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Water conditions/results overnight at Elbow, Spur

ALFISH — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:56 GMT

First, thanks for everyone who posts conditions/results offshore. They are very helpful - especially when services are down or satellites can't get through the clouds. We left Mobile Pass yesterday (7/2) around 5pm for swords at the Spur...also hoped to find blue water along with a good weed line this am.

We found clean blue/green water at the Elbow as dark fell last night. Put out a spread for 30 minutes but no luck. Ran to the Spur for Swords(and hoped to find blue water for a spread in the am). Deployed 4 rigs between 150 and 400. The new OceanLED blue led lights worked great...had one of their strobes going too. Dipped several flyers and a good hardtail to pass the time. Landed a chunky 75# sword around 5am.

Got two other bumps...one likely a sword - nice slash and stab wound in the bait! Green water at the Spur so at day break ran back to the Elbow. Some broken up weedlines - or maybe they were trying to form...regardless it was tough on the spread. Mr. Whitey paid us a visit but wouldn't eat. About 5 miles SW of the Elbow the water rapidly turned green btw so we focused on the 100 fathom around the Elbow. Only had about 2 hours to troll as we had family commitments back at the beach. We were happy to have at least one bill fish for our efforts...the pop-up storms thankfully passed us by but kept us on our toes ALL dang night/morning.

Blue Water???

Pendador — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:32:53 GMT

Headed out in the morning toward Nip and 131. Anyword on bluewater/weedlines???

new fishing site entitle insiderfishing.com

flyliner — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:04:13 GMT

Hey everybody, Capt. Rick Murphy has just launched a new Florida fishing site www.insiderfishing.com It is kind of based off the Chevy Florida Fishing Report format in that it has the state divided into regions and there are guides/captains in each region giving daily inshore and offshore reports on conditions and catches.

Capt. Wes Rozier of Pensacola is signed up for the inshore report for the Panhandle and I will be doing the offshore reports. If you have a chance, please check out the site, feel free to give either Wes or me your opinion of what you see and any recommendations.

Thanks for checking it out and my email and cell phone are below so feel free to let me know what you think.

Pat

who all is in the international??

suckfish62 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:20:54 GMT

just curious how many guys are fishing this weekend??:usaflag

7/1 nipple to elbow

mscontender — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:25:23 GMT

Went out trolling solo today hoping to catch my first solo billfish, feeling pretty good after missing three just last week. Hilton's showed the blue water near the nipple to elbow and diminishing. Had a bill chasing a naked ballyhoo around 10:30 that just wouldn't bite. There were scattered weeds in around the nipple with some grass trying to form a line. As I made my way towards the elbow the water was darker and the grass disapeared. Trolled back towards the nipple and picked up a couple good sized dolphin and watched a cool water spout.

Hard to tell size of dolphin in the cooler, but it was a good one. Next time I will carry someone to hold the fish to put it in perspective.

MScontender

Double nipple??

zoomin-newman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:27:43 GMT

Does anybody know if there is bluewater at the double nipple ???

Offshore Venice LA

Capteddie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:50:47 GMT

I just finished up a stretch of 21 out of 23 days on the water or something like that and every day was pretty productive. Highlights were a triple hookup with a 70, 95, and a 162 pound yf. Only had three guys on the boat so had to stop with three fish on :) It was a circus for a while but we got all three in. For most of the time it was calm seas and very enjoyable. Fish were mostly caught on 60 pound frenzy flouro and 7/0 circles with a mixture of livies, chunks, and poppers taking fish. Time for the picture show now.

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wtf is up with HILTONS??

suckfish62 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:06 GMT

anybody else having trouble with it being stuck on june 27th? come on tom help a brother out too much money for something to crap out!!:banghead

White Marlin 6/25

Get'n Wade — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:19:07 GMT

Headed out Looking for Hoo yesterday aboard Harveys 26'cc. Found Blue Water and a nice weedline southwest of the Elbow picked up a Barracuda ,15 small Dolphin and a White, it gave us a couple of nice jumps, had a great time w/ Harvey,Roy,Randy and Brian. The Marlin ate a Williamson skirted Ballyhoo @ 8 knts. What a blast! Revived fish swam away fine.

