Mirage 8/3/2008

[fishnfoo]

Great time as always fishing the Mirage with some great company. It was good to finally meet some more Get Benters and put some faces with screen names. Had a blast watching these guys and gals party till the wee hours of the morning. Top Shot definitely brought some fun and excitement to the trip. That girl can hang with the best of 'em. I guess the co-captain had to finally step out and shut the festivities down. Wish the seabass fishing was a little better but that's just fishing. I worked the rail hard for over 4 hours and got to be one of the lucky ones to land a seabass, the first of the season for me. Can't say enough good things about the boat and crew. Till next time.

[Stringer]

I had a good time, it was nice fishing with all of you. the ones of fished with before, and the new friends too. Guess I missed out on the Seabass photo op. thats okay it will still taste good. Oh yeah, and the Shvetty balls, just apple jelly and ketchup for the sauce, they're killer good though.

[rav3n805]

had a great time out there, got to do it again.... oh yea add a little more wsb, nice quality on rockfish

[juniorjannell]

Originally Posted by Top Shot

Ok so here are my pics....I definately had a better night that day FOOO SHOOOO.....These guys know how to party and I think everyone had a good time as there were points during the day where the decks were damn near empty and we were all snoozin.....So great to meet so many of you guys and gals that I've seen on line...You guys all rock...and thanks for not giving me too much grief the next day while I suffered...(Except JWoodman...he's still giving me shit in the post above......) Next time I hope to actually fish with you guys!!!!

GOOD TIMES KIDS
Top Shot took these pics on Saturday night looks like a big ass party went down on the Mirage. Love the trip CANT wait to hit it up again soon. F-ing great bunch of people. Next time Top Shot the drinks are on me (maybe i can limit ya ta just a few ) MUAH!!!

[J Woodman]

I had a great time as usual on the Mirage. The ride out was very calm in those "gale force" winds that never showed up. Had a blast all night hanging with everybody. Met some old friends as well as some new peeps to add to the list.

As usual I hit the sack around 3 and tried to sleep until we got to the Seabass/squid grounds around 4:15. Now that I was fully rested? I spread some snaggers around and we started to pull them up 2-6 at a time until we got a full float. Tucker started to sein the float, then the deck crew rolled out of bed with a scowl on their faces and pulled sein after sein after sein out of the crowder and just plugged all three tanks, three gunney sacks, and I don't know how many 5 gallon buckets. Then they sent a load over to the boat next to us as well that plugged their tanks too. Needless to say, we had bait! and also needless to say the entire crew worked all day like a finely oiled machine. You guys are great.

Seabass fishing was slow but we (not me) managed to get 7 on deck before it was time to fill the sacks with reds and chuckles,etc. By noon only about 10 people were still on deck fishing. Everybody else had given up or passed out already. Nonetheless we still got limits for everybody and an additional 3 limits for the crew.

There were no contenders for the Kona eating competition, but they were just as good as usual, complete with a little smack talk from Rsonal.

Tommy, nice slay on the fish buddy, and thanks a lot for hooking me up.

Slow down girl, save some for the next one!

Hope to see you all out on the next one. I tried to add some pics of the float but they wouldn't upload. I'll try again tomorrow.

[Joey805]

Pics of the squid float, plus one video.

YouTube - Squid Float

[batray]

i had a great time fishing with everybody, and i am planning to upload pictures tomorrow of the real fishing story cuz some of us actually DID fish. oh, glad the bucket o' margaritas didn't go to waste!!!! Okay here's my version.
We Actually did catch some awesome reds!!!



Caught a Sea Bass, not huge: but a sea bass, none the less


Obviously, whoever was holding the camera wasn't thiking about fishing!!!!




and here are some more!!!! check out Baker boy with his First and second Seabass.... we saw a whale, couldn't identify, because by the time I looked up, all I saw was flukes! had a blast !!!!1

[fishdit]

Looks like that trip was fun!!!

[Baker Boy]

Great time as always fishing the Mirage with some great company. It was good to finally meet some more Get Benters and put some faces with screen names. The crew on the mirage wore top notch big thanks to Dan bait fish for all the help thanks bro see u on the 16th. AND T_BONE for the rod holder lol . I had a blast cant wait to do it again. thanks to joey for putting this thing to getter. and flipper for all the help . ice woodman and the rest of u all great meeting and fishing with u all . here are some of my pic not all of them can be posted

[Baker Boy]

more pic