I know what he means Strick, just took my son out last Monday for a short day of fishing (first actual fishing trip on the boat) and it was a real trial! The day started out OK except for a late start due to the previous night's events, seas 2-4 feet and a nice breeze. Left Homestead Bayfront marina and sped away thru Caesar'a Creek to the Triumph Reef buoy, when we reached the 150' drop, let out 2 lines with metal head jet lures and a green/yellow teaser. After a few minutes we noticed that the big storm north of us decided to take a turn and come after us, needless to say we couldn't get away from it and I didn't want to turn back just yet. Of course we got soaked, even with the Bimini top on since the rain was coming in sideways and the seas went from 2-4 to about 4-6 feet very fast! We kept on trolling through the whole thing keeping our bow into the large waves and finally came out of it about 30 minutes later, as soon as we got back to the dropoff we encountered a huge school of what we think are False Albacore since they're definitely not blackfin or yellowfin tunas and I don't think we get bluefins this far south. Anyway my son hooked on to one on my brand new Penn/Shimano TLD 30 lb outfit After a few minutes of fighting it (it was his first tuna fight) he boated a nice 12 pounder! Of course it bloodied the whole rear of the boat and now I know I need some kind of washdown system there. We rewetted the lures and went back into the school and not 10 minutes later I hooked on to another one with my other new Penn/Oceanmaster spinning 30 lb rig. We boated another nice 11 pounder and, since the seas kept getting worse decided to call it a good day. We made it back inshore (about 13 or 14 miles) at 3/4 throttle over the 4-6 foot waves with no problems except a little wet, I always say you have to get your butt wet if you want to catch fish so no matter! Anyway, all in all it was a good day and we finally bloodied the boat! The pictures were taken at home since I would have ruined the camera in all that water!
That's my son who's in the Army with our catch.
This is a truly great boat and it raises fish well so what more could you ask for! You need to get one right away!!![img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]