YC 28th
danmanswag
Posts: 515 Officer
Gonna make it quick...here is some midweek fish **** to get you through the day.
Fished the YC this past weekend. As usual, was fun and I continue to learn a little more each time. There was a few forum members, some that ive fished with before and a couple that I met for the first time (nice meeting you guys). Was a pretty good crew and plenty of ***** talking which made it fun. Fishing wasnt on fire, but there was fish to be caught. There wasnt huge quantities of fish being caught, but the quality was fantastic...plenty of big muttons and a couple nice groupers. We fished from 150ft to 275 ft, most of the time staying around 200ft, which I absolutely loved. I had a horrible start losing fish due to user error and then a couple of pulled hooks, also lost a king at the side of the boat...lets just say I stopped fishing at one point to gather myself. When it was all said and done I ended with 10 muttons, 1 genuine and 1 firetruck red (which does not look that big in the picture after seeing the muttons). As you notice, there are no photo tricks and no holding the fish out with my arms fully stretched like a lot of pictures I see on this forum :wink. Enjoy the pics
Fished the YC this past weekend. As usual, was fun and I continue to learn a little more each time. There was a few forum members, some that ive fished with before and a couple that I met for the first time (nice meeting you guys). Was a pretty good crew and plenty of ***** talking which made it fun. Fishing wasnt on fire, but there was fish to be caught. There wasnt huge quantities of fish being caught, but the quality was fantastic...plenty of big muttons and a couple nice groupers. We fished from 150ft to 275 ft, most of the time staying around 200ft, which I absolutely loved. I had a horrible start losing fish due to user error and then a couple of pulled hooks, also lost a king at the side of the boat...lets just say I stopped fishing at one point to gather myself. When it was all said and done I ended with 10 muttons, 1 genuine and 1 firetruck red (which does not look that big in the picture after seeing the muttons). As you notice, there are no photo tricks and no holding the fish out with my arms fully stretched like a lot of pictures I see on this forum :wink. Enjoy the pics
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****, you're good! lol 15.8lbs
its a great feeling when that slob hit the deck
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Wonder why the YC pics never make it to the front page? :huh:
Anyways...nice muttons fishing in 200ft in the tortugas is definitely a thing of beauty.
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Go figure I caught most of my muttons on fresh ballyhoo...the rest probably on goggs. That one bite that Derrick "had to stop to check out" that he just happened to find was awesome, stud muttons coming over the rails non stop. Was crazy how that front pushed on top of us with the snap of a finger...just happy I got 2 more muttons in those conditions before I passed out. Nice fishing with you too, buddy. Hopefully see you out there sooner than later.
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One thing I've learned over the years, certain baits that work well at night, don't during the day. Flying fish is one of those baits. For something so absolutely deadly at night, I don't think I've ever caught a Mutton on flying fish during the day. My favorite daytime bait is a big fresh ballyhoo.
Nice catch
Hammer
Most use long handled shrimp nets. Some use small cast nets.
More later.
Actually it was a fun trip in spite of a few setbacks. With a light group of anglers on board everyone had a great time!
Fishing was a pick at every spot during the first half of the trip with some large size Muttons coming over the rail. A few highlights... two nice Cobias and my first ever Tiger shark! Brought to the side of boat and released unharmed, it was a "different" fight, after hook up on the bottom it came up all the way to the surface where it proceeded to fight for the entire time with dorsal and rear fin sticking out of the water, so from a distance we had no idea what it was ... beautiful fish with very dark tiger stripes! Personally, I injured my right knee when my rod was on the rod holder and the clicker went off screaming and I made a wrong move and then heard a popping sound followed by a loud " I f ---ed upmy knee " LOL ... so I limped and *****ed the rest of the trip but NOW I'm ready to go to Pulley Ridge since that was the ONLY thing in my mind after it happened. The second half of the trip we lost hydraulic power for the anchor pulley so Capt. Greg made lemonade out of lemons and we drift fished the rest of the trip and quite frankly it was quite productive with red grouper, strawberries, rockhind, yellowtails and some 5-8 lb. Muttons in the mix. Gracefully Capt. Greg rewarded everyone with a partial credit for a future trip!
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Well I had to drive to Tampa to start to find the right parts.........................
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/looks like I'll be back in October
//keep us posted Captain!
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