Took my first trip on the Jackal this season on Saturday, drove down with my 3-year old and took it out with Sean, his son and our dad. 3 official members of the people’s boat, and overall fan favorites, Team Jackal. Thankfully, Saturday was a test run. Barely. We just cruised around outside the harbor, trying to get the boys a sense for what it was like to fish with the big boys, and feel the power of the Jackal fighting fish and the high seas. Well, it was flat calm, we barely caught 2 small bluefish, and the boys were too busy chasing a butterfly and cramming
their faces with cookies to be too much into the fishing. Sean did have one epic miss of a blue with the net, an almost textbook of what not to do – knocking the plug out of the mouth with the miss and setting the fish free, and the boys almost to tears. We didn’t have a leader, so calm it down with the net comments
that I know are coming.
Either way, it was good to get out, and work out a few of the kinks. Sounds like the fish were out there, just not in 4 feet of water off of red river beach. The radio was pretty active early with some good chatter from east of Chatham, a few guys talking about double hook-ups on tuna - even if we never heard of any confirmed landings. We were very tempted to lock the boys in the bathroom with a bag of cookies and a sixer of Capri Sun and head out there, but we figured we were already off our game. Also saw a guy today at a bbq in Charlestown who went out south of Monomoy and slayed them yesterday – brought a pretty sweet Striper ceviche to the bbq which I may have to whip up if I ever catch anything.
Also saw some pics of Corduroy posted on Facebook of a few stripers he caught out there this weekend, so all signs are pointing to a good build up to the tourney. Any and all reports are welcome, so send them in. Also great to see Goose Hummock now posting reports from local captains – they have some good stuff on www.goose.com (sweet website by the way). Speaking of websites, anyone else watch Wicked Tuna? Saw that boat named Tuna.com early in the season, so I went to www.tuna.com and the site was down – nothing up there. Now I see it’s a site for Bumblebee tuna – looks like Dave made some $$ selling his site name to the big boys. Theheadhunt.com is for sale – all it costs is a 35 lb striper, conveniently delivered to Team Jackal about 4 am 2 clicks east of Bearses on July 14th. Kidding, and we hope it goes without saying that cheating is not tolerated in this tourney. This is not big time, we’re not in it to make $$, and we just want to foster a good community tourney, so anyone who cheats, and we find out, will be banned and pretty much be publicly known as d-bag. Enough on that. Let’s get
the chatter going again, let’s hear about strategy for the tourney – what are people going to try to win it this year (live eels, umbrella rigs, broken back jitterbugs, daredevils, live lining weakfish on kites, Flemish cap, etc)?
I’m still waiting for the first blog from my brother, he said he wrote a rambling one after a few too many the other night, but is now afraid to post it since I sent out that marketing email and he’s afraid too many people may see it. I’ll do my best to get it out of him soon, and I think we’re all used to his style by now so no one will be surprised. Either way, I’ll make sure he signs his name to be clear.
their faces with cookies to be too much into the fishing. Sean did have one epic miss of a blue with the net, an almost textbook of what not to do – knocking the plug out of the mouth with the miss and setting the fish free, and the boys almost to tears. We didn’t have a leader, so calm it down with the net comments
that I know are coming.
Either way, it was good to get out, and work out a few of the kinks. Sounds like the fish were out there, just not in 4 feet of water off of red river beach. The radio was pretty active early with some good chatter from east of Chatham, a few guys talking about double hook-ups on tuna - even if we never heard of any confirmed landings. We were very tempted to lock the boys in the bathroom with a bag of cookies and a sixer of Capri Sun and head out there, but we figured we were already off our game. Also saw a guy today at a bbq in Charlestown who went out south of Monomoy and slayed them yesterday – brought a pretty sweet Striper ceviche to the bbq which I may have to whip up if I ever catch anything.
Also saw some pics of Corduroy posted on Facebook of a few stripers he caught out there this weekend, so all signs are pointing to a good build up to the tourney. Any and all reports are welcome, so send them in. Also great to see Goose Hummock now posting reports from local captains – they have some good stuff on www.goose.com (sweet website by the way). Speaking of websites, anyone else watch Wicked Tuna? Saw that boat named Tuna.com early in the season, so I went to www.tuna.com and the site was down – nothing up there. Now I see it’s a site for Bumblebee tuna – looks like Dave made some $$ selling his site name to the big boys. Theheadhunt.com is for sale – all it costs is a 35 lb striper, conveniently delivered to Team Jackal about 4 am 2 clicks east of Bearses on July 14th. Kidding, and we hope it goes without saying that cheating is not tolerated in this tourney. This is not big time, we’re not in it to make $$, and we just want to foster a good community tourney, so anyone who cheats, and we find out, will be banned and pretty much be publicly known as d-bag. Enough on that. Let’s get
the chatter going again, let’s hear about strategy for the tourney – what are people going to try to win it this year (live eels, umbrella rigs, broken back jitterbugs, daredevils, live lining weakfish on kites, Flemish cap, etc)?
I’m still waiting for the first blog from my brother, he said he wrote a rambling one after a few too many the other night, but is now afraid to post it since I sent out that marketing email and he’s afraid too many people may see it. I’ll do my best to get it out of him soon, and I think we’re all used to his style by now so no one will be surprised. Either way, I’ll make sure he signs his name to be clear.
