don and Dave have Pictures hopefully they'll get em posted uphere soon....Bob