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9/23/2007 1:31:19 PM

Couple more weeks and Tuna fishing should be hot as hell. Its killing me right now just sitting here on weekends

9/27/2007 4:17:14 PM

Was supposed to take the new boat out on Trip #2 this weekend but the weather looks awful. Gonna call it off and see if I can make another trip next weekend or the following.

10/4/2007 2:41:46 PM

going to seaview pier saturday. they've been slaying the kings (for a pier anyways).

10/4/2007 3:08:52 PM

Going to Beaufort this weekend. I hear they have been wearing the spanish out at Lookout Inlet. Also hearing that the Flounder, Drum, and Trout are biting too...anybody been down there recently?

10/10/2007 10:22:17 AM

They've also been slaying the kings inshore supposedly. Heading there this weekend, will post report...

10/10/2007 2:29:08 PM

here's my report


fished hard monday and tuesday for the little river tourney (we're making the run to NC saturday)

monday:

bait is thick at Harkers Island right now, probably a 5acre or so school of them
caught a couple hundred BIG pogies on the first throw

went to the east side and hit up a few spots

caught a 40lb king on the first hookup at the North Rock

then caught a few more in the 10-20 lb range there and at 2mile rock at the Drum inlet bouy

the east side was about the only place you could go because it was blowing so bad

left there, ran just out of core banks along the beach and busted ass back to MHC, about 3/4 east of MHC there were 2 dozen boats stopped and almost all had fish on..

we fished there til we ran out of baits, the kings there were everywhere, but mostly dinks in the 10-15# range... spotted a few 25# kings skying on bait, but didn't hook any

tuesday:

hit the same bait school and loaded up

scooted out of cape lookout and headed back to the same spots

saw a huge school of ribbonfish about halfway up core banks so we tied one of ours on and dropped some pogies

saw a 45#+ king swim right under the boat... but the only thing biting were the brown marlin there

went on up to the north rock (just off Drum Inlet) and got into the sharks pretty heavy (again)

we were about to pull out and head north(but we were already looking at a 148 mile one way trip from Little river to there so we didn't want to go any further) when the kings started going nuts

hooked up with a few in the 30-35# range, a bunch in low 20's and a ton of the small 15lbers, had one that woulda topped 45 but he ran once he got to the boat and cut me off on the run away from the boat. (short metal leader on that rod so he tailwhipped the mono)

went out to "the corner rock" about 8 miles off CL, the swell had gotten pretty damn stout by then and we didn't even get a bite...

we hooked and released between 50-60 kings altogether, hopefully we'll do ok this weekend, but I think the AB tournament next week will be better... this weather was still fucking them up... just too hot for the huge ones to be tearing it up like they usually do now. The bait push will be even better by next week I suppose

10/10/2007 6:07:38 PM

whats the inshore fishing like down there? I'm heading down to beaufort tomorrow and will be down there all weekend.

10/10/2007 7:59:03 PM

inshore bite is decent... but after this front goes through and settles down, it should be awesome

I couldn't get any spanish to hit, we were gonna fish with some, but we just used pogies and ribbonfish instead

if you can get near the opening of the inlets you'll catch kings too


not a 1/2 mile from teh turning basin the kings are everywhere, just look for the boats

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 8:04 PM. Reason : .]

10/10/2007 8:04:09 PM

yeah, I heard the Spanish were hitting pretty good around Lookout Inlet and that the trout were running pretty well up in the marshes...I havent had a weekend off since June...I cant wait to get down there and get a hook wet.

10/10/2007 8:31:50 PM

yeah they were, prolly a better bite either early or late

I was trying to snag one in the middle of the day


there was a SOLID 6 mile long topwater bite of spanish at lookout... it was crazy

as far as you could see the fish were hitting

10/10/2007 8:42:28 PM

My Ole man is begging me to go wax the kings of OI tomorrow, but I just can't see doing all that work for em.

10/12/2007 4:44:10 PM

lol, I know right

they should be bangin now with the weather change

10/12/2007 4:56:04 PM

Yea, the bite has been red hot. But thats a 4 hour trip and a couple of hours of rigging, I'm just not feeling it. I got Tuna depression.

10/12/2007 4:57:27 PM

hahaha


yeah

after this AB tourny I'll be ready to go catch some tuna


this king thing is fun and all but I like variety

10/12/2007 5:03:22 PM

Heading to Wrightsville for some of those "inferior" kings, grouper, and whatever else will bite. Later TWW.

