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Im Back from PV...

TITLEWAVE — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:25:49 GMT

see full report here....

http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/mainland-mexico-fishing-reports-discussion/122845-pv-oct-4th-oct-11th.html

Lil Kahuna 10/9-10/10 overnighter

TCAT — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:41:53 GMT

With a last minute improvement in the forecast on Thursday we made a spur of the moment decision to head offshore and see if we find some tuna. Left OB around 3PM and headed for the Marlin Rig. We stoped around the 250 rigs to make some bait. Made it to the Marlin just around sunset. Live baited, chunked, jigged...nothing. Sea Spray showed up made a few passes and quickly left. We marked nothing on bottom machine and decided to leave as it was dead. Next headed to the Beer Can where we actually marked fish on the machine. Managed a few blackfin but no yellows. Sharks showed up in force and made fishing miserable. Headed to Petronius and the blackfins were thick. Could've caught blackfin till your arms fell off. To my suprise sharks were'nt a problem, but still no yellows. By this time it was 11:30PM and we were tired. Headed just off Petronius to drift for some swords.

Got a few miles away from P-town and put out the baits. Actually put out the first squid and while I was bent over rigging the second rod the first rod I just put out makes a wicked jerk which grabs our attention. Next we see a sword jump clear out of the water with the LP light dangling. We try take up the slack but it seems the sword got tangled in the main line which broke. Put out the other rod which I was rigging and ten minutes later bam another fish on and swords a leaping. Hook pulled. The next four hours we saw steady action. Ended up catching four swords out of seven. Just about every sword hooked jumped. It was wild. We were tired and would try after setting our baits to relax and just as my eyelids would close I'd hear a splash and would jump to check the rods. Two of the swords would have measured but we decided to let em go. The other two were just pups. We did hook a nice fish on a live hardtail. I would have liked to seen that one. Also the first seemed decent but perception always tells you fished that are losts are monsters. Here's a short video of the swords caught.

The sun finally came up and we didn't get a lick of sleep thanks to the non-stop sword action. Awesome. Put the trolling spread out and made a few laps around p-town. Nothing. Water was absolutely beautiful. Trolled north to the 100 fathom and followed it east. Around the steps we pick up a 30lb wahoo.

Headed in around noon. Marlin, beer can, p-town all in great blue water. Just off p-town water was full of squid and flyers. Sword action off the hook. Water along the 100-fathom at the steps and west was blue and scattered flyers. No lines. Just some widely scattered grass.

Keith, Lil Kahuna

GOOD REPORT FROM SPUR ON THE WAY!

badazzchef — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:09:23 GMT

Will post a book tomorrow

Oil Rig Trip Oct 3-4

macala — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:48:34 GMT

I had a crew of four (Anna / Ruth from Atlanta) and ( Jack / Jeff from Sarasota). We had planned this trip a few months ago and I could not believe our luck on a good weather window. Friday and Saturday was our only option and seas were forecasted for 1-2. :letsparty We catch bait at the pass and we pick up 15 small hardtails off the buoys. We also cast netted about 100 small menhadens. We arrive at the Marlin rig at dark and we meet up with our friend Meagans Choice and another cat boat. I think we all ended up with a few nice yft and we all really had to earn these fish. we Live baited and chunked with fresh blackfin tuna all night and went 3 for 6. We had a nice fish on for an hour before the hook pulled. Around midnight the dolphins showed up and the bite died down. I was marking the yft around 60-120 feet and when the dolphins arrived, they went down to 150- 250 feet down.

I really wanted a swordfish so instead of waiting for the yft to come back up, we run 20 miles to my sword spot. First hour we get a hit and after a 20 min fight, it's a 4 ft hammerhead shark. :banghead We release it and set the lines out again. I'm so tired at this point I fall into deep sleep. Around 4:00 am, I wake up with one of the reels slowly clicking off one second apart. I get up and the line is under the boat on the opposite side. The swordfish must have come up on the surface while we were asleep and now was sounding straight down deeeeep. We fight this fish for an hour and half and none of us are tired anymore. He leaped out of the water half into the fight and then sounded off 200 feet of line again. As we boated the sword, the sun came up and all we could think of were grilled steaks for dinner. :hungry

After we clean up all the blood off the boat and us, we head back to the Marlin Rig. This is when we encounter one of the biggest surprises of our fishing trip. I see a huge explosion on the starboard side and think for a second that I saw a bluefin boil. I get closer and realize that it's a whale enjoying the sunrise. We get close and enjoy each other for 15 mins before he sounded down. What a cool moment!! We were so close, we smelled his breath. It stunk like old squid. How cool is that. Enjoyed the pictures.

