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OFFSHORE JULY 2005

BIG WOOTEN west point, MS USA

bottom fished most of the day sat over naturalbottom south oforange beach. caught one decent snapper and a few grouper made our way to some of the rigs in 200+ ft of water caught some nice aj's up to 45 lbs. all on live pinfish.aj action has slowed down in the past month but they are there and will bite just have to move around the rig and watch the scope. trolled to the floaters and saw tuna busting so we put out the illanders/hoos . trolled beside them and then turned in on them BOOM!! fish on. thought it was a good tuna, but when he came up for a head shake,,, big blue marlin. three hours and many runs on the 50 wide we leadered him. didn't have much color(in the dark) but he swam away hopefully to fight another day. to say it was exciting would be a understatement, i loved it. does anyone know if this formula will work for estimating the weight. lengthxgirthxgirth/800
looks like dennis is going to kick up a fuss might have to come get the boat good fishing

Thursday, July 7, 2005 @ 11:07:46 AM