10/12/2007 5:27:08 PM

any of you guys ever caught a blue fin tuna?

10/12/2007 5:38:01 PM

^^ good luck man, the "inferior" kings taste pretty damn good man!


^ nah, not me

10/12/2007 5:38:53 PM

Yes. There is one in my gallery, but that is a schoolie BFT.

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 5:41 PM. Reason : Amend]

10/12/2007 5:38:55 PM

Friday
Went up in the flats and marshes of the North River/Core Sound and picked up a few smaller flounder and a citation lizzard fish (at least the biggest one I'd ever seen). Also got a few decent blue fish.

Saturday
Went out to Beaufort Inlet early in the morning. We caught several nice Sea Mullet with shrimp and squid. We saw several kings being caught around us, so we trolled for a little while, but to no avail. I think we would have had better luck with live bait. We went further into the inlet and drifted for flounder. We wore the 13 inch flounder out and caught one keeper. There were a TON of boats out there all weekend.

All in all, we didnt catch that many really nice fish, but we had a fun weekend of catching fish and AWESOME weather. Hope to hear some good fishing stories from the weekend, the offshore fishing should have been great.

10/15/2007 9:32:46 AM

yall niggas got nothing on my casting net skillz...




btw, does it count if you net the king instead of hooking it?

10/15/2007 9:46:49 AM

i really want to go spear fishing. It just looks dangerous and fun.

10/15/2007 9:48:07 AM

i went spear fishing in FL a loooong time ago, like 8-10 years ago, i rigged my own spear and everything.

didnt catch much except for some crabs

10/15/2007 9:50:01 AM

king fishing sunday morning out of bogue, saw 3 actually being gaffed, not much besides that, we had 3 knockdowns using cigar minnows

10/15/2007 10:48:43 AM

Went 20 miles out of Wrightsville Saturday and ended up with 2 small kings, 1 large spanish, tons of small sea bass and verm. snapper, 1 10 lb gag, and a GIANT shark.

I think the shark was a dusky shark, about 8' long at least and around 250 pounds.

Great weather and an big success (IMO) for my first real trip on my new boat. First king, grouper, etc. Can't wait to go out again.

10/15/2007 1:45:45 PM

speaking of big sharks...

http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/1928518/

Quote :

"DESTIN, Fla. — Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound shark instead. The fight by Adlee Bruner and friends to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico took more than an hour on Saturday. But when they made it back to land, it was a record for the decades-old Destin Fishing Rodeo. "It was tense," Bruner, 47, said about the fight to land the shark, which has a mouthful of huge, fearsome teeth. "I've fished for 40 years. I've never see one that big." Bruner and his fishing buddies were on a 52-foot charter boat with Capt. Robert Hill, about 70 miles southwest of this beach city in the Florida Panhandle. The fishermen first noticed the big mako because it kept eating grouper and scamp they had hooked. "It was like 'Jaws,'" Hill said. Hill hooked a two-foot amberine on as bait and tossed it out. The shark eventually hit it. After the long fight, the shark was gaffed and eventually gave up after its tail was roped. But even then, the men could not get the big shark in the boat. They tied it to the stern with three ropes and made the four-hour trip back to land. The shark was hoisted at the rodeo before a big crowd. It tipped the scale at 844.4 pounds. After it was gutted, the mako still weighed 638 pounds, breaking the tournament's previous shark division record by 338 pounds."

10/15/2007 3:37:43 PM

I really have a hatred for sharks

btw, it's fun to hold a shark by the tail, grab him around the gill plate with your other hand


and twist like you're wringing out a towel

I hate sharks and ticks, fuckin worthless creatures

10/15/2007 5:08:50 PM

check out this beast my dad caught off of his boat dock down in Mobile, Alabama

said it took him 45 minutes to reel it in and weighed around 40 pounds (give or take, he didnt have a scale on hand)

10/17/2007 5:35:23 PM

cant tell for sure if that is a redfish, but if it is I would get that picture of the net for his sake, if he didnt "release" it of course

[Edited on October 17, 2007 at 5:57 PM. Reason : RELEASE]

10/17/2007 5:56:23 PM

yeah, looks like a red drum...that'd be illegal in NC

10/17/2007 6:31:53 PM

alabama's slot is 16"-26" with 3 fish bag limit, but one in the bag may be over 26"

10/17/2007 6:36:01 PM

Quote :

"Current state regulations allow fishermen to keep up to fifteen spotted seatrout provided that they are at least fourteen inches long. The redfish limit is three fish with a minimum size of twenty-two inches. In addition, it is illegal to keep more than one redfish that exceeds thirty inches in total length. "

he is in alabama, and he only caught one. I highly doubt it's illegal, he knows a lot about fishing in 'bama

[Edited on October 17, 2007 at 6:41 PM. Reason : adsf]

10/17/2007 6:39:41 PM

Not to be the prick but that looks nowhere close to 40 lbs.

