Ocean Explorer fluking tomorrow!!

[Bonefreak]

On 8/4/2019 at 4:07 PM, Ringtail said:

Great group of guys!! Wish keeper action was better but a fun day nonetheless 

Thanks for a fun trip!!  Our crew of 20+ guys had a blast!  Wish the fish cooperated!

The boats crew was on point.....genuinely helpful, and it was obvious they enjoyed working on the boat. Very quick to give a hand w tangles, fish, etc....and always asking if anyone needed anything!  I was pleasantly surprised w how nice the crew was!  Especially our very own Ringtail!!  An  absolute pleasure to chat with bout all kinds of huntin n fishin!!

 

 

[Buck154]

On 8/4/2019 at 5:23 PM, hammer4reel said:

Read slower , I quoted your post ,

‘you drove all that way and fished the wrong color

Yeah maybe but there was probably every color fished then so I doubt it was a color thing.

[JHbowhunter]

31 minutes ago, Buck154 said:

Yeah maybe but there was probably every color fished then so I doubt it was a color thing.

Zipper had the hot color poison tail- the hot pink one. Then it cut cut off while he was battling that 20# fluke. I probably did best on pink overall as well. 

[MGHunter66]

13 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

Zipper had the hot color poison tail- the hot pink one. Then it cut cut off while he was battling that 20# fluke. I probably did best on pink overall as well. 

Maybe thats why she cut him off with her braid, she wanted Zipper to give her a little pink 

[JHbowhunter]

1 minute ago, MGHunter66 said:

Maybe thats why she cut him off with her braid, she wanted Zipper to give her a little pink 

Only color he saw after that was RED

[MGHunter66]

3 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

Only color he saw after that was RED

Don’t know how he composed himself, a better man than I. If I asked for room as he did and she didn’t oblige I definitely would have hip checked her for the room I needed. 

[hammer4reel]

54 minutes ago, Buck154 said:

Yeah maybe but there was probably every color fished then so I doubt it was a color thing.

Those fluke have seen all those origional 7 colors a zillion times .

need one of the new 13 colors .

blue fuse and mackerel have been hot  . 

[MGHunter66]

1 minute ago, hammer4reel said:

Those fluke have seen all those origional 7 colors a zillion times .

need one of the new 13 colors .

blue fuse and mackerel have been hot  . 

Oh boy here goes the used gulp salesman again  should’ve just tipped it with some mackerel 

[hammer4reel]

Just now, MGHunter66 said:

Oh boy here goes the used gulp salesman again  should’ve just tipped it with some mackerel 

I don’t have used gulp , all the fluke I’m catching rip it up .

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[JHbowhunter]

15 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Those fluke have seen all those origional 7 colors a zillion times .

need one of the new 13 colors .

blue fuse and mackerel have been hot  . 

i caught several keepers on blue fuse, and several on fire tiger.   I also had another new color - cajun chicken, and that was the best by far of the three.   I could not get mackerel, it was not available.   Pink shine and white glow worked well too - nothing wrong with those colors. I caught a lot of cookie-cutter 4.5 to 5# fish, but the biggest I got was maybe 5.5 and that one hit the 8 ounce bucktail dressed with nothing but shad strip, fluke belly and squid.  

[hammer4reel]

Just now, JHbowhunter said:

i caught several keepers on blue fuse, and several on fire tiger.   I also had another new color - cajun chicken, and that was the best by far of the three.   I could not get mackerel, it was not available.   Pink shine and white glow worked well too - nothing wrong with those colors. I caught a lot of cookie-cutter 4.5 to 5# fish, but the biggest I got was maybe 5.5 and that one hit the 8 ounce bucktail dressed with nothing but shad strip, fluke belly and squid.  

10 pound plus fish were waiting for that lonely mackerel gulp all day.

for record all the colors were available at any bait shop that wanted to carry them 2 weeks ago.

 

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[JHbowhunter]

31 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

10 pound plus fish were waiting for that lonely mackerel gulp all day.

for record all the colors were available at any bait shop that wanted to carry them 2 weeks ago.

 

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I ordered them for the trip from the dreaded Dick's, 3 weeks ago.  Damn if only I had mackerel color, would have broken 10#!  lol...   It's a solid fishery up there, and of course with the right days and probably some precise numbers and probably going on a small charter 6-pack that is more mobile and less lines in the water your odds of getting one or more double-digit fluke dramatically increase.     I think the Helen-H fleet has a good track record of putting people on the "meat" but watched a lot of really good fisherman work their ass off and probably the worst fishermen on the boat got the only 10# fish - go figure! lol

[hammer4reel]

32 minutes ago, JHbowhunter said:

I ordered them for the trip from the dreaded Dick's, 3 weeks ago.  Damn if only I had mackerel color, would have broken 10#!  lol...   It's a solid fishery up there, and of course with the right days and probably some precise numbers and probably going on a small charter 6-pack that is more mobile and less lines in the water your odds of getting one or more double-digit fluke dramatically increase.     I think the Helen-H fleet has a good track record of putting people on the "meat" but watched a lot of really good fisherman work their ass off and probably the worst fishermen on the boat got the only 10# fish - go figure! lol

Remember the last 10 pounds you saw caught last year ?

she was reeling the spinnng reel upside down

[SPEARFISH]

1 hour ago, hammer4reel said:

Those fluke have seen all those origional 7 colors a zillion times .

need one of the new 13 colors .

blue fuse and mackerel have been hot  . 

My son caught most of his on the new sardine color.  I caught on a variety but mostly pink.  Never got a hit on salmon.

[Buck154]

11 hours ago, hammer4reel said:

10 pound plus fish were waiting for that lonely mackerel gulp all day.

for record all the colors were available at any bait shop that wanted to carry them 2 weeks ago.

 

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Different guys had most of the new colors. The only 10#er was on nuclear chicken