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Red Tuna
08-13-2012, 10:37 PM
We had a great day today fishing with Capt. Mike Jennings from Cowboy Charters. Our goal was to get a limit of amberjack and hopefully find some shrimpboat tuna, and Capt. Jennings delivered on both counts.

We started the day off in very choppy seas that made for a rough and long ride out. We scored 20 blue runners and headed deep to an AJ spot.

The first AJ spot yielded one AJ before we started to get worked over by 'cudas and breakoffs in structure. A quick run to a nearby rig paid off, as we finished off our limit of nice AJs in less than an hour.


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We had heard that no shrimpboats were in deep water, and that was almost true...we found one in 220' of water. It had a small school of bonita under it, and apparently just 3 blackfin....and we caught 2 of them. We didn't see any other anchored boats in deep water, but we saw a few headed out, so this coming week may be better.


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We finished off the day at a beeliner spot...we caught about 5 gallons of beeliners and a few small almaco jacks before heading in.


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All in all a great day on the water with Cowboy Charters! Thanks to Capt Jennings and Coty for a great day.

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SULPHITE
08-13-2012, 10:37 PM
nice!

Red Tuna
08-13-2012, 10:42 PM
A few more pics:








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jjam
08-13-2012, 11:28 PM
Sweet! good job on dem' "reef donkeys" or in your area "rig donkeys"...my back hurts just looking at the pics.

Jimmy

DUCKGOGETTER
08-14-2012, 06:49 AM
Nice! Love me some rig donkeys

meaux fishing
08-14-2012, 08:03 AM
Sweet

Big Flounder
08-14-2012, 08:46 AM
That looks like fun!

jdaigle33
08-16-2012, 09:27 PM
I have always seen shrimp boats when im in deep water around the rigs and I have heard about fishing them but I dont know how. Do you troll behind them or on the side of them? Or topwater? Any tips would be great.

BENfishing
08-17-2012, 09:02 PM
Nice! Been a while since I caught some of those.