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MONDAY 12-5-05; Today we were fishing with our good friend John Smith from
Tennessee and his two sons John and Matthew. We were expecting to get some king
mackeral before we went bottom fishing, but, the water had cooled 4* from
saturday and everything was gone that was there then. The weather was not the
best and with rougher conditions predicted for later that day I elected not to
go any farther offshore. So, we decided to go to the bottom and light line for
kings. The bottom fish were biting fair, we caught some of the biggest joltheads
(knobbedhead porgys) I have ever seen. Nice triggerfish too! Several grouper and
3 limits of grey snapper. Now this sounds like a normal fishing trip, nothing
could be farther from that!!!!! We were heading back to the dock and was about
18 miles out when we saw the USCG SEARCH & RESCUE HELICOPTER!!!! Capt. Chris
and I said to each other, someone must be in trouble, I had the radio turned
down earlier due to a bunch of noise and had forgotten to turn it back up, I
noticed they were turning towards us so I turned it up, thinking they were
searching for someone that looked like us and I could let them know that I had
not seen anyone. Turns out they were looking for us!!!! I know now that those
EPIRB units do work, mabey too good!!! This is what I and the service dept. at
ACR has determined happened: On your bracket there is a magnet that holds the
activation sensor in an open position, well my bracket had cracked, allowing the
magnet to pull away about 1/8 inch. We came off a wave pretty hard and that
triggered the unit, the unit itself was not activated, this caused it to
malfunction. You may want to check you bracket on yours and make sure the magnet
is AGAINST your unit with no gaps. If that magnet pulls away and your unit gets
wet, it will malfunction and send a signal, and according to the service tech.
at ACR, it may even go off in a high humidity situation, just be sure the magnet
is still contacting your unit!!!Other than that, we had a normal good day of
fishing with some GREAT GUYS!!! Ronda, you were right, they kept Capt. Chris and
I laughing all day!!! By the way Ronda, your dad said he wanted us to 'wear them
down' catching fish, just ask them if we succeded!!! SEE PIC'S ON MY SITE!! Till
next time, FISH ON!!! Capt. Butch Foster, Capt. Chris Foster, and 'Private
Bodie' the fish dog says HI!!!. YEAH RIGHT SPORTFISHING CHARTERS, SOUTHPORT,NC.
www.yeahrightcharters.com
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