18 June Rudee

we left Owls creek at the crack of 0400, the wind was about 15 - 18 knots out of the north on the way out but calmed down beautifully in the afternoon. We did a drive by on the Weather buoy (which is still where it's supposed to be) and came up empty handed. At that point we started working South and east with High Hopes, Leaky Teaky, Waterman, Mad Hatter rounding out the group. All boats worked well together keeping each other informed. Our first bite came at about 350 fathoms and just was a nice Bull that Dave immediately jumped on the rod with cat like reflexes...years of Marine Corps training ensured Dave was Top Dog on the rod yesterday. Colt was a little tired from driving in from elizabeth city but would prove to be an outstanding Pit Man on Still Think'n...I really enjoy seeing guys come on the boat and jumping right into the game....not just sitting around waiting for Steady, Otter, Don or somebody else to do the rigging...If you get it wrong, well we'll letcha know and then show you the "Still Think'n" way of doing it...may not be the right way but it's my way....so we keep trolling to the deep and end up in 78 degree water...kind mixed green/blue but very pretty water.....got to the 1000 fathom line and turned north towards Leaky Teaky who said they got broke off by what they think was a Big-Eye on a TLD25......had something come in the spread and knock a couple of baits around about the same time Bob Sinclair report a Blue sighting.....was it a bill...well we'll never know because he didn't come tight......time to start trolling back inshore during which time my eagle Eye crew starts spotting scatter lumber...some held fish some didn't...it was very new wood so hadn't had time to set up yet but will be pretty awesome with the conditions over the next few days...this wood was in 500 fathoms about the 150 line - 180 line but will probably push inshore with the gulf stream pushing in the way it looks.....Found some two tones which turned out to be one of the biggest schools of Porpoise I've seen in a few years...acres of them with baby porpoise just putting on a show as you would see at Sea-World....getting a good 6 - 10 feet of air not more than 10 feet from the boat...you could feel the splash at times they were so close.....We thought this was the spot so I worked the two tones for about 2 hours before it was time to head in......Great day...great group of guys....Colt did a bang up job in the Pit....Don, as always on top of everything...and Dave was the Man on the rods yesterday and also spent alot of time in the Still Think'n Tower (on the gunnels) spotting debris for possible Mahi attack....Thanks for coming guys and we'll get out there in a few weeks.Here's what Captain Dave Wessner of Billable Ours looks like with a fishing pole in his hands.....He fast like a rabbit yesterday with the bites..