Mako22
09-26-2005, 09:57 AM
Sorry for the late report, but I am just now getting back to a computer...
Fished an overnighter last thursday night out of Chinco with my brother. Started out at the tip of the Washington on the troll for a couple hours, but didn't do a thing. Started our first drift at sunset in about 400ft of water at the tip, but wasn't marking a whole lot, and couldn't buy a bite.
About 10:00 moved inside to the 30 fa lumps where we fared better. First tuna on about 11:30, and then at 4:00 all hell broke lose. Couldn't keep a line in the water for about an hour - went 3 for 6 on run offs on yft averaging about 50lbs, and one mahi. Everything on live and dead squid, nothing on butters. At 5:30 it was over. Picked up one more at about 8:00 while we were napping. Once that one was in the boat, we were done. Packed up and headed in about 8:30.
The best depth seemed to be about 160-165ft outside of the NSSS.
With only two of us on the boat, we had a busy night and come daylight, we were spent.
Total for the trip was 5 YFT (two about 30 lbs, and three about 50 lbs), and one Mahi. We debated trying to bail mahi on the way in, but the boxes were full enough for the two of us, and we had had enough!).
The weatherman lied on this one. Had a great day on thursday, flat calm seas - but at about 9:00pm or so, the wind picked up to about 15 where it stayed for most of the night and for the ride in (Obviously, it had to blow from the west, giving us reel nice ride home...) As we were on a 22ft center console, I was looking with envy at every boat with a cabin once we were back on land!
The one downside of the night - as I was plugging in the stern light post, one of the prongs in the plug broke off. Without a spare on board, we spent the night with our running lights on, and a close eye out for passing boats. There were a ton of scallopers anchored for the night in about 170 ft outside the NSSS - so as they stirred, we had to shine the spotlight to make sure they saw us.
Overall, for our first overnighter we had a blast. Plenty of fish, and the seas weren't too bad. We were both surprised how quickly the night passed. I'll definitely be planning more in the future.
Fished an overnighter last thursday night out of Chinco with my brother. Started out at the tip of the Washington on the troll for a couple hours, but didn't do a thing. Started our first drift at sunset in about 400ft of water at the tip, but wasn't marking a whole lot, and couldn't buy a bite.
About 10:00 moved inside to the 30 fa lumps where we fared better. First tuna on about 11:30, and then at 4:00 all hell broke lose. Couldn't keep a line in the water for about an hour - went 3 for 6 on run offs on yft averaging about 50lbs, and one mahi. Everything on live and dead squid, nothing on butters. At 5:30 it was over. Picked up one more at about 8:00 while we were napping. Once that one was in the boat, we were done. Packed up and headed in about 8:30.
The best depth seemed to be about 160-165ft outside of the NSSS.
With only two of us on the boat, we had a busy night and come daylight, we were spent.
Total for the trip was 5 YFT (two about 30 lbs, and three about 50 lbs), and one Mahi. We debated trying to bail mahi on the way in, but the boxes were full enough for the two of us, and we had had enough!).
The weatherman lied on this one. Had a great day on thursday, flat calm seas - but at about 9:00pm or so, the wind picked up to about 15 where it stayed for most of the night and for the ride in (Obviously, it had to blow from the west, giving us reel nice ride home...) As we were on a 22ft center console, I was looking with envy at every boat with a cabin once we were back on land!
The one downside of the night - as I was plugging in the stern light post, one of the prongs in the plug broke off. Without a spare on board, we spent the night with our running lights on, and a close eye out for passing boats. There were a ton of scallopers anchored for the night in about 170 ft outside the NSSS - so as they stirred, we had to shine the spotlight to make sure they saw us.
Overall, for our first overnighter we had a blast. Plenty of fish, and the seas weren't too bad. We were both surprised how quickly the night passed. I'll definitely be planning more in the future.