04-12-2002, 02:28 AM
Fishing aboard my customer's boat today, we left his dock at about 9:30 am and headed to Government Cut to catch some live bait. The herring were very cooperative and in about 10 minutes, we had enough and were heading offshore. Starting in 90' straight out from the Cut, we worked our way out to 225' and then back in again. The E @ 23 wind gave us very rough and sloppy seas. As we were working back offshore for the second time, the flatline in the rigger popped and in short order, we landed a 15# blackfin tuna. The next go around we missed two fish and then caught an 8# dolphin. Two more missed (using circle hooks) fish and then another small dolphin that we caught and released. Just before going in, we watched a dolphin chase a bait to the surface and before it could catch it, a tern snatched it from the dolphin. Meanwhile, another tern snatched our other bait and proceeded to fly around the outrigger several time. It took some doings, however, we finally freed the bird and headed in. Fresh tuna sushi and cooked tuna where on the menu for Bill this evening.<br><br>Captain Dave Kostyo<br>Knot Nancy Fishing Charters<br>305 620-5896 Charter<br>305 732-2628 Beeper<br>www.rnfl.com/knotnancy<br>nkostyo@bellsouth.net<br><br>
] Thanks for the post. I can just imagin the workout that tern gave you wile dealing with rough water and high winds.<br><br>Texas Gulf Coast Fisher <*(())))))))))>{<br><A HREF="http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/ROSS6959/" target="_new">http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/ROSS6959/</A>