Had a great opportunity to fish with a couple of nice guys from O.B. We went out on Frank's 35' Luhrs Alura. That will spoil you. I'm not used to having fresh coffee with bacon and eggs while I troll.
We caught a few blackfins at Petronius on Friday night. That was the most crowded I've seen that rig. At one time there were seven us out there. We were 4th in line on the mooring buoy. I thought I was at the Midnight Lumps for a moment.
I was detemined to keep moving to different rigs until we found a hungry YFT. Finally at the RAM Powell about 1pm I hear the port rigger pop and that sweet sound of a TLD50 screaming. The second I grab that rod and lock the drag the starboard rigger pops and now we have TLD's screaming in stereo. By the speed at which we were losing line I knew we had some bruisers on. One the second high speed run, my 50lb test decides to fail on me. If anyone catches a big YFT towing a blue and white illander attached to a hot pink bird...it's mine.
Thankfully Pete is doing a better job wrestling with his YFT. After a few minutes of head to head combat he asks if he can get in the chair. I told him everyone on my shift pees standing up, and we fight fish the same way!! Well 20 minutes later I see a pretty large YFT coming up the water column. I stick him, pull up and nearly tear a rotator cuff getting him in the boat. We didn't have a scale, but I would guess it weighed between 80 and 100 lbs. We cut his tail to get him in the cooler.
UPDATE EDIT <<>> Tipped the bathroom scale the next morning after being bled out at 96lbs. Not bad for Pete and Frank's 1st tuna. That will spoil ya! <<>>
The pressure was off, the stars were in alignment, Elvis had entered the building. I get tremendous joy in watching people's faces the first time they land a big YFT. My job was complete for this trip. Will add some pictures when Frank sends them to me. My wife had my camera this weekend.
Another boat at the rig pulled in several fish using live bait.
FISH ON FRIENDS!!!
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