Offshore Virginia Yesterday

[Healthy Grin]

It may not be Venezuela but Virginia’s offshore fishing is pretty good right now. Actually, with a couple of professional mates and either Captains Jimmy Grant or Bubba Carter running the boat, I expect we would have had Venezuela quality catches. It was just me and some of my fishing buddies. Give us enough chances and we do OK. We went down to the Triple 0s area yesterday and found a lot of life. There was a good temperature break over the 100 fathom curve. We spent most of our time in about 300 fathoms. We only had half of the spread out when we first were attacked by the white marlin. One hooked itself on a blue marlin bait. We had another hooked up on a small bait but their was a backlash on the drop back. When that came tight, the light-wire circle hook straightened out. That was the theme of the day. It was gorgeous out there. I do not know how many marlin we saw. They grabbed my teasers and dredge. Mostly flat-line bites but we had 3 whites hook themselves on short-rigger big baits as we tried to crank it away from them. In total, we hooked 11 marlin but for various reasons, we caught 5 of those. We saw one blue marlin as it cruised by the boat as we were trying to get baits back out after a dolphin encounter. In addition to dolphin and white marlin, we caught a couple of nice wahoo. We also had tuna busting on the surface and airing out but we never got a bait in front of them. The whites spent a lot of time jumping out of the water for photographs. Hunter Southall and Bernie Sparrer each caught their first marlin. It was Bernie’s 6th citation for the year, earning him his first Expert Angler award. Both Bernie and Hunter got to go swimming back at the dock. It is a good time to get offshore in the Mid-Atlantic right now.

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[ocnslr]

Fantastic photos and great fishing.

Thanks for sharing it!

[Fish-N-Fool]

Congrats on a great day of fall billfishing.
John Unkart

[Ware Fisher]

Wow! Those are terrific pictures!

Those fish sure like acrobatics.

[captdon]

Great report ken . that one nice wahoo

[Rebel]

What a great day...CONGRATS!!!

Ed

[dave wolfram]

What an incredible series of pics. Thanks for sharing........

Capt. Dave W.

[AlbeCatchin']

Great photos. Now I won't be able to concentrate Monday at work as I put a crew together and secure bait for Tuesday.

[shoot-straight]

awsome pics.

[Here We Go]

Wicked photos Ken...Thanks!:thumbup:

[Magic Moment]

Awesome day and pics! Congrats. That first white is a fat one! looked like a small blue one in the water.

[Paul Michael]

Nice job Ken. We should have gone on Saturday. Looking forward to the next time. Hopefully soon.

[Teasers]

Awesome pics and great fishing. That hoo is a monster. How much did he weigh?

Keith

[Split Shot-MK]

Freakin' Sweet fishing and photos!

[yellowfin213]

Pretty work, these pictures should be on the cover of Saltwater Sportsman! Congratulations on an awesome day offshore.

[Seascritch]

now how am i supposed to concentrate on work today!!??

[J_MAN]

Awesome pictures.
There is one especially that has a pinkish hue from the sun shining on the White that is just incredible.

You could enter some of those pics and win prizes or something.

Congrats on an awesome day!:clapping2:

[David]

Again what great pics,thanks.

[TAT-TUNA]

Pretty work..!

[OC Local]

Congratulations!!! Fantastic pics. Thanks for sharing

[bob the welder]

Great shots of the whites. If you enter them in some photo contests and you may win something because they are some of the best I've seen !! What was the water temp?

[27 sailfish]

Great report / photos. Thanks for taking all of us along :thumbup:.

[torquetowers]

Thanks for bring the trip to life with the pics, you can look at them over and over again.

[Fishboy OV8]

HOOOO's your daddy :bigfish:....... nice fish :rockingreport:

[JoshKaptur]

Wonderful shots - making it really hard to be at work!!!!

[Sea King]

Fantastic, nice work! Thanks for sharing.

[The Mitigator]

Great shots, can't wait for October OI trip.

[Healthy Grin]

Another jumper from last weekend:

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[DAWGONIT]

Awesome! tks for the report & pics.
Evan.

[Danny]

Those are great pictures, thanks for posting them.

[Doc` B]

Great Day; I'm jealous!

[Sea Gator]

Fantastic Photos, Thanks for sharing.

[smells like fish]

Absolutely awesome pics!