Author Topic: Irish Ayes Trolling the Mudhole 8-10 (Read 5467 times)

IrishAyes · « **on:** August 10, 2008, 07:32:37 PM »

Departed Shark River Inlet at 5:30 am. Set a course to the Humpty Dumpty. The sun was rising as we were motoring there.

Ran at about 25 knots and arrived just after sunrise.

Just short of our destination we slowed down to set up our lines.

This ship was our only boat we saw until the afternoon.

After setting up and putting the lines out we began our troll with an eight line spread.

As you can see, the ocean was as beautiful as the sunrise was.

While trolling, we saw some marine activity. Had a lot of bait breaking water at one point, but did not get a strike. We were visited by four ocean sunfish, a large sea turtle and many dolphin. The dolphin at times were playing at the boat, sometimes leading the way.

We trolled from the Humpty Dumpty to Little Italy, to the Lillian, Monster Ledge and then to the Shark River Reef. We hit many contour lines looking for fish. We trolled and tossed bait at the lobster pots trying for mahi mahi.

We did land a fish at one of the pots.

Although the catch wasn't what we were in search of, the company and watching nature and it's creatures made for a perfect day.

Pops Soul · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2008, 07:38:31 PM »

Very Nice report Joe And Great pics

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