Today was intersting, we had planned to run the Otherside for Tuna if the seas allowed or fish the ledge if it was to rough. However, we woke up at 4 AM to find Craig's car stolen, by the time the police left and we were able to leave it was 6:45 AM. We made the decision to still run for the ledge and chase the Mahi. We headed to the North and fished by ourselves all day. We started by hooking up a beautiful Sail in 140 feet and believe we missed a 2nd one. We ventured out deep and found the dolphin scattered in 300 to 600 feet. There was no temp breaks, only scattered weeds. The small weed patches were moving fast and often hard to relocate after hookups, in the end we found it best to run till found the weed and then put out a spread. We ended the day with 9 dolpin all in the 15-18#. Since we had such a later start we fished until the last minute and left the ledge and the fish biting at 6:45. We got to the ther ramp right at dark, we were 72 NM out when we left. The seas were really nice all day, but got a litte bumpy the last 20 miles on the way end as the winds really picked up from the South and gave us a sea right on our beam.
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