LET'S GO SLI 5/23 5/26 NEW FRIENDS AND TEAM!

LET'S GO

I have two reports at this time one for the 23rd and one for the 26, neither one was very productive so far is number of fish but extremely productive and making new friends and team members. Our two new friends will be (Jersey John and, Conner) both of which are from as you can guess jersey.

On the 23rd we will be joined by Lewis and Jordan on that trip we quickly found a number of live bait south east of the inlet where I joined several boats already in the progress of catching some greenies. We quickly fill the live well with more than enough bait for the day, the two new guys have done some limited offshore fishing and were fascinated by the bait catching method.

After catching the bait we headed to deeper water dropping the lines in at about 100 feet and we were immediately interrupted by a nice dolphin hit on the flat line unfortunately as quick as he was he was back off.

We continued our East trek but we were unable to score anything, we shouted out to Tom On His Pursuit but got no response. We will later find out that he was in seven 800 feet and will score 11 dolphin during the day. Tom is legendary for his Marlin capabilities.

The trolling times more without any luck until catching a good-sized slinger which we quickly gave an ice bath. Not sure that he enjoyed it as much as we did.

The second trip on the 26th well be greeted by a somewhat more choppy seas, then the day they will increase and decrease several times and when in the Gulfstream some of the rollers could approach 5 foot.

The second day will also show no signs of life bait at any of our favorite spots. During the day if fishing God's and the weather gods seem to frown upon us. We will lose several nice size dolphin and our arms will be tired from holding on the were not tossed out of the boat.

Also lost sonar about halfway through the day and my Garmin GSD 22 appears to be the culprit. I may send it in for repairs about $100, or just find new GSD 24 anybody with any input it would be appreciated thanks in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJKvWS5cJbQ

I have rendered up a short video more to feature John and Conner, thanks guys I enjoyed your help on the boat.And the pop-ups are back

Shoeless

Bo Man,
I totally recommend the GSD24, but while you are at it, look at a new transducer. I’m running a TM260 and friggin love it. It’s no CHIRP setup, but it’s also not $4K+ for the setup.

By the way, gotta love the egregious mid video interruptions.:grin

Fi$h2nguyen

Thanks for the report Bo. I still need to make a trip on that beautiful boat.

LET'S GO

Sean thanks for the 24 info

Long just let me know.

Flight Risk

Capt. Bo - great to see you out there trolling, looks like you've got a squared away crew as well. It sure looked sporty out there the second day for sure.
Great job on the Video, looks like your editing program is doing a wonderful job - the subliminal messages are a nice touch as a reminder to stay focused on the important things in life. :Spittingcoffee
Thanks as always for a good post. :grin

century7

I like the hidden message in the video

Roc N Rol

Nice video Bo, Looked a little sporty out there. Here is something to try, next time you put lines in at 100' and get a fish on right away, don't keep trolling east, work that area. Do a figure 8, overlapping circles, zig zag the area and depth hard before you move away from fish. You know the old saying, never leave fish to find fish, and in the video when the fish was hooked up it will help sometimes to cut power a little and let the angler put the pressure on the fish. You don't have to keep going full troll speed, the fish can swim 30 miles an hour give or take and if it wants to charge the boat keeping going at trolling speed wont keep it from charging. The pressure from the boat pulling and the added pressure of the angler can pull the hook. Hope this helps

Roc N Rol

More food for thought, if the thought is to keep going because it is thought that the pressure will keep the fish from spitting the hook, the thinking is incorrect. There are a lot of dolphin, kings, sailfish, cobia, wahoo and just about everything else caught and landed from kite fisherman AT DRIFT, cut the power and land more fish

Roc N Rol

here is another trick I do while trolling, if we hook up on a fish I will cut the power back and usually the fish will swim to one side or the other, I will turn the boat that direction and keep the fish 90 degrees off of my side maneuvering the boat whichever way I need to now we are back at trolling speed and then Angler is fighting the fish off of the side of the boat with the fish swimming along with the boat instead of being pulled by the boat

PaulBoat

What can I say Bo... You know how to keep your audience engaged 😀

roto7777

still better days than work!

swordawet

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