Bad weather and Blue marlin, Tunnel Vision, 06/29

401 Cay — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:16:59 GMT

Decided to head out in search of pretty water on Sun.. left the dock at 0430 and headed SSW looking for a rip that we knew was there on Sat. The morning weather pushed in, so we diverted to the ozark and jigged some AJs whil the weather pushed past us to the south. Finally picke up and ran until we hit scattered then finally somewhat organized line to the SE of the 131. Water was blue on one side and bluegreen on the other. Got the spread out and to our amazement nothing doing! There were pallets floating, birds working, bait all over.. perfect! Just no bites! We kept tweaking the spread, and I took the downtime to show a friend who is new to fishing how to rig a ballyhoo... We rigged it on a blue and white Islander ballyhood and ran it off the port rigger.. 20 minutes later a blue crashed that very lure.. dropped back in him for a quick 5count, shut the door and the line came tight and the acrobatics began! Our friend and his son have never fished anything but snapper, so we quickly got a belt on 11 year old harrison, and put the rod in his hands.. Mark was getting the harness adjusted for him as I coached him a bit.. he did great. 20 minutes into it I took the rod from him as Mark got the harness on him.. he was amazed at the difference that harness makes! As we crept up on an hour into the fight young harrison was visably spent, and made the call to let his dad fisnish the fish off.. The fish had sounded and stayed deep most of the fight but came quickly to the surface for some greyhounding off the transom just as mike took the rod. Another 20 minutes and I had the leader.. the fish looked to be 200-250 but as I got my second wrap of the leaded the hook pulled. The fish swam next to us for a few seconds not knowing he was free.. but turned off away from us, having exausted two anglers! By thisd time it was after 4pm so after a short hit on the center rigger we headed northeast. Stopped for a limit of snapper 25 miles south of the pass and a huge storm hammered us out of nowhere... winds had to be near 60 knots and seas were solid 8's.. pretty hairy for an hour or so.. but it passed and we headed in in a confused 3-5 foot sea.. made the pass at 715 and breathed a sigh of relief and satisfaction from having a great day despite the weather... And as for the two anglers.. well my dock is in filthy water, so we tossed them over the side 45 miles out.. same effect..!

Best trip offshore this year

bigone — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:37:47 GMT

Fished spur area with most other boats, not much happening,picked up ran N 5-7mi, saw bait busting bonita/blackfins ? put a spread out, Blue suit crashed the spread, very hot, hit a moldcraft widerange bl/pink on the short rigger 9:30am, 40-50min released(no tag), no action until 3:30pm, come up on a nice rip 11mi SW of the nipple, picked up three hoos 15-20lbs, 2-3 small dolphin, then while:letsdrink, a small blue 100-150, comes out of the rip up to the back of the boat and swims around kind of like a shark, everybody has spinning rods, I yelled down, for somebody throw him a live bait!, had 2 bar jacks in the live well, throw it at him,picks it up, and swims back underneath the weedline, begins to put on his show on the other side,with our line underneath about 8000 lbs of weed, I back up through the weeds but broke off after 2-3 jumps, and continued to jump for 5-7 more times teasing us, high fives all around, back into Destin by 8:30pm ,pics to follow after I figure out the pic process.

Wednesday

Inn Deep — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:51:19 GMT

I am planning on hitting the 131 and spur area for trolling and sword fishing Wed evening / night. Anyone else going to be out there?

Last Saturday on "Hammer Time"

LITECATCH — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:58:38 GMT

Saturday we headed south looking for wahoo and dolphin. ended up with 3 dolphin and 1 wahoo. Tobbe caught a 27 pounder. (her personal best).