The oil rigs are in clean blue water right now. I did see a nice weed line 10 miles south of the steps. I had a great crew and it's so nice having 2 captains on the boat as crew members. All I did was drive the boat. It's like a fishing vacation when you have captains fishing on the boat with you. I had a blast.

Jeff Choe

Late Report Oct 3rd and 4th

Downtime2 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:44:41 GMT

Fished with Richard, his Daddy and Gary on Friday. For it to be 1 foot per forecast, it was a bit bumpy early. Even saw a waterspout. Figured they was done by now. Trolled and trolled and trolled out of Destin. Got several short strikes. Caught a nice little bull dolphin and a blackfin. Had a blue behind the spread and wouldn't eat. The 35 Everglades has got to be the sweetest outboard I have ever been on. Well laid out. Trip 300 Zukes gave it just the right amount of pep too. Exellent host and company.

Saturday, fished Bodacious with the regular crew. Started before I got there with Hal coming down the ramp at Palafox with an armload of Popeyes chicken and all the trimmings. He slips, and all over the dock it goes. There is a slight possibility alcohol was a contributing factor. Got out to where we wanted to go and put lines in. After Perry finished getting his fill of blackfins, we moved on. Jeremy was messing with the teaser reels and managed to pour his cup of dip remainders over his own head. That was gross...even to me. Hal forgot his sunglasses. Later that afternoon we managed a nice sail on 30# tackle. Congrats to Bo on that one. Felt good to grab a bill. Been a while. Day started out a bit bumpy wound up goregous. Back home by 2015.

Both trips were a great time. My gratitude to both. Sorry, no pics....

ram powell trip 10/3

ateupwitit — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:57:21 GMT

headed out friday night out of Dauphin Is about 800pm headed south for the Ram Powell in search of tuna. Made it there and commenced to jig for BFT with diamond and butterfly jigs boated 5. We cut up a BF for bait fished about 100' and boated 2 YFT both about 75lbs. We got cut off several times not sure by what :banghead can tuna bite thru floro leader? The bite turned off for both species. The porpoises were thick as I've ever seen. They caused problems in the morning:banghead:banghead we trolled ballyhoos but the porpoises would hit tail until it knocked the bait off, they're smart.

Decided to fish the Alps before heading home and boated 2 AJs 60lbs and 30lbs. We searched but failed to find any weedlines. Sorry no pics just got home from the trip. Water was cobalt blue. Great trip seas were good but getting rougher before we left.

Rig report 10/3-10/4

Meagans Choice — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:03:04 GMT

The bite was on Friday night from 8-11 PM at the Marlin. We caught three yellowfin 60-65 lb on small live hardtails one right after the other. Several other boats were catching them as well. After the bite turned off we headed to the Ram Powell and saw many boats there. The west side of the rig had a large school of porpises. We had a big bite there but the fish broke off, ugh!!! We wondered if it could have possibly been a porpise. BTW, does anyone know if the yellowfin hang with or are they bothered by the porpises? I heard one boat caught a couple of 100 lb yellowfin there. We thought about going to the steps to swordfish, but instead went to check out Horn. We caught several blackfin at Horn, but no yellowfin. We swordfished there the rest of the night, but had no hits. A buddy of ours caught a 160+ sword at the steps Fri. night as well. Congrats Jeff on the nice sword!!! The next morning the bite was off at Horn and the Marlin. We then headed over to the elbow to try some bottom fishing on some private spots but the weather turned sour. We had a rough ride coming back home to Daybreak, but can't complain since we had the three nice YFT on ice. Thanks to Mark and Tim for a great time. BTW Tim, keep that mojo working!! I'll try to add some pictures. <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0753.jpg"> <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0754.jpg"> <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0751_2.jpg"> <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0749_1.jpg"> <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0748_3.jpg"> <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/DSCN0752_4.jpg">

Petronis 10/3 - 10/4

ajfishn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:55 GMT

Took my newly purchased boat to the Petronis for the first time. As everyone know the seas could not have been better. Got out there around 9:00 pm and caught a few blackfin until around midnight. Decided to pull away and take a couple hour nap. When we came back the blackfin where biting much better.

Started trolling just before sunrise. We got 3 quick bites as the sun was comming up, 3 small yellowfin. The yellowfin were busting for about a minute and then disapeared. Trolled for about another hour with now luck.

