Comic Relief in Wilmington - older trip 4/24

[gman]

Let me first give a huge thanks to Chip of Offshore Experiences & Rick of Living Water Charters. Those two guys are not only top notch charter Captains but funny funny guys and do everything to put you on the fish.

In addition Arlen & Robert, thanks for putting up with me I know I can be a pest at times and a little high strung

The purpose of this trip was to venture out and try to find some new spots to AJ jig unfortunately the amberjacks are spawning at the moment so it made it very hard to locate them in any numbers and in any size

That doesn't mean we didn't catch ... on the contrary. I probably landed more fish than I ever did but the size and quality just wasn't there so pictures of good fish are scarce on this report

Seeing as the amberjacks were spawning this first picture was fitting before the report ... its called match the hatch

This condom went down with the wrapper on but came up with a fish and the wrapper was off

[gman]

Day 1: I dont see any value of posting 1,000 shots of medium sized fish so we only took a few pictures for the two days

I had the luxury of fishing with Captain Rick of Living Waters and Robert (stormtrooper) as Chip was out hunting monsters with Dennis Braid. We set off early in beautiful seas looking for big amberjacks got to our first stop and immediately dropped down ... well almost

Rick and Robert watched me drop down to see if anything happenned LOL

Well first drop provided a strike and we spent most of the day doing exactly what the first drop did ... hooking Alamco Jacks. I swear if those things got as big as amberjacks no one would jig. They are such hard fighters its insane

We basically hooked up on almost every drop with large and some really huge Almacos with maybe 4 amberjacks. We had blackfin tuna hits all day as well in the top of the water column but couldnt land any. I had my first gag grouper as well. Then came the slaughter absolutely every fish was just being ravaged by sharks. We had about 12 of them circling teh boat actually coming out of the water for a fish head. It was insane

Then Robert hooked a submarine that smoked a stella almost to the spool, he said it was the bottom until we drove 900' away from it and it was still fighting. Had to be a massive shark. It was an awesome display of power

With jigging slowing down we all of a sudden turned into sharkers as they were everywhere but of course as luck would have it when we needed Alamaco Jacks for bait we couldnt friggin find any hahahahahah and then when we did the sharks left hahahahah

All in All Rick ran all over teh world trying to get me on fish and stayed our really late doing it. The larger fish werent there but I had one drop one fish all day long

A huge thanks to Rick for going above and beyond for me, much appreciated and anytime you need comedy relief just let me know I will drive down. Robert you are one funny mother f****

[gman]

Well day two I fished with Chip and we decided to go exploring and try to find some new ledges and bottom. The trip started out fast as Arlen fuccking hooked and landed an wahoo on the jig, Ive never seen a fish cut through the top of the ocean like that fish. It was on fire.

We spent the next hours jigging up medium amberjacks and almaco jacks with some nice red groupers and gags as well. Caught some sea bass as well

Chip and Arlen worked overtime as usual trying to get us on fish bit teh amberjack bite just wasn there

Amberjacks and grouper apparently spawn this month which explains it. We also got to see first hand a huge dolphin spectauclar as well. I have never seen so many dolphins humping before. It was insane

We learned several new techniques such as crouching dragon hidden almaco, circle technique and many more. we laughed a lot

The best part was the last 15 minutes casting poppers to schools of huge amberjacks right under the boat. I hooked and landed the biggest one they have seen on a popper. It wasnt long but was very thick and had huge shoulders

[gman]

[gman]

Unfortunately I got a bad wind knot in my stella/BD200 combo and I didnt want to miss the bite so I grabbed Chips rod and got slammed my first 3 chugs. This fish was huge compared to what they normally are and Arlen said it was the biggest he has seen on topwater. They fight really good but after two fish being landed they shut off completely. It was so cool because huge school of them would swim inches under the water driving you absolutely insane

[Ace1st]

Awesome Pictures!! Thanks.

[Sea Draggin]

That was a nice day for picture taking. Love the vivid blues in those shots!!!

[SeaBiscuit]

Outstanding photographs Glenn, especially the ones of the dolphins. You are right about captains Rick and Chip. Good guys who fish hard for their clients.
Thanks for the post.
SeaBiscuit

[Custom Canvas]

YET ANOTHER AWSOME REPORT THERE GLENN......

PRETTY WORK.....

[merry marlin]

Cool report, thanks for sharing with quality pictures!
One of those dolphins would have let one of those Stellas sing a pretty song...
MM