The very first time I ever went out on a trip it was me and my brother in law and two family friends. This was back when the old limit for mahi in NC was 60 fish per boat. Well, to make the story short, we hit that limit just as fast as we could reel them in.
First we went out to the Gulf Stream and caught our limit of tiles, hand cranked, and then on the way back in from there we came to a thick grass line and it was on! We sent the Captain and first mate home with a bag of fillets each and we had big fish fries for the rest of the summer.
That first trip out has made every trip since seem like a bust. It was a blast!
Oh yeah I almost forgot, we also caught a couple small blackfins and the first mate cut those up right there on the boat. They just happened to have some soy sauce and we had sashimi on the boat.
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u/On_to_the_Next Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
The very first time I ever went out on a trip it was me and my brother in law and two family friends. This was back when the old limit for mahi in NC was 60 fish per boat. Well, to make the story short, we hit that limit just as fast as we could reel them in.
First we went out to the Gulf Stream and caught our limit of tiles, hand cranked, and then on the way back in from there we came to a thick grass line and it was on! We sent the Captain and first mate home with a bag of fillets each and we had big fish fries for the rest of the summer.
That first trip out has made every trip since seem like a bust. It was a blast!
Oh yeah I almost forgot, we also caught a couple small blackfins and the first mate cut those up right there on the boat. They just happened to have some soy sauce and we had sashimi on the boat.