Swell Rider Report..04/24,25,26,27..Finially

[swell rider]

All I can say is FINIALLY!!!! Sunny, warm, no wind and the fish were chewing...The long awaited and well needed break in the weather aloud us to get out and get some work done.. 04/24 I had Kathy Archablod and her son Neil from Vermont out to do alittle Jigging and Bottom fishing. This was there first time offshore and the first time Jigging but after this trip I think there hooked. We had a great day fish Red Grouper, Triggerfish, B-liners Sea Bass and AJ'S..Tryed out some new Jigs from Stingo, they seemed to work real well on the Jacks and Sea Bass so I guess I'll put them in the jigging rotation..This trip we worked in the 38 nm range between 130 and 170 ft of water not much current which really help out..

The rest of the days I had Jackie from the Merry Marlin, Dave who works on the Helen H out of Hyannis out on Cape Cod and Von and Ryan who were out to learn alittle about the bottom game..These trips were spent fishing Gag Grouper, Sea Bass and Triggers, American Red Snapper and Of course we had to throw a few jigs at the AJ'S since Jackie and Dave like the abuse..We found real good numbers of Gags as well as plenty of Big bass and my ARS hole is still producing. It was a grweat feeling to get these days in and I have a couple more nice days before the weather will pick up..Dave has already made the call to the Cape to brag about how good the fishing is in NC, his first time with me we were weathered out but he got a chance to land a couple nice BFT out of Hatteras but this time he got a chance to dig in on some good grouper fishing..This was 4 great days of fishing with a great people hope this is a sign of the summer weather pattern...Ken

[clt_capt]

Nice mess of triggers and grouper - Of course Pelagic Magic with the snapper - Nice fishing.

[Parker21]

Good work Ken, looks like you got some great weather down there.

[Ponce]

Ken, nice report good to see you are on them. Looks like you have a few more days of good weather to get on them. Good luck these next few days and give us another great report.

[shoefish]

Smiles all around- well done!

[Anders]

that is a lot of triggers, thanks for the report

[merry marlin]

Pretty Work Ken, the smiles say it all...
Jacky always comes back saying how well your boat takes the sea, I'll have to come and see for myself one of these days!
MM

[jig42na]

Good going Ken and way to put the youngster on the jigging. You made a fisher for ever!!!!

So where did you photoshop the backgrounds becaus I've never seen NC water like that the last half dozen times down. LOL

Keep it up! We may have to team up for our mayden voyage and help fill up the boxes for you. She should be damn close to finished after this weekend.