225 BIGEYE and 6 YFT!

[Playmaker]

Finally decided to "role the dice" offshore and returned to home sweet home (100 Line) after fishing inshore the last few weeks on the 20-30 line. We've been picking (2-3 yft inshore) the last few weeks during the "dog days of summer." Heard of a few fish being caught offshore and needed to investigate! Captain FX on the Tiburon pointed the bow to a northern canyon and off we went at 2am. Slow morning until 10 am when all hell broke loose!! The short rigger with a 4 ounce blue bullet head and medium bally gets CRUSHED!! A few minutes into the fight we knew it was a big fish!! Could it be . . . . a BIGEYE?? Twenty minutes in there was no doubt, this fish wasn't moving! FX and the rest of the crew battled this 225 +/- fish for two hours as I fought the tough seas at the wheel doing my best to keep the fish in the corner of the boat. Finally at 12 noon the fish hits the deck, great fight paid off, EYEBALL on the deck!!

Got back on the troll and the bite just got better! We had a consistant 50lb YFT and White Marlin bite before we called it quits at 3pm with a LONG ride home in solid 3-5 foot seas in a SW 20 knot wind. Final tally was 6 for 7 on yellowfin, 1-4 on whites and a Bigeye!! Great afternoon troll bite!! Five of the seven fish hit skirted ballyhoo, one took a Sterling Tackle Green Machine Spreadar Bar and another on a Sterling Tackle Ultimate Green Squid Daisy Chain! Thanks to a great crew (Joe, George, Dave) and Captain FX who boldly decided to take the chance to run offshore with poor offshore reports!! Just goes to show you . . . you never know!! Can't catch em at the dock!!

[Prankster]

Great work!! Awesome fish.

[prumsey]

WOW!!!!!!!!

[Re-Bait]

Just have to ask.........


Is that a Krieger watch on the Angler?

[Lucky John]

Nice Eyeball

[Cj002]

Wow great job.

[NEED2FISH]

Congrats,way to get em.Great when you do that when everybodys waitin for a report like that.
Nice eyeball!

[JRSLOCK]

It was a great trip and crew! We put our time in this year so far, and were due for a great trip like this.

[Mischief51]

Pretty work, we were the 38 Henriques (Spare Time) fighting the eyeball bout 100 yrds off your bow friday... It really turned on, lets hope they stick around. Our Bigeye was 199lb. We ran outta ice and went 6/8 on yft.
It was funny, as soon as we saw yall fighthin that eyeball, not even 5 seconds later the penn 50w with 80lb wind-on started screaming, got a guest from our charter on the rod and let him rip for the next hour...

[Sterling Tackle]

Yeah Baby! Now there is a great day on the edge. Congrats on the Eyeball Scott, Frank and crew!

[primereelestate]

Omg what a trip congrats.

[JP1709]

i was on the 68 viking "fish tales" who was trolling along side you all day. we only had 4 yellows and two whites. looked like you guys put serious time into that fish.

[Joe/Dave]

Finally some good reports. What a trip !! Congrats..

[fullcourse]

Congratulations. Great trip. Good to hear.... FINALLY!!

[Tiburon]

Great job guys. The last few trips have been tough as we have struggled to put a good catch together but we were finally rewarded for our hard work and effort. Kudos to a first class crew ! Now all we need is to get Randy back onboard so I don't have to empty the beer cooler when we get back to the dock.

FX