March 20,2004 Offhore on the Madam P

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March 20,2004 another great fishing trip on the Madam P. This was the Shakedown trip for
this vessel since being repaired from her encounter with a sea bouy last season in Charleston. We
left the dock at 6 am with forcasted waves of 3- 5 and possibly more depending on if we went N or S.


Before 2 pm we encounter a few 6-8 with a possible 9 thrown in. We were 70 miles out and Capt Barney Portman
almost called it but we changed couse slightly and everything worked out. My son Jeremy, and a couple others
got a pretty good case of seasickness.

However that disappeared once we got into the fish. Final count was
2 Dolphin, 4 Tuna, and 1 wahoo. Jeremy caught the Wahoo. We lost at least 4 Tuna, as we usually had multiple
Hookups, and landed only 1 Tuna each time. As usal, another Great Trip with Capt Barney Portman on the MADAM P.