Offshore report for 8/26@ the Norfolk Canyon

[radonman]

We left the dock at Marina Shores around 3:30 am., with the plan of trolling for a while then try some deep dropping at the canyon. Nice ride out at 24kts in my CC 25'. Get lines in at 1st light and had the place to ourselves. Hit a few balls and nada, first high flyer and the long and the short rigger goes off, one in the box skunk off the boat. Got our Sh%t together and hit it again and four more go off, landed 3 more in the box, regrouped made another pass, you got it, five more started screaming off, 4 more in the box.The Mahi were hitting everything and anything tossed to them. This got old quick, so we decided to start bailing them on light line and man that was fun. nice size to them 5 to 15lbs,we put another 20 in the box. We then fished the other side of the high flyer and finished off our limit. Tried to deep dropping, but with 5lb of weight and one hell of a current, the lines were 60 angle off the back made for difficult fishing. Started to troll West picked up two baby tunas. Headed back the barn around 1:30pm. Nice ride in 22kts and dry. Burned less than 80 gals round trip with the "Commonrail". great trip:

[FishinMagician_IV]

Thanks for the report and looks like you had a catchin' day. Congrats on the mess of Mahi!

[Mike Avery]

Very nicely done. I have yet to see a lobster ball on the Norfolk this year, not sure why. But the longliners fish the Norfolk it every single day it seems so even though I don't care for longliners, I guess they are at least providing the mahi some structure to hang around which is good for us.

[Taz Lancaster]

Whats wrong with longlining? Are you just pissed you dont catch fish man? Our local commercial fishermen are not whats hurting the fish stocks they are the ones abiding by the rules they have to make a living too I have been on both ends of the spectrum and I can say from experience you need to blame other countries who decimate the ocean. Oh and how about the guy with 200lbs of fish in his freezer thats never eaten just thrown out burned....think about it.

[Mike Avery]

Whats wrong with longlining?

Bycatch. Dead discarded billfish, undersized swords, turtles, undesired fish....all tossed overboard....dead. No way to prevent bycatch with 30 miles of hooks out. I have nothing against commercial fishman, just certain techniques like seining and longlining.

[Mike Avery]

Sorry radonman, I didn't mean to hijack your thread man.

[Rebel]

Whats wrong with longlining? Are you just pissed you dont catch fish man? Our local commercial fishermen are not whats hurting the fish stocks they are the ones abiding by the rules they have to make a living too I have been on both ends of the spectrum and I can say from experience you need to blame other countries who decimate the ocean. Oh and how about the guy with 200lbs of fish in his freezer thats never eaten just thrown out burned....think about it.

Whoa...Take it easy. Mike is a good guy and catches plenty of fish. He just stated his opinion and didn't make a big deal of it. Let's all play nice

Ed

[PlaynHooky]

AWESOME REPORT!!!

We were out there and had a great day too with some tuna and billfish action....Wish we would of found some Mahi......we tried the deep drop as well....DANG CURRENT!!!

[Fishboy OV8]

Nice mess fo fish, congrats on a great trip

[Kayak fisherman]

Nice Mahi Mahi.

I miss fishing. Finishing up a long stretch of work then it's off to DisneyWorld, so no fishing in the next two weeks. After that, I'm getting out there a bunch of times.