Stallion

Sorry for the late report, been a crazy Monday with a sick child and just got to a computer.

We fished south/southeast of OB and put in lines around 105 miles offshore. Cut west/northwest early morning and headed across to the blue push south of the spur/east of double nipple. Hooked and fought a big white for 5 mins. Whitey put on a show that none of us will ever forget. Jumped 20-30 times in less than 2 minutes - did a full flip at one point! Anyway, whitey knew what he was doing because the jumping pulled hooks. Tremendous let down on board needless to say. We hooked the fish about 90 miles offshore in the clean green water in between area south/soutwest of squiggles and south of Spur/Canyon - on the way to the blue push.

Lost anice dolphin (30+ atleast) once we hit edge of blue/green push. This was a money fish for sure. Caught a small dolphin (10 lbs)an hour before the bigger dolphin loss. Blue marlin nailed right rigger shortly thereafter, spit hook and then swam through the rest of the baits from right to left. Neat site.

The further north we trolled the better the fishing seemed to get. Weended up having6 knock downs, 2 of which were billfish. Fishing wasn't all that bad, weather was awesome. We had our shots on the pelagics, the luck just wasn't with us. We picked up around 5:35 at 78 miles from OB.

Obviously didn't place in the dolphin category but did win over $2,000 on the 10 lb dolphin in the calcutta. Paid for our trip! Glad wedidn't put him on the Magma grill as the crew had seriously considered. Just goes to show, bet placement in the calcutta is critical. We went across the board in the dolphin category.

Congrats to Red Rocket for Top Boat on the big tuna. Sizeable cash, 260 qt. Yetti, custom rod and entry into the Limited in July. Good work. Also, thanks to Chris Couture and PFF. Everyone enjoyed meeting Chris and his family at the Friday night party and captain's meeting.

15 boats with $32,500total pursewas the final tally. It was a fun event and looking forward to next year. Hope to see everyone plus othersback next year.

daddytime

That kind of money for a 10# mahi is like ...WOW. Congrats to you guys as well as the other 14 crews. That really isn't a bad purse for that kind of turn out. Sounds like the event was a success regardless of water and participants. Thanks for the report.:usaflag