What a great day and man fishing out of OI is still going OFF! Land on the 600 to find nothing that looked good so headed South a little and found some marks and fish rolling. Trolled around and did every trick to get them ot bite then went jigging on a mark and had a Triple headed of 170# to and get two to the boat after an hour and a half. John gets a 170#er and release a nice fat 69# 190# plus class fish. John wanted to fight a fish like this and he did. He never gave up and was half soaked in sweat while being refreshed by the crew. Troll till another mark and hook a double and get one to the boat after an hour. Troll to another mark and while jigging Little Frank comes up with some braid line and Lee (Mate) says there is a fish on it. So I back down to keep slack on the line so Lee can tie it to a reel. Frank fights it till his reel fills up. I get them to loosen the drag as I pull a 100 feet away. Then back down to get slack and tie it to another reel. Lee ties it off and back in business. 4 anglers, three different reels and we get the fish. It had a Red and White popper in its mouth. Real nice 170 to 200 pounder. Troll around and get a double hookup again and while fighting this fish Big John's Calastar rod breaks at 3rd eye. Little Frank continues to fight the fish for another 45 minutes with a broken rod to get another release of a 64". Man he did a good job on this fish. We get a couple more and we get ready to call the day when I see a huge scholl pop up about a 1/4 mile away with no one on it. Drive over it and drop again. Miss one bite and then John (Who fished on Fin Galley the day before and cuaght a 335#) hooks up with a SEA Monster. This fish had me backing down for over 2 and a half miles. At times when it would come to the top to catch some sun had us going 7 knots just to keep from spooling us. John had max drag on htis fish which brought it to the top several times. We had eyes on this fish just swimming on top catching sun not 20' form the boat 3 times. I came by the transome and almost filled up the 14' 10" beam length. The crew feed Jim water. Lee broke out the first aide kit to bandade and tape his blisters. This was the largest fish I had seen all year by far. Lee and I estimated in the mid 400'# at 90 plus inches easily. We made the leader once and then after 2 plus hours the braid gave out. We had to release this one anyway and she was full of life when it swam away. It was 4:45PM and we headed in after a great day of fishing. I saw several folks out there and heard you all on the radio, but my upper helm radio is on the fritz.

Ended with 6 real nice 170# to 200# pounders and ONE HUGE SEA MONSTER

We spent over 7 and a half hours in nuetral or going backwards yesterday fighting fish. AWESOME!!!

What was real awesome was watching these fish SKY and roll on bait all day.