What Are Your Plans for 2008?

Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!
 
Blue_Runner said:
Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!
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Always a good problem to have when the fish is too big for the box. My second off shore citation was a Wahoo which weighed in around 64 pounds. We lost one that was allot bigger but we never really had much of a chance with that fish. If I'm correct don't you need a seperate tuna lic.? For that insulated fish bag. If you go to thehulltruth.com and ask there you will get some good info on them and the best place to order one.
 
Yes on the tuna permit. Federal HMS (highly migratory species) is required which is like $22 or so.

I got boarded by the coast guard last year and the coasties tried to tell me you have to have the HMS for mahi. I had it but what kind of idiots are they if they don't even know the law? I had to just nod and say yes.
 
Hey blue, If you catch a big tuna you can core it out and fill it with ice, and then wrap in a big space blanket. We have used many fish bags especially on the kingfish tournament trail, we used them a lot for toting the fish to the weigh in. But when we go out of NC for giant bluefin tuna, and 500-600 pounder won't fit those bags, so we use the space blanket idea and works. its all about reflecting the heat.

Also on a side note guys, we line our fish boxes with more insulation, and then space blanket reflective insulation. its like a emergency space blanket thats kinda thick. And we can hold ice for a few weeks. We can keep fish fresh for three days, and on the third day the ice in the bottom of the box is all frozen together with the fish. So it works!!!

Oh and these we dont fish the pro tourneys, or the BFT in my little V. For those we got a Wellcraft scarab 35. I didn't wont you thinking i was crazy. The ideas will work on the V just a smaller fish box.
 
Bosts1 said:
Hey blue, If you catch a big tuna you can core it out and fill it with ice, and then wrap in a big space blanket. We have used many fish bags especially on the kingfish tournament trail, we used them a lot for toting the fish to the weigh in. But when we go out of NC for giant bluefin tuna, and 500-600 pounder won't fit those bags, so we use the space blanket idea and works. its all about reflecting the heat.

Also on a side note guys, we line our fish boxes with more insulation, and then space blanket reflective insulation. its like a emergency space blanket thats kinda thick. And we can hold ice for a few weeks. We can keep fish fresh for three days, and on the third day the ice in the bottom of the box is all frozen together with the fish. So it works!!!

Oh and these we dont fish the pro tourneys, or the BFT in my little V. For those we got a Wellcraft scarab 35. I didn't wont you thinking i was crazy. The ideas will work on the V just a smaller fish box.
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So Blue your planning on catching a 500 to 600 pound tuna? I'll be glad to video that from my boat.
 
i'll be focusing on seabass this summer because our new fluke regulations will look something like this.

1. one fish at 44.5 inches per man per day.

2. you cant take it home with you but you can look at it for a few minutes before you release it.

3. it must be an in water release.

4. you must use their favorite food so as not to upset them or give them a tummy ache.

5. in fact dont fish for them at all because we dont want you waking them up if they happen to be napping when you get there.

i can slap my old lady around whenever i want but we only get a few months of good fishin weather up here.



hey new yorkers, i hear tell they may shut down the fluke fishery for the 2009 season.
anybody got any good searobbin recipes?
 
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So Blue your planning on catching a 500 to 600 pound tuna? I'll be glad to video that from my boat.
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Yeah do you think my TLD 25 will handle it? LOL

Naw man, all I want is a couple 20 - 50 lb YFTs, some wahoo, mahi and a couple sailfish releases....all in one day!

I know, I know, it sounded somewhat doable until I said in one day!

Sucks about your fluke regs. And I thought they screwed us over in SC. The limit went up from 12" to 14" @ 20 per person per day. How will I ever survive?!?
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Enjoy it while you can Blue, things are not so good up here anymore, not because of no fish, because the commercial guys pay more graft.
 
Hell even with those limits I haven't caught a flounder in SC in 2 years. And believe me I've tried!

I don't know what the problem is??
 
Blue_Runner said:
Hell even with those limits I haven't caught a flounder in SC in 2 years. And believe me I've tried!

I don't know what the problem is??
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Hey blue, I mentioned hooking up and going out deep sea fishing this weekend but its going to be a no go for me this up comming week. I've been out of town for the past week the boat has been sitting up for a monthe and I just don't have the time to get her ready. That and the 18 month baby is taking up all my time. I know you go a couple of times a year so maybe we can find another date and hook up. I will be down in Nags Head this up comming week from Fri. 23rd to fri the 30th so I will get a little surf fishing in and I customer gave me a years pass for me and a guest to the Avlon fishing pier.
 
phester said:
I heard, second hand, it may go to 21", four per day, limited season. NO GOOD!
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Limit for NY is 4 per day and 20.5". That s the same creel as last season but 1" longer. Ct is 19.5" with 5 fish and RI is 20", 7 fish limit but no closed season. I am hoping to head out tomorrow for fluke as it is opening day in CT.
 
SR - sorry I didn't get up with you before we went. I was slammed between work and getting everything ready for the trip. I plan to post a report soon in the fishing section, however here is what we did between 3 boats Thursday - Saturday:

23 - dolphin up to 23 lbs (biggest caught on my boat :-))
14 - trigger fish
10 - keeper flounder
7 - big bluefish (released)
1 - 18 lb cobia
1 - 5 lb spade
1 - keeper bsb

I put over 230 miles on the boat, burned approximately 100 gallons of gas, saw some big seas, lost 2 monster mahi pushing 30+ lbs after long battles....saw some really cool stuff. Ready to go back.

Blue
 
Going back to the original question posed...my plans for 2008 have changed. I intend to fish more than ever...just gonna have to pay the piper,er, the oil man I guess.:nut:
 
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