Hi Lee Palm / Red Rooster team (San Diego - California) .. Keep my car seat cool for me - right?
Fishing report from Nassau Bahamas (8-10-2000) (Thursday) (air temperature 92 degrees, water temperature - mid 80 degrees). Clear sky, wind and hot sun. I caught two yellow fish in the 60-pound range that almost sent me to the hospital.
I caught 2 YFY on Thursday - fishing "solo" aboard my Scarab WellCraft, which has just been re-equipped with two 225 Evinrude chips (cost $ 28,000, including installation).
Both YFT passed about 70 # s each (83 pounds of fillet). Drift catches fresh / frozen squids to start. I started fishing at 9:30 in the morning and left at 2 in the evening.
When I got to the AUTEC USO buoy 10 miles from the coast (a practice area for nuclear submarines of the US Navy that appear on the surface from time to time) (the AUTEC buoy is at an altitude of 6,000 feet water) Captain Robbie New (from Trinidad) from "Little stunt "just started the fish.
For the first hour, all I managed was a two-pound nest, which I later used for bait.
Robbie was also unlucky, but we saw that about 50 # of the YFT came out of the water several times, so made us wait.
At about 11:00 am, my onion with an 80-meter test line and 80 # green leader Berkeley's triple, with a small hook on the mustard hook at the end (with a 100-inch Sampo dough rotating between them).
I just saw how many minutes most of the YFT flew by, and I thought I was his cousin — for sure. The line screamed and the fish ran deep. Everything pointed to YFT, but after about 10 minutes I saw a 25 pound shark on my line, hooking it directly into my mouth with a hook.
Leaving the shark in line with the rod holder, I sat down to drink some water from a gallon plastic jug in my cooler.
Cut him off, I thought to myself. But then I remembered how much YFT I used, having caught the shark as bait, and went to take another look at it. He was a good 4 feet long. Usually too big to worry about, but the fishing was slow and I decided to take it.
Even though I knew he was shaking crazy, like when I fooled him, I decided to go for it, but I missed my puppy with 5 feet and watched him caring for my deck when I shoved him, Scarab 2-1 / 2 feet of fish.
By 12 o'clock, I switched from the "squid" to a new bait slot on all three of my poles. By now, the shark was dead, so I dragged it to the stern and started laying it, throwing pieces of shark meat overboard — with a lot of blood washed overboard with my pump to wash the sea water.
I removed one side of the shark, took the skin and cut it into 5 pieces, and through it on the sides. All the time - wash the blood and guts overboard. I cut the giant shark liver into small pieces and watched them swim on the surface - as I slowly drifted toward AUTEC Buoy.
Within 5 minutes after cutting this shark, the onion line went out - “shout”. This time I knew that this was probably YFT. The fish hit the 80-line triline line on a 5-1 / 2-foot stem of the Palm Beach tunnel held in Mount Percot.
I immediately took up the seat belt and the belt. YFT stopped his run deep several times, and I quickly reeled up the line to make sure there was no sag in the line, and smiled when I felt his weight again at my pole.
But it was 95 degrees in the sun, and I was going to do something 8 years after fishing (and I caught more than 350 and landed), which would make it an ordinary day on the water.
Lifting the rod and clicking into the harness, I began the slow process of bringing it to color. I was grateful that I chose the rod with the test line 80 #, since the other two drums (Shimano Penn graphite 30W) had a 50 # Trileene test (Big Game), and the fight against YFT on the test line 50 # is a completely different ball game .
Fifteen minutes into the fight, my thumb (on the coil) got a terrible spasm and actually stuck in my palm. I could not understand why this was happening, but kept going, trying to get rid of the cramps.
After a few minutes, the cramps spread to my forearm - then to my biceps. I am £ 220, a former HS All American swimmer and a 4-time New York State champion, so I did a hard workout, but I’ve never experienced this.
Even my legs were asleep. There was no wind, no cover from my bimini, and it was 95 degrees in the shade. All this added one thing - "Heat Exhaustion".
