Post by: cohoho on February 27, 2019, 06:02:25 PM
Fishing - We rail soaked alot of bait during the course of the trip, but most of the bites came off the balloons. I was lucky, to be next in line when the bait exploded in the water. Immediately, Alex started coaching, as I was pretty excited for sure. At first, we weren't exactly sure what was on the other end of the line, and I was beginning to think, oh this is isn't that bad as I managed to get close to the rubber band that connected the balloon to the line. I was smiling and hamming it up for the cameras, thinking I kicked this fish into submission. . Following the fish around the boat, it surfaced about 100 feet from the boat, both myself and Alex looked at each and thought it was not a Tuna at first...... til the fin showed, he told me to get ready and then all hell broke loose. The fish realized it was hooked at this time, the fish dove and dove and dove peeling line like it was attached to a Greyhound bus. The look on my face, as told from Mikee, went from shear happiness to "Oh F#@&" in a matter of seconds. Now it got real, seriously real, two turns on the handle then the beast took four, three turns it took six... Another lap around the boat, some weird stuff around the anchor, some water from the Captain and some more coaching from both Captain and Alex, I finally heard the most wonderful words of - Color! But it too was put to rest as the fish dove deep again. So some more small turns and it taking more it finally began to spiral. I could barely get a 1/8th of turn on the reel on each loop it made. Finally, I heard gaff, then the call for another and one more, it wasn't til I heard Captain state "get the 4th gaff with the large opening" that I realized maybe this is a seriously big fish. With five guys pulling and lifting, I watched this beautiful creature hit the deck. I was literally exhausted, arms and hands cramped, but somehow managed to do it all in 44 minutes, but trust me - it felt like hrs... I have never ever been this tired, ever! Like a orchestrated show Alex was dispatching the fish and pulling the heart for me to take a big tasty bite out of, as this was my first big Yellowfin ever! It quickly became beer time for me while the fish was prepped for photos. A lot of high fives from everyone on board, made me realize, I got my bucket list fish, I got my bucket list fish! And it was a freaking big Cow to boot, almost a Super Cow. I'm still smiling and probably will be til next trip down in the beautiful warm waters way south of Washington...
In the end the three biggest fish were 160, 239 and my, I got the lucky "Once in a Lifetime" 284 pound Yellowfin Tuna that I now dubbed "Beast of the Deep". Some variety fish were caught too, Dorado, Marlin, Sailfish and a Hammerhead Shark. We all went home with some fine, perfectly cut and packaged Ahi. Thanks to my awesome Washington buddies for coming along - I am forever grateful. Thanks to the Apollo crew for being awesome and a special thanks to MikeeDaGuy for getting me on the trip. I will remember this trip forever. If any of you doubters a few months ago are still doubting, DONT! Get ahold of MikeeDaGuy and book one of these trips with Mikee, Captain Mike on the Apollo in the future, you will not be disappointed.
More photos to come, just awaiting an email from a guy with some serious ones he took...
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 28, 2019, 10:06:01 AM
Killer fish.👍
Post by: boneaddict on February 28, 2019, 10:08:00 AM
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 28, 2019, 10:12:45 AM
Are you going to be the next Skipper on Wicked Tuna?
Love that show.🐟
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Post by: crazywednesday on February 28, 2019, 10:39:20 AM
That guy on the left in the first picture looks like Jonathan Banks. He played "Mike" in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
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Post by: cohoho on March 03, 2019, 05:46:45 PM
Hell,yeh Mike ....congrats . I bet this was awesome .. :tup:
Hey Martin - Heck yes it was awesome! Hope Europe is treating you well. Hope to see you this summer...
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