186-Pound Bluefin Video - "Depth Charge" August 08

[Sandman]

My brother recently figured out how to edit our fishing videos. This is my favorite of a trip we took last August. We headed out to the 19-fathom lump about 40 miles outside Indian River Inlet. The weather called for scattered thunderstorms, but by noon we were facing a wall of purple between us and home. Tried to outrun the storm but then another cell was about to converge so we turned and went through it. Saw a water spout and some very nasty weather. I was only worried about being struck by lightning.

After things settled down, we headed back to the lump. Hooked up to a big tuna, fought it for an hour and redeemed the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRguq4AvMcg&feature=channel_page

[turban]

Sandman, Great Video! Impressive boat handling keeping an angle on that beast. I one point when it was straight down I saw some real pain on the rodhandlers face

Do you have controls in the tower?

[Sandman]

No controls in the tower. It's a removable "cobia tower" that I had Dare Marina put on when I got the boat. I love the ability to get up high to look around. I was behind the wheel the whole time. My arm was sore after an hour of "Hard right!".

Here's one more of a late spring overnighter in the Wilmington and Spencer canyons in June '08.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHlrEum0148&feature=channel_page

[cartercrew]

Great videos!

Nice Dare Signature Series boat too. We got ours from them. Looks like you got the updated design on the rear rails and top. Nice lines.

[parnine]

great video.

On a side note how do you like your Raymarine (sirus) weather?

[Sandman]

Love the Sirius weather. Really helped out during the storm on the first video. I was able to watch the storms converge and make the decision to run between them. It is a real advantage to see where the sea surface temperature changes are when fishing. Find the temperature, find the fish! Only wish I had gotten a more powerful radar to see bird action with. Something to upgrade in the future.

[jbg108]

I've spent a lot of hours going in circles fighting Bluefins in my GB. I also kill the engine on the side the fish is as they love to turn into the corner at the end. I cannot raise my engine like that without damaging the cowl on the edge of the well so it stays down. Nice fish.

I got a 394 through the little cutout aft last year. We had to turn it up on it's belly and squeeze it though. It was like squeezing the poop out of a ballyhoo.

[sellis]

Sandman
Nice!! just watched the tuna video. Now that it's starting to warm up I hope to see more action in this section of the forums.