The fishing turned around for us today. Fished to the south. The mauis came back from vacation (more likely the longline boats haven’t been murdering them for the past 5 or 6 days). We kept 28 and released three. About 6 more inadvertent transom releases on nice sized fish. Oh well. Several grown fish - 7 of them were right at 30lbs or over. Biggest was just under 40.
Highlight of the day was IOP police pulling us over on the way to the boat for a license plate lamp that was “too dim”. Go figure.
Also caught a sailing fish and missed another one. Had a daymaker opportunity but did not connect. Hooked our first spearfish. Saw 5. Unfortunately he didn’t stay glued for long. We were in a school. Also missed a wahoo. Transom release on a HUGE tripletail. Caught a cuda. Great day. Calm water. Good stuff.
forgot to add that tunanut’s son, Alex, was on the rod for close to 20 of the fish. a couple seemed bigger than him. i think he is 10. captured his first dolphins and then some. he did GREAT on the rod.
CD, congrats on your day! How far south did yall fish? We fished out of beaufort on tuesday and found a good edge in about 500 feet North East of the Banks. Caught some good fish but missed the possible daymaker (50 lb dolphin) at the gaff. We ended up with thirty dolphin btw. 5 and 25 pounds. Only billfish we saw was a blue free jumpin.
Thank you D for a fantastic day on the water. The guys were great w/Alex, I couldn’t have hoped for a better day. Sucks i was on the rod for the sail, as we have no pics. Got some great action shots of the day though. Uploading now, will post more later. Alex’s first mahi.
Some double header action
Nice one on spinning gear
come to papa
not bad for a 9 year old
some slinger action
Just reely thankful for the invite and the opportunity for me and my boy to spend with some reelly good guys. Hope we didn’t get in the way too much. Thanks again D
Its great that the wahoos are showing up on the tideline just out the jetties… a little early, but great nonetheless. You need to make Katie a wahoo matt like we did for her first sail.
We fished in the high 300s most of the day.
Thanks for posting the pictures, tunanut. If you can, load them on shutterfly and send me a link. And tell little Alex that he could teach quite a few adults how to angle on a maui. Look at that form in the second pic…
You need to make Katie a wahoo matt like we did for her first sail.
I thought about that. I was going frame the Twitch we caught it on along with a couple of pictures, but unfortunately we lost the bait about 5 minutes later to another fish. We were 8 for 14. Not bad for a 6 hour trip.
