Enough with the teasing….here’s the report! (I had a busy day yesterday and had some trouble getting the video to load last night.)

Myself, JMS-ILM, and di hrd, joined slip slidin Tuesday for a day of offshore trolling/jigging. Started out the morning trolling a bit and managed to catch the first YELLOWFIN on the boat…..although it was only about 20″ long and had to go back. Not much happening other than a few blackfins on topwater for our friends Chip, Arlen, and Mikey.

Jigged the bottom a bit only to find a lot of snags and a few sea monsters. Around lunchtime we pushed offshore to try our hand at the snowies. Pushed out to 1025 feet before we made the call to run back into the break.

Now I remind you that it’s now 2:00pm and the Slip Slidin’ boat does not have a fish in the box…..a rare feat indeed. As we move back into where we started, the ocean came alive.

First fish to die was a lonely mahi that swam by the boat and inhaled di hrd’s topwater plug. After that it was something that words cannot describe…..

What we witnessed was the most incredible display of predator/prey that any of us have ever seen on the ocean. Blackfins as far as you could see were chasing flying fish out of the water only to explode on them as soon as they hit the water.

It didn’t take long for us to find some topwater plugs and rig up every castable rod on the boat (which was only 3). Didn’t take long for us to figure this game out…..

Matt and Steve hooked up with a pair on the light spinning rods:

Myself hooked up on a Curado 300 baitcasting reel (aka “The Bill Dance”):

Check out the fish busting on the left side of this picture. You can clearly see 1 fish completely out of the water and another one busting the surface:

These were not your ordinary 10 lb blackfins though….fatties, and LOTS of them:

This particular one (along with a LOT of the other ones we would catch) fell for a Sebile Bonga Jerk. I think he wanted it…..

Didn’t take long for the boat to go from fishless to this:

A few more that hit the deck for an icy ride home…

Steve hooked up while Capt. Mike King on the Stream Weaver does what he does best…..kill fish, and lots of them:

Results of a double header:

And the day’s catch:

Here’s what you all have REALLY been asking for—-the VIDEO!! I took many different short videos during the day and simply put them all together to show you this as it happened……MAKE SURE to watch it all the way to the end because there’s some great footage at the end of the flick! The quality is a bit poor because it was taken with my digital camera but it does the job none the less…

Cleaned fish yesterday and found them stuffed full of flyers—go figure! Here are some of the findings: