Shark Fishing 7-3

[0ffShoreRy@n]

Last Friday the Taylor Vee headed to the triple wrecks for some mako fishing. At the end of the trip we ended up going 1-3 and boated a nice 58 inch mako that was pretty plump.

Water tempature was changing from 66-68 depending on where we were in our drift. We were chumming pretty heavy as we had two chum bags in at once one being a bunker chum bag and the other bag being the new berkley gulp chum (which lasted all day about 8 hours).
We caught our keeper mako shark on a makerel with a yellow  skirt on it that was set at 30 feet in depth. We also caught about 10 nice size bluefish that we fillited up and put on lines (the two other sharks that hit both hit on the blufish fillet). One of those jumped completely out of the water about 20 feet from the boat and spit the hook... so close....
By the end of the day we had a succseful fising trip  until the ride home.
About ten miles from home we noticed something wrong with the way the boat was running. There was a steady smell of burning rubber that my dad at first thought was the holding tank as two of our guests had gone below to use the head. However the odor persisted and then we noticed a slight vibration of the boat, Upon opening the day hatch to the engine room we noticed the port engine was vibrating pretty heavy. Dad then noticed the port engine temp started to peak and rose about 15 degrees. At the same time we started to smell a heavy odor of diesel fumes. Also noticed a black cloud of diesel trailing behind us. We decided to turn the port engine off. After further investigation in the engine room we couldn't see anything. Deciding not to take any chances Dad started the port engine and left it in neutral to keep the shaft and parts lubed and we limped in.  Took us an extra hour and half to get back to our dock but we made it safely and got the mako filleted up. We enjoyed it blackened off the grill on Sunday and are waiting for the Cummins mechanic to come to check out the boat.
Pictures to follow!

[Bucktail]

Hey Ryan!  Where have you been dude? 

Congratulations on the mako! 

I hope your boat gets well real soon.

[Hotrod]

 

[Pfishingruven]

Great report and nice catch!  Good to hear from you again.  Hopefully, we will get more of those reports from you and your dad.  Always enjoy reading them and wondered what happened to you guys this summer .

Good luck with the boat and hope it is a quick, easy fix.

 

[IrishAyes]

Hey Ryan, good to see you posting again. Great report and trip. Looking forward to the pics.

I hope the port engine has a speedy recovery.

[Luna Sea 5]

 

[0ffShoreRy@n]

thanks guys sorry i havent been on lately its because i  am heading into high school and i wasassigned 2 book reports over the summer to do. But i will start coming on the site more to exopand my knowlage of fishing . hopefully the mechanic gets here asap but as of right now its a 4 week wait.

[hareball]

Great report Ryan! Hope it's a quick and painless fix and you guys are back in action soon.

[0ffShoreRy@n]

the deisel machenic just left my house and said that we lost an injector. that still doesnt explain about the white smoke which smelt like anti freeze. my friend who is also my neighboor  said he would be able to fix the injector easy all we need now is to know the source of the white smkoe

[kezsr]

Ryan nice report and catch,looking forward to the pics  to bad about the engine problem,hopefully your mechanic can get to you soon and it's a quick easy fix.   Kez

[0ffShoreRy@n]

thsnk you. can somebody tell me how to post pictures i forgot

[hareball]

When you hit reply you'll see "additional options" click that then browse for your images. I think you can load 5 at a time.

[0ffShoreRy@n]

ok thanks ill upload the pics now

[0ffShoreRy@n]

when i try to upload the pics it says the file is to large how do i make the file smaller

[0ffShoreRy@n]

[0ffShoreRy@n]

me docking the boat all by my self

[Pfishingruven]

Nice shark!

That's a nice pic of you at the helm of the boat.  Boat looks great!  Good job.

Hopefully you can get the boat fixed quicker than 4 weeks ?

 

[0ffShoreRy@n]

thank you i hope so to ,the mechanic came back yesterday and he replaced the injector and the problem still pursisted. we eventually found out that we lost a piston. all we can do now is wait for parts to come in.