Author Topic: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12 (Read 4793 times)

pilot2550 · « **on:** November 18, 2012, 08:46:22 PM »

Whew!!! What a difference a couple of days make. An excellent crew on board today with the Tog Machine AKA Capt Don Jr., T-Bone the steady, Nick B. (I should have stayed home for Fantasy Football), and a welcome guest Blake. We ran the same script as Friday. Got the goods from Cancun Pete (thanks for hooking us up once again and glad to be 1 of 5!) The worst is over! We did the Petro run with a little shake of the Polyethelene snake and dumped 25 Gals in the belly of ZO! Motored out at 7:00 sharp runnig the same course but it was a tad slower with tighter 4-5's. We dropped in on our first one about 300 ft from Friday's blast. We were not alone but plenty of elbow room here. Figured we should get a decent bite going before and after the tide. Well I'll be damned if we didn't just about skunk out for the first 3 hours. The only one that caught was TBone and Nick on a couple of healthy silver eels and a couple of dingers. The family Barts were not doing well with the roll and both looked like a chumbox ready to purge at any given moment. T-bone just about blew lunch after taking a good snif of the livewell that's been out of commission since the last batch of peanuts worked the fluke grounds. Man, that stench could knock a buzzard off a crap wagon! Meanwhile, Nick was pale, then three shades of green, looking to pitch a few cookies if the good man above would have blessed him with some swill in his gullet. No chance! It didn't help that we couldnt get a thing going to get the mind off the misery.

Time passes... we finally get a quick flurry. Two are put in the box. The guys are getting antsy and want to call it a day and then the hell storm begins. Don's on, Tbone's on, Blake bangs a couple, Nick gets shook the boat is rockin and we keep grounding and pounding. Who would have thought. We wrote this day off and in an hour and a half we put the groceries in the cart (Mark, you nailed that expression!). We had a finite time in mind and the audible was called at 1:30. A slow snotty ride back with a crew that were relieved that we made lemonade out of lemons..... some grinning and some with a distant memory that they were ready to pitch cookies. All in all, a great recovery. Ended up putting 19 quality Blackfish in the tub. Not bad for a real rocky beginning. Sometimes you just have to ground it and pound it!

Capt. Carl · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2012, 09:06:09 PM »

Well done Professor!

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Author Topic: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12 (Read 4793 times)