Live from Mississippi.

[5Cent]

Yeah baby, cant wait to hear about the trip!

 

[Deersurgeon]

Congrats and I knew you would land something!

 

[md1]

Yummmmmm........

 

["J"]

Looks like it needed another year!

Looking forward too the write up.

 

[Jackalope]

I know a bass boat can make it in an hour and a half, but what’s it take that boat?

Safe travels and bending rod tips hopefully for all involved…..

Depends on conditions. We had fantastic seas yesterday so we were able to run about 37-45mph. (38-42 gallon per hour fuel burn) We did have a 30 min jog on the edge of the shelf where we got our teeth beat out at 24mph.

 

["J"]

Depends on conditions. We had fantastic seas yesterday so we were able to run about 37-45mph. (38-42 gallon per hour fuel burn) We did have a 30 min jog on the edge of the shelf where we got our teeth beat out at 24mph.

Did your shoulders feel like they met your butt crack?

 

[Jackalope]

There are a few moments in a man's life that he will never forget. The birth of your first child, the moment you walked up on your first big buck, and seeing 200lb yellowfin tuna busting the surface in South Louisiana.

I'll do this in parts.

 

[Jackalope]

Met my neighbor yesterday morning at 2:30 to make a run in his 36 Contender for a run to the shelf to chase Wahoo and yellowfin tuna. We left the dock about 3:30. The plan was to troll baits for wahoo and watch for blowups (fish busting giant bait balls of menhayden) to get on Tuna. It was 34 degrees and we had 98 miles to cover in an open center console. With favorable seas, we'd be on the grounds at sunup. The run out was pretty good and we managed 37 mph. Placing us there about 6am.

We got baits in the water and started trolling around rigs. After about an hour, the reel started screaming, and we landed a nice wahoo after about a 20 min fight.

Not long after, we found the first pogie ball absolutely getting hammered. Thousands of sharks and jack cravelle are absolutely destroying them. Now, the tuna ate in there too but down below and to the sides. The tuna will come absolutely screaming through the mele and bust a bait, often coming out of the water. You'll catch flashes of them zipping by like underwater torpedoes. They use the chaos the sharks create to pick off pogies that get separated or confused; they use their speed to keep out of the jaws of the sharks. You can't see it, but the water below the surface was like a snow globe of tiny fish particles floating around, much like snow. This is acres of them hitting the surface, and that's just the surface, the carnage is 50+ feet deep.