Crew: Tim, Eddie, Duane, JimF, Mike
Water Temp: 59.5-60.5
Tide: Unknown
Wind: West 10-20 knots
Conditions: A few clouds and 3-4 foot seas
Fish Caught: None
Well guys, not going to sugar coat it, we did not do well.
It we were trying for bluefish this would be a different report because as JimF put it “Didn’t have to deal with any of those pesky sharks”
The weather changed last minute to include 20 knot gusts.
The boat can handle it, as I have found out the hard way in the past, it can take more than I can.Left Galesferry marina with JimF, Duane, Sparky (Mike) and my greenhorn brother Ed (poor guy, a real trooper)
The seas were fine until we started to get past Fishers Island, there weren’t bad, they were just coming from the NW, a direction I have found out the hard way means for a crappy ride back.
We listened to the latest weather and the report from buoy 44017 was 3 foot seas at 4 seconds….. Since we were planning on the horns, I weighted hard and decided against a full contact day of fishing.
We changed plans and headed for the acid barge.
Dropped a chum bucket off with a fender attached to start the slick and the we started trolling for tuna and trying out the new twelve rod spread.
The spread works fine but a bluefish proved that problems can happen when you have to clear the lines….. we had a couple of knocked downs, stolen lures, and landed one blue fish that would be come live bait.
Couldn’t find out chum bucket ughh….
Started a new chum slick…..
The wind was howling a solid 15 knots minimum and we were cranking.
The seas may of averaged two or three foot, but trust me, there was periods of closely packed two foot seas and then periods of four foot seas closely packed!
The boat was really rocking!
We had fresh caught bunker for a deep bait, bluefish fillet for medium bait, live bluefish and then another short bait…..
Drifted six hours……
Not one shark…..
The baits were constantly robbed by the bluefish…..
Came home in uncomfortable seas….. had to keep the boat around 18 to 20 knots to keep the pounding down…..
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