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| Made it over to DI Thur about 2 PM, got the boat in the water and to a friends house/dock where we were staying and prepped for the tourney. Capt's meeting Thursday evening and our plan for Fri/Sat set...looking at a run to the SE, fish all day, go deeper and swording and maybe some rig jigging a bit that night, back in to shallower water the next morning for kings and to the dock Sat evening. Early Fri we head to some deep spots about 60 SE of DI, beautiful seas. Bite was slow at the start with only a few of the targeted kings coming aboard. Changed for some bottom bumping with dropper rigs......several nice mingo and this critter that was released.....found out that evening that it took the ugliest fish award last year 
move to another close by spot and play with a few more kings along with a double on aj while trolling, the smaller one was just legal but the biggest king we could manage for the day was 24 and change 
it's about 4:30 we go to crank the stbd motor and it won't stay running, it immediately shuts down, scratching heads for a bit, finally crack it get the rpm's way up in nuetral, drop it down and in to gear quickly to get us going, make the decision to not over night and head to try and repair it instead of overnighting, boat runs fine at rpm all the way in. get to the scales, weigh the fish we have and talk with Jack Holmes (SKA president) and he hooks us up with the Yamaha rep that's on site. he plugs in his pc to the engine, checks some things and says put it on the trailer..... we get the boat unloaded and hauled and back to his service trailer, after quite a bit of troubleshooting and checking stuff out he gets us running again about 10:20 PM, this is a photo my daughter took going to the dock late Fri 
we make a change after talking things over and head out Sat morning about 65 SW of DI, we stayed in the kings all day, boating some 25-30 but again the best we could land was a 36.20. Caught several other species as well, another aj while trolling and even several rainbow runners 
we didn't fish Sun, the two days was enough for us..... I did get some things solved with our rigs that I had been working on, not one single lost fish or broken wire king rig the entire weekend although I did break one of our tournament rods and stripped the gears in another spinner (bait rod).
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Scott
34' Luhrs Open "Dream II" - FOR SALE
and SKA fishing Team "SET 4 Life" http://www.teamset4life.com/
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Lou's daughter caught the 24 that we took to the scales on Fri, we we're on the board with the 36.20 as high as 5th until later on Sun, they had it listed wrong on the site, they didn't post it as SET 4 Life, something along the lines of: Waymon Hawkins..Cantonment...36.20 I think.....until all the fish from the guys fishing out of LA came in.......we caught alot of fish on Sat and feel pretty confident we were in a good area. We spent the entire day beside Byrd Dog, the team that won with the 50, just not our turn yet....I think we ended up Waaaaay down the list, like 31st......still had a good time and caught alot of fish
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34' Luhrs Open "Dream II" - FOR SALE
and SKA fishing Team "SET 4 Life" http://www.teamset4life.com/
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| Thanks for posting Scott. I saw that name on the scroll page and wondered.
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Were you the 31 cape staying next to the blue and yellow Donzi on the canal on the north side of the island.
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Really nice report & some great pic's, thanks for sharing both.
Congrat's to you & your crew on some fine fishing.
Blue skies, fair winds, calm seas & good fishing!
Capt. Mike Nelson
Orange Beach, AL
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