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The Three G's took a shot at an overnighter, left the dock at 10:00 am friday morning, with a strong crew of 7 ready to fill the boat with fish. We were aware of the weather but figured if we could get thru some storms and get far enough south, we might have a shot to stay.
Well the weather called for 3-5 footers with scattered thunderstorms, and for once the offshore report was dead on. Day started perfect as we got the lines in around 1 pm, and decided to drop in around the 500 line as the water was real nice there and we found a break from 77 to 74.5 and followed that south. Everything looked great and the crew was excited.....Until about 3:00 when the radar showed storms south east of us. Changed course to south west to avoid, which we though we had done, but there were just too many storms and eventually we had lots of rain, lightning ( although sporadic, still a little scary )and were faced with a decision. Naturally 1/2 the crew wants to stay and the other half was skeptical.... then we heard more storms at the Dip, and waves as high as 8-10 ft south of the tails. Our plan was for the Middle Grounds or just south of the flats, which just became more and more obvious was a plan that would not be very safe nor much fun tied up on a ball all night. We start for home!
Still in a storm at around 3:30 - 4:00 trolling north we were able to salvage a very disappointing day. With the whole crew under and out of the pooring rain, and literally 1 second after a scary bolt of lightning, the far right rigger gets hit but not taken, looked like a small marlin...fish swirled and went right back to the same lure( Green Zuker spreader bar ) and this time fish on. Shirts came off as it was pooring and 15 minutes later we land a 45lb Wahoo. Fish was caught at the 475 line in 76.5 degree water. Other than that, raised a couple skippies on the edge of a ugly thunder bumper. There may have been fish there, but we released em and got the heck out of there.
It is just one of those things where you can't fight Mother Nature and the decision to go home was the right one, but with all the bait and very high hopes of 7, making that turn North sucked! Knoiw a bunch from the dock who left for Sat into Sunday overnight....hope you all were able to hit em hard!!
Well the weather called for 3-5 footers with scattered thunderstorms, and for once the offshore report was dead on. Day started perfect as we got the lines in around 1 pm, and decided to drop in around the 500 line as the water was real nice there and we found a break from 77 to 74.5 and followed that south. Everything looked great and the crew was excited.....Until about 3:00 when the radar showed storms south east of us. Changed course to south west to avoid, which we though we had done, but there were just too many storms and eventually we had lots of rain, lightning ( although sporadic, still a little scary )and were faced with a decision. Naturally 1/2 the crew wants to stay and the other half was skeptical.... then we heard more storms at the Dip, and waves as high as 8-10 ft south of the tails. Our plan was for the Middle Grounds or just south of the flats, which just became more and more obvious was a plan that would not be very safe nor much fun tied up on a ball all night. We start for home!
Still in a storm at around 3:30 - 4:00 trolling north we were able to salvage a very disappointing day. With the whole crew under and out of the pooring rain, and literally 1 second after a scary bolt of lightning, the far right rigger gets hit but not taken, looked like a small marlin...fish swirled and went right back to the same lure( Green Zuker spreader bar ) and this time fish on. Shirts came off as it was pooring and 15 minutes later we land a 45lb Wahoo. Fish was caught at the 475 line in 76.5 degree water. Other than that, raised a couple skippies on the edge of a ugly thunder bumper. There may have been fish there, but we released em and got the heck out of there.
It is just one of those things where you can't fight Mother Nature and the decision to go home was the right one, but with all the bait and very high hopes of 7, making that turn North sucked! Knoiw a bunch from the dock who left for Sat into Sunday overnight....hope you all were able to hit em hard!!
