PINS Kayak Mayhem Report
June 21st-24th, 2010
Padre Island Natl Seashore, TX
Report by 'Oz'

-Report Summary-
Bull Shark/Kings/Cobia


PINS Mega Epic Sharking Report
May 27th-30th, 2010
Padre Island Natl Seashore, TX
Report by 'Oz'

-Report Summary-
Lemon/Tiger/Hammers


Mega AJ Offshore Report
April 25th-26th, 2010
North Padre Island, TX
Report by 'Oz'

-Report Summary-
Amberjack


PINS 4/20 Solo Tiger Report
April 20th, 2010
Padre Island Natl Seashore, TX
Report by 'Oz'

-Report Summary-
Blacktip/Tigershark


Venice Inshore/Offshore Report
March 13th-14th, 2010
Venice, LA
Report by 'HWK'

-Report Summary-
Redfish/AJ/Mako



Nyati Offshore Billfish Report
Port Aransas, TX
 
August 3rd-5th, 2007

Report by Oz

   The summer is finally here as the winds are laying down for a while. We venture out on a Thursday evening for the longest trip of the year thus far. Joining Capt. YT on the Nyati is Skipjack on his premier trip, Ronnie and Nena, YT's brother-in-law Garrick and his good friend, the super badass photographer Mike, and myself. The destination is once again back to the floaters for some possible Tuna action at night. At dusk Thursday evening the 'Transformer' Nyati squeezes under the Packery bridge and out we go in the calmest seas of the season.

   We cruise out at a slow and safe speed and begin trolling past the shelf just after daybreak. Things are slow and no shortage of scattered weed. We troll around for a while with a couple knockdowns and then head our way to another floating platform. In the middle of transit we see birds and bait at the surface with small Tuna and Bonita underneath. We did see a Whale Shark feeding on plankton underneath the chaos. We managed to creep up on the activity and Skipjack hooks up and lands a nice Wahoo while trying to catch Bonita and Tuna off the Whale Shark.

After a few minutes YT allows me to hop in and inspect the chaos and get some footage.

The Whale Shark comes up and inspects me as well and i've made a gentle giant of a friend.

   About an hour of observing and minimal bait obtainment, we decide to get back to trolling. Our goal was to be at the Hoover Diana platform for the night time Tuna festivities. But with a couple hours of prime daylight left get to the rig to try to obtain some baits. Almost instantly we begin hammering some Almaco Jacks of all size.

   We obtain a few baits and get back to the trolling scene. Things are still slow and try to figure the situation out.

Not long and we break the ice and hang a decent Wahoo.

   We finish out the remainder of the day and head back to the rig taking a brief intermission. During the early nighttime hours we try our luck for Tuna while jigging. We bang a few out but things are still very slow. I then hook what I thought was a Yellowfin on the homemade jig and after a couple minutes have a mega Almaco Jack up on the surface.

37lbs of Sharkathon Bait...

Skipjack gets into the Blackfin and we begin nailing larger than normal BFs

   The rest of the night we hammered the Blackfin. Not consistent but they were there and the ones present were of decent size. Other than a couple dink yellows, not much else was present.

   The next morning we troll and troll and troll and things are still abnormally slow. We then take a quick swim to rid ourselves of the offshore god's unrewarding curse. We begin trolling towards another floater and then pick up some nice victims to live bait with. Shortly after we obtain some baits we begin to put 2 out on the 130's, and one on the Duel.

In a distance we can see a storm approaching.

Less than an hour our live bait session is interrupted by a nice and welcoming torrential squall.

   Plenty of freshwater due in part from the rain is a welcoming sight on a hot summer day and also washes off the accumulated salt on the gear.

The rain soon passes and we begin to bang out some more bait while we have the chance.

   Shortly after the 130 Shindle is maintaining with a large live bait gets hammered and starts destroying the reel. The line is getting dumped rather quickly and after just over a minute the hook pulls from the big Marlin. A sore loss on a much needed catch but we don't give up. We get back into the rhythm of things and try again all the way up into the late afternoon hours. When all hope seems lost we see an average Marlin breach and slashing bait behind the lines. I turn the boat around and get us back for another pass and we are finally hooked up again! Garrick gets into the chair and strapped in. No visual confirmation yet but it has to be a billfish.

   At sundown after a moderately short fight, we get the fish in and its actually a smaller bill, a nice Sailfish though. Finally we land and release our first billfish of the trip.

   We decide to try our luck again for Tuna but only this time at a different platform. There is a definite sign of bait present... and bait working more bait.

   The surface activity is actually erupting on occasion and Ronnie and Shindle start throwing topwaters and finally hook up landing a Beastly-Blackfin

   The Blackfin Tuna bite is definitely on and like the previous night are running large. We let Mike jig and hook into some and after this BF, Mike decides he is wore out and calls for retirement.

   We continue to fish until about 3am stacking up on some Blackfins and Hardtails for bait in the morning. Just after 3 I begin to take us inshore for a morning troll at sunrise.

   As the sun comes up the spread goes out. We knock out some 'hoo and a pesky Cuda before a good fish makes its way into the spread. The fish swings in picking up a bait and we get Skipjack in the chair. After another short fight Rick gets in his first Sailfish... the boats second of the weekend.

   After another successful release we get the spread back out and the Meat continues to find its way in the spead as we get Jeff hooked up on a nice 'hoo.

   We pick up and run in a ways and after a couple hours put the spread back out. Not long and Mike comes out of retirement and nails one of his own!

   Baits go back out and shortly after all hell breaks loose. A solid fish comes into the spread and begins smoking an 80W... then another 80W... then another.... For a short period we have a triple hookup on Marlin. As chaotic as it is we manage to work things the best we can and one of the fish spits the hook. Shindle is in the chair fighting one and I'm on the other rod still hooked up.

   After a few minutes after dumping half a spool my fish spits the hook as well. However, Shindle is still hooked up and we are determined to land this fish. After a few minutes Shindle powers the Marlin to the boat and we get he in close to see she is lit up and still green.

The fish finally comes in and is subdued for a couple quick pics.

Shindle has just landed the boats first Blue Marlin of the weekend.

   After the release we put the spread back out but time is running thin and soon pack it up and head on in after a long weekend adventure.

   Wore out but still excited, we get back to the dock and take a quick pic of the crew and some of the catch.

   Once again it was another great exciting trip and while the fishing was off and on, the fun meter was always rocking! Thanks to YT, Ronnie, and rest of the crew for another great adventure!

See you back on the boat in a couple days...

- Oz and crew

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