WayneO and Tobbe getting ready for the shot.

notice the RFRA shirt!!

looks like i am about to be attacked by the dolphin!

HELP!! HELP!! oh no not the killer dolphin!!

Looks like i won that round!!

6.28 131 Hole

spiderjohn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:25:30 GMT

Ran out early Sat morning to play around some. It was bumpy running out at 6 AM and arrived at 8 AM. Found a weed line around the 131 Hole area and starting letting out the lines. Pulling Ilanders with ballyhoo. Before we got the second line out a 30 lb dolphin took the first line and gave a few jumps before being boated. Continued to pull along the weed line for an hour or so and caught 3 more dolphin. Lost one a the boat when the gaff missed and he broke off on the boat. Had several more strikes that missed the hook. All dolphin I believe. Put out a high speed wahoo lure to run further south in hopes of another weed line and lost a Hoo after a short burst from the drag on a 30W. Trolled a line about 3 miles south of the first but it was spotty. Didn't have any more fish all day. The bite was over by 10 AM for us. Caught dolphin on blue/white, red/white, and pink/white. Lost the pink/white to a fiesty one. Great time a good grilled fish lunch today with more in the freezer. Thanks to all that have provided info to this newbie. Nice to actually have a fish come back with us.

MBGFC Ladies

DISANTO — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:18:03 GMT

We didn't fish the tournament, but would like to know how everyone did. Anyone have the results? Craig?

thanks

Results for Orange Beach Marina Outboard Tourney?

Reel Rowdy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:12:54 GMT

Does anyone know what was caught and weighed for the Orange Beach Marina Outboard Only Tournament?

Report 6/28- 6/29

Tenderloin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:11:30 GMT

Had family come in for their once a yr. tuna trip. We headed to horn mountain for tuna as it looked to be in cleaner water from the sat. photos. Ram Powell, Beer Can, Marlin are all in a pea colored green water with no visibility one foot under, I have never seen this green colored water. We crossed a nice line trying to form 10 miles South of Ram Powell, and the water went to a cleaner green, no bait what so ever on the line though. When we made it to Horn Mountain, water color was still the a cleaner green, with no bait. I tried live baiting with some perfect sized threadfin hearing I picked up 55 miles out, only one toothy critter cut me off. Once dark hit, we tried to jig some blackfins for bait to no avail. Around midnight, I started seeing some flying fish and the water looked cleaner, with a slight blueish tint, definitely not cobalt blue, some weeds started showing up moving to the north. We caught 4 blackfin, and missed several others, so we tried chumming to no avail. Then i tried trolling diving baits to no avail. I noticed on satellite weather some light rain moving in from the west, it kicked the seas up to 5-7's, but dissapated before it reached us, so I just hugged behind the rig till it calmed back down, had one fisher still up and he caught a barracuda and an undersized yellowfin on a jig that we threw back. By daylight the dirty green water had moved back in and the rig was dead, so I ran back in 2-4's. That weedline was now 5 miles South of R. Powell and trying to push, but no significant color change. I knew the water was bad, but they were diehard on going that way instead of east. Oh well, thats how it goes. We never had a rain drop hit us and we never saw lightning, it was all way North of us by looking at the sat. weather.

Nipple, Elbow Spur area

hmsmithjr — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:53:09 GMT

We are heading out to these areas about 4 AM out of Destin tomorrow morning. I am waiting on my roffs to come in but just wanted to compare notes with anyone who might be headed out that way tomorrow.

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Thanks,

Maclin

early blue weighed in @ ecbc

suckfish62 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:48:06 GMT

looks like some fish were caught this weekend. uptoit weighs in a 406 blue and a big yellowfin according to their webcam.:hoppingmad

Wednesday Snapper Limit on End of the Line

NoCatch — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:41:08 GMT

Got an invite from Ed Hale (I guarantee...) to join the crew on End of the Line (Capt. Jim, Jay, Wayne, Ed) Wednesday morn - hell ya!

