Marathon trip to Oregon Inlet. Left @ 10 am Sunday, 8hrs. later arrived in Nags Head. Up @ 4 dark thirty on Mon., get on boat. Go out inlet in “breaking” waves of the 5-7’ variety. Fish all day. Put 10 YFT and 2 blackfin in the box. Back @ dock and cleaned up by 5:30 PM. Pull into driveway @ 1:30 AM, Tuesday. Up for work @ 6:30 AM. I’m getting ready to steak up the tuna’s now and distribute. It’s like crack, I’ve got friends I never knew I had. Long 2 days, looking forward to tuna dinner and a good night sleep.
PS - Cheap boats up their. 56 footer with rooms and food all for about $450 per person. I spend that to go to the stream on my boat. Plus I didn’t have to clean anything.
Just downloaded pics and will add soon.
Think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half the people are dumber than that.
Boat was “Tuna Fever”, 3 big kids and 3 little kids(13 year olds). All the boats fish the same area and although the guy who booked the trip has strong feelings about this boat I wouldn’t recommend it over another. Some boats caught zero’s and we did well, just not the way I might have done it. OK, I’ll say it, the capt. screwed up IMO. Had our first hook up (2 YFT and 1 BFT)@ 8:30. He didn’t make a second pass, and we trolled 4 miles to the south—NADA. Turned back 4 miles north, you guessed it, 4 YFT @ once, same spot as the morning hookup. Then he kept going again, further north. Turned back eventually after a mile or so and picked 4 more in the same area as the others. 10 tuna is good but I would have done it different, that’s all. Good crew, and we did some bait rigging and I gaffed a good fish. The capt. runs an open bridge so I was up there BS ing a bit which is good to get that local insight.
Forgot to say, most fish 25-50# with 2 over 50#
Think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half the people are dumber than that.
Courtland,
That’s good info! I check their site everyday and it looks as if they are crushing the YFT right now. Have been thinking about doing the same thing. Took a few a charter trips out of there this past August on the Fishin’ Frenzy. That’s some good fishin’! Looks like the prices go down in the winter. Ya’ll stayed on the boat? Load up some pictures when you get a chance.
The Charter was $1400/6 people= $233.00 per person. My son is only 7 so he stayed home (the Outer Banks in Nov. are not a place to get your sea legs). We stayed at a man only motel(your wife would make you stay elsewhere) called Owen’s, clean and functional place. Fifty bucks for the room, not per person, with two double beds. Add in 50$ for the mate, plus some food and gas $ = $450.00 per. Charter rates are constant and set for the year in advance. I believe the 40 captains @ the marina voted for a $75 increase to cover fuel in 2008. If you watched where you ate 6 people could do it all for $2000.00. The time was the killer. Should have spent a day or two and gone surfing or done some surf fishing. You can drive all over the beach up there and pretty much fish from your car. I plan on that when the boy gets a bit bigger. Nobody there this time of year.
Kidie soccer game @ 5 tonight. Pics should be up around 8 or so.
Actually Harry it would be 10x better here. Smaller boat, lighter tackle(not 50W), and home turf. I’ll take 2YFT on my boat over 10 on someone elses. Always nice to see and fish new places, but OBX in November is depressing. Now a 300# in Puerrto Vallarta… different story
Kid- talked to one fish, it said his friends would meet me @ 100 fathoms day after Thanksgiving. Just east of the Deli.
I’m getting ready to steak up the tuna’s now and distribute. It’s like crack, I’ve got friends I never knew I had. Long 2 days, looking forward to tuna dinner and a good night sleep.
With all those crack heads wanting tuna and you being sleep deprived, I just wanted to be sure that you remembered your good friend Chris…you know that guy in Moss Creek?
