CaptainRickyWheeler

Today we ran out on the Wish You Were Here. Beautiful flat calm weather. We got to the 100 fathom line and there they were, yellowfins were all over the surface in the 40-60 pound range. We got a few bites but only held onto 1. Shortly after we boxed a mahi and went 1/2 on white marlin then it shut down.

We pushed off to prettier water on a nice rip and went 3/6 there mid day picking away at white marlin releases until the rip and bait disappeared. Then we shoved into the canyon where we boxed a nice 55# yellowfin tuna and ended the day on a white marlin release. Great day of fishing!

Day 1 for us started off raising a double header white marlin. We got a bite out of 1 and the other faded away. We did get the release on that fish and then released another shortly after. Then we missed one on the right long. We were fishing 100 fathoms and there were tons of flying fish, beautiful blue water, but not much else to it.

We picked up and ran inside and managed to get one more marlin bite that didn’t come tight so we ended our day 2/4. 2 more to go here!

Well, we ended our day 6/9 releasing 6 white marlin. A few mahi in the mix. Great day pre fishing for the White Marlin Open. I have to keep the location semi hush hush, but some other boats did even better. Felt fortunate tho overall to have caught what we did! Fun day for sure. Hope to keep the good vibes rolling through the White Marlin Open!

We went back at it looking for billfish today and ran up between the Wilmington and the Spencer Canyons. The water in the morning looked green and lifeless although we did catch two small yellowfin tuna. We picked up and ran off to 700 fathoms of the Spencer and nearly right away we released a long bill spearfish. Very cool catch! The rest of the day we trolled around looking for something better, then picked up and ran again. At the end of the day we did manage to release a white marlin off of the right long party skirt ballyhoo, and that was the day.

Wow, well today was a pleasant surprise. We ran out to the Baltimore due to 3 days of wind keeping people on the beach so no fishing reports and also no SST image, and we went in hopes of finding maybe a stray tuna, and couple whites, and some maki. The mahi were certainly there and we put about 2 dozen in the box, but what really made the day great were some awesome blue marlin bites, fights and releases along with a white marlin.

The morning started with a 300 pound blue that piled on the party skirt on the flat line and game on. After some awesome jumps and chasing the fish around a bit, the leader chafed off. Ouch. Shorty after we had a 175 poun blue marlin piling on the left teaser and Radny switched that fish off to a blue and white tuna flare that was on the short rigger. Awesome fight and clean release. Mid day things slowed down but we did get a white marlin off the left flat line with a party skirt and a nice release on that one.

At the end of the day as we were starting to pack up we had a small blue marlin around 100 pounds pile on the right teaser and randy switched that one off to the right flat line and we needed the day going 2/3 on blues and 1/1 on whites. Lots of fun!

We slipped out for 4 hours this morning on the layday and went 5/6 on sailfish. Unfortunately we lost our steering though and we McGyvered something hoping to get a little bit of steering for the last day of the tournament. Gonna make it interesting tomorrow. I sure hope we can get on em and hold the lead.