Crew: Tim, Rick, Pat, BobB, Al
Water Temp: 66.5-67.5
Tide: Moving
Wind: South/SouthWest
Conditions: A few clouds and 2-3 foot seas
Fish Caught: One blue sharks
Left at 5:00am in calm seas.
A little bumpy past Montauk but not to bad.
Went about 15 miles out with the hopes of getting one of those big guys close to shore.
Set up our slick in nice seas and a nice breeze.
Set the hook and fish is off.
Put the dog fish out again.... entire balloon is pulled under... set the hook, fish off....
Put him back out again.... reel is screaming..... Rick sets the hook this time.... fish on....
Al fights the fish for about 20 minutes and it comes unbutton.....
Dead livey out AGAIN..... another run off.... set the hook.... off again.... this time the far balloon with the blue fish fillet starts to scream..... set the hook fish on....
My nephew was determined to the beat the fish... fought it for over an hour.... saw the leader once but could only see a silhouette of the fish.
He hands the rods off to Rick.... after some more time he get to the fish to boat.
We identified it as an enormous blue shark.....
At this point we have now wasted a bunch of premo fishing time....
Rick cranks the reel to full drag, and putting both thumbs on the reel.... another 15 minutes and we have our hands on the leader....
This fish is not done yet, down he goes!
Rick hands the rod off to me..... full drag......thumb on the reel...
to the surface again... down again.... the line breaks...
This was a very large blue shark..... possibly foul hooked close to the head.....
He fought just like a thresher.....Oh well....
Picked up our chum bucket and heading home in very nice seas... less than a 90 minute ride home.
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