Decided to troll to the 252's, we caught 2 skipjack tuna on the way and then got a huge bite on the long rigger. Turned out to be a 60 lb wahoo, great way to top off the trip.

Ended up with 13 blackfin, 2 skipjack, and the wahoo.

Most fun I have ever had on my own boat, can't wait to do it again. Hopefully will have some pictures tonight.

Jake

26 World Cat, Twin 150 Yamaha 4 Strokes

Bodacious Report 10/4

Xanadu — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:49:04 GMT

With weather as it was, we decided to head to some shallow water and give a try for fall a couple fall billfish. The decision was made to leave early Saturday and to fish 50s on the corners and all 30s with smaller lures on the riggers and shotgun so we made sure the small stuff was ready and Trip loaded the boat with peashooters instead of our usual artillery. In preparation for a great day of fishing, I decided to have a drinking meeting at the office Friday after work and then to head to Sake Cafe for sushi. Anyway, its a long story, but Saki was a bad choice and I got to pay for it Saturday.

Anyway, I got dropped off at the Marina late Friday night and on my way to the boat, I slipped on the ramp at Palafox and dropped $40 worth of Popeyes chicken and red beans. I saved the beer, but I wouldn't need it Saturday anyway. Perry was already asleep when I got on board and Trip followed an hour or so later after setting off the alarm at my house and waking up the wife and neighborhood.

Sometime before daylight, Creech, Bo and Wade climbed on and set us off for the NE side of the nipple where we put lines in about 630. After a fairly uneventful beginning, we ran across a shrimp boat pulling nets and caught a couple blackfins and talked with Midnight Run on the radio. After an hour or two of boredom we started tinkering with the spread and killing time until about 1pm we got a bite on the long rigger and hooked a nice sized sailfish on a 30. Bo fought the sail for about 5 minutes while we cleared and got the tag ready. Trip wired the little fella and Wade tagged him cleanly. After removing the hook, we set him free and healthy with Bo's first sailfish on Bodacious and another few points for our club tournament.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful and we called it a day an hour before sundown and kicked it 26kts back to Palafox. It was a good fall trip and while more fish would have been appreciated you have to love flipping channels on the sat tv and alternating btwn FSU and the Bama game while billfishing in sight of condos.

Good times!

Offshore Venice La

Capteddie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:50:30 GMT

Finally got out on the water after quite a long while off. Ran out on a cutomers 31 contender and had some beautiful conditions. We hit a close in floater first with no luck before we headed long. Looked around teh rig a little and put the baits out. While we were letting the first bait out a 60 pound yf jumped out of the water and ate the bait. About 10 seconds later the other bait got hit as well and we were doubled up and very happy at that point. We landed both of these fish and continued to pick away at the tuna until we had 7 in the boat all from 60-70 pounds. We called it a day and rolled to the dock at 45 mph.

On day two it was almost a repeat as we doubled up on our first two baits out again. We landed both fish adn then it slowed down a little again. We put two more yf in the box and decided to header to some different places. No more yf hit the box but we did get 4 nice dolphin to add to it.

On monday I went out with my friend Ron on his boat the "Hammer" This was the first day out of the three we didnt double up on the first two baits. Although the first bait did produce a nice 60 pound fish. We caught a couple more tuna then some debris floater by and we slayed the dolphin on it. WE pulled 25 dolphin from 10-20 pounds off of it before we let the rest of the school swim on its merry way. We headed back to the rig and caught a couple more yf before we headed to the house with 6 yf and 25 dolphin.

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tuna time on the Outta Here

flyliner — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:44:12 GMT

Am leaving this evening for the rigs, plan on starting at Ocean Confidence and working way back. Boat name is Outta Here and will be on VHF 68, 72 or 16. Will be the boat with loud reggae music playing. Anybody out there give me a shout and will tell what I have seen and would like to know what you have seen