Met at Sherman Cove at 0500 and after a bit of a monkey drill, left the marina about 0600:

Hit the bait boat for $20 worth, then off to Ed's Honey-Hole!

Boat had limit of Red Snapper by 0830 and caught a wide variety of others: 4 Kings, AJ, Mingo, Blue Nose, Trigger, Grouper, Bonita - probably missed a species, but you get the idea, a great morning to fish!

Had to leave the initial hole because every time you dropped down, bam, another snapper. Kind of funny, having to run from catching snapper! Hit a few other holes, looking for anything but snapper, and waiting for the storm in the pass to move on.

Wayne with a "bitch" on:

Ed gaffing one of Jay's Kings:

After a beautiful morning. fish for everyone, and enough sun for the day, headed back.

Went through schools of fish tearing up the water.

Pulled into Sherman about 1300-1400 (to many Miller Lites to be exact).

Jay with his Black Snapper (tutor Ed hanging close):

After boat cleaning, fish cleaning, arrival of the First Aid Kit for toasts to a great day on the water, was home by 1600.

Had "operator malfunction" on the camera and I didn't get pictures of the "big ones" that were hauled aboard (never checked the setting each time I pulled it out). Sorry crew.

Cheers!

Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic

Xiphius — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:59 GMT

87 boats 1.6 million in the cash awards. This tournament has quicky become the premire event with the richest purse in the Gulf of Mexico.

PICS ARE IN

CHICO — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:50:36 GMT

Pics from my report 2 weekends ago. Sorry but cannot find the pic with all the fish together. Going out again tomorrow. Will post if we actually catch anything, if not ill post the pics with us catching a beer buzz.

6/24 Bluewater Fishing/Spearfishing with pics

skram — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:02:18 GMT

Left OB around 5 am looking for bluewater. Found Bluewater and a solid weedline about 6 or so miles north of the spur. Tons of dolphin. Saw a Good blue sized feeding ahead on the weedline so we tried to live bait for him, but no luck. Ended up catching 30 or more dolphin all on Topwater poppers. (kept 18 fish) Then decided break out the guns and shoot a couple, my brother got a nice bull and chris and I got a couple chickens on the spear. On the Way home we saw 6 or more sei whales...a truly amazing sight. Not the biggest fish we've caught, but some of the most fun I've ever had on the water, Constant action, sunny, and flat calm seas. I'm sure Chris can Chime in with more details. Check out the pics

Michaels Bull Taken by Spear...

Chris's 27lb Cow Airborne....

Me and Chris with his Cow....

One of the Many sei whales. Estimated at 40+ feet. Fairly intimidating from a 24 ft. boat.

June 26 Spur -no pics-

mscontender — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:04:37 GMT

Sometime it is a fine line between an awsome trip and just one more in book. Thursday was one of those for us. We headed to the spur looking for the grass line/pods that has been reported. Armed with spinning gear and poppers. The line had moved north of the spur and was not well formed at all. Could not find a formed line to do anything with. Long story short we had one white in the spread that would not bite and jumped off two more whites after a couple minutes of listening to drag scream and watching them put on an aerial show. But it was not to be as both thru the Islander ballyhoo's right back at us. Therefore we ended the day with two dolphin and thoughts of what could have been. Did see a whale which was pretty cool. FYI the spur was clean blended blue, the so so line of grass is about 11 miles north of the spur with a secondary line about 5-7 miles south of the 131 hole.

MScontender

6/25 at the spur

jseven — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:52:37 GMT

Headed out the Destin pass at 4am and found a well formed weedline about 3 miles northeast of the spur in decent water. It was loaded with chicken dolphin and after we caught all we wanted started trolling for wahoo with an instant hook up and lost a small one near the boat and then nada. Thought we might have better luck further offshore so ended up going about 20 more miles southwest and all we managed to get were more dolphin on the troll, the largest of which maybe went 10 pounds. On the way back in we tried a few passes on the same weeds we hit earlier and this guy ate a orange and black bonito and made our trip. we probably caught 40 dolphin, kept 4 and I think the hoo was in the 50# range. The weather was perfect and looking forward to next time.

