Meat Wagon Takes First Place – 110.6 points!!!
OAPB team Meat Wagon, Captain Tom Jones heads out with members Matt Cappielo, Mike Coleman, and teams up with LHPSSA members Steve Seigel & Mike Price!!!
One thing that is great about this team is that members from both local clubs OAPB and LHPSSA are great friends, and proved to be unstoppable!!! Awesome job OAPB and LHPSSA
Tom was able to provide some great feedback on the day:
Started the day with lines in just outside the sea buoy in 70’ at Hillsboro Inlet fishing 6 lines on kites and 6 flat lines.  We were surprised that no other tournament boats were around.  Jumped off our first sail soon after which ate a kingfish jig/dine. This confirmed sails were around. Got our second sail bite on a gog in 150’ and a snake king on a jig about an hour later as we drifted SE. 1-2 on sails. Next drift produced huge Cuda and a gaffer mahi on a flatline pilchard and soon after a second sail on a gog. 2-3 on sails. Next drift we got a triple header mahi bite and stuck all three followed quickly by our third sail in 200’. Now 3-4. By now we had drifted well past the Commercial Pier the water was green and the bite slowed. Feeling good but knowing we needed at least another sail and some kings to seal it we decided to move back to the inlet late in the fishing day thinking we had time for two more drifts before lines out. The water at the sea buoy was ideal. Clean and bright blue. We set up in 50’ in the middle of the googan traffic coming and going from the inlet and soon had a sail boater drive right through our kite spread taking half our lines with him. After re rigging we had just enough time for one more drift and got our last sail which was a full grown bruiser. After chasing it and almost losing it at least 3 times we got the leader touch.
Great job guys!!! and we look forward to seeing you guys up on the board for the OAPB Sailfish Tournament in February!!!