thanks

Sunday Sept 9 Destin Blue Marlin

destincabo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:48:52 GMT

Left Destin Sunday 6 am to glass slick seas. Heard of a good report from the Spur so we decided to give it a shot. Put lines in several miles north of the spur, water was a blended blue, not bad. Had a solid bite on the rigger lure, fish didn't hook up, came back twice but yours truly could not connect with the big lure. Most probably a whitey. Saw some scattered grass, small patches nothing substantial. Flyers were everywhere. Later in the morning we end up catching a 30 lb wahoo and 2 dolphins (25lb & 10lbs). Mid day raise a big blue in the spread and she fades off. Take a big circle and come back into the slick where we saw the fish, and the center rigger does down (blue & white islander) and we're hooked up. Steady run, no jumps, what is it? Tuna or marlin? Fish stayed in the upper water column the entire fight so we figured it had to be a blue. Our angler had never been offshore before and we have this fish hooked on a 30 wide :). Needless to say we were sweating bullets. Angler did an outstanding job. After 51 minutes, grab the leader and get the first look at our fish, nice blue marlin. Tried to get a measurement on her, was in the neighborhood of 105+ inches from the fork to the lower jaw, maybe a bit longer. Got the hook out and perfect release. Looked to be in the 400 lb class. Fish never jumped and was hooked in the upper mouth, right at the base of the bill. I've witnessed several marlin caught that never jumped and all were hooked in that same spot. Great to get one the way the water has been this year. Gustav certainly helped things out there. If Ike will stay away from us, it may stir things up some more and we might have a chance to have a good fall run of Whiteys. tight lines. Will post pics when I get them.

Venice offshore 27-28th

Capt. Mike Ellis — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

It was nice to finely get back in the saddle after dealing with both Gustave and then Ike. I had Anthony Michael and Jeff Fusilier in from Little Rock. After a few reschedules due to the north part of highway 23 being flooded. We hit a picture perfect weekend the biggest wave we saw all weekend was from a crewboat. On Saturday I made a decision to make a real long run to where I thought we would have the best shot at some decent tuna. A push of barely legal yellowfins came in after the hurricanes, and that is not what I wanted with only two guys onboard. The run out was pretty uneventful we did come across a huge leatherback turtle which Anthony or Jeff has never seen before. We finally got the rig only to find not much going on. But a quick check with the sounder showed some promising marks. Out went the baits it took about 15 minutes to get the first bite was a swing and a miss. The next to bites came pretty quick after that and it was a double header. But neither fish was taking much line at all. Jeff’s fish was taking the most line but still not much. Anthony had a rainbow runner, which went into the box for deep drop bait the next day. Jeff worked his fish to the boat and it was a 30” yellowfin. Not the size of fish I wanted to catch for them but at least the skunk was off the boat. On the next bite the fish was finally taking some line things were looking up. Anthony worked about a 70lb yellow to the boat after some grunting and groaning.

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After that I started live chumming and we quickly put two more 50-60lb fish in the boat then another 29” fish. We finished up with one more fish at 1:30 and headed to the dock. The fish were all on 60lb fluoro and 6/0 Mustad 39952 circles. One the way in about 30 miles from the pass in nasty peas green water we came across a pod of about 30 or so whales.

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We were able to get scary close to them we could of scratched their backs. We shot a few pictures and left them to do whatever they were doing.

On Sunday I only had Anthony onboard he wanted to try his hand at deep dropping and I was pretty sure that nobody had hit the area I wanted to hit. So with high hopes we set off with a tight time schedule for the trip. We crossed a nice rip and made some bait just in case. About five miles from the rig we came across and pretty big patch of grass. A cast with a popper brought out the green hornets a few freebie livebaits brought out even more. Anthony wanted to take a few of the chicken dolphin home to one of his employees so we put a few in the boat. I glad we had those because at the first rig the only thing I could get to bite was sharks. After losing more rigs and lead than I wanted to we left for my backup rig. Again more sharks but at least we were getting some nice bites when we could hit bottom. I had to use 5lbs to hit the bottom in 750’ just to get past most of the sharks. Finally up comes a decent yellowedge then a couple of nice fish got us in the rig or straightened out hooks.

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It was time to get Anthony back to the dock so he could get home. But with only a handful of dolphin and one grouper in the boat the schedule got thrown out. And a few more drops were made and few more decent grouper were put in the fishbox. After that we left them biting about an hour later than Anthony’s scheduled time to be at the dock.

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9-28 at the petronius

driftwood1 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:38:47 GMT

We caught 3 YF the biggest one weighed 75 punds. We caught a boat load of BF. The weather could not have been better.

Deep Blue Rig Trip 9.27

Deep Blue — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:55:40 GMT

Having only been to the rigs several times by leaving before daylight, so we pondered a different approach. We departed Perdido Pass around 10:00 a.m. with several hardtails in the livewell and headed to the rigs with intentions of returning by midnight.

After a smooth ride out, we arrived at MP-255 in search of bait and amberjack. After 20 mins. of trying for bait we switched gears and dropped the hardtails and freestyle jigs. It wasn't long before one angler was slammed against he side with a good amberjack. Unfortunately, the rig, and fish, prevailed. This scenario repeated itself several times (at $20 per time). If we locked the drag, the fish would pull the hook; if we didn't lock the drag, the fish would break off in the rig. I'm sure there is a method to this, but I have no idea what it is...

