11/4/2010
It was a great day on the water for the fleet today! The yellowfin are definately (finally) around and the highliner today was Dave Swain on the High Return who picked off a limit!!
The Billies had a crew from new River Electric and it was a rough one - but they had some good action. Maxwell started out on the 800 and 680 where a finger of wather in the 74 degree range was closing out fast in a quick current. Billy says it was pretty cool to watch and they kicked off the morning hooking a wham of gaffers - and put 6 in the box after untangling everything then there were two fat big eye which they fought for about 40 minutes - losing both. Urgh. In the meantime Swain was catching yellowfin. hehe. They also went 