Friday, June 5, 2009

3 for 6 and enough topwater bass to say...

Today was riptacular!.. Had my bro out from Colorado and Paul Higgins *Bearboat* on board today and we started at a leisurely 730 am and played with the bass on topwater for awhile. We caught enough keepers to keep it interesting but were finally lured to the tuna grounds in search on another topwater bite. We searched for awhile and nuttin and then moved back in to bass fish and found a nice pushing school that we couldnt connect on. After a bit we moved out and found a baitball that finally developed with crashing tuna....After hooking up and dropping then hooking up again and staying tight, we called in a buddy boat and they were tight as well. We released a nice 64-65inch fish boatside taken on a topwater Got Stryper rubber bait. We moved back to the baitball and it was still alive and now it was my turn as I unleashed the 18wt Biscayne with Tibor Pacific...I immediately came tight to a mean green fish that had us clocking after him at a good clip...15 minutes of chase to put all that backing back on and now it was down to the nitty gritty....I had the fish boatside in 30 minutes for another clean release. We were pumped to see these fish in good shape! Our buddy boat was tight numerous times as well and we just played polite as they did and we had these fish all to ourselves for over 2 hours....
Bearboat is now up and he grabs the Biscayne and accidentally snags a pogie but while bringing it to the boat a huge tuna crashes the pogy and he is tight or is he?!?!...The fish peeled off 250 yards of backing and after a 5 minute battle the line goes limp....But it is coming back with something....Ayup, a flattened pogie that has seen the inner reaches of a tunas mawl!
My bro was not done so he fires again and gets tight and we release that fish after 30 minutes...
No pics today since we released all but it will be engrained in our memories forevah!

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