We pull outta OI at 5:30 to a nice ground swell. Work our way to an average speed of 45mph, lines in at 6:30. Troll around for an hour or so with nada, then get a call from "Sea's a Bliss" that there is a nice weed line formed up, so we troll over to it. As soon as we get to it 2 lines are down. We are thinking Mahi......but one rod is really putting up a nice fight. The first comes to the boat and it's a small YFT. Now Omar, aka (Andre) is on the rod (this is his first YFT) takes a few minutes finally we see some color, it's a nice 45-50lb YFT. Put the gaff to it and that's that. Put lines back in troll for a few line goes off, nice mahi in the box. Troll for about 30 min more real nice gaffer on the long rigger, put on a short show then the hook pulls. Now we reset the spread & venture away from the weed line a bit in search of some tuna. About an hour goes by and out of nowhere we see and explosion of tail fins and dorsal fins just flying behind the boat. 3 lines are down and drag is screaming, so we pick up the rods, put on the belts and settle in for the fight. It's all kinds of chaos with lines going this way and that way, all of a sudden 2 lines go slack..........reel them in to find them clear cut (they must of crossed and cut off, these were 100lb plus fish easy). So we still have one on and I'm on the rod, about 20 min goes by and were gaining some ground but it's straight down. Then all of sudden I hear a "SNAP" look down at the reel to find the reel seat has broken from the the pole (WTF)........So now one crew member is holding the reel while we try to get this fish in the boat, the reel was hooked to the braid belt which really made this catch possible. Then come to find out the gears in the reel have been all stripped out, only way to reel is when there is slack in the line!! Anyway we get it to the boat sink a gaff in it and pull it on board. All this happen before noon. Turned out to be a nice big eye, weighed 102 at the fishing center. Troll around for awhile longer, pick up another nice 20lb gaffer. Packed it up around 4 and was back to the dock at 5:04 great weather, ran 47mph the entire ride back. Tons of meat and another successful trip!! Thanks to the crew for another kick @ss trip!!
OI Report 05/30 Belly Dancer has a BIG day
2003 F250 Crew Cab Fx4 7.3L Turbo Diesel
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