Crew: Tim, JimF, DonP, Jeff, Mike
Water Temp: 76-78
Tide: Unkown
Wind: South 5 knots
Conditions: A few clouds and less than 1 foot seas
Fish Caught: 70" Mako, 10 Mahi 16"-30"
Managed to get Thursday off of work and planned on heading out for an over nighter at the edge. A shifting of boats and crew had me meeting JimF, his cousin, DonP and Mike(Sparky45) at Galesferry marina at 4:40pm wednesday after work.
We pushed off with high hopes and planed to head out to the edge to shark/sword fish and then tuna troll in the morning.
We spotted dolphins before even reaching Montauk!
We flew out at 32 mph in fantastic seas and no wind, only stopping to pick up a few mahi at some of the high flyers.
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Mike's first ever mahi
(Click to Enlarge)We trolled for a little.
(Click to Enlarge)Managed a few dolphin.
(Click to Enlarge)We enjoyed a fantastic sunset!
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Pitch black darkness had us taking special caution heading south to the edge.
We set up for the night in 750 foot of water, two shark rods, two sword rods and a tuna rod. Chunking for the next hour produced a mako darting thru the slick.
The water was so clear, we thought it was a pup at first cruising the surface, but it was actually a keeper fish 30 feet below the surface.
Some enticing with the mackeral fillet yielded a solid stike and the battle began!
Here is the fish coming along side of the boat hooked up solid!
(Click to Enlarge)We saw it was a keeper and our half-ass measuring attempts with the thrashing mako put it at least at 64" fork length...well over the 54" minimum!
We got the tail ropes and flying gaff at the ready.
I pulled the mako back to within leadering and POP!!!!!.....the rod's main line line snapped and I yelled &$@^*$%%&*%^$!!!!!!!....I lost him!
The line parted at the mono just before the wire leader!
Then we noticed my swordfished rigged Chaos rod and Penn 50VSW which was dropped 150' straight off the port side midship was under a load!
The mako which just snapped off had gotten himself tail wrapped in our swordfish rig!!!! I quickly grabbed the rod and began slowly and gingerly......well as much as one could with a pissed off mako.....reeling the tail wrapped mako up to the boat.
We didn't have high hopes for the outcome.
(Click to Enlarge)Amazingly the mako came up tail first and HEAVILY wrapped in the 80# Suffix Hi-Viz mainline and Jeff hit him right through the gills with the big new flying gaff!
....a tail rope was added and GAME OVER!!!!!!!
(Click to Enlarge)Again taking advantage of the Grady's huge fish locker, we stuffed this 70" fish in there with some mahi and packed it with ice.
(Click to Enlarge)We set out four sword rods and one tuna rod for the rest of the night without any luck.
We did keep in contact with snafu out there, who keep us waiting to hear back from him, but I will let MajorWoods share the story with you.
Morning troll yielded no knock downs except for the typical mahi-mahi. We trolled the tails hard, both east and west walls, out into the deep, west and then the flats.
We did run into a dead whale/shark floating.
(Click to Enlarge)Back to the marina by 3pm, boat cleaned, fish cleaned and back at home before 6:30.
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(Click to Enlarge)Another great overnight trip on board "FishingFINattic"
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