While fighting with the amberjack, drags, and the rig, we were visited by a billfish of some sort. Not sure what brand it was, but it exploded on some baitfish on the south side of the rig. We tossed a pitch bait to her with no avail, but we did end up catching 4 almaco jacks on top water baits.

On to the Beer Can. We trolled a mixed spread around the Beer Can while watching the sonar. We hooked up to a good fish that ended up being a trophy baracuda. Didn't see many fish marking around the rig, but gave it a try slow trolling live baits. Nothing to show.

By then it was getting close to 5:00 p.m. so we headed to the Marlin. We didn't mark many fish around the Marlin, but did see a few yellowfin busting after dark and lost a wahoo at the gaff. Teeth are a bitch. We caught a few blackfin.

My father is an avid LSU fan (go easy on him) and could not stand being without the game. So...while at the Marlin he decided to find the game on a small Wal-Mart radio (I bet him he would not find any signal)...and as luck would have it...he found it and we were able to listen to the games 75 miles from Perdido Pass. I guess we were picking up a relay off the rigs, but I really have no idea. Anyone have any thoughts???

We talked to "Legendary" on the radio and they said the blackfin were slow, but hitting at Petronius. We headed that way with intentions of a quick fish and heading for the pass. When we arrived the bait was pushed to the top and the blackfin were hitting every jig that we dropped.

We ended up keeping around 10 blackfin and headed North around 10:45 to take the "Old Man" and mom back to land. It was a great trip even though we didn't catch any yellowfin. The seas were great, the sky was clear, and everyone had a great time.

9/27-28 Bodacious report

Downtime2 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:06 GMT

Left out Saturday morning with Bo, Matt (Sundowner), WayneO (Himself) and Scott (LITECATCH). Headed down to the Nipple and put out a few lines and started trolling. Took till mid morning to get our first bite. A white came up on the squid chain. He attacks the chain and starts stripping out on it. Manages to cut the eye on the teaser line guide, eat a squid, and pop a notch out on a rigger. Gets off the squid chain and slides back to the rigger lure. Takes it, begins a aerial show goung starboard to port about a hundred yards out. Fish was going nuts! Managed to throw the hook after only a minute or so. Wound up down below the Double Nipple on a line just north of Ocean Confidence. Picked up a fe dolphin there. Fished it, Horn Mountain, Ram Powell till dawn. All we had to show were some blackfin. I swear Scott could have caught a thousand of those BFT. Headed North at daylight looking for a line we saw on the Roffs. Found it just South of Petronious. Worked it for a while. Scott rolled out of bed around 0900. He comes up in the salon just in time to walk right staight through to the deck and fight a nice dolphin. Line was made up real well. Lots of bait too. Had a blue come up and molest the corner flat. We were pretty sure it did not feel steel. Decided to slide off the line and make a wide turn and go back down the line. Seems Mr Blue followed us the whole time. Right in the middle of my turn, it picked off the starboard rigger. Bo grabbed the rod and passed it to Matt. Cleared lines and started to get line back. Got the fish all the way to the bimini. Fish makes a dive, twist and reverses direction all in one movement and pulls the hook. Trolled a while more and headed back to Palafox Marina. Wound up with a mess of dolphin and 2 bill shots. Got to fish with some great guys. Had a blast as usual.

Wade

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nipple, 131, elbow 9/28

sail7seas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:01:56 GMT

had a buddy down from birmingham and he wanted to catch some fish and take a few back home. we didnt get out on the water until after 11 am due to celebrating the bama-georgia game. got out to the nipple and trolled from there to the 131. water was beautiful but looked pretty lifeless. picked up the lines and headed to the elbow. water was still good and there were a couple of grass lines trying to form up. we came across a 10'x10' nylon bag and it was covered up in chicken dolphin. they were hungry and biting one after the other. my buddy had a blast hooking them and watching them jump all over. we caught 12 before they got smart. also caught a couple of tripletail but they were too small and had to go back. headed north to the yellow gravel to try and get a grouper before heading home. too bad we couldnt get past the legal red snappers on every drop. caught 5 or 6 legal reds. all were vented and swam away. we got sick of catching them and called it a day.

