Relentless

Once again I had the opportunity to have on board long time customer John Niemera from New Milford, CT aboard RELENTLESS for a combination trip for tuna and groundfish yesterday, September 14th, 2007. Joining John were family and friends, some who came up from the Tampa, Florida area to try their luck at landing a school tuna fish. Our mate for the day was Captain Curt and after a quick safety brief we departed on time at 5:00 AM for our long ride of an hour and fifteen minutes to the grounds. We ran across Cape Cod Bay and were entertained by a nice sunrise and arrived to find good signs of bait and put ot our three line spread of squid bars working down the backside of Cape Cod.

After 15 minutes of trolling in an easterly direction we were came accross large groups of whales, baits and birds. At that moment I stated, I am marking fish and less than a minute later, the port outrigger pops and we are on with a fish. It was only right to put Adrian from Florida on the rod and after about a twenty minute battle Curt expertly leadered the fish within gaffing range and we landed our first bluefin tuna of the day, a decent fish at 48".


After getting the fish bled and into the box, I did not want to waste any time and had the lines out and were seeing fish all over the place busting on bait and porpoising. We headed a little to the north and into deeper water when I saw a splash behind the port rigger, the fished missed but came back and we were on the port rod again. This time Steve, also from Florida was on the rod and landed a fish that was 45".


Once again, we did not want to waste any time getting the lines out knowing this hot bite would not last all day. We were trolling trhough schools of finicky tuna that would not bite and after about 15 minutes and trolling through some weed, I was ready to ask Curt to do a weed check when a decent fish crashed down on the starboard rigger making the first real decent run of the day. This time Paul from CT grabbed the rod and was having a ball fighting this fish. While fighting the fish we had tuna busting right next to the boat all around us. Not knowing if th fish would be legal size, greater than 47" we opted to just slid him right through the door with Curt leadering him in. I was on the bridge and soon had color and while keeping the boat in gear, Capt Curt was able to slide in the little butterball which could have been gaffed after measuring 50".

These three anglers had our legal limit aboard the RELENTLESS by 8:30 AM and we decided to head off shore to try our luck at some groundfishing.




Capt Dave

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Andy

Great report and pictures!!!!!!!!

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Edgewater_245CC

Sounds like a great day.

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sinkerman

great report' looking forward to our trip on the 24th,hope we do as well.

Bob & Mag

Looks like you made those Florida guy's day!

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Captain Curt

A few more pics. By far the best trip of the season weather was great fishing was out of control tuna and groundfish we also had some bluesharks around the boat .

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