Offshore Tomorrow - WAHOO & TUNA!

[Uncle Saggy]

I stole your bunk this go Burny , it kind of still smelled like old people but I overcame it with a cheap Christmas tree air freshener from Valero hahaha ... I tried to bring fried chicken to keep the mojo up but ran out of time driving down due to captains early sail orders. We missed you and talked a lot of chit about touching cotton and pinching one off. We will see ya on the snapper trip amigo

I believe the key word was Crowning


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[Burnadell]

I believe the key word was Crowning


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[hog smacker]

Me and Timmy are going to meet up later today and try to figure out what happened to the deep drop light. My guess is a sword hit the light instead of the bait and broke it, then lost interest.

[Texastaxi]

When is Rob going to start posting some good pictures?

[manwitaplan]

When is Rob going to start posting some good pictures?

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[Sparkles]

When is Rob going to start posting some good pictures?

The family and I just had a late breakfast with him. He’s got a lot of pics to process. I imagine we will see some soon.


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[J-Bob]

Wicked looking mako!!! Congrats guys!!

[AtTheWall]

Still have fish to process - going non-stop literally. Smoking a Kingfish and Tuna with Apple as I type this. Finished up tuna Poke - using Glen's recipe this evening. Mako steaks on Apple smoke and grilled, a bit of Wahoo sushi with vacuum sealing both along with canning all the tuna tomorrow. LOL! This is sick, absolutely sick!

Enjoyed the breakfast in Fredericksburg today Sparkles!


America's Family - THE SPARKLES!!!

[RiverRat1]

We don't want a picture of Sparkles. We want fish pictures! LOL

Was reeling in the Mako a team effort?

[AtTheWall]

We had an awesome trip - we always do sailing with Cap'n Timmy! Everyone scored a wahoo, sharing the love on deck using gear, most don't typically fish with. It does improve the hook-up to boxed ratio greatly.

Saturday, I hooked 4 wahoo. Lost one with a massive shark attack on top. The other, was gut hooked, a big SOB. After a smoking run, I felt a solid and heavy Wahoo. Stayed hooked up enough to get Cap'n Timmy wound up to get that fish to the boat. It was for not........it bit through my wind-on Flourocarbon topshot after swallowing about 3 ft of steel and an Islander/Ballyhook combo. This particular setup was front loaded with trolling lead and trolled well aft.

Broke the ice with the first wahoo on the deck. I just recently built a wahoo specific custom rod with a new 30 wide class Avet - first fish, a solid wahoo! Got to love that!!!!

So here we go......

[AtTheWall]

Mike Halco on his 12.5ft Mako. Accurate 80 reel on a custom 130 class standup stick. Half a blackfin tuna for bait - slammed on the stern and stayed literally back there till "The Mongoloid" (slug shotgun), and gaffs, made the kill.

One hell of a way to kick off a fishing trip. We were hammering blackfin tuna near a rig when the Mako hit. We decked the Mako and proceeded to our day of trolling for wahoo.









In spite of taking a well aimed 12 gauge slug, this Mako was not down for the count. So a deep heart stab was conducted to seal the deal on deck.

[AtTheWall]

Cap'n Timmy picked up the rod, when the Mako hit, hammered the hook home and Mike took over from there till the Mako was decked.

[AtTheWall]

Glen left and Jonathan right, stare on after, hands on deck, evolution to safely deck this beast.

Just a few years ago, this Mako, would have been a Texas State record.

[AtTheWall]

Mike left with the Accurate 80 and deckhand Jesse right. Jesse fished the San Diego long range fleet for tuna and wahoo off Baja, back in his California days.

[AtTheWall]

Captain Timmy