OI Nada to Nice on Wed

[bbogue]

I almost called the trip yesterday off in the driveway due to the conditions at the Dia Shoals buoy at 2AM. 4' seas 4 seconds apart with winds to 20kts. A phone call to the NC forecasters indicated the winds and seas would be trailing off in the early morning, so we went. Crew was Jim (SurfDog), Ben (Capt Ben), Ed and myself. We paid our dues slogging it out on the way out, then trollling in very rough conditons. Thank goodness it finally settled down by noonish.

It was a nada day for us until the seas laid down. We started at the 750 and worked north, missing the early bite at the 800. But when the seas laid down, we saw tuna busting the surface here and there. We managed 4 in the 40+ lb class with several mystery biteoffs and several pulloffs. The heartbreaker was a really nice fish that took a 'striper' spoon behind the spreader bar. It half emptied the spool of my Penn 50 with 12 lb strike drag. I was just beginning to be able to take line back when all of sudden he was just not there. That's fishing. While we packed up for the run in, Ed and Jim tried deep dropping, successfully putting 12 nice tiles in the box. We also relased a dozen or so below the 20' minimum as I perfected my de-gassing technique...it worked great! A 36mph 38 mile run in to the inlet capped off a really nice afternoon.

A great crew. I had a blast. Thanks for going.

Bill
Miss Ginya[excited]

[surfperch1]

Nice tile fishing and good job on the tuna's!

[swancaller]

congrats bill nice catch sorry we did the rough sea thing last week.

[capt_ben]

Bill,
I had a blast as usual. I cant believe my citation trash bag was left out of the report! [grin]

We had just finished talking about me throwing a 5gal. bucket overboard to some unsuspecting angler when the bite gets a little slow, and about that time the bird/gm wwwwwwfb starts peeling line and doesnt stop until the boat slows (very common fighting tactic of a bucket) then I begin the process of winching the fish to the boat, and this fish began to whoop up on me, I even felt a little sweat! Never a head shake, never another inch of line pulled out, nothing, just big, heavy dead weight, then the bird comes up, wrapped up in a big black trash bag! My stomach dropped, then i looked at the green machine and it looked funny, because it had a 40lb. tuna on the hook right below it. So I got a nice tuna, and a trash bag!

Capt_Ben
NoMercy
2350Bluewater

[missginny]

Way to go Bill....we happened to start in right place...2 fish @7:30....1 @ 10:30....stayed in same area and it busted loose when seas died down...I think it was happening in rough morning...just couldn't see them....between 12:00 and 1:00 we had tunas busting within sight constantly.....one 4 down, 2 tight...one 6 down, 2 tight.....captn' wanted to leave at 1:00...last fish in box at 1:05ish!!! Smooth run to inlet.
Great time on 'Fishin Majician' as a ho.....don't get to relax that much when I go on my boat. Tried to get you guys to us once we found them.
Duane
Ms Ginny
20'cc Grady White

[HIT N RUN]

Great job!!! Man I'm glad so many got out this week before this blow. This Oct fishing is what makes the memories that keep us young.[smile]

[itch2fish]

Nice report Bill, glad you guys got on them!!!


Jorge

[lmontagnaj]

Pretty work Bill & Crew....

YFT, Tiles and a double header (YFT & Trash Bag), what an exciting day.... I'm READY.....