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Pin Fish
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| First, thanks for everyone who posts conditions/results offshore. They are very helpful - especially when services are down or satellites can't get through the clouds. We left Mobile Pass yesterday (7/2) around 5pm for swords at the Spur...also hoped to find blue water along with a good weed line this am. We found clean blue/green water at the Elbow as dark fell last night. Put out a spread for 30 minutes but no luck. Ran to the Spur for Swords(and hoped to find blue water for a spread in the am). Deployed 4 rigs between 150 and 400. The new OceanLED blue led lights worked great...had one of their strobes going too. Dipped several flyers and a good hardtail to pass the time. Landed a chunky 75# sword around 5am.  Got two other bumps...one likely a sword - nice slash and stab wound in the bait! Green water at the Spur so at day break ran back to the Elbow. Some broken up weedlines - or maybe they were trying to form...regardless it was tough on the spread. Mr. Whitey paid us a visit but wouldn't eat. About 5 miles SW of the Elbow the water rapidly turned green btw so we focused on the 100 fathom around the Elbow. Only had about 2 hours to troll as we had family commitments back at the beach. We were happy to have at least one bill fish for our efforts...the pop-up storms thankfully passed us by but kept us on our toes ALL dang night/morning.
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Snapper
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Sailfish
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Thanks for the report. Seems like every time we plan to go out there storms pop up, and when we don't go, it's perfect! I want to get out there and get our first white for the new boat.
Mako 284 w/ twin 250 verados: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpmWGjaEjkw
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Ruby Red Lip
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Sweet! Fresh sword on the barbie! Good job. I also appreciate the tips, even if I can't get out that far.Bullshooter Aquasport 205 w/ 150 ETEC
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Grouper
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Thanks for the report of the water conditions. Nice catch on the broadbill. Sounds like you made the best finding good water. Gene
You never know unless you go.
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Mingo
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| I too echo the comment on sharing reports. I rank it right up there with Roff's and Hilton's for reliable data. thanks MScontender
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Sailfish
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| Well I was going to post this report but It looks like you took care of it for me. Send me some pics when you can; I hope ya'll had a good time and hopefully we can do it again---Chris
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Pin Fish
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Thanks, Chris. As my kids would say "you rock, dude!". Seriously, it was an awesome trip and we accomplished what we set out to do. Even managed to avoid the storms! We'll definitely hook up again. Cheers! BTW, I bowed my Dad up on his first AJ today using freestyle jigs - priceless look on his face when he saw the first (undersize) AJ come up :-) Man those fish can fight. I also got 2 AJs on one drop...thought I'd hit big Mama! Of course they were both 27" 
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Sailfish
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| To anyone interested, the three bites came on live bridled hardtails rigged on 12/0 wide gap mustad circles. Bites came at depths of 150, 200, and 400 ft. All baits were rigged on 200lb. mono leaders with a deep drop LED light set 12ft. from the bait. The fish we caught hit at 400ft. in 1100ft. of water.
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