I got into big fish today, like I used to see back in the late 80's, when the big bunker were around. I've hit them good a couple times like this, but it's been years and boy did it feel good. Here's a picture of one that just wasn't going to make it, badly bleeding when I boated her. [img="http://www.rgsiroisco.com/bob19.jpg"]
That fish weighed in at 27 lbs and some change and was one of 6 fish over 25 lbs I caught while I watched them fight over the dead mackeral I feed them directly below the boat. Talk about freeky, but fun, 15 foot of water on top of a hump/ledge, with 25 foot around. It was like feeding starving sharks in an aquarium, these fish were practically duking it out with each other to nail the dead ticker macks I was throwing them. I'd let it sink a bit, give it a couple twitches and bang, every time was a hit/run and I missed a lot of first takes. It didn't matter because it that fish dropped it, it was wacked again almost immediately, every mackeral I fished was a hookup.
I'm guessing 25, 27, two at maybe 35 and two bigger ones probably pushing high 30's maybe 40, with maybe 6 that were 12-15 lbers. All this in about 45-60 minutes of just red hot action, until I ran of of dead mackeral, plus the Indians were circling my wagon. I just was amazed at how in considerate and rude people can be, in an attempt to not just join in; but almost push me right off my spot. Because this was A SPOT, these fish were on a hump that was maybe 20 feet across and you had to be right on it. I had the last laugh though, because not one of the 6 boats within casting range of me had mackeral, so there was a lot of talking going on
. A guy and daughter nailed some on tube/worm, but not the big ones I was on.
Broke the largest one off, which ironically came on my plastic after I had run out. After than it just got nutty and I ran back to Boston to try for some more macks. I ran out of gas about the time the wind came up and I headed in. I haven't even looked to see if anyone posted about the RI leg, hope you guys had a good one. I'm kind of pleased I decided not to go
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