jenny lee/ blackfish doug/ awesome trip

[jenny lee sportfishing]

Thursday, September 5. 2013

gary merrit/joe germinario/dave williams/doug karkosza/bob malarkey

capt's kevin gerrity and dave bender took an open boat trip with doug/bob/gary/dave and joe out for a canyon trip on sept 3rd, 2013. we picked the longfins tuesday afternoon and had seven fish by about 5pm. we crossed over to the east side looking for the bigeye bite, and at 530 the bridge rod goes off, but not excactly what we had expected...wahoooooooooooo! a gorgeous 70 plus pound wahoo that doug landed. wow! we then trolled into the dark with nothing to show for it, so we set up on the chunk. as in the past this season, we didn't expect much, but hoped for the best. it's never a lack of effort or enthusiasm. we had a bite on the shark rod at 1am and kevin jumped out of the rack and was like a kid at a candy store. after a nice battle by bob we had a 140lb swordfish in the boat, and the guys were pumped. not shortly thereafter we had a bite on the sword rod and we released another smaller version. about 3am we got another shark rod screamer and gary fought this fish, which truthfully kicked his ##%%, after about 20 minutes we had a 125lb swordfish in the box. we got on the troll very early looking for the bigeye bite in a west wind which we knew would be hell to pay on the way home. we trolled till about 9am and took a 5.5 hour ride home in a nasty ocean. all in all the guys had a great time as did kevin and i. 7 longfins/1 wahoo/ 3 swordfish










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