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Trip Information :
A group of Project Managers (My father among them) and their Boss Willie
Kramer from H.B. Zachry Company Chartered the Samaki for a Team Building
meeting, These are the guys building the new Causeway. We headed to the
Semi-submersible 80 miles offshore late Wednesday night (10/16/02) at 12 knots
to save fuel, because the price has gone up 33 cents a gallon. We got there
before day light and started trolling picking up a Blackfin immediately, then
action then died off. So it was time to start chumming which didn't produce
anything but a Mako eating everything that didn't have a hook, including live
bait. When the sky got light we started trolling ballyhoo and immediately had a
double Yellowfin on our 50's, we pulled the hooks on one after a few minutes and
landed the other about 45 minutes later. We made another pass in the area with
bait and got another double with same scenario, lost one boated another. Over
the next couple of hours we lost several more Yellowfin and the bite turned off,
except for the occasional Blackfin. Like magic a weedline appeared a couple off
miles off the rig and it was headed only about 5 degrees off coarse of our
homeward destination, like a dream! About Noon Thursday (10/1702) we got on the
rip/weedline, shortly after that we saw the Get Reel with Capt. Brain Phillips
work a big channel buoy a couple hundred yards off the weedline, both of us had
billfish in the pattern but they would turn off to chase bait on the surface.
Brian ended up with a couple of nice Mahi-Mahi and Wahoo from the buoy and we
got a good Tripletail on it with a live piggy perch. As we headed up the
weedline trolling lures we caught a number of small Mahi-Mahi on Billy Baits, we
released most to grow up. As we where going over one of the Dutra rocks we
hooked a medium size Mahi-Mahi on the Billy Bait, then BAM the left rigger went
down with an unknown Billfish on the Pakula. This fish fought harder than any
fish I have seen, it did back flips, gray hounded, sounded, tail walked and made
numerous long runs, after over an hour Deckhand Wes Paddy got the leader on him
for the second time and released a 150 pound Blue Marlin. Now I have caught fish
that took a lot longer, but for the hour plus we had this fish on was packed
with excitement, and he was on a 80 pound outfit. After things settled down we
headed back to Port Aransas since it was getting dark and we had six exhausted
anglers.
Summary:
Date:
October 17, 2002
Boat:
Samaki a 37' Bertram Tournament Sport Fisherman
Where:
Marlin: Dutra Rock on a Weedline
Blackfin: 80 mile Semi-Submersible and Weedline between Dutra and rig
Yellowfin: 80 mile Semi-Submersible at 104 degrees from Port aransas Jetties
Mahi-Mahi: Weedline between Dutra and rig
Numbers for the Rig:
Noble Homer Farrington 3238' water - 27 22.1938 / 95 35.4043
*note: this is a temporary rig
Crew:
Captain: Scott McCune, Port Aransas,Tx
Co-Captain: Wes Paddy, Rockport, TX
Anglers on trip:
Craig Patterson,SA,Tx
Willie Krammerf,SA,TX
Doug Hutzler,Castorville,Tx
Bruce Mccune,SA,Tx
Sam White,SA,Tx
Mike Jacobson,SA,Tx
Angler's with big fish:
Tuna: Craig Patterson,SATx
Tuna: Willie Krammer,SATX
Marlin:Doug Hutzler,Castorville,Tx
Lure's:
Yellowfin: Ballyhoo
Blackfin: Ballyhoo and Billy Baits
Mahi-Mahi: Billy Baits
Marlin: Medium Pakula
Tripletail: Piggy Perch
Picture:
In the picture is Capt. Scott McCune, the others were not available for a
photo since we got in at 10:00 PM the night before. I took the fish to be
cleaned a Fisherman's Wharf.
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