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Hi everybody and hope you are all enjoying your Whalers this summer. Over the years I've made a handful of offshore trips on my 1989 17' Montauk but this my first trip out of Ocean City (in this boat). As you can see I battled some pretty sloppy weather out there but it was worth it as I had non-stop action from the time I put the chum bucket in until I left for home.

I ended up keeping 5 Mahi to 15 lbs and released multiple species of sharks including Tiger, Hamerhead, Dusky, and several other misc brown and grey ones but not the Mako I was looking for. I'm sure if I had put away the shark rods and used heavier tackle I could have loaded the boat with Mahi as they were in my slick pretty much the entire time.

One of my bucket list items is catching a marlin from my Whaler and this trip I had a White tail by me about 50 yards away. At the time I had a shark on one rod and Mahi on the other and no pitch bait ready so there wasn't much I could do and didn't think to grab the camera until he was gone.

When I was leaving the inlet that morning I kept questioning myself if I should do it but on the way home I kept asking myself why I waited so long....
https://youtu.be/5N-dFjP9MAU