Jeff, Matt, Santos, Brian, and Steven boarded Capt. Chris Farley's new boat and headed into the gulf of Mexico. The plan was to run 55miles out to a known piece of submerged structure. Water was smooth and the spirits high.
Surprisingly we found a few shrimp boats tied together 25 miles out with the crews out on the deck working through the cull. Fishing around the back of these shrimp boats yielded 2 bonita, a few king fish and some atlantic sharpnose sharks.
When the fishing slowed after a couple drifts we saddled up and headed the rest of the way to our original destination. This proved to be a great spot this morning as we were constantly hooked up with good kingfish. In what seemed like no time flat we had the boat limit of 2 each in the icebox.We headed to yet another shrimp boat on the horizon where hooked a few more sharks and watched a nice ling eat a drifting bait then all rejoiced when Jeff hauled it on-board.
I sure am glad that Capt. Chris had a special Ling leader loaded up and ready to cast.Enroute to our next destination we spotted some floating weed lines so the trolling baits came out. It took several tries to find them but we eventually started hooking up Dorado.
The fish were as always brilliant in their green blue and yellow but this was the most I had ever seen them Jump. One must have gotten 12ft into the air. I guess seeing the water spout was indeed a good omen.
Total Body Count: 4 Dorado, 1 Ling, 1o Kingfish, 2 Bonito, 5 sharks
We hit one more shrimp boat to little effect (other than a refreshing swim) and loaded up for the 64mile ride back into Surfside Marina. When we got back onto land we let Moon Dog entertain us and fillet the fish while we had a few more beers.This is my third trip with Capt Chris and each one has been better than the last, He will have his hands full to top this one.
Then we got ready to head to Matagorda Beach!
