Hello Fellow members
Left the dock after icing the boat around 15:00 on thursday aboard the Gael Force.Good call on the weather from Captain John ferres regarding the weather, there was a small window to make that trip to the rigs and we sure took advantage of it.
So it was a smooth ride riding the cat ( it always is !!) got there at night time after watching a beautiful sunset.Begun chuncking as soon as we got to the Ram Powell, we were the first there shortly fellowed by Bodacious (nice boat!), within an hour got a hook up and I was on !!! Beginners luck I guess, but really it felt like a small fish until...it got to the surface, one atttempt to gaff it made it really obset and it dived, dived and dived, took me probably 10/15 mins to get it back to the surface before we could set John's new flying gaff into it.That tuna was in the 70lbs range, I had a blast, I understand it is not that big for some of you, but I guess it is all a matter of perspective.
Soon after the first one, Ed (submariner) hooked up what seems to be a BIG one, fought it for a while, the fish was taking a massive amount of line, and all of a sudden a loud cracking sound was heard(I mean loud!!!) and we lost the fine to a snap line.Caught another one in the 30lbs range, and got a lot of cut offs most probably from barracudas.Lost another big one while I was having a snooze.
Amazing flat calm night with a beautiful full moon and welcomed to the day by an amazing sunrise, kept at it until early morning and decided to go trolling on the way home, had a few knock downs but no hook up apart from a barracuda which I kept even if the crew was laughing at me(ate it for years in West Africa,great tasting!!).
Made it back to the dock early afternoon after riding flat calm seas, great trip with great people, good action through out, and fantastic weather, does not get much better that that in my book, life is good !!! Cannot wait to do it again.
Thanks to captain John Ferres for always be willing to share is knowledge and teaching me so much (fourth trip this year on the Gael Force and always learning).
As well since it has been the year of the first for me, including mahis and wahoos on my boat, thank you to the PFF (and Chris Couture) which allowed me to meet members to go fish with, buy gear at a good price and learn valuable infos.
All of you take good care and I'll be hopefully posting for my first bill fish by next year !!!!
Frenchy
Left the dock after icing the boat around 15:00 on thursday aboard the Gael Force.Good call on the weather from Captain John ferres regarding the weather, there was a small window to make that trip to the rigs and we sure took advantage of it.
So it was a smooth ride riding the cat ( it always is !!) got there at night time after watching a beautiful sunset.Begun chuncking as soon as we got to the Ram Powell, we were the first there shortly fellowed by Bodacious (nice boat!), within an hour got a hook up and I was on !!! Beginners luck I guess, but really it felt like a small fish until...it got to the surface, one atttempt to gaff it made it really obset and it dived, dived and dived, took me probably 10/15 mins to get it back to the surface before we could set John's new flying gaff into it.That tuna was in the 70lbs range, I had a blast, I understand it is not that big for some of you, but I guess it is all a matter of perspective.
Soon after the first one, Ed (submariner) hooked up what seems to be a BIG one, fought it for a while, the fish was taking a massive amount of line, and all of a sudden a loud cracking sound was heard(I mean loud!!!) and we lost the fine to a snap line.Caught another one in the 30lbs range, and got a lot of cut offs most probably from barracudas.Lost another big one while I was having a snooze.
Amazing flat calm night with a beautiful full moon and welcomed to the day by an amazing sunrise, kept at it until early morning and decided to go trolling on the way home, had a few knock downs but no hook up apart from a barracuda which I kept even if the crew was laughing at me(ate it for years in West Africa,great tasting!!).
Made it back to the dock early afternoon after riding flat calm seas, great trip with great people, good action through out, and fantastic weather, does not get much better that that in my book, life is good !!! Cannot wait to do it again.
Thanks to captain John Ferres for always be willing to share is knowledge and teaching me so much (fourth trip this year on the Gael Force and always learning).
As well since it has been the year of the first for me, including mahis and wahoos on my boat, thank you to the PFF (and Chris Couture) which allowed me to meet members to go fish with, buy gear at a good price and learn valuable infos.
All of you take good care and I'll be hopefully posting for my first bill fish by next year !!!!
Frenchy
Give me a call to let me know when your heading back to work.
