Well it's Monday and I am back at work from a 9 day trip..[:-grumpy]...
We left on Sat. August 5th, for our stop over at Ceder Island Marina in Clinton, CT. Sunday we were off to Newport for 2 nights. On the way to Newport the boat we were traveling with developed a fuel problem and lost a motor so what should have been a 2.5 hour run turned into 5 hours... whatever, we got there and we got there safe. Newport was great as always good food, good night life and lots to see and do.
Tuesday mourning we left for a few days at Block Island. I LOVE BLOCK!!!!!! We stayed at Champlains and it was great. Rafted off the bigger boat we were traveling with and no one else off of us.. While in Block there was the Tri-State Tuna Tournament going on so we saw a ton of huge Sport Fishes.. Everything from Viking to Buddy Davis.. There was this 1985 90' Feadship from Texas there that was breath-taking. Went to Dinghy Beach and did some shopping in town as always..
Thursday we were off to Star Island Yacht Club in Montauk for the 14th Annual Mako/Threasher Shark Tournament. We meet up with about 10 boats from Haverstraw Marina: "On a Mission", "Thanks Pete", "Power Play", "Lorri Ann" and a bunch more. "On a Mission" (42 Silverton) and "Thanks Pete" (48 Silverton)were entered in the tournament and I was aboard "On a Mission" for the two day event. Day 1 was hell. We were in 8 to 10 foot rollers for 12 hours and caught two small Mako's that we released cause they were only babies. We did catch a good sized Mahi Mahi that we kept. On he way in we stop outside the inlet to catch some Blues for bait and the action was good. On Day 2 the seas we about 4 to 6 foot, still rolling but not nearly as bad as Day 1. after about 3 hours of chumming we hooked up with a 6.5 foot Mako. Just about an hour after getting the Mako on the boat I caught a huge Shark (about 10 foot) and we were realy siked. We got it close to the boat but couldn't determine what it was before in dove on me. After fighting it for another twenty minute we got to the baot only to relaise it was a Blue Shark so we cut it loose... we had no other hits the rest of the day so we headed in hoping for the best.. We backed down to the scales to a crowd of around 200 people and our mako weighed in at 158 lbs. that was the biggest of the day and second overall in the tournament. After all boats were in and all the sharks were weighed we took 2nd Place. The first place Mako shark was 200 lbs. and Third was 137 lbs. The first place Threaser was 467 lbs. and that was the only Threasher that qualified. With the prize money and the Calcutta money the boat took home $33,000.00 that after expenses we split between 11 guys getting $2700.00 each.. What a vacation.. A great time that ended up being FREE!!!! Can't what till next year.
We left on Sat. August 5th, for our stop over at Ceder Island Marina in Clinton, CT. Sunday we were off to Newport for 2 nights. On the way to Newport the boat we were traveling with developed a fuel problem and lost a motor so what should have been a 2.5 hour run turned into 5 hours... whatever, we got there and we got there safe. Newport was great as always good food, good night life and lots to see and do.
Tuesday mourning we left for a few days at Block Island. I LOVE BLOCK!!!!!! We stayed at Champlains and it was great. Rafted off the bigger boat we were traveling with and no one else off of us.. While in Block there was the Tri-State Tuna Tournament going on so we saw a ton of huge Sport Fishes.. Everything from Viking to Buddy Davis.. There was this 1985 90' Feadship from Texas there that was breath-taking. Went to Dinghy Beach and did some shopping in town as always..
Thursday we were off to Star Island Yacht Club in Montauk for the 14th Annual Mako/Threasher Shark Tournament. We meet up with about 10 boats from Haverstraw Marina: "On a Mission", "Thanks Pete", "Power Play", "Lorri Ann" and a bunch more. "On a Mission" (42 Silverton) and "Thanks Pete" (48 Silverton)were entered in the tournament and I was aboard "On a Mission" for the two day event. Day 1 was hell. We were in 8 to 10 foot rollers for 12 hours and caught two small Mako's that we released cause they were only babies. We did catch a good sized Mahi Mahi that we kept. On he way in we stop outside the inlet to catch some Blues for bait and the action was good. On Day 2 the seas we about 4 to 6 foot, still rolling but not nearly as bad as Day 1. after about 3 hours of chumming we hooked up with a 6.5 foot Mako. Just about an hour after getting the Mako on the boat I caught a huge Shark (about 10 foot) and we were realy siked. We got it close to the boat but couldn't determine what it was before in dove on me. After fighting it for another twenty minute we got to the baot only to relaise it was a Blue Shark so we cut it loose... we had no other hits the rest of the day so we headed in hoping for the best.. We backed down to the scales to a crowd of around 200 people and our mako weighed in at 158 lbs. that was the biggest of the day and second overall in the tournament. After all boats were in and all the sharks were weighed we took 2nd Place. The first place Mako shark was 200 lbs. and Third was 137 lbs. The first place Threaser was 467 lbs. and that was the only Threasher that qualified. With the prize money and the Calcutta money the boat took home $33,000.00 that after expenses we split between 11 guys getting $2700.00 each.. What a vacation.. A great time that ended up being FREE!!!! Can't what till next year.