Took two 11 year old boys and their dads out on Saturday, dropped lines at the Outcrop, picked at the dolphin on the way offshore. Action slowed a bit, came back in and put out the greenstick and picked up 4 nice tuna. Ended the day with 12 dolphin, 4 tuna, a fat amberjack and a barracuda. The two boys pulled in most of the fish, they sure were fun to have on board.
Took Dan, his wife Jenny and their friends out on Sunday. Started fishing at the SouthWest bank right at first light and couldn’t find a fish. Everyone on the radio was saying how slow it was. We trolled to Georgetown Hold and put a planer out and hooked a big fish. Fought it for about 20 minutes and it turned out to be a big bull shark. We picked up a dolphin and just waited til the tuna came up to feed and the action was hot. We picked up 19 tuna, threw back some small ones. The greenstick was the king. On several occations we had multiple hook ups. Awesome to see 25 and 30 lb fish exploding on 5 different hooks.
I know some people will bash a greenstick as not sportsmenlike but capt you are right on about the bite on one
I fished on a boat off of OI a couple years back that used one and if watching 70+# yellowfin boiling under them droppers than skyin 5 ft out of the water and hitting the squid on the way down you may as well pack it up cause offshore aint for ya
Most fish we got on one pass was 3 all in the 60#class and they put the 130 way in the backing and put my arm out for about a week
Every time the capt called out a mark we would glue our eyes on the droppers what an awesome bite
curious if you had picked up any yellowfins out there yet this year, of if they all vacation in the OB now? I know commercial NC boats love their greensticks.
We had a huge yellowfin on and lost it about 25 ft from the boat, since I had no pics, didn[t say anything about it cuz of the nay sayers. Had it on in 450 ft of water.
