From Captain John Raguso (ROFFS™ client): “Had one of the best “away” shark charters ever aboard Capt. Joe LaFace’s Hampton Bays charter boat Jo-Deene at the 21st Annual Wally & Doug Oakland’s Memorial Shark Tournament on June 27th out of Shinnecock Inlet. Joining us was his son Capt. Jo-Jo, one of NYPD’s finest.
We headed out to some clean 65-degree water SW of Montauk that seemed like the place to go, courtesy of sea surface sat charts from ROFFS™. Had a 125-mako as soon as we dropped in and released it after a short fight, looking for bigger game. A thresher came calling about 10-minutes later and gobbled up a fresh bunker bait on a mighty-mite Penn 16VSX outfit spooled with 600-yards of hi-vis yellow 65-lb TUF-Line superbraid.
The fight was on and after about 1.5-hours of pulling 22-lbs of strike drag, the sweet little 16 put another big shark notch in her reel seat with Jo-Jo slugging it out and besting the big whiptail. We were able to drag her tail first into the Grady Canyon 271’s cockpit via the wave gate and headed home early, getting back to Oakland’s at 11am.
This 341-lb Thresher was the tournament’s biggest fish and took home first prize and a bunch of the calcutta. Capt. Joe and Capt. Jo-Jo are great folks and their Grady is totally tricked out for their inshore charters specialty…and obviously offshore charters now too! Thanks for the invitation guys, it was a pleasure to introduce you both to the joys of the lite-tackle, big game, sport fishing experience.”