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Originally Posted by Top Shot  The Twin is 65'x24'....Tons of room and one of my favorite fishing platforms!!!! The boat is usually half day, but we chartered it full day. It has a massive galley also which worked out awesome for our x-mas party!! |
Great first report! My aunt took me on my first ocean trip on a sportboat out of Seal Beach so I love women who fish.
A couple things. I do not want to hijack this thread, but the shoot of the Speed Twin brings back old memories.
My son and I fished it on it's maiden trip out of San Diego. Had to be over 20 years since my son was a young teenager, and he's 48 now.
The boat was scheduled to make a halfday trips to the islands (can you imagine a sportboat out of SD bay making halfday trips to the islands?).
It was scheduled to depart at 6am, but at 6:30 we were still sitting at the docks. At just around 7am the skipper came on deck and announced that the boat could not get underway until a part for the engine was delivered, and for those not wanting to wait another half hour or so they could go to the ticket office for a refund. About 1/2 of the fishermen left, leaving about 15 diehards still onboard.
Another hour passed and the skipper and a deckhand came back on board with a few dozen of donuts and told us that the part had not arrived yet, but was expected shortly, and donuts and coffee were on the house. He also told those who remained that the afternoon trip was cancelled, and whatever time we lost would be made up at the end of the trip.
At that point about 1/2 of the 'diehards' left, most saying they could not fish into the afternoon because of prior committments.
So now we were down to about seven passengers.
Our effort was rewarded when the part finally came, and the crew finished whatever repairs were required to the engine.
We finally arrived at the islands at around noon, arriving about the same time the overnight boats were pulling up anchors. heading for home. A lot of the private boats left with them, leaving us pretty much by ourselves.
I can remember the weather as beautiful the entire trip, and the skipper kept his promise to make up for lost time at the end of the trip, and then some. We did not start for home until almost dark, watching the glowing lights of San Diego on our return.
I almost forgot. The fishing was outstanding for nice size yellowtails. Remember this was at a time that San Diego was billed as "The Yellowtail Capitol of the World", or some such title, and the yellows caught were of a larger size than they are today, all in the 290# range.
The bite was nonstop, and the passengers insisted the crew get into the fun. We were all catching, and gaffing each others fish, with laughter all around the deck. A few of the amateur gaffers aboard were most of the reason for the laughter. A number of yellows were brought aboard had quite a few holes in them. I imagine dried out the would make excellent wind chimes.
It was a unforgetable trip.
Now back to this thread.
One picture stood out from all the rest, including the crazy shots of you kissing fish. Who does that!
The picture that caught my attention was the one that shows you holding of two "chuckles", which BTW I think are copper rockfish.
That notwithstanding the first thing I thought I saw was a classic BloodyDecks salute with your right hand. It wasn't until I enlarged the photo that I could see that what I thought was a classic BloodDecks salute was actually the fishes fin hanging down where I thought your middle, ah, digit was. Still a great picture, and with a little photoshop can become your avatar if you're so inclined.
Sorry for the long post.
lol. NO I MEAN PUt IT BACK!
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