August 7

Tuesday, sunny to partly sunny

Flea-O-Meter 2

Same crew as Monday so we throttled up and headed right out toward Monday’s honey hole. We slowed down and set up about 2 miles south, right around the 31N line.

The first rod down—pink vampire—once again fired on the set up with a nice mature king. We trolled north toward Monday’s waypoints and then turned to come south again. We hit several fish, but all small stuff. We were just approaching the area where we set up when the WMD on the 110’ diver began screaming, then the 150’ diver with a WMD went on the other side. We found the big fish.

The early rigger fish came on the Vampire 27’ and MOONSHINE TNT 48’ until the sun got up.

We continued worked the same waypoint for the rest of the day with a very simple program — WMD’s on the dipsys and center rigger, NBK’s on the outdowns. The key to the whole day was the speed. There was a fast current moving north as a result we had to fly on the south troll to get lure action a speed of 2.4 mph at the ball was the best; on the north troll we were going 3.6 mph sog, but with little throttle. Once we hit these speeds the rods would pop. By the end of the day the crew including the mate had landed 16 fish for a two day total of 31!!

HOT LURES

MOONSHINE TNT 48’

Pink vampire 26’

WMD dipsy 110’, 150’ on the divers and 53 on the rigger

NBK Stingray 36’ & 42’ (40’ lead)

Polecat 36’