Met up with Bucktail Bob and his friend Chuck on the Queen Mary this morning to try our luck with the Albies.
Left the dock with about 22 fares aboard, all with the same hopes of catching some speedsters. One our first drop, bait, jigs, and Tsunami split tail minnows were deployed. 1 or 2 Albies were mixed in with alot of Bluefish. I started jigging, then went to some bait and hit some of the blues, while Bob cranked away with various jigs and worked his Tsunami relentlessly.
Second spot was better, a few doggies and a seabass was boated by some of the others onboard, then the Albies started to play. Periodically they would enter the slick, and action it was, then gone. We had a few good shots at the fish, my luck was alot better once I switched to a Stingo 80 gram silver, and I got one on a Tsunami at the end. Bob did good as well, 4 Albies I think he had, I had 3 or 4. High hook had about 10 albies.
The captian really did work hard for us today, moving quite a distance searching for the fish, as well as keeping us out an extra 2 hours. Thanks Bob, I was a pleasure fishing with you, and thanks for the flouro after I discovered I brought along 2 empty spools, and left the full ones at home.
I'll let Bob fill in the other details that I'm missing
, but in all, it was a fun day, and I got my first Albies of the fall. Maybe next time the Bonito will come home for dinner. <'((((><