Also, just by looking it up, the record is like 43#.

10/17/2007 6:41:42 PM

^^my numbers must be old

^i was thinking the same thing. we've caught them as long as our leg and they only weighed about 35 and were much fatter than that one.

10/17/2007 6:43:03 PM

i live in charleston and we have been catching a lot of reds and trout lately. there have been a few tarpon landed in the past 2 weeks in bulls bay. the big 40# +reds are hitting in the breakers right now. it is a good fishing here...

10/17/2007 7:04:03 PM

That red wouldn't weigh anywhere near 40 pounds even if it had a Siamese twin attached to it.


Fishing here in the Ft Liquordale area is pretty damn good. And sailfish season approaches soon. Too bad I'll be on a boat in the Caribbean for 4 or 5 months.


Oh yeah, I caught an 80 pound tarpon a couple months ago...at a bar! Now that's fishing! hahaa

[Edited on October 17, 2007 at 7:37 PM. Reason : .]

10/17/2007 7:33:34 PM

Looks like we are going to have to hook your old man up to the polygraph like they do in the tournaments.

10/17/2007 7:38:41 PM

Even better. I was throwing everything in my box at some snook the other night. They wouldn't touch any of it. Went in to the galley, grabbed a piece of bacon, trimmed it to look and 'swim' like what they were feeding on, and whamo! Fish on!

Florida is pretty cool. hahaa

10/17/2007 7:48:16 PM

one time I caught a fish and it took a bit out of my testicles it was so funny

10/17/2007 7:51:51 PM

well, I'm leaving to fish the AB tourny


wish me luck fellas!

10/17/2007 8:08:22 PM

Good luck bitch! Kick Brad in the shin for me!

10/17/2007 8:16:20 PM

good luck!

10/17/2007 8:19:20 PM

^^ lol, I will


^ thanks yo

10/17/2007 8:39:17 PM

boo fishin! yay fair!


but good luck anyway

10/17/2007 8:42:24 PM

SKA tournament series?




Southern Kingfish Association, or....


Small Kraft Advisory


Whatch out Morehead, here come the go fast boats!

10/17/2007 9:28:15 PM

Quote :

"Whatch out Morehead, here come the go fast boats!"

it's quite fun

10/17/2007 11:07:35 PM

isnt the Wahoo tourney this weekend?

10/18/2007 8:58:09 AM

yes

10/18/2007 9:07:48 AM

There might be some Tuna fishing at the end of this week. Shit is getting fishy!

11/5/2007 9:16:24 PM

We decided to make a run to OI this morning because of a red hot Yellowfin Tuna Bite. Forecast was perfect, 10-15 out of the West w/ 2-3ft Seas. Made some calls to secure a crew and off we went.

It fucking blew all afternoon in the 20-25+ range. Seas were about 6-9 with a bunch of 10+ monsters in there. I rarely get sick but I was green as hell and just in a shitty mood. Since I'm getting sick fighting the sea in the cockpit I take the wheel to get my sea legs back. Well the view from the helm wasn't much better and I was scarred out of my mind with what I saw. I was plowing up and over 10ft+ head seas. These weren't nice rolling swells, they had broken tops and were close together; 4-5 secs apart. Had the pleasure of surfing over a wave only to be met by a 15+ ft leviathan that was coming down on the boat...I didn't have any time, I just yelled, "Hold On" and jammed the throttles forward, just managing to plow through the top quarter of the wave. I mean this thing was coming down on us and if I hadn't accelerated the bow would have been buried right in the middle of it

That was it for me and I ordered the lines in and we took a nice 3 hour jog back home in some of the shittiest seas I've ever been it. Ended up laying out nice right near the inlet, go figure!...But I'm still Tuna-less for the Fall of 2008

11/13/2007 10:17:14 PM