Carrabelle 4-16 & 4-17 overnight trip
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Carrabelle 4-16 & 4-17 overnight trip
One of my good friends and I got to Cbelle on friday and loaded the boat with supplies and were catching bait by 3pm and got to the Yamaha in time to catch supper and enjoy a great sunset. The bites ended after dark until we put a red glow stick on the swival and it got a 150lb class bull sharks attention. It almost spooled a full 330GTI, the fight lasted around 30 minutes. Its cool when you have to lean back and use your body weight to fight the fish. A short time later another bull only a bigger one hit the same rod with the red glow stick, after that we had all we could take and turned in for the night. After a hot cup of coffee at daybreak I missed 3 good bites in row then got 2 nice gags witch woke my friend up. The bite seemed to slow arond 11. We did get another good 80lb reef shark on a flat lined pin. Lost a king at the boat and had one take my bait on the flat line then hit my float and try to take it from me. We had a great time but the next time Ill have comfort in mind alittle more, the floor in my boat is hard even with a thick sleeping bag.
Sea Ya !
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Re: Carrabelle 4-16 & 4-17 overnight trip
Be careful when you utter those words. I said that a couple of years ago and came home with a 30' boat . I said something like that the other day in front of my wife and I woke up a few minutes later in the corner with a red whelp on my head that resembled a broom stick.Sea Fox wrote: but the next time Ill have comfort in mind alittle more
That's good stuff man . Those glow sticks work out pretty good. Try this as well, take about two extra flats of whatever bait your fishing with and cut them into bite size chunks, throw out 4-5 pieces every five minutes. Free line a hooked chunk down with a glow stick and hold on.
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Sea Fox,
Sounds like you had a great time and everything went well with your overnight trip. I wish I could have joined you and parked Cuda"B" alongside. I'm thinking of doing the same, sometime in May or June, only out in 100ft! I hear the snapper bite is great at night by moonlight.
Kudos,
Fish Finder
Sounds like you had a great time and everything went well with your overnight trip. I wish I could have joined you and parked Cuda"B" alongside. I'm thinking of doing the same, sometime in May or June, only out in 100ft! I hear the snapper bite is great at night by moonlight.
Kudos,
Fish Finder
Fish Finder,fish finder wrote:Sea Fox,
Sounds like you had a great time and everything went well with your overnight trip. I wish I could have joined you and parked Cuda"B" alongside. I'm thinking of doing the same, sometime in May or June, only out in 100ft! I hear the snapper bite is great at night by moonlight.
Kudos,
Fish Finder
If you decide to do that trip, I'd love to go out as well. Might be we can do a board trip as you mentioned earlier.
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100ft overnighter!
Sea Fox & Geno,
I've got to get my radar looked at and have the running gear scraped on Cuda"B" and I'll be ready and waiting for the weather to get right. I hope to have those items taken care of in the next 2 weeks. Lets look at the second weekend of May and see if we get our schedules arranged. I know where some great coral bottom is, loaded with snapper & grouper within sight of S-Tower. I'll bring it up again on the forum around the first of May.
Fish Finder
I've got to get my radar looked at and have the running gear scraped on Cuda"B" and I'll be ready and waiting for the weather to get right. I hope to have those items taken care of in the next 2 weeks. Lets look at the second weekend of May and see if we get our schedules arranged. I know where some great coral bottom is, loaded with snapper & grouper within sight of S-Tower. I'll bring it up again on the forum around the first of May.
Fish Finder