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Tuna time and more prizes!!

7/7/2012

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Broke my own personal curse yesterday. Epic day out on the water, and
finally picked up a tuna. When I asked my wife the night before where I put my
fishing shorts, she just said “why do you call them that when you don’t catch
anything?  they’re just shorts now”.  Love the support from the family. In spite of my wife, we had a great day out yesterday, with 4 members of Team Jackal joined by our fellow Westford Academy Grey Ghost and current Pinehills golf pro Mike Rothera.

Met at the dock at 4 am, and cruised out and around the corner in flat calm seas. Headed up north and had lines in around 5:30. Within 15 min we had a knockdown, but didn’t hook up. Keep in mind, I’m about 0 for my last 25 trips so another knockdown with no hook up was some early excitement, but also an early kick in the sandbar.  Action was slow for the next few hours and we moved in and around a growing fleet with a few hook-ups on the radio, and one boat cruised past us hanging a fish off the back. We gave them the thumbs up and they just said “Took us 5 days, but we’ll take it!”.  

Around 9, we left the fleet and headed further south. We started to see crashing fish and at one point had them surface about 10 feet from our bow, and thought we were destined for a hook up. Nothing. After about an hour of crashing fish, things shut down and I started to dread the all too familiar drive back empty handed. Around 10:30, our port long rigger, on a black bar, went tight and we were on. After a good, and well orchestrated battle, we landed a 48 inch fish. Nothing crazy but definitely long overdue and capped off a good day. We fished for a few hours more, jigged a bit on the way in and only caught some monster bluefish, took a swim, and headed in.  Flat calm perfect day, catching the fish a few miles away from the fleet, and carving out the still beating heart for everyone to take a bite of, was a pretty sweet day. 

Crazy that we’ve now caught a tuna before my brother or I have caught a keeper bass this year, so now we need to get our heads in the game for tourney time. I love the trash talk on the board, and keep it coming. Corduroy and Team Dangler are coming out guns blazing but we’ll see if they can back it up. It does seem like rips have calmed down a bit so things will be interesting and with a non-charter champion now in the mix as well, this could be the year for Team Jackal. Even with all the trash talk, I think Sportbag sadly is kind of like Petey’s Jets, all talk but with no real chance to win it.  

Lastly, we have another prize. Our mother, Jean Burke, is a local artist, and she agreed to paint a water color of the winning boat as part of the prize package. Probably an 11x14 picture, but framed, and she usually gets a few hundred bucks for these types of paintings so should be legit.  

Get your registrations in the spread the word – we need some more boats to make this the biggest tourney yet, and hope everyone is planning on hitting the Hot Stove next Friday night for some pre-tourney drinks and trash talk. The new t-shirts will be there as well for folks who want to buy one. Keep sending in any pics and reports, and get your heads in the game for next week – it’s going to be epic.

7 Comments
The Sport Bag
7/7/2012 05:31:51 am

Wow. I get called out by the Burkes. I have never had to defend my self before to guys who are of the ilk of Freddy Mittchell, Karl Malone and T.O. those guys were actually famous. Freddy for his stealing of a bad bowtie ad trash talking the Pats who won the super bowl. Karl is mor famous for using a white guy to score all his points and now I rumored to be a trucker who has a taste for stank hookers who look like Petey. T.O had 50 million reasons not to kill himself and the sharpie he used to sign a ball during a game has a better reputation as a teammate than him. Oddly enough the Burkes are 0-for in their own tournament. Keep talking ladies cause I'm like Tom Brady. I may be out of shape, picked in the late rounds and people say I'm too slow. After all is said and done you all will be asking what headhunt trophy is my favorite. To that I will say "the next one"

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Harry Corduroy
7/8/2012 09:38:31 am

You guys could paint some stripes on that and hpe to finish 3rd.

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Captain Dangler
7/9/2012 07:00:00 am

Oh my Christ! What did you do? Perform an abortion on an adult bluefin and keep the fetus? I thought it was a mackerel. My god that thing is small and under developed but that's not the first time you've heard that.
Well with a week to go Im at Warren Buffets giving him and his friend Gatsie a few investing pointers. Deuce Deuce and Bag remember although it's that time of the month I don't want to hear any bit of bitching from you guys. Pull out the cotton pony and man up. Toxic shock is a bitch.
That shock is nothing compared to the rapture we are about to unleash on the field. On Friday night the Vatican is going to Have the College of Cardinals pray for you and your respected teams.

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Ryan
7/9/2012 07:28:46 am

Practice all you want fellas, practice is for the week. Sat am will be the first bass line we wet this year, and we won't miss a beat. First tuna of year this year so we all took a bite out of the still beating heart - remember that tonight when you close your eyes - you're next. Sportsbag, that means you too.

What is a dangler anyway? Is that like a dingleberry?

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Captain Dangler
7/9/2012 11:00:43 am

I smell fear in your tone, jealousy in your actions and general envy. I don't blame you if i I wasn't me I'd be jealous , envious, and very scared too. Remember after team dangler wins we will still
Drink the losers. We will still toast the least best performers.

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Ryan
7/9/2012 12:14:00 pm

Captain Dingleberry - you still offering up a squid rig for prize? If so, thanks and can you bring it friday night to the stove if at all possible?

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Captain Dangler
7/10/2012 11:12:34 am

Yes I am. No problem. I'll drop it off at the Stove.

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