2021: Trip 3 Thunderbird 2 Day
Trip 3 - Thunderbird- 2 Day, June 18-19, 2021
I made sure to not be the last once arriving since I was the last one on Trip 2. After getting situated & meeting all of the talented anglers on our trip I could tell by the order of tackle that Hayden appeared first at the docks again. Second was Gary & his guest from Trip 2, his UTI.
By the way, the landing has the unicorn Daiwa SK Jigs and probably sold $1000 worth of jigs from our trip alone. We had a long journey past “SCI” to Cortez Bank with all of the newly collected tuna jigs. Captain Jeff found some yellowtails but they were all scattered due to the lack of current. We started fishing at 7:30 AM with the beautifully
cured bait and caught some yellowtail with that & the irons.
The bite shut down for a moment & Gary was able to get them to bite again after dropping down to 20 lb line. We all followed suit & were able to produce a good amount of quality yellowtails towards the 30 lb class throughout the day. We took turns targeting yellowtails & rockfish as the conditions kept changing.
The Ramseys strike again on the jackpot! Cody broke what appeared to be a 3 way tie of 30 lb slug yellowtails & took the jackpot / patch with his catch on the surface iron.
We finished Day 1 with 72 yellowtails & a great mix of quality rockfish/bottom fish. That night the crew was able to fill the remaining tanks with some healthy sized squid.
Unfortunately, we had a small window to fish on Day 2 due to the long haul back from Cortez Bank & were able to get 4 yellowtails. Big fish honors when to guest Chris (who also put on a surface iron clinic catching a full limit of YT, all on the surface iron) and the patch went to Bryan Upcraft with another quality YT. Fortunately, Gary announced that he finally urinated normally but still hasn’t decided what color pants to buy.
Patrick
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