March 26th Fish Report

Another great day on the water for Redrum boats and anglers. The 1150 spot and a little outside 95 is where we have had some great fishing lately. Warm waters have kept the Tuna around for a couple of weeks now and the squid that were in last week have taken off and given room for Marlin!

Todays Report:

Alex had Mr. Doug Rubino out for the day on El Nuevo. They had a variety of fish as they reeled in 2 Dorado, 2 Yellowfin Tuna, and 2 Stripe Marlin.

Ramon took out Rum Runnin with Manuel for the day. Jeremy Gilliam had the time of his life with his wife and children. They also hooked into 2 Dorado, pulled up in front of a school of porpoise and caught 8 Yellowfin and Jeremy had the chance to reel in a 95" Stripe Marlin which he will have put up in his house! Congrats and enjoy the mount buddy.

Omar continued his hot streak on ReelRum as he was able to take Tuna seekers Tina Blum and her husband. Tuna is what they wanted and definately is what they got. They brought 10 Yellowfin to the boat and released another handful before heading back in! Enjoy the fish.

Mike & Brent from TX we at it again this morning. Brent told me he had never been so sore in his life! That's what a 3 hour fight with a 260 Swordfish will do to a grown man, and not a tiny man either! The two headed out on Tantrum for Marlin. Cesar - a little under the weather with a fever- was able to put them into 3 nice Stripe Marlin before bringing in the tired out gang!

Lets hope the fishing stays solid for all those comming down to fish with us in April!!!

Saludos,

Luis

March 25th Fish Report

What a great day for fishing. The Tuna bite has continued to be over the top lately with each boat landing at least 15 Tuna.

El Nuevo brought back 7 nice Yellowfin Tuna and were able to land 10 more. Kirk Hooten and his group are going to test there hands again with Alex and Juan and hopefully land a Stripe Marlin!

Cesar had an awesome day with Mr. Saucier and his buddy. They were able to catch and release a Stripe Marlin, the first for Cesar in over a few weeks. They also caught 2 Dorado and 10 Yellowfin. I ran into them at dinner and they seemed to have been enjoying life very much!!
It was great meeting them and we hope to see them back soon!

Rum Runnin caught 15 Yellowfin as well as 4 Dorado with the Closkey family.

ReelRum, well we all know about ReelRum's day!! If not please reder to the story below!

First Swordfish in Redrum History!

We are excited to say that Redrum Sport Fishing boated their first ever Swordfish yesterday on what better boat than the one that has been in the fleet since the beginning... REEL RUM!!!!

Mike Fritchie and Brent Bottinger from Georgetown, TX headed out with ReelRum in search for Tuna. Omar spotted a school of Porpoise about a mile in size! Sure enough all 4 rods went off at once, tuna, tuna, tuna, for about half an hour. All of a sudden Jesus spotted what he thought was a Marlin feeding behind the school of Tuna. Omar whipped the boat around to give Jesus the best position to cast the live bait.

The first pitch was unsuccesful and the boys thought they may have blown their chance at the so called Marlin. Until Jesus spotted the fish again, this time a little closer and yelled to Omar "Pez Espada" which means Swordfish. He pitched the bait again and BAM the Swordfish slammed on the bait and took off almost taking the rod, reel, and Jesus with him.

Omar backed the boat down and Jesus made sure the fish was securely hooked before handing the pole over to Brent. Being that this was Mr. Bottinger's first time ever deepsea fishing he had no idea what to expect. The only thing he had caught prior to this trip was a piece of drift wood while fishing with his buddies for Striper Bass (sorry Brent, had to say it!!).

Brent got the fish to the boat 3 or 4 times and each time the fish would take off again full of energy and strnght. Straight down for 100's of yards and than out. Omar said he ran the boat in circles, backing down and positioning ReelRum as well as he could. About 2 hours into the fight the boys thought the had a chance to gaff the fish, as Jesus went for the gaff he noticed the fish was still very tense and did not want to mess up their chances of landing this fish. He let the liter loose and the fish took off again - straight down! One hour later they got the fish to liter, and were finally able to gaff the Swordfish. "Brent was so exhausted I thought he was going to faint" Mike told me later.

After it was all said and done, the Swordfish weighed a monster 260 lbs and measure 116" long. We are very proud of Omar and Jesus and of course Brent and Mike for doing such a great job with the fish. We are happy to share this accomplishment with them and can't wait to see pictures of that very special mount!

Brent, I know your son has got to be the proudest boy in the world! CONGRATS!