August 1
Today I ran the Lady Pamela with Justin as the mate and Vinnie as our new mate in training. Today was a good day for Vinnie because the action was nonstop. We had four on a shared charter, Larry and his nephew Charlie along with Mike and Rodger, it was a great crew. We stared the trip off by catching live bait at one of the anchored ships. Then we started to troll north fishing five rods with fresh bonito strips and Stan Ruer sea witches. The Bonita and kingfish were chewing it one after the other. We also caught a barracuda on the troll that morning.
I told Justin to reel everything in because I wanted to try some wreck fishing with the live bait that we caught that morning. As Justin was reeling everything in I saw a war bird low to the water a mile in front of the boat so I told Justin to put all that baits back out for a minute so we kept trolling north until we got to where the bird was. And we raised a sailfish on the left long rigger bait, as Justin was reeling the bait away from the fish to make the sailfish mad, I was reeling another bait to get it in position. As soon as I got my bait there Justin hooked the fish, Charlie jumped into the fighting chair as the sailfish jumped all over the ocean. It was a 15 minute heated battle before we landed the sailfish; we then tagged and released it. We then ran to the ship wrecks from 200 to 400 feet. Our first drop was in 260 feet of water with a live blue runner ,the rod bent over and Mike jumped into the chair and fought the fish in took 10 minutes to reel it in and Mike said to me, " I couldn't reel any longer I am wore out " the 45 lb Almaco jack was a nice fish.
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CAPT DAVID IDE
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