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I when out with a few good friends (Joe, Kenneth and Art) on an Art's sons 26' Glacier Bay who didn't get to go...sorry David.
Our plan was to troll a little around the Hill Tops and then run out to the floaters. Which we did, but no knock downs while trolling. So off to the floaters. In seas that were a little bumpier that expected (what’s new).
I pulled the boat around set up our first drift and Kenneth was already hooked up opn a Blackfin (these Blackfin were the largest I have ever caught around the floaters) before I even had the bat set for the drift......and so it went all the way till midnight. The only time we didn't have a bent was rod in the boat was when no one had a line in the water.
The Blackfin bite was wide open all night. They would eat anything from huge top waters to big live baits. I got tired of them smashing my top water lure....well may be not tired, but I would rather have Yellowfin blowing up on it.
Speaking of Yellowfin...the only better Yellowfin bite I have been in on was during my first Possession Limit trip. During this trip though the only thing that would have made the fishing better would have been fewer Blackfin. I know...I know never be made at there being too many of tuna!
What ever you put in the water would soon be ate by a Yellowfin if a Blackfin didn't get it first....did I mention there was a bunch of Blackfin there? LOL I have been field testing some lures from Megabite Fishing Lures and have yet to get one into a Yellowfins lip, those blasted Blackfin again! The top water bite on Yellowfin was odd....almost all of my blow-ups looked like small fish/Blackfin size blow-ups, but soon had line screaming from the reel. My Billy Stix spinning rig received quite a work out again.
Any way the box had plenty of fish in it by mid night so we decided to start for home after we ate few bites. We were on our way my 12:30am, but about 1:30am we blow the port motor! With 79 Nmiles to go we started the slow roll home. With 58 Nmiles left we get an engine light and warning horn on our remaining engine. We stop check everything.....all seems fine so we take off again. The motor has a slight miss that had me worried. The with 34 Nmiles left we run out of fuel on the starboard engine, so we swap fuel lines so we can draw off the port tank.....Back on the slow roll home! With less than a mile to go to the Matagorda jetties we get the low oil light/horn! We dumped all the extra oil we brought when first got out to the floaters so we limped in on what little we could drain from the bottom a the two jugs we had.
Sure glad we decided to start home at midnight. It was almost 2pm when we got the boat back on the trailer. Spooky part of the trip was having to run (well not really running at 8 knots), but the engine that went down was the engine that has all the electronics on it. So we had to shut down the radar and post someone of the front of the boat as a look-out.
Anyway here is Joe and me with a couple of our Yellowfin.
Our plan was to troll a little around the Hill Tops and then run out to the floaters. Which we did, but no knock downs while trolling. So off to the floaters. In seas that were a little bumpier that expected (what’s new).
I pulled the boat around set up our first drift and Kenneth was already hooked up opn a Blackfin (these Blackfin were the largest I have ever caught around the floaters) before I even had the bat set for the drift......and so it went all the way till midnight. The only time we didn't have a bent was rod in the boat was when no one had a line in the water.
The Blackfin bite was wide open all night. They would eat anything from huge top waters to big live baits. I got tired of them smashing my top water lure....well may be not tired, but I would rather have Yellowfin blowing up on it.
Speaking of Yellowfin...the only better Yellowfin bite I have been in on was during my first Possession Limit trip. During this trip though the only thing that would have made the fishing better would have been fewer Blackfin. I know...I know never be made at there being too many of tuna!
What ever you put in the water would soon be ate by a Yellowfin if a Blackfin didn't get it first....did I mention there was a bunch of Blackfin there? LOL I have been field testing some lures from Megabite Fishing Lures and have yet to get one into a Yellowfins lip, those blasted Blackfin again! The top water bite on Yellowfin was odd....almost all of my blow-ups looked like small fish/Blackfin size blow-ups, but soon had line screaming from the reel. My Billy Stix spinning rig received quite a work out again.
Any way the box had plenty of fish in it by mid night so we decided to start for home after we ate few bites. We were on our way my 12:30am, but about 1:30am we blow the port motor! With 79 Nmiles to go we started the slow roll home. With 58 Nmiles left we get an engine light and warning horn on our remaining engine. We stop check everything.....all seems fine so we take off again. The motor has a slight miss that had me worried. The with 34 Nmiles left we run out of fuel on the starboard engine, so we swap fuel lines so we can draw off the port tank.....Back on the slow roll home! With less than a mile to go to the Matagorda jetties we get the low oil light/horn! We dumped all the extra oil we brought when first got out to the floaters so we limped in on what little we could drain from the bottom a the two jugs we had.
Sure glad we decided to start home at midnight. It was almost 2pm when we got the boat back on the trailer. Spooky part of the trip was having to run (well not really running at 8 knots), but the engine that went down was the engine that has all the electronics on it. So we had to shut down the radar and post someone of the front of the boat as a look-out.
Anyway here is Joe and me with a couple of our Yellowfin.