Friday Report from the canyon "Unreal weather and fishing"

TITLEWAVE — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:57:48 GMT

With weather reports looking not so great for Saturday we all decided to play hooky and catch some good weather for a change. So we Left from Panama City thursday night for the canyon around 12:30 pm , making the spur by 3am.The seas where absolutly slick dead calm , with a crazy bright moon lighting our way.Once we got to the canyon i deployed two nice squid and the sword slasher light.2 hours later and no bites we pulled up the sword baits and got ready for the day. We started off trying to look and troll but the weeds were scattered enough to make that no good so around 6 am or so we pulled up to some large weed mats 5 miles sw off the spur in deep purple water.

As we made bait 3 huge dolphin swam up and crashed the party by eating the whole sabiki rig. We quickly deployed baits and caught all three including a nice 30 pound fish. We continued to make bait and figued we would paddy hope and live bait a bit. We did that for a few hours and caught a few more dolphin but nothing big till my buddy was on the bow and scream "hey theres a wahoo up here" , well turns out that wahoo was a nice white marlin eatting peanuts for breakfast next to our boat.We thought about heading further south as the boat were catching nothing and trolling was impossible so we took off around 11 am south and after 10 miles turned back as it got reall dirty and no weeds.

After turning back we found another area forming much better with some really giant patches so we trolled around and tested some paddy's with bait and poppers. The water was so clear you could see fish finning and swiming around so we tossed poppers at them and I caught 2 more stud dolphin around 30 pounds with my buddies landing a few just shy. At one point a wahoo swam up to the boat but we could get wired fast enough to toss him a bait so we switched up our sread for more hoo's and trolled back down the line.While doing so we saw what looked like a huge surf board and a tree 400-500 yards out so we trolled that direction to find a huge end of a cable spool and a big bunch of reeds loaded with bait and triple tail and yes , dolphin and hoo's. First pass with the wahoo spread resulted in a double 30 pound hoo hook up and second pass was a triple till what i think was a huge blue ate one guys dolphin right off his line and then switch over to my buddies wahoo. My buddy re-hooked up on the wind and we boated two more nice wahoo. We made one more pass and limited out on wahoo . So next we stopped the boat floating between the spool and the reeds and began to jig and have fun.

First Using butterfly jigs we caught and released 7 wahoo on spin tackle and caught so many big dolphin we decided we were done keeping fish at 2 Pm . After that the real fun started as I took a pooper and removed the hooks to cast at dolphin to film and have fun with. I would cast the lure out and reel as fast as i could and couldnt keep it away from the fish which would try to eat the thing even though it had no hook. At one point i was cranking hard and a wahoo decided he wanted to play , came up and jupmed clear out of the water right next to the boat trying to eat the popper. We played with the fish for a few hours feeding them all our bait and taking pitcures and decided to wrap it up leaving them biting and heading back in around 4PM Saturday with our catch of 19 dolphin10-30 pounds and 6 wahoo in the 20 - 30 pound range, one lone monster triple tail. We must have released double the dolphin we caught and 7 more wahoo, talk about a perfect weather wide open bite day !

"Couldnt get all the pictures in this first post so see the rest below"

The Spur is Blue

Billable — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:58:37 GMT

Dodged storms this AM to head to the Nipple and the Spur and then up Desoto Canyon. Nipple was blended Blue and the Spur was Blue. Got a 30# Dolphin and several smaller. Also a small hoo and some snapper. Sorry, no pictures the digital malfunctioned.

