First post in about 5 years - been so long that I had to request my login info from admin! Couldn’t have asked for better weather and better fishing for my 11 year old and his best buddy, Hampton Culler.
We left the IOP dock at 6:15 with fresh waffle house bacon egg and cheese biscuits in hand- flat ocean with lines in at 7:55 at the outcrop and fish on before teasers deployed. Figured fish would be dispersed since temps are a month later so plan was to pound the ledge. After 3 hours and three dolphin we picked up and ran offshore to find better rips and organized weeds. Pulled back in 300 feet, chowed down Chick filA nuggets, cranked up Thunderstruck and had five rods go off. My son had his one day old GO PRO videoing the chinese fire drill - got all four in the boat(one ate two hooks). Pulled up to two more weed mats and put out the spinning gear. Gaffed three or four, boxed three or four slingers and released six or seven flip flops. Saw a blue free jumping/grey hounding about 500 yards behind us. Finished up trolling the last two hours and put 3 more nice bulls in the box and a few other nice gaffers. total was about 35 to 37 dolphin - kept 27 - 5 bulls from 30 to 40 pounds, 15 in the 15 to 25 pound range. Incredible day! Been an awesome year for us on meatfish so far with a 70 plus pund wahoo, numerous blackfin and three trips with fishbox totally filled up/overflowing. My new 300 four strokes have yet to hook a blue, though!! 80.4 degrees and blue water is where most action occurred.
PS - unusally agressive birds today - around 3 o’clock, mate yells up that we are almost out of bait - I told him I bought 72 baits, but the birds had eaten ten of them!!
Birds are bad out there for sure. I saw some little tunas at the end of the day yesterday, skippys or oceanics, and plenty of bait as well, kind of explains the abundance of birds. Oh well, put some lures out on the longs and keep your naked baits in tight. I was down south in the 500’s. Are the birds up the line as well? Anyone fish in the 100-200’s?
Way to go! Those 11 year old MEN had one heck of a day. They might wind up afflicted and addicted like the rest of us.
And, I like the way y’all roll with the both Waffle House and Chik Filet on board. Doesn’t get any better than that.
Please do not wait another 5 years to post a report. Better yet, next time have one of your fish-catchin, Waffle House-eatin, Chik Filet, chompin’ crew post the next one!
First post in about 5 years - been so long that I had to request my login info from admin! Couldn’t have asked for better weather and better fishing for my 11 year old and his best buddy, Hampton Culler.
We left the IOP dock at 6:15 with fresh waffle house bacon egg and cheese biscuits in hand- flat ocean with lines in at 7:55 at the outcrop and fish on before teasers deployed. Figured fish would be dispersed since temps are a month later so plan was to pound the ledge. After 3 hours and three dolphin we picked up and ran offshore to find better rips and organized weeds. Pulled back in 300 feet, chowed down Chick filA nuggets, cranked up Thunderstruck and had five rods go off. My son had his one day old GO PRO videoing the chinese fire drill - got all four in the boat(one ate two hooks). Pulled up to two more weed mats and put out the spinning gear. Gaffed three or four, boxed three or four slingers and released six or seven flip flops. Saw a blue free jumping/grey hounding about 500 yards behind us. Finished up trolling the last two hours and put 3 more nice bulls in the box and a few other nice gaffers. total was about 35 to 37 dolphin - kept 27 - 5 bulls from 30 to 40 pounds, 15 in the 15 to 25 pound range. Incredible day! Been an awesome year for us on meatfish so far with a 70 plus pund wahoo, numerous blackfin and three trips with fishbox totally filled up/overflowing. My new 300 four strokes have yet to hook a blue, though!! 80.4 degrees and blue water is where most action occurred.
PS - unusally agressive birds today - around 3 o’clock, mate yells up that we are almost out of bait - I told him I bought 72 baits, but the birds had eaten ten of them!!
Capt. Mel
Congrats!
We had the same problem with the birds… free gaffed one - d
First post in about 5 years - been so long that I had to request my login info from admin! Couldn’t have asked for better weather and better fishing for my 11 year old and his best buddy, Hampton Culler.
We left the IOP dock at 6:15 with fresh waffle house bacon egg and cheese biscuits in hand- flat ocean with lines in at 7:55 at the outcrop and fish on before teasers deployed. Figured fish would be dispersed since temps are a month later so plan was to pound the ledge. After 3 hours and three dolphin we picked up and ran offshore to find better rips and organized weeds. Pulled back in 300 feet, chowed down Chick filA nuggets, cranked up Thunderstruck and had five rods go off. My son had his one day old GO PRO videoing the chinese fire drill - got all four in the boat(one ate two hooks). Pulled up to two more weed mats and put out the spinning gear. Gaffed three or four, boxed three or four slingers and released six or seven flip flops. Saw a blue free jumping/grey hounding about 500 yards behind us. Finished up trolling the last two hours and put 3 more nice bulls in the box and a few other nice gaffers. total was about 35 to 37 dolphin - kept 27 - 5 bulls from 30 to 40 pounds, 15 in the 15 to 25 pound range. Incredible day! Been an awesome year for us on meatfish so far with a 70 plus pund wahoo, numerous blackfin and three trips with fishbox totally filled up/overflowing. My new 300 four strokes have yet to hook a blue, though!! 80.4 degrees and blue water is where most action occurred.
PS - unusally agressive birds today - around 3 o’clock, mate yells up that we are almost out of bait - I told him I bought 72
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good job, i saw yall at the IOP dock the day before and the day yall went.Great day, we planned to go until we discovered water in our center engine… heading out this weekend. My buddys out of Beaufort had bird issues too.
the birds are Shearwaters (federally protected) and I have never seen them so aggressive. We could not keep a drift rig out, as they would dive down 20’ to eat the sardines. We had two get hooked and I can tell you that they have VERY sharp beaks. I got scratched all to heck trying to free the darn things. They stayed with us all day, even moving when we moved.
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
