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First offshore trip

Unread postby Bigburner » Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:05 am

I had wanted to share this a while back but things get in the way.
Had a chance to head about 60 mi off shore a little while back. I’m fortunate enough to have family members with a boat that’s mission suitable. So it was a family affair which was awesome fishing with my cousins which is my go to squad. We were targeting blue fin tuna but the bite wasn’t on that day so mid morning I hooked up with a 40+” bull mahi on a big 80 series Penn about 400 yards of the the back of the boat. Arm burner getting it in,but unreal experience pulling that thing out of that huge expanse. Funny how big fish and big bucks similarly deal with leeward sides. The hills and the lumps and ravines are all the same just underwater when your looking at the sonar and fish finder.
Anyway, we got into some massive bluefish a little later in and some Bonita and then hooked into another big bull mahi middle afternoon.
I gotta say it was right up there with killing a big buck. Super stoked and was a great experience sharing it with the boys. Great memories and out of this world beer battered fish tacos
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby mheichelbech » Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:00 am

That’s awesome! Back about 25 years ago some friends and I went on trip off Nags Head, NC out into the Gulf Stream, we caught about 450 pounds of Mahi in 2 days between 5 of us. It was a rough trip wave wise but the fishing was incredible.

For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!

Great eating all Summer!
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Unread postby mheichelbech » Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:00 am

That’s awesome! Back about 25 years ago some friends and I went on trip off Nags Head, NC out into the Gulf Stream, we caught about 450 pounds of Mahi in 2 days between 5 of us. It was a rough trip wave wise but the fishing was incredible.

For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!

Great eating all Summer!
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby PK_ » Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:05 am

That’s awesome man. Looks like a blast.
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Sep 03, 2019 7:40 am

8-)
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby Sailfish_WC » Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:31 pm

Awesome!

Luv me some dolphin fishing!

Good job
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby UntouchableNess » Wed Sep 04, 2019 1:22 am

Mahi fight really hard and are great table fare. Congrats!
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Wed Sep 04, 2019 1:56 am

:clap: :clap: :clap:

That first pic looks like a massacre occurred on board :lol:
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Re: First offshore trip

Unread postby Sailfish_WC » Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:48 am

Jackson Marsh wrote::clap: :clap: :clap:

That first pic looks like a massacre occurred on board :lol:



You can hook an 18” dolphin in the mouth, drop him on the deck, get your hook remover, turn back around and you’d think someone slaughtered a hog on the deck.

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