Coastal Charters Sportfishing weekend recap

[captdom]

Well to say the tuna are here is an understatement.

I have had the boat on top of thousands of fish since late last week, but unfortunately it took tuill Thurd]sday to get the first one in the boat. I have been out every day since, and have hooked into a dozen fish so far, but have only had 3 come to the boat. These bigger fish are tough to keep hooked, they shed hooks with ease and break line at will sometimes. I had 7 bites on Saturday and countless other near miss blowups, but never kept one buttoned.

The fish were a bit picky to start the week, but as the full moon cycle wanes, they haver steadily put on the feed bag. There are fish spread out all oveer the bay, the Bank, and to the north and east. I have seen many different year classes represented from peanut to monster, and strangley feeding in the same schools many times all mixed together. The amount of striped bass that you have to work through to get to the tuna is mind boggling as well. I must have released 60 or 70 stripers to 40 pounds, all on topwater and jigs yesterday. We went 2 for 3 yesterday in one of the best full tide bites I have ever been involved with, taking a lean long 72 inch racer on a light jig set up, and releasing a 66" fish on a Tattoo Sea Dog cast into a melee.

There was some shenanigans going on amongst the small fleet working this area, but despite that the fish fed with reckless abondon all morning into the afternoon and we were able to get a few fish without getting harrassed too badly.

I had stripers cough up herring, mackeral, squid, whiting, baby cod, baby pollock, crabs, and sand ees. Talked to another boat who reported half beaks in their tuna, so there is definitely some forage for these fish this year.

In contrast to some of the "other"( non-sponsored) charter outfits who enjoy posting here regularly, I dont mind fishing in a fleet or sharing intel...sometimes you gotta show the weekend warriors how its done if there are few fish to be had in a tight area, get in and pull your fish out from under a few bows. You have to cooperate with other boats if you want to really keep your clients in fish as well. I work closely with Rich from Black Rose, the hard hitters from Crimson Tide along with a few others, and we are able to keep our clients dialed in to the bite...you gotta give a little to get a little, and its a big ocean.

So, as a paying sponsor of this site, I invite any of you with the stones and a few bucks to step up, give me a call, and go toe to toe on some really light gear for these sized tunas. My phone number is 401-862-0358, I also do open boat trips for shared charters, so don't worry if you dont have a whole crew. I have some very high end gear, several different combinations of rod and reels both spinning and very light conventional for both jigging and casting. This lets you play with some real nice stuff and get a sense of what style rod and reel you like before you go buy a set up of your own after being infected with the illness I spread.

[backman]

wrong thread - is that Killsong in the orange - that guy jigs like a maniac, looks like work to me !

[JSeas]

Capt Dom:

Always good to see you out on the water. I then know that I am in the right spot! Congrats on a great beginning to your season.

I hope to see you on the water often!

Speak with you soon!

Jim O (JSeas)

[AlloyToy]

Awesome stuff right there!!!!!

[kitebuz]

Great - thanks for the post-up. Now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight

That's awesome to hear, and sounds like you were putting in your time getting ready for them. Hope to see you out there soon!

[Fissues]

Dom,
Thanks for letting me play through the other day. Now that was Sportfishing! I'll be taking you up soon to put some time in on those sillywhips.
Ethan

[dunn6253]

Nice meeting you yesterday in Green Harbor Dom. Good luck the rest of the season, I may have to take you up on a trip later on in the year.

[captdom]

Keep telling everyone where the fish are and you had better enjoy fishing in a fleet and playing with the weekend warriors.

When you've chartered for more than a couple seasons you'll find the mother goose and goslings routine gets old fast. Wait till some Bayliner cuts off your high dollar sports only tuna of the day and see how much your sport like playing in the fleet.

As for the "shenanigans" the other day, we had several boats including a charter boat (Not Dom) cast plugs OVER OUR BOAT to try to reach fish. It felt like we were fishing a demolition derby a few times. I was talking to Got Stryper from 50' away and a pod blew up in front of us. A charter boat ran BETWEEN us on plane! Maybe some folks like that crap. I prefer to avoid the masses.

We had those fish to ourselves for several days. A few boats found them and the word went out, now its the SWC all over again.

Nothing wrong with working with other boats, we had Fin Addiction, Got Styper and Sea Habit working with us, but the googan factor was a 10+ at times from some of the other boats.

How about I think your a complete clown and really dont appreciate you posting anything in my threads as one of my "competitors" and I say that in only the business sense.
And speaking of geese, whats good for the goose is always good for the gander...Why don't you take your good friend's advice and pay up for sponsorship on this site instead of acting like you should get the privelege just because in your mind you are the greatest and own the entire ocean and all that swim in it.....

[Sageboy]

Get out the popcorn!

[parmentj]

What a sh*t show that was. I was shocked, but apparently fish are outside the fleet too... Nice work Dom.