My girlfriend is getting ready to go out of town for a while to do some consulting for the military so I was in a bind when Captain William Manci (owner of Eastern Shore Outfitters) called me and told me they were still putting a hurtin' on the tripletail over his way. Angela gave me a kitchen pass and even agreed to spend a little time on the water angling with me and Captain William, so off we went.Let's get this out of the way first...
Captain William Manci (251) 269-7463
http://www.easternshoreoutfitters.org/
He is a great guide- maybe the best I've fished with, and I've been all over LA, FL, AL, etc. Everything from yellowfin tuna to speckled trout to cobia, well you get the idea. We went 21 for 30 today.(Meaning we caught 21 fish of 30 we saw- kind of likecobia fishing. I did not mean to be obscure when I made the post)Please allow me a little leeway on the count. We saw so many fish and caught so many that none of us really knew for sure how the count went, We just knew we had the best tripletail trip Captain William has ever had and he is known for tripletail. They call him Captain Tripletail.We broke the previous record of 16 out of 17 that JEC and I set a few weeks ago.I got to meet Gary Finch of Gary Finch Outdoors TV show when we came in. He was taking his little girl out with Captain Williamafter our trip. I called the captain laterand he said they caught ten more, with the little girl fighting and landing 7 of them after her dad hooked them for her. She was maybe 7 and very nice to Angela and I.I thanked him for his TV show because that is where I foundout about the awesome tripletail fishery in Mobile. I called Captain William in Marchafter I saw the show and told him I was coming and he promised to call me back when they started running. That was in 2008 and JEC got a 27 inch fish that weighd 18 lbs. on that trip- we went 5 for 7- not bad, and some fatties in the mix. Without further ado, here are some pics...
Angela has a big smile on her face in this picture. For a non-angler she sure did seem to enjoy the fishing!
Angela and the captain pose with a fish.I promise not to post duplicate pics. We took a pic of every fish we released so we have more fish pics of released fish than we do of caught/kept fish.
Another fattie...
Angela shows the spines on a smaller fish...
Captain and angler...
Stringer...
Better shot of massive stringer...
Another shot of stringer with me and my better half...
Me with 2 of our larger fish...
We caught a fish with a tag in it that Gary Finch told us was released in MS. We would have let it go had we seen the tag when we caught it. In one of the videos you see us with the fish and the tag is clearly displayed but we did not notice it. Really bothered us that we didn't notice the tag and killed the fish. Had we known we would have taken the tag number and released the fish...
Captain William is going to call the number on the tag and report the fish was caught. Cool that he made it all the way to Mobile from MS.
Angela and the captain with a STUD we released...
Stud pic...
Everyone catches a small one once in a while...
Angela catches all the big fish. Hate that we had to let them go since we already had our limit, as many of the fish we released were quite a bit bigger than the fish we kept...
Bad picture of me but nice fish...
as I said, we took a pic of each one we let go and I want you all to see every one. Sorry for the long post!
Better pic of me with a big one...
Close up pic of a tripletail- I like the way their eyes are small and up on top of their heads but they have a big mouth-prompted meto reflect on how they live/feed...
I'm gonna close at this point and hope like hell this post goes through. More pics and vids to be addd later...mdrobe2