131 hole, and nipple 9/27

DonkeyWrangler18 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:24:57 GMT

I left out saturday morning around 6 30 headed in the direction of the 131 hole had lines in the water by 7 30 it was beautiful weather all day, the water was as pretty as it has been all year, just no good rips or weed lines to be found. Fishing was pretty much dead all day did seem some tuna busting every once in a while, and saw one sailfish around ten o clock just north of the 131 hole and that was about all the excitement we had. But no matter what it was a great day to be on the water.

Petronius/Beer Can

Kevdog540 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:08:45 GMT

Headed out of fort Morgan around 5:30pm sat , caught bait at close rigs till sundown. Headed for Petronius, seas 1 to 2 it was nice. We got there around 9:30 and started jiging. The place was covered in black fin the size of them was nothing to brag about. They were hitting jigs and poppers for about 3 hours. Just after midnight we headed for the Beer Can. jiged for an hour or so, we caught 4 black fin, or lets just say, 4 black fin heads. The sharks everywhere and they were taking advantage of an easy meal. we called it a night. At sunrise we started trolling to the Marlin. We made 3 close passes and hooked 3 barracuda. By now there wasn't a ripple on the water. Headed back to petronius then home, caught nothing all the way back.

RP / Horn Mtn report Sat / Sun

GotchaRB — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:26:58 GMT

Jigged & chunked by night and live baited by day!

65 lb yellowfin (lost another that was running alot harder)

60 lb wahoo

4 - 20-30 lb yellowfins

15ish big blackfins!

Also had a white come up a steel our baits! Cool

Now I just need some good:sleeping

9/28 Spur

true-king — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:02:35 GMT

Headed to the spur this morning. Water was extremely calm all the way out, and had good color at the spur. Had a mystery fish come up and play with a couple baits before we could even get all the lines out, probably a small sail. No good weedlines were present. Tolled until 1:00 and got nothing else. There were a couple schools of blackfin that were busting sporadically. Turned around and headed to the yellow gravel, where we picked up a scamp and got a couple kings on the vertical jigs. Fished some wrecks from 30 through 10 miles out and couldn't find any concentrations of AJs. It was a nice day out there, but the fishing was pretty slow.

Heading Out Tonight, Any Info?

Reel Rowdy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:55:50 GMT

Leaving for Horn/Ram/Marlin/Petronius tonight at 9 pm, Did anybody have any luck out there this weekend? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Horn Sat night!

GotchaRB — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:23:05 GMT

We are headin out to the Horn / RP Sat night! Anyone else headin out?

weed lines 70 miles out

opus68 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:56:16 GMT

I don't know if you blue water guys can use this info, but I was out flying today and saw some long (more than a mile) weed lines 70 miles due south of Hurlburt field.

good report from pbgfc.com

Top Shelf — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:02:24 GMT

What a Trip!

Posted On: 9/23/2008

Rocky Jones and his boat Reel Addiction had quite an overnight trip on 17/18 September. On Tuesday caught 3 Whites and 2 Sails and lost a Blue at back of boat. On Wednesday caught a 300+ pound Blue Marlin. No double hook-ups....6 for 7. Nipple to the Spur....all fish on 50 and 30 pound test. Bravo Zulu to the crew....that's Navy lingo for Well Done. Photo below shows how to properly tag a White Marlin.

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Whats going on at the rigs?

Kevdog540 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:25:06 GMT

Anyone heard any reports, I'm thinging about headin out there this weekend, anyone else going?

MBGFC Labor Day Tournament

Chris Hood — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:07:10 GMT

I had been planning to fish the MBGFC Labor Day tournament on a 54’ Hatteras called the Low Bidder but because of the forecast, they decided not to fish. I ended up getting a call to fish on another boat in the tournament Friday afternoon. The boat was a 61’ Viking called Sultrap out of Louisiana. It was definitely very sporty out there all weekend and did not subside on Sunday like the forecast was calling for. We started at the double nipple/ocean confidence and fished scattered grass where there was a lot of bait, birds and perfect blue water. We caught a few dolphin in the 10-20 pound range and a very small wahoo.

We then blasted to deep water nautilus only to find out they were in the process of towing it to another area, I suggested we at least make a few laps before moving on but I got vetoed. Turns out we should have fished there, the Big Valley was fun fishing and caught 2 blues there later that day. One of their blues were around 400….oh well. The Big Valley also caught several nice tunas over 150 pounds while trolling in open water between rigs.

Anyways, so we blasted over to Nakika and caught a whitey. Our camera guy obviously did not check his camera before hand and after we released the fish we went to look at the video only to find out that nothing got recorded. Sunday we pushed back inshore to the double nipple/ocean confidence and caught a few more dolphin and missed a very aggressive blue that tried eating 3-4 times but we just couldn’t seem to drive that hook home.

