6-29 jupiter bft and crazy storm

lucky7

Me and my dad decided to go out on a whim yesterday at noon as I heard the reports of bft. So we cleared the inlet at about 1:00 and I just got some new dolphin and tuna lures from ballyhood I wanted to try out. Put a 4 line spread out of a dolphin slammer daisy chain, regular dolphin slammer, top gun Tuna lure, and the trusty ol yo zuri Bonita incase we get a lucky wahoo. Trolled from 200-400 in and out for an a couple hours with nothing then I decide to troll from 100-250, good idea! The bite turned on fast the daisy chain was getting knocked down every 5 min no joke we caught 4 decent bft in 30 mins in scattered weed in 110-150 off the Juno pier . Mean while we see the huge storm lingering off the coast not thinking much of it cuz we got into good fishing. Just as we find we really good fishy area with lots of weeds in 300 we look back and see the storm had charged towards us off the coast and this thing was huge, it went from pa beach past jupiter. So I say ok let's go in... Well we get about a mile off the inlet and temp drops rapidly and lightning and squall in front of my face , I seriously was scared . Neither of us knew which way to go or what the best plan was because the storm was along the whole coast and I didn't want to run back out deep to try and avoid it and get caught, so I ran towards the beach incase something happened I could swim for shore right? Haha, so we see it opening to the south and ran for it with a nasty lighting storm on our *** made it to the palm beach inlet safe and traveled up north back to tequesta . Very nerve racking I almost thought we were gonna die. Did see some other boats caught in it hope everyone was ok! Sorry for no pics I was freaking out.

B.Wilmot

Glad you got the BFT. We just beat the storm tied up at bubba gump and had dinner while it stormed. I'm sure glad I wasn't int it. The lightning was really bad. I'm glad y'all made It safe.

Catchem up!!!!
BW

rowerybo

Good job on the fish and getting around the storm.
We we're trailering home and got caught, 45th street was down to 10mph and ZERO visibility.

The Nicko

rowerybo wrote: »

Good job on the fish and getting around the storm.
We we're trailering home and got caught, 45th street was down to 10mph and ZERO visibility.

Always love a wet trailer ride home.. Free trailer bearing and boat wash..

Vindawg

Always good to get out and catch some fishes...Always sucks to get blasted by a nasty *** storm! Glad you made it back I've been caught myself in something similar and it sure do get scary.

e-money

Good job on Blackfins Matt and thanks for understanding about schedule / conditions.
Ready to slay hoos and snaps w you when tides / bite are right.
Peace

Dream Reality

Yikes!! Reminds me of a similar outing with my 9 yo son at the time. The rain was coming down in buckets! Lighting everywhere seas flat as glass. Visibility? Just past the bow. As quick as it came, it wa gone. Like you, I was rattled (first storm on the ocean I was in), headed for my home port, PBI and called it a day. Was skunked too.

Anyhow, glad your safe and jealous of the tuna catch. I thought the BFT bite shut off around noon?

lucky7

When the wind picked up a little the bite turned on, for me it seems mid afternoon is usually a slow bite for most fishing but we just wanted to get on the water. E-money no worries man I look forward to getting back out there with you.

foodfight

That's scary! I HATE lightening in a boat. We were hit one time.

Fi$h2nguyen

The risk of summer pm fishing. Glad you guys made it back safe with good eats.

brianb

Way to go on the catching, we got skunked Saturday

Dream Reality

foodfight wrote: »

That's scary! I HATE lightening in a boat. We were hit one time.

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