Team Ocean Isle Fishing center caught a 74lb. king yesterday at the SKA National Championship in Biloxi. They have a 2 fish aggregate weight of over 118lbs. That is awesome!!! Real good guys on that team.
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WOW! thats a reel smoker
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yes sir! that is a slob once in a life time fish there.
They found a school of pogies in 250’ of water. There was many big fish working the pod. That is pretty cool.
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If you want to see that monster…and it IS a MONSTER…goto…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBycYUC-G4&feature=player_embedded
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Key West 225
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WOW!
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Tightlines and God Bless
You can go to the Ocean Isle Fishing center website in there fishing reports and they tell the whole story on how they caught the fish.
It is also reported that the bluefin have showed up.
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Here is the Capt’s recap. Great read and pic.
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And now, the rest of the story…
Like most other tournament competitors, we checked out at 6:40am on Friday and made tracks as fast as we could some 80 miles south of Biloxi to an area known as the Horseshoe. This spot had produced winning Kings for the past three National tournaments and reports were the bite was red hot again. We had a livewell full of Bluefish and Blue Runners, and we were set for hot action. We arrived at the fishing grounds at 8:40am and the dozen or so boats that were all ready there were all hooked up; it was going to be on. My father, brother and I each grabbed a bait, tossed it over and began free lining them back. Seconds later we were all hooked up. It was as hot a bite as you could be in, with most Kings averaging 25-30 pounds. There were certainly much larger Kings there, but the numbers of “smaller” Kings made it very hard to keep a bait in the water for a larger fish to bite. Our technique became to toss three baits out, hook up, fight and either release or upgrade what we had in the box and then move. We would run a 1/4 mile or so and then do it again. The expanse of the size of the Kingfish school was amazing, a solid square mile. Throughout the morning we upgraded our catch, landing several fish in the low to mid 40 pound range. We had a rough aggregate of 85 pounds, but we knew it would take more. Barrett commented, “OK, we have our kicker fish, now we need a monster.” Like many tournament fishing days, we dreamed of catching THE BIG ONE. The fabled 60 pounder was what we needed. At 1:30pm we had gone through all of our bait. I decided to run inshore some 7 miles to an oil rig in 120 feet of water where I thought we could jig fresh bait; the plan being to get bait and then try to find somewhere to fish that might give us that one big fish we needed. We jigged up a couple dozen baits and at 2pm we started heading back toward the area in which we left