Turns out we caught one of only two billfish in the entire tournament and would have gotten 2^nd place tag and release had we gotten it on video! My room mate, Tom Pace, was fishing on the Never Better and he released his first blue which won the tournament basically. They got 1^st place tag and release, top boat, top crew and top angler etc.

Congratulations to Tom and the crew aboard the Never Better!

Relentless Sportfishing is back

Capt. Mike Ellis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:54:24 GMT

It’s been quite some time since I have put a report/post on here. I hope I still remember how to do it. Most of you know but for you that don't I merged my charter service, Relentless Sportfishing in with Reel Peace about two years ago. Devlin has done the reports. But the time has come for me to venture back out on my own and run under my company Relentless Sportfishing. I have to thank Devlin and Reel Peace for everything; it’s been a fun couple of years. And for anyone that has a trip booked with me already or wants to give me a call so that we can get the books straight. This wont be the last report I will try and put them up as time permits.
Now that things are getting back to normal after the storms. I have two flats of swordfish squid on the way. And I have openings around the best moon in October so give me a call and let’s go catch one of the coolest fish in the gulf. I also had my crew for Sunday drop out except for one guy that still wants to do it. He asked if I would try and find a couple more guys to make it happen. The weather should be pretty good this weekend.
Capt. Mike Ellis
504 715 6597
www.relentlesssportfishing.net

Post up boys! Where are the reports?

Reel Rowdy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:27:30 GMT

Where are the reports from the MBGFC?

Rig report last Sat/Sun (9/6-9/7)

Meagans Choice — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:47:13 GMT

Unfortunately, not much positive to report from our last rig trip. We left out of DayBreak Marina Sat. about 2 p.m. and first tried to find some live hardtails, but no luck. Headed out to the Petronius and the water looked good, a blended blue. Caught a nice amberjack 50-60 lb range at the 255 rig and then a small blackfin near the Petronius. We fished the Petronius, Marlin, Ram-Powell, and Horn at night but they were dead. We swordfished close to Horn, but no bites. In the early a.m. we caught a few blackfins chuncking at Horn, and saw yellowfins busting all around. We tried chuncking,poppers,and trolling, but no yellowfin bites,....ugh, frustrating. There was a charter boat nearby, "Vixen" who we saw bring in a few nice yellowfins. We tried to talk with them on the radio, but no response. I guess they did'nt want to reveal any info, but we suspected they might have been using some live bait. We later caught some more blacfins trolling between Horn and Ram before heading back Sun. afternoon. One thing interesting we saw on two occassions while trolling, a large billfish swimming in the middle of the schools of blackfin. One time we trolled into the school, but the billfish did'nt seem to be interested in our baits. There were also many yellowfins busting up around the Ram-Powell, but again they were'nt intersted in our baits. The weather was fantastic. Despite no yellowfin in the boat I still had a great time, thanks to a super crew. Thanks again to Mark, Tim, Fergie, and Josh. Lesson learned, don't leave home without plenty of live hardtails!

What color is the water?

Kevdog540 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:54:36 GMT

Anyone know how the water is looking out at the nipple/edge? Any reports of good water?

MBGFC Labor Day Tournament

Chris Hood — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The most recent new dates for the tournament are next weekend the 19th, 20th and 21st. I'm kinda excited because the fishing might just be really good. That would be a nice change from how pretty much every other tournament has been this year.

sunday 9/7 nip-spur-elbow cont...

pelagicone — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:40:40 GMT

Headed out sun morning about 5am with sail7seas in pursuit for blue water. Trolled for several hours no luck one knock down looked like a small dorado. Started heading to the yellow gravel for some bottom bumping when we noticed a nice patch of grass. Pulled up to the grass to see what was lerking beneath it all the sudden a 50lb wahoo comes swimming by the bow of the boat. Then it was on! A race to see who was going to get the first bait in the water. Well to cut the story short my buddy (sail7seas) catches the wahoo 30lbs , I catch 2 trip-tails about 3-5lbs. Finally make it to the yellow gravel to catch a few b-liners and a 7ft lemon shark.. I think its a lemon? Sum it all up best water I have seen all year, just not alot of action...

Sat. "Hammer Time" report.