RECESS report Saturday 06/21

recess — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:58:45 GMT

We headed out of Pensacola pass around 06:15 to find some bluewater. First thing we had too overcome was a line of thunder storms stretching from east to west about 15 miles. We thought we could out run it to the west at first, but that proved to be a BIG mistake. So now we turned around to head to the east about 10 miles. Ok, lets turn to the south, I know that we can out run it ( even a BIGGER mistake). It seemed mother nature was going to teach us a leason that day. The cell formed around us and it seemed that she was following us to the edge. As the seas went from 2-3 now 3-4 and ending with 6-8's we threw in the towel, just passed the 131. The storm quickly passed and the seas went back down to 3-4's. Lines out; but all we could catch were cudas. We never found the blue water only green to a lightgreen. Stopped at the edge to put a few snapper and grouper in the bag. The ride in was great 2-3s (Thanks Mother Nature) we will see you next week. Please dont throw another storm at us! Gene,Tim,Tim and Mike, Team Recess

8/19 trip

4wahoo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:52:29 GMT

left OB thursday nite at 8 and headed for the spur. went 1 for 2 on swords, the one we boated was a pup but still a great way to pass the night. when the sun came up the water was green with a few patches of blue mixed in. found plenty of grass and a few fish. saw two whites, brought one to the boat couldn't get the other one to bite. gaffed three bull dolphin and a couple of smaller schoolies. we ran into a bunch of wahoo but had the hardest time keeping them on the hook, we caught one and missed another five!

we headed north to hit some bottom spots and found a patch of weeds east of the elbow, we picked up one more bull and saw a monster blue working some chickens. there was no way to get the blues mind off the chickens. managed to jig up enough AJs to make the crew beg for home so back we went.

all in all it was a great trip

trash?

4wahoo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:50:07 GMT

i was planning to run from OB to the ram thursday nite, i'm wondering if all this flooding up north has got any debris out in the gulf. really don't want to hit a tree @ 30 knots in the dark 30 miles out! any info would be greatly appreciated. any reports would also be greatly appreciated. will post how the trip went sat morn. thanks

ben

BIG TUNA

Boardfeet — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:51:41 GMT

Kenny McCoy and his crew came to the dock yesterday(Daybreak Marina) with a 186# YFT, and a 90# YFT. They also tagged a Blue est. 500# or so. The big tuna was an open water bite. There were several people there taking pics. I didn't have my camera :doh

He also said they went through a very bad storm

Blue Water near the Spur?

Sir Reel — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:44:22 GMT

I was headed out Saturday AM for two days of trolling and one night of Swords. Does anybody know how the water looks at the Spur and down the canyon. Any reports would be appreciated. I will post on return. Thanks

17/18 Venice

Mikvi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:32:26 GMT

I was invited to take a boat over to venice marina with some friends. We left Long Beach, MS at 0630 on Tuesday morning and ran calm seas to venice Marina in about 4 hours. after fuel and ice, and loading another couple of friends on the boat, we headed out for blue water. After my last trip, where we found blue 10 miles North of Cognac, I was getting concerned when we passed Lena and were still in brown water. This turned to blue about 15 mile further out where there was a fantastic rip, covered with weed. We dropped the first bait, a Black Bart from the starboard rigger, and before we could sot another rod, a 30+lb dolphin smashed the lure. That was loaded into the cooler and we reset all the rigs. It was then one Dolphin after another for about 3 hours. Many chickens, but also some good sized ones. About an 2 hours before dark we headed out to Mars hoping to get an evening Yellowfin bite. Although we saw a few busting the top , we didn't hook up. The only thing we caught there before dark was Barracuda when we got too close to the rig. One of the guys with us was from nebraska and brought huge steaks with him. We fired up a small charcoal grill on the back deck and was able to cook 2 at a time. I don't think the crew of the crew boat we were sheltering by were very impressed with the flams as they kept telling us to go away:boo After dinner it was time for some jigging for Tuna. Some nice sized Blackfin were boated, along with several Tuna heads. The sharks were a little too active. They ran us off, over to Ursa, where absolutely nothing was going on. Most of the crew started falling asleep so we headed back to Mars. Same thing with the sharks, but if you used 3/0 tackle and reeled like a madman you could sometimes beat the ba***stds. At 0510 I called it a day on the Tuna. Several Yellowfin were hitting the top during the night, but we just couldn't get a popper to them. I went to the cabin and crashed as the boat went back to the rip. More of the same. Some really nice dolphin, along with a bunch of chickens. One wahoo showed up for a few seconds, but didn't make it to the boat. A whale shark got so close to the boat i could have grabbed his tail. We saw several blue and white Marlin, but were meat fishing, so didn't really try, but one did smash a Black Bart without eating the hook. we got back to Venice through building seas around a thunderstorm about 1500. After the photos we leaded the fish back into coolers and headed for the house. 7 of us in an F-250 made a tight squeeze. Total for the day was 52 Mahi and 11 Blackfin. Trolling we used Black Barts and Islanders, with a variety of others. All seemed to work. Jigging was best with the good old fashioned diamond jig. Butterfly jigs and glow-in-the-dark stuff didn't do nearly as well. I didn't take a camera so will post pics when some of the others send me copies of theirs.

