Report submitted by 'Scott'
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Port Aransas Offshore Report
Port Aransas, TX
December 4-6th, 2004
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Matt, Matt's dad, Jay, Frank, Aggie, KingKilla, Steve, Spooner, Brian Curry, Scott Hansen and I headed out to the
floaters Friday morning, December 4. The 10 hour trip out was fairly rough, with consistent 6 to 8's. We trolled for marlin, wahoo and yellowfin
without success at the rig prior to dark. That evening we caught 15 nice yellowfin, mostly in the 60 to 90# class. Most of the fish were caught on
castnetted flying fish. We also got 5 decent dolphin and a lot of blackfin.
The yellowfin were thick but incredibly picky, turning down live bait, sardines, topwaters, chunk baits, and artificial
flying fish. Spooner did hook 3 nice yellowfin on his new 6 ounce offshore lure.
At any given time, you could see several HUGE tuna in the lights next to the boat. Whenever a flying fish would come
around, the water would erupt as the tuna fought over the meal. Actually, whenever we would see a flyer, we would try to castnet it before the tuna
ate it. KingKilla threw a castnet on a flyer and accidently netted a yellowfin, which obviously was not landed and messed up the net. My biggest
yellowfin was caught on a flyer which flew into the boat. I pounced on it like it was gold, put it out, and had a yellowfin on in 15 seconds. During
the night, a storm came through with driving rain and 40 knot winds, bouncing us around pretty good.
The next morning, we headed to the inshore rigs to catch some AJ's. We hit 3 rigs pretty quickly, picking off a few
here and there. Aggie got a nice ling at the second rig.
At the final rig, we slammed the AJ's, catching the boat limit (30) in about an hour. I caught what I thought was a
real nice one, until Matt pulled up a MONSTER AJ.
That night, we headed back out for some more yellowfin, but only managed a nice Almaco jack and a bunch of blackfin.
Overall, we ended up with a ton of fish (almost literally): 15 yellowfin, 39 blackfin, 30 AJ's, 5 dolphin, 1 ling and 1 Almaco. After cleaning
them, we had about 600 pounds of fillets.
Thanks to the guys at Deep Sea Headquarters for another fine trip. KingKilla, Aggie and some of the other guys have some
sweet pics of their tuna, which hopefully they will post.
Sweet Trip..
-Scott
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