Cape Cod 07/18

[Sami Ghandour]

I had the pleasure to be onboard Captain Josh Osprey along Captain Dave from Miami and Raymond from New York.
Left the dock at 4:00 am and encountered busting fish early in the morning, around 6:00 am Captain Dave came in tight and fought the fish and had it to boat side, took some picture and released the fish to boat side to fight another day, I believe he was using a Calstar custom rod,
Capt Josh decided to move to a different area and we encountered a great feed and busting fish all over the place,
We saw fish from 70lb, 80lb to over 300lb air borne,
Just to be out there was a blast,
Had a good shot while casting the Shimano Ocea Pencil and came in tight to lose the fish after my line broke,
We kept on trying and had another shot and came in tight on the Daiwa dorado slider in Anchovy color, fought the fish to boat side and lost it 10 feet from the boat to find out that the owner ST66 3/0 had opened
There was no rest and I am sure we drove Captain Josh crazy as we where screaming left and right and the excitement and the rush did not stop us till we made it to the dock.
Captain Josh had his shot as well and get tight, as he was looking left and right to pass the rod Raymond was next to him and had the pleasure to fight that fish, after 10 to 15 minutes he was begging for mercy,
That fish was really pissed off and she sent the reel to a screaming mode and made it to the 550 feet mark! We end up losing that fish due to line breaking and I believe that Capt Josh get tight on a Black hole rod,
The problem was working the lure properly to trigger a bite; the birds gave us no chance to do that,
But the last shot was what I asked for , fish broke at a close distance with no birds around and Captain Josh put me in a great position to land the lure right on the feed, 3 twitches and game on,
I was testing a new rod and wanted to push it to the extreme to find out if it was suitable for this kind of fishing, after 30 minutes or so I broke the rod but manage to land a 69 inch and released it along the boat side to fight another day, (the broken rod is not the Race Point Special).
I don’t have to boost Captain Josh reputation I think his record speak for himself, a great Captain with so much experience and excitement on board his boat, will be back to fish with you Captain.
Thank you

Tackle used:
Race point Special
Souls Performance Studio16
Smith Tokara
Calstar and Black Hole

Reels:
Shimano Stella SW18000
Shimano Stella SW 10000 with 16000 no limits spools
Shimano Saragosa

Lures:
Daiwa Dorado slider
Shimano Ocea Pencil
Ronz

Tight lines
Sami

[Sam Conacher]

it seem's like you all had a good time and enjoyed yourself's,    a shame about the bust offs and the broken rod.



Sami can i ask you,

where about's is this where your fishing for these massive Tuna and what month's and at which time of the year is best?

[Mark Harris]

Some great action on the rods there... shame about the breakage.

And I think that is a Saragosa 18000 in the last pic?  Great to see a mid price reel getting this sort of workout   .

Thanks Sami.

[Sami Ghandour]

it seem's like you all had a good time and enjoyed yourself's,    a shame about the bust offs and the broken rod.



Sami can i ask you,

where about's is this where your fishing for these massive Tuna and what month's and at which time of the year is best?

Hi Sam

this is in Massachusetts, about 4 hours north of New York,

the fish are normally found in Cape Cod  bay but could be located up north in great number,

they normally arrive at the end of May and we start catching them in early June,

best time is June and July and then the action die a bit in August and start picking up at the end of September and will last till November early October,

if you ever decided to come to the state or you happen to be around let us know, we can hook you up with one of the Captain we charter.

[Sam Conacher]

ok thanks for that,  i will keep that in mind as that sort and that type of a trip is on my list at some stage down the track HOPEFULLY.

[Andy Rowe]

Hi Sami,

Excellent report, the action sounds incredible.

It looks like you were showing that rod no mercy, I was looking closely at the pics but could not tell which one broke, I don't think it was the Souls was it??

I tried my souls out last weekend, cast very nice, even with 50gm i was able to get it out there to the tuna. we got a couple of nice YFT to 14kg a far cry from the beasts you are on there. I am hoping some cows arrive soon and i can properly test the souls  .

I am trying to figure out a good reason to get to the north east now!

[Saltywater Tackle]

Hi Sami,

Excellent report, the action sounds incredible.

It looks like you were showing that rod no mercy, I was looking closely at the pics but could not tell which one broke, I don't think it was the Souls was it??

I tried my souls out last weekend, cast very nice, even with 50gm i was able to get it out there to the tuna. we got a couple of nice YFT to 14kg a far cry from the beasts you are on there. I am hoping some cows arrive soon and i can properly test the souls  .

I am trying to figure out a good reason to get to the north east now!

Hi Andy,
We are testing a new prototype rod to see if they are adequate for the size of tuna that we have in our water,
Very satisfied that the breakage happen on the field so we can go trough some adjustment (I will keep on pouching them to the extreme until I am satisfied).
So far our prototype rod (Race point Special) had survived all the abuse that I put it through,
Glad to hear that you are enjoying your Souls rod and hopefully you will get a nice bend on it
as for the Noreast you are more then welcome to join us,
  Tight lines
       Sami