I had wanted to share this a while back but things get in the way.
Had a chance to head about 60 mi off shore a little while back. I’m fortunate enough to have family members with a boat that’s mission suitable. So it was a family affair which was awesome fishing with my cousins which is my go to squad. We were targeting blue fin tuna but the bite wasn’t on that day so mid morning I hooked up with a 40+” bull mahi on a big 80 series Penn about 400 yards of the the back of the boat. Arm burner getting it in,but unreal experience pulling that thing out of that huge expanse. Funny how big fish and big bucks similarly deal with leeward sides. The hills and the lumps and ravines are all the same just underwater when your looking at the sonar and fish finder.
Anyway, we got into some massive bluefish a little later in and some Bonita and then hooked into another big bull mahi middle afternoon.
I gotta say it was right up there with killing a big buck. Super stoked and was a great experience sharing it with the boys. Great memories and out of this world beer battered fish tacos
First offshore trip
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That’s awesome! Back about 25 years ago some friends and I went on trip off Nags Head, NC out into the Gulf Stream, we caught about 450 pounds of Mahi in 2 days between 5 of us. It was a rough trip wave wise but the fishing was incredible.
For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!
Great eating all Summer!
For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!
Great eating all Summer!
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That’s awesome! Back about 25 years ago some friends and I went on trip off Nags Head, NC out into the Gulf Stream, we caught about 450 pounds of Mahi in 2 days between 5 of us. It was a rough trip wave wise but the fishing was incredible.
For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!
Great eating all Summer!
For the Mahi, we would run past a pallet or bed of floating sweared and everyone of them had schools of them. We catch one and the whole school would follow it to the back of the boat. From there it was like catching bluegills on the next. About the most fun fishing I’ve ever had. Man those Mahi can make a run!!!
Great eating all Summer!
"One of the chief attractions of the life of the wilderness is its rugged and stalwart democracy; there every man stands for what he actually is and can show himself to be." — Theodore Roosevelt, 1893
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That’s awesome man. Looks like a blast.
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Mahi fight really hard and are great table fare. Congrats!
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That first pic looks like a massacre occurred on board
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Jackson Marsh wrote::clap:
That first pic looks like a massacre occurred on board
You can hook an 18” dolphin in the mouth, drop him on the deck, get your hook remover, turn back around and you’d think someone slaughtered a hog on the deck.
Lol
They are some bleeding fish
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