Capt. Phil Dulanie, Adam LaRosa and Capt. Mark DeCabia had out the Buck Martinez charter and tried to head back down to the Carteret but had some issues on the way. First and foremost the weather Friday afternoon was not nice with a stiff South wind making the ride in that direction a 12 knot affair. We turned to the Toms and about 35 off ran something over that caused a bit of virbration then the engines to shut down. Not Good!!! We could not see anything hanging off the wheels and thought the worst (engine mounts broke or something like that) Mark jumped in with the mask and the expression on his face when he came back up and his comment "Oh my God!!!" made me head for the scuba tank and regulator. Seems we had 300+ feet of black poly line wrapped on both wheels. Mark pulled a bunch off before I got in with the dive tank and gear and spent 15 minutes cutting away the line that was melted to the shaft and off we went to the Toms with a little delay.

We got to the edge at 8pm and dropped the hook at the northeast corner in 500 feet of water and we had the bait quickly and by mid-night had 5 yellowfin and 2 swords with on in the boat at 55" and released one around 46". Between mid-night and 3am they only had a couple other tuna bites but also had another sword on that peeled off 100yards on the Penn International 70VSW before pulling the hook. In between they also had another billfish bite when a white marlin grabbed one of the chunk baits and was released. Between 3am and first light we put a few more tuna in the boat and came home around 7am.