To cool off, I tried to enter a 5-gallon bucket of salt water, but this did not help one iota. My legs were too big for the bucket.
In addition, I am extremely tired - QUICKLY. THERMAL RADIATION rose and challenged me, like "The Old Man and the Sea."
It took me 55 minutes to land this 70-pound YFT, but I finally got it in the boat. Boy, I was glad.
I usually wash out all the blood from my boat immediately after landing the fish, but this time I went to the stern, turned on the salt water pump, sat on my cooler and just let this salt water run over my head for 5 minutes. I finished about 3/4 of this gallon jug of water.
When I was slowly returning to Captain Robbie, the “Little Trick,” the cool air that hit my Toronto predator NBA Jersey (No. 14, wearing Vince Carter) made me feel much better, but I still wasn't 100%.
By the way, you might want to buy one of these NBA Jersey. You know why the NBA uses them.
I waved to Captain Robbie when I slowly descended from his Stern, and he shouted, "I thought you were fighting 2 YFT, you left for so long."
Either, I set up again to try another (YFT).
Now I use white shark pieces on all my hooks, and chunking with a fresh shark - as the lines are released.
After about 45 minutes, the aft line leaves - screaming. This is my Penn 30 International without a leader and 50 # Trilene line - without turning. Christ, I said to myself: why did this fish do this to me?
The hook on this line was just a hook to the No. 4 Mustard Bait, which you can buy 50 per package for less than $ 10 at Wal-Mart or K-Mart.
It will be a completely new "ball game". I have to be “gentle” on dragging — either he will bite through trilen, or he will pull the hook.
As it turned out, I ever got this YFT color in more than one hour. I experienced the same convulsions as before, and at some point - on this fish - I was thinking about “surrender”.
The point is not that I get $ 6 per pound per file (from the friends of my restaurant) who kept me on the rail, but the idea of turning off the YFT was out of the question.
After he uncovered this 70-inch YFT and pulled him by the rifle, I worked for Robbie (who stayed until 7 in the evening and didn't catch anyone) and left, saying that I was going home.
True story.
END
Captain Solo - he's Tom Azzara
Boat - "Taxi Driver"
Nassau, Bahamas
British Commonwealth Territory
(not part of the East Coast)
Gallery of fishermen Tom.
http://endtaxes.com/images/gallery.html
Take a break and check out these photos from the 6th Billabong 6th Annual Fishing Tournament, held in Nassau, in the sunny, tax-free Bahamas.
click on (or browser) below ....
http://endtaxes.com/images/gallery2.html
From: Lee Palm Long Range Sportfishers
TRIP # 14; August 6 to August 11 5-day trip:
The second of the three back-to-back 5-day summer Red Rooster III summer schedules again provided outstanding fishing for its passengers. Chouk Melber of Agoura CA paved the way with 84.1 pounds of bluefin tuna to get the jackpot and then 79.8 pounds for Justin Christensen from Newbury Park CA and 73 pounds of silver for Joe Stickles of Orange CA. “It was a good consistent action throughout the trip,” said captain Andy Cates. “A few days, of course, seemed wilder than others, but, looking back at the trip, I would say that everything was fine.
The trip flew as far as Guadalupe Island for some excellent yellow finish, but the bases of the Albacore closer to the house limited the lengths of long lengths and took up a rather good blue. “We had some really exceptional moments,” said co-captain Jeff DeBuis, “but no one
just as amazing as the second place in the jackpot, landed by Justin. When we got to this puppy, we knew that we had found our fishermen. It was definitely a wonderful fish, and in the end, she added beautifully blue to our trophy tally. “This, combined with high quality Albacore, still made the Rooster one more in her long chain of exceptional long-distance adventures.
FISH COUNT: LIMITS ALBACORE, 52 BLUEFIN TUNA, 49 YELLOWFIN TUNA, 45
YELLOWTAIL AND 1 BIGEYE.
