A full fish box and a few good laughs!

Picture this- its 4AM and you hear the whine of the motors trimming down, the boat is wet, you are tired yet excited, the coffee in your mug is starting to cool off and you are fumbling in the dark to make sure you packed everything.... to me that is the best feeling in the world! Myself and 4 really great guys loaded down the BirdDog with 120 pounds of ice, rods, enough tackle to supply a small village, food, drinks and safety gear. Once those two Yamaha motors fire up you know its game on! We made our way out of Charleston harbor in the dark with no wind, and what I was thinking would calm seas which it was not... but oh well we slugged it out for 40 miles of lumpy steep and tight waves. We hit the magic number for mid May, 130ft of water! Lines went in and it wasn't too long before one of the 30W reels started to sing its song! A real nice cow Mahi on a DTX in the prop wash! We trolled around just inside of the the gulf stream for a few hours and picked up some really nice Mahi, all of our lures were producing, DTX, ballyhoo, cedar plugs, and daisy chains. We finished up our troll and moved to a couple of my good spots for bottom critters where were put a nice queen trigger on ice and a load of grocery fish! At the end of the day the sharks were becoming a real nuisance so of course i had to hook one for the guys... It took about a minute... HA! All in all if i could do this every day with these guys I would, I had a blast and I hope whoever reads this reports joins me for a day as great as this one was in the near future!