TOO November Tuna Trip

I feel like the other thread is just the October group. Where are the other 23 November people? I'd like to know a little about some of you before the trip. This is my first floater trip and I have a fair amount of offshore experience but this is a completely new adventure. Is anyone else on this trip active on here?

both trips for me and a couple of buddys

That's because all the pros are going on the October trip.












Pro talkers that is .........

November is a better time for tuna then Oct. I would pick the Nov time in a heartbeat.

Normally that is the case for sure. But it wasn't the case last year. I know of at least three floater trips in October last year from different docks that were better than any November trip. We're hoping the trend continues.

Slightly darker moon on the Oct. date .... if that really matters.

Most of us would have liked to do both trips but we don't own our own trailer company so we were faced with a choice. Fishing aside .... the October date just fit better for me so I decided to take the chance.

And did I mention that there will be stuffed pork and bacon wrapped dove breasts on the October trip?

We'll see ........

Dang it, you went and made me hongry... Love me some dove!

Dove breasts? who said anything about dove breasts????

sounds like you better sharpen up your shotgun shells, there Bobby....

You mean ??????








Oh well .... thought I'd try.

Hey a 20 gauge and a retriever is all the November trip is short of bacon wrapped seagull

Did someone say DOVE??

woop! woop!

for the record,
there will probably, might kinda be something like, probably a reasonably passable facsimile of maybe 6 or 7 thinly-bacon wrapped belly-shot dove breasts




.....maybe..........

I was gonna buy you and Mark some dove loads too.

I was figgering you two could get about 60 doves with three boxes.

that being said that means they need to learn how to choot em in the head with the 1st 15 shells and quit wasting that meat !!

Thanks for the compliment bobby, but I aint that good. If I get 5-6 birds per box I feel pretty good.
Jim, that's funny cause I saw no complaining in the exactly 42 minutes
it took for you and everyone else to consume 125 dove breasts, leaving me exactly 3 for all my hard cookin' & deadeye shootin' last year.

just make sure someone brings plenty of bacon, jalepeno's & toothpicks!
they chose sunflowers in one spot & maize in the other this year........

I hope you did not think I was complaining! I was just saying to start head chooting them .

I only ate two !

What Jim's saying is bait them with milo and throw a castnet over 'em.

thought you might be sore over chewing on a little lead...............

I had a lot of "primo's" last season. blew up a couple, too LoL!
one thing- the primo's are harder to find, cause they ain't floppin around
as much, heheh

Outlet bait and tackle has 10 oz Williams speed jigs for $3.60 each. It's in the 56% off truckload sale. Max 5 per each color. Also they have 9" storm swimbaits in there in Sardine color.

I'm not the jigger some of you are but i stumbled across these a few days ago.

Catch All Tackle Jigs









And ..... no I didn't hurt myself.

Ditkarulz, I'll be on the Nov trip. I have not been on a tuna trip in several years but fished and chartermastered on a couple of the GEM trips on 360tuna, fished some private trips off the TX coast, and a couple with 2cool on the Big E when it was around. I fish offshore regularly with a buddy who has a boat in Surfside. I sold all my high end tackle during a divorce and am trying to gather enough yft quality stuff to start going again from time to time. I'm located in St. Paul near Collin Park. Looking forward to meeting everybody and seeing a few familiar faces again.

I'm on the October and November trips, I haven't been offshore in three years but this is the year for me to hit it hard again. My favorite time to fish YFT is Halloween!! Darn good trips at that time.

I used to fish with the Texas Allcoast Gang on the TAG trips, and then later the offshoot, the Corpus Christi Tuna Heads. Fished the Dolphin, Pelican, Gulf Eagle, Kingfisher, Scat Cat, the Big E when it was around and fished the GEM trip on the Akela, back in the day.

Miss the whitewater of a YFT crashing a topwater lure out in the dark.

Looking forward to fishing with everyone.

Tom - DeepBlueGulf

What should I expect for the live/dead bait situation. Will there be flats of sardine and squid to start with before the first few "chunk" fish hit the deck? I've been on several DSH 24hr trips and they normally have a 55 gal drum for livies, will this trip most likely have something set up also? I know a few guys have been talking about catching bait the night before.

Blackfin will hit iron jigs really well. Start with jigging and add 5-10 black fins to the bait box quickly.

Iron jig huh???? You sure you ain't from Californ-I-A? I figured Skeeter was a good ole redneck name.... now you have me wondering.......

with this trip s focus on tuna the live well will be packed with ice if we limit early then we will look for bait and bottom fish or at least this is how it worked in years past

Tom ..... so glad you are going. Just getting to fish elbow to elbow with the likes of Charlie Williams is worth the trip.

On the downside .... from the BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW department .... When you haven't been out and caught a YFT in three years or more there is a reorientation that requires you to eat the heart of your nights first Yellowfin. You might pass this along to Bert as well.

It's going to be a great time.

I'd rather fish with these guys than the finest folks in the land.

[/quote]On the downside .... from the BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW department .... When you haven't been out and caught a YFT in three years or more there is a reorientation that requires you to eat the heart of your nights first Yellowfin. You might pass this along to Bert as well.
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Lol, Tom can have mine!

Actually, I anticipated this and have decided to pre-qualify for my recertification by catching a hardhead at my dock, and then cutting out the heart and eating it here. Perfectly legitimate I am told, plus that will free up more time for fishing on the trip.

If I can get pictures of me eating the hardhead heart, I'll post them.

Tom - DeepBlueGulf

Actually Tom that doesn't count I'm afraid.

But I have some great news for you and Bert. You're in luck! I pleaded your case with the "committee" and they have come up with a way to exclude you guys from heart eating and exempt you from it. Just a simple stipulation.

Bring 30 Ribeyes and you're good to go!

One of the guys on my board of directors works for TPWD, he told me the precertifying by eating the heart of a hardhead was perfectly acceptable. He signs my paycheck, so I'm gonna believe him.

Tom - DeepBlueGulf

Yes on squid and sardines. They use a trash can for a live well. They used to use one of the fish boxes.

Tom - I hate to be the guy to break this to you but ..... Hardheads don't have a heart.

How bout I eat the 30 ribeyes and bring the receipt?

Bighead, that is a great idea. I'll buy 15 and eat em' and you do the same.


Tom - DeepBlueGulf

I'll eat a log of buccee's jalepenos cheese summer sausage! Just don't bunk around me.. gaseous fumes WILL be emitted! Lol!

Deal!!

Tom, Bert - Eat up guys! Eat all the ribeyes you want

But be sure to save room for that tuna heart because this deal means nothing to anyone but you guys.


And ... no receipts necessary.

BTW, thanks to Ronnie for the heads up on the Overstocked Lures sale. Picked up a bunch of Abyss and Benthos jigs at half price or less

How far out do you need to throw out a popper or swimbait to have decent chance to hookup. I was playing around at the neighborhood pond with a new rig and no matter what I tried it seemed 30-40 yards was the max I could lob a Tuna Hunter Jr. Will that work or do I need to start practicing my form more before the trip?

I'd practice the form a little more. A Tuna Hunter, Jr. is a little lighter and won't travel as far as say a Maguroni or other pencil lures but 40 yards may get some strikes but not as many as 50 - 60 yards.

After a little more looking into it maybe I have the leader wrong. Right now I have about 15' of 80lb flouro. I'll try shortening it by about half and switching to mono.

I'm not gonna lie I was also hoping on the longshot of a P'ed off 8-10lb largemouth would hit it.

try 2ft of the floro and a swivel

Not bad for a jr. Try a full size and you should be hitting 60 yards