Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
- ffishermen1
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Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
For my first time experience at (deep dropping) the Yankee Capt boat and crew made my trip the best it could have been. Things seem to start slower then what I was expecting, but I did ok at just picking them off here and there during the first day. I like the night time a lot better probably because the sun wasn't beating on me. The 2 day started like the first but the capt made a move to a different area and the bite was much better. I had good people fishing next to me that helped make my learning curve small and it showed on the second day.
Special thanks to GK for hooking me up with some bait.
Special thanks to GK for hooking me up with some bait.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
Thought I saw lights down out of southwest channel the other night.
What is that critter in the pic?
What is that critter in the pic?
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
Trumpet fish..... nice report
Dreaming the dream that one day I can be as good as some of the boatless pros and catch some 12 inch mangrove snapper.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
Actually I think it's a red cornetfish.fishnfool73 wrote:Trumpet fish..... nice report
Nice report, thanks for sharing.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
Nice fish, hope you filled a cooler.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
fat-looking BFT!!!
When you say deep drop, it means 400-600ft where you have to use electric reel, correct?
When you say deep drop, it means 400-600ft where you have to use electric reel, correct?
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
I had to put them in 2 coolers and needed help to lift one of them into the truck.cudaman wrote:Nice fish, hope you filled a cooler.
kblue wrote:fat-looking BFT!!!
When you say deep drop, it means 400-600ft where you have to use electric reel, correct?
yes, we fished as deep as about 900 I believe and we started to get some golden tiles. I didn't get any of them. The tunas were caught at night in shallower water.
I did fish with an electric reel.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
when you got mutton did you drop and just keep giveing line till it got hit ?
on average how many yards of line would you say you cranked per drop when you went shallow to bottom fish ?
on average how many yards of line would you say you cranked per drop when you went shallow to bottom fish ?
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- ffishermen1
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
The way I was fishing I would call it bouncing. I would let it out hit bottom and then 1 or 2 cranks. Hold it for 5 -10 mins then drop it back again and crank it off the bottom. Rinse and repeat. My tunas hit on the way down. The jack hit me on the way up.
I caught 1 mutton on the trip. I ended up catching about 5-6 fish at night. I was getting cut off about 4-5 times so that didn't help. I caught a big jack in between the tunas. I believe I would have caught more at night if I didn't turn in. I didn't put in the max rail time as some of the others. After talking to them in the morning they said that the picking were steady but slow about an hour between bites.
But the capt said it was a very slow start. We were lucky late morning/early afternoon capt moved to a different area. More than half my catch came after that move.
I caught 1 mutton on the trip. I ended up catching about 5-6 fish at night. I was getting cut off about 4-5 times so that didn't help. I caught a big jack in between the tunas. I believe I would have caught more at night if I didn't turn in. I didn't put in the max rail time as some of the others. After talking to them in the morning they said that the picking were steady but slow about an hour between bites.
But the capt said it was a very slow start. We were lucky late morning/early afternoon capt moved to a different area. More than half my catch came after that move.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
When you were fishing shallow water, how shallow was it?
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
About 200-300 I guess.
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Re: Pully Ridge 6/18-21 Yankee Capts
man is it just me or is pulley ridge the place to be if you want to slay some real fish
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