LITECATCH — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:22:25 GMT

we headed out on WayneO's "Hammer Time" sat. morning looking for some dolphin and wahoo's. well we did not find any of those but WayneO's son Ross scored his first bill fish!! here are some shots of the white marlin.

report from 9-7-08

Bridgette419 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:50:58 GMT

About 5 miles east of the 131 we found a weedline that produced this cow from a live cigar minnow with a green and chartreuse kingbuster.

sunday 9/7 at nipple-spur-elbow

sail7seas — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:53:58 GMT

left perdido pass sunday morning and headed out to the nipple. looked like some temp breaks on hiltons east of the elbow and so we trolled from nipple to 131 and then to the east of the elbow. water was blue green and we trolled a couple of small rips but no knockdowns. got bored and headed out to the spur. water was a nice blue. lots of plankton on top. trolled the contour and got one knockdown but couldnt keep him on the line. trolled a little longer and decided to head back in for some bottom bumping. while cruising in saw some tuna free jumping in 1000 ft water. we headed towards them with poppers ready but they sounded almost as fast. head north again and another few miles found a patch of grass in 800 foot of water. we creep up to it and there is bait all over the place. everyone is getting rods ready when mr. wahoo comes swimming slowly by the boat about 15 feet below the surface. then another one comes by and a third one shows as well. we were in awe as we have never seen wahoo just hang out. we lose sight of them and my buddy jason hooks up a nice tripletail on a ballyhoo. we pulled two tripletail and a chicken dolphin off of this patch. meanwhile, my 8500 with a cigar minnow starts screaming and 15 minutes later we put a 30 lb hoo in the boat. the other wahoo came back by the boat several times but we could not persuade them to eat. my buddy had one chase his dead cig to the boat and turn at the last second. headed to the yellow gravel for a quick drop to get a grouper. pulled up a couple of beeliners and could not get past the sharks on the grouper baits. it was getting late so we called it a day.

8/30 White Marlin/Whaleshark/AJs/Bonita

true-king — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:21:50 GMT

Headed to the nipple today to troll. Got there at 8:00 AM and there were some birds working on the surface. Water was better than I've seen in a while. 30 foot visibility. Put out the spread and trolled around a bit. Looked to the starboard side to see a fin and tail swimming on the surface beside the boat! He popped up on a islander/ballyhoo and fiddled with it, then dropped back and hit a super chugger. My friend Andrew (FishingAddict from the forum) grabbed the reel. We got a few jumps out of him before he threw it :banghead:nonono:doh. :reallycrying. Oh well, it was awesome to see that happen and it was our first billfish hookup on the boat. We trolled around for a while and saw a whaleshark, another first. No other action on the troll for the day. Headed to some wrecks a little after noon. Found some small bonita on the way in. The jacks were going crazy at the wreck we fished and were coming up to the top often. We caught some on our 10# small rods. Couldn't manage a keeper though. All in all, it was an awesome day.

Sorry, no pics of the whitie. Too much chaos going on to take any pics!

Rig Report Saturday

jseven — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:39:06 GMT

Trailered the boat over to Orange Beach and stocked up on some goodies at Sam's around 7am. Caught a load of herring and 2 hardtails and were on our way to Petronius by 10. We hit a few small weedlines 10 miles north....they were not well formed and didnt produce for us. Nothing happening at Petronius....nada and nothing on the machine. Trolled over to Marlin to YFT busting everywhere. Managed to catch two on the popper....that was cool watching them inhale it right in front of me. It was the first offshore trip for my two buddies and they did pretty well. I only caught the first tuna and passed the rods off to them after hook up. We also hooked the biggest bull dolphin I have ever seen but lost him a few yards from the boat. He ate a hardtail and I think he was gut hooked because he sawed through the line. We then went to the Ram around sunset and caught two more on bait. In the evening we lost a swordfish after soaking a squid at 250 feet for 30 minutes. The drift was wrong and to keep the bait down straight I had to manuever the boat....pain in the ass. Anyway, the fish starting taking line. I let him have it for ten seconds or so and then let him have it. He was swimming straight at the boat as I was reeling as fast as I could. He came out of the water a hundred or so feet from the boat and spit the hook. It was depressing but having four YFT in the death box helped me get over my frustration. Overall it was a great trip and the weather was unreal. Headed back to Orange Beach about 2am Sunday and never felt a bump. Great trip.

venice

Capteddie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:00:59 GMT

From what it sounds like as soon as we get the lodging straightened out venice will be ready to rock and roll. The marina has power through a generator just need a place with powere for people to stay

I think I will try to run my sunday trip depending on the weather of course. I am itching to get back out there at the fish. My only loss was my trusty truck. 2006 dodge diesel 4x4 took a direct hit from a tree and totaled it out. Waiting on the check now to go get a new truck.

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