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Offline pilot2550

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Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« 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!

 t^


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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 09:06:09 PM »
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Well done Professor!
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 09:13:45 PM »
 t^

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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 09:35:56 PM »
nice work!!


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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2012, 10:03:32 PM »
Good job fellas, way to stick it out.  t^
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2012, 10:06:34 PM »
Very nicely done Capt! you guys loaded the cart with some nice butterballs too TT^ just in time for the holiday! ;)   chrz chrz

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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2012, 07:02:40 AM »
 t^ clp t^
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2012, 08:05:36 AM »
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2012, 08:21:26 AM »
Great read/report t^


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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2012, 08:22:42 AM »
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2012, 08:38:34 AM »
Pilot, my head is still spinning but I'm glad we hung in there and made something out of what looked like a nothing day!! It just amazes me how it could turn on just like that. Nick and I had a good time as usual. Thanks for putting this together. TBone clp 

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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2012, 09:00:16 AM »
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2012, 09:19:41 AM »
"Put the groceries in the basket"...Mark, you should patent that phrase, I think you will be hearing it a lot in the near future!
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2012, 11:09:36 AM »
 clp clp

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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2012, 12:51:09 PM »
nice catch gents


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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2012, 01:05:13 PM »
Good job men. t^
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2012, 01:08:00 PM »
Capt Z,those boys did'nt have the right morning tomato juice in them  >:D  they hung in there and caught,thats what counted.good day on the Z as always.

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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2012, 03:01:53 PM »
 t^  Great report and nice catch  chrz
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2012, 03:54:50 PM »
Nice guys. t^
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Re: Pilot - Ground and Pound!!!! 11/18/12
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2012, 06:43:09 PM »
way to stick it out guys  clp
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