5-31-2009 MHC, NC

[mythosbeer]

We ( Bruce, Ryan, Bill, and myself) went out on Sunday to give my brother in law's boat its first offshore voyage. Our main goal was to look for some dolphin and do some jigging when we had enough for dinner and some for the freezer. Pretty good ride out, but his 22ft hydrasport is a little bit of a wet ride.

I hate fishing in a crowd and with the plethora of boats that were going to be between the 14 buoy and 90ft. drop I had absolutely no desire to head that direction. We had heard a couple reports from NW places and it was on the way to where I had a good feeling we would find some fish so we headed that way and trolled from #1 to #2 to #3 with 2 short strikes. Didn't see any flyers and I didn't like the water so we pressed on.

Since we were pretty close to a spot I had gotten some AJ's on before...we headed that way and jigged some up. Nothing big, but we did get a few 30-35lbers. We cut it short here because the boat owner was feeling a little funny so we got moving before it got worse.

We headed south in the direction I was hoping there would be fish. Turns out about 4 miles from the papoose we saw a small weedline and we pointed the boat down it. A mile later we found a nice rip and weedline and decided to troll it for awhile. We picked away at a nice class of fish...fought 6 nice bulls, pulled one off. They ran 20-25lbs I would guess. The bigger fish were definitely on the offshore side of the rip. When we trolled the inshore side, we got killed with short strikes and pulled in 1 bailer. From the word on the radio...it was a slow day and our fish were a better class than most so we considered ourselves fortunate and decided to do a little more jigging.

We headed to the spot I went two weeks ago, where we caught some AJ's and a cobia and jigged it for awhile. Everyone had fun catching AJ's from 20-35lbs or so. I caught a couple 7-8lb blues that came up missing the back 1/3 of their bodies...just gushing all over. I also caught a nice almaco jack...and they definitely fight harder than an amberjack for some reason.

The wind picked up and made it a very confused choppy sea on the way back in...another wet ride. Anyways...we all had fun and got some nice eats. I'm ready for the jigging competition though...hunting for the big boys!

Mitch

[clt_capt]

Sounds like a great break-in trip. Nice

[Sea Draggin]

Great Job Mitch. Glad you were able to put the boys on them.

[Van Wildonher]

The boat owner was getting sea sick? Looks pretty calm to me...

[mythosbeer]

It was calm...I was talking with my dad about this last night. Not sure why he got a boat he can't use without getting sick. Maybe he can go get some prescription stuff or something. He has gone with me twice and chummed both times. Now he started to get sick on his boat in 2ft seas. I told him beforehand that he would have to deal with it if he got sick or we would take someone else's boat and make him deal with it. Not to be mean...but we wanted to fish.

Mitch

[Kimberly662]

The boat owner was getting sea sick? Looks pretty calm to me...

I was thinking the same thing.

[Sea Draggin]

Yeah. He needs to get a prescription for scopolomine patch or the scopace pills. At least until he can build up his confidence and tolerance. You want to have a good time out there and either of those medicines will make that happen.

Memorial day I watched people barf on the charter boat all weekend. Some of it was warranted, some wasn't.

[mythosbeer]

The boat owner was getting sea sick? Looks pretty calm to me...

I was thinking the same thing.

It was the first trip out on his boat. Besides...some people get sick in the waterway. The conditions don't have much to do with some people, its just being on the water.

He didn't get sick though...just said his stomach was feeling funny so we got moving in case. In his defense, he was fighting off a cold or something and was very congested. Same thing happened to my dad when Jim (Sea Draggin) went fishing with us...he was congested and didn't get seasick, but didn't feel real good pretty much all day.

oh, there was a fishing report in there somewhere too

[mythosbeer]

Sounds like a great break-in trip. Nice

Great Job Mitch. Glad you were able to put the boys on them.

Thanks guys! We could have worked that rip longer than the two hours we did, but we had plenty to eat and we caught plenty of fish while jigging...which is more fun to me anyways!