50 For The 50th

JD who fishes in Panama, and his guys were here to celebrate a 50th birthday.  After a couple days of flats fishing, they were excited about going offshore today.  The bait was biting very good today so we were able to head into the gulf stream early.  Once we got to the area we have been fishing there were tuna all around.  The first pass on the first school we hooked six at once.  A couple got off but it set the pace for what would be a great day.  I steered the L&H south and we continued to hook multiple fish at once.  Today we would catch a lot more of the skip jacks than blackfins, but the skipjacks were all nice size and boy do they take line.  After catching a dozen or more of the skip jacks we continued trolling through the sea weed.  From my perch in the tower I spotted a few nice mahi which the team quickly hooked.  Then more and more of the mahi started showing up.  JD and the guys were now catching mahi as fast as they could go.  Before long we had a bunch of mahi in the fish box with the skipjacks.  One of the guys told me that it would be great if we were able to catch fifty fish on the 50th birthday.  Now we had a goal to shoot for.  As the afternoon wore on the L&H continued to stay in the fish.  We got a few here and a few there and when it was time to head for home the fish box was looking pretty good.  When we got back to the marina all of the guys were counting the fish as I threw them on the dock.  Who would ever have imagined, but we ended up with fifty fish for the 50th birthday!  It was a great day for all of us and we all had a great time getting to fifty!