Fish Report for 2-22-2004

All were pulling over a 252 pound yellowfin

2-22-2004
Shawn Steward - Excel
https://www.excelsportfishing.com/

Hello Anglers,

Today was our last day of fishing and I don't know if the weather gets any better even in the harbor.Very flat seas and it was very warm outside. The day over all was very slow, one 175 pound yellowfin in the morning caught by Joe Simmons and that was the only tuna we caught until after dark. We did not troll around today because we only had room for five more tuna on board so we did not want to waste the space we had on them and instead try to catch a big yellowfin to fill the gaps.We did pick a few wahoo during the day and we released a few small tuna and one wahoo. After dark we only had a few people fishing but I stayed a little longer so the few that were fishing had a decent chance to catch maybe one last tuna. We stayed until 2330 and we did not catch a fish and we were down to nobody fishing so we picked up the anchor. Right when I pushed up the start buttons to leave Justin Fleck took the last flying fish in the tank and made a cast on the new rod the Eric's Tackle built for us. His flying fish swam about 100 feet before he hooked up. After 10 minutes we all were pulling over a 252 pound yellowfin, Justin's biggest ever. The last fish of the trip and the passengers were all wishing they were fishing instead of watching a movie in the galley.For the trip we have 12 fish that taped over 200 pounds and another 6 fish in the 190 pound class. The pictures that I am sending are of Joel Fleck bringing over a wahoo for Mike Jennings and the other is of Justin Fleck with is 252 pound yellowfin.


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