6-14-08 Ttip

KickinAssphalt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:53:36 GMT

We went out Saturday morning, hoping for the species of the day: Mahi Ma-hiiii

We rode out past some serious black clouds and after going about 30 miles out we stopped at a weed line. Here we threw down some bait, but didn't catch anything. A 20lb Cobia was circling the boat but wouldn't eat! We decided to keep going south, and we finally stared to get into some better water. And before we knew it we were upon a serious weed line in blue water. We put out some Ilanders with Ballyhoo and some other plastics. Before we knew it we had hit the jackpot!! Wife's first -HOO and my first large Dolphin.

Check out our pics - 5 Hoo's, 2 Dolphin, 3 Scamp, 1 Snapper

Robby Williams
Kickin Assphalt
26' ProSports CC

RECESS report Limit of wahoo, nice bull

recess — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:52:06 GMT

We left Sherman cove around 06:15 with Tim, Hall, Rob and myself. Plans were to head out to the SSW about 45 miles in hopes of a chance to find some blue water. The seas were 1-2 on our way out with a small thunder cell directly in front of our course. We took a 25 degree cut to the East to avoid it and that was all that was needed. Just south of the 131 we ran across a formed weed line but it was dead of all life, so we were off again to the south. Tim spotted a floating island of weeds just to the south about 4 miles away, with blue water and a hint of green in it. It seems that the 1165 ft line has been pushing the blue water up in that area. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Combos pink and white, not to fast, 6.5 knots is what did it for us. Gene,Tim, Hall and Rob. Team Recess

Horn Mountain and Marlin Friday Night

flyliner — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:22:25 GMT

Fished the Petronius, Marlin and Horn Mountain friday. Petronius at 0900 had okay looking water but not much in the way of activity for us. Trolled to Marlin and it had good life, lot of bait and a few decent tuna jumping. Tried live baiting and ended up with a 20 lb dolphin. Ran to Horn Mountain and it was going off pretty good. Plenty of all size tuna busting and milling on top. Caught a couple 40 lbrs on poppers, while live baiting. Jumped a nice blue off on a big hardtail and caught and released a sailfish. My 13 yr old nephew got his first billfish and took a swim the next day at the dock. Had a real big tuna skyrocket on a trolled plug but after a good run the hooked pulled. After dark we motered over to Ram Powell, picked up another school yellowfin on a jig and then drifted north east all night. At dayllight hooked to big tuna on live bait at Marlin rig, pulled one off and caught the other, 92 lbs. Later on the troll caught a 55 lb dolphin on a Yozuri Bonita.

Great weather and good fishing

Offshore Venice LA

Capteddie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:09:44 GMT

Ran 4 overnighters last week in 5 days and feeling the effects now as the night bite wasnt that great. The morning and evening bites though were off the hook. We did swordfish one night and hooked up to a solid fish only to lose it about 10 minutes into the fight.

The first two nights I had David Lewis and his friends from Georgia on the boat. We sat out a storm at the first rig before we ventured out to fish. We ended up going one for two on chunks there and also got on a popper before we decided to head long. Went out to a rig about 60 miles out and just couldnt get the yf to bite caught one on a chunk there along with umpteenmillion blackfins on jigs.

Around 330 we decided to head into the rig that had a decent evening bite and as soon as we got there at daybreak we were doubled up on a popper and a chunk. The popper fish went 82 pounds and the chunk one was about 40. We caught two more good yf and I said guys this is the final drift before we head back in. Sure enough we hooked a goodun on a chunk. The fish dumped about 200 yards of line straight down and just sat there for a little while before we slowly started working him back up. After about 45 minutes I stuck the gaff in a healthy 103 pound yf. We made the hour and twenty minute run back to the dock then with our 8 yf and two dolphin.

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I had David again for night two so we headed straight to the rig where we got the big one and fished it hard. The afternoon bite was pretty good and we put three in the box to 90 pounds with one coming on a popper. Since we had a slow night the night before we went swordfishing. Had one good shot at a fish on a live hardtail but we pulled the hook about 300 feet down. We headed back to the rig at daybreak and instantly started hooking up on yf. We doubled up twice and missed a couple more before we headed to the house with our 7 yf.

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On night three I had John Edwards on the boat with his son and a couple employees. I went to our afternoon moneyspot and found 4 boats there already. We still caught one there before I left to make the long run to the southeast. Got out there and the fish bit hard from 745-945. In that time period we put nine yf from 35-45 pound and 6 magnum blackfins in the box. The bite there tapered off so we slowly headed in to the rig I wanted to be at for daylight to finish our limit off. Quickly caught the last two yf we needed and then ran through a good storm on the way in. Luckily we beat it in before it got too bad.

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On sat night I had Darren Haggard and his friends from Fl on the boat. My plan was disrupted by the fact that we ran into dirty water at my inshore spot on the way out. We tried it anyways with no luck before we headed to the east. Once we got there it looked like a deadzone until about 615 when the yf started coming off. The first time we had saw them we had a triple hookup with two on poppers and one on a chunk. Landed two of those three and lost the third after about an hour on a popper. Ran back over to the spot and got another one on a chunk.

Then Mike hooked up with the big boy on a chunk and it about dumped his tyrnos 30 straight down. Luckily it stopped about 900 feet down. While we were fighting this one we hooked three more and landed two of the 40 pound yfs. the big boy was mean though and we fought him for about an hour and 45 minutes before I was able to stick the gaff in the fish about 1015. By this time the rigs bite was over unfortunatly. Got the fish on ice in the box barely and it was definitly one of the fatter yfs I have caught. It was just a short stubby 157 pounder.

We fished hard the rest of the night for two good blacks before we headed to the dock with 6 yf anchored by the big one.

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Rig report

zoomin-newman — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:22:46 GMT

Just wanted to let everyone know the real deal on the water condition at the rigs. I was there Mon and Tue the 16th and 17th and all the rigs except Horn are in muddy ass water. (Don't Go) The water and bite at the Horn was blue green and ok. We caught one 50lb yft and a bunch of bft. Oh ya on the way back we went to the elbow and the water there was green with little life. I hope this true information can save some anglers fuel and time. I'm out!!

Blue Marlana Report 6/14-6/15

DISANTO — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:45:43 GMT

Check the link.

Thanks,

Dave

http://bluewaterfishing.blogspot.com/

"Bodacious" report.

Downtime2 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:06:56 GMT

To follow. Hopefully Hal or one of the others will post. Jeremy took some pics. Several fish lost thier poor lives. Too tired to type. Plus I tried my best to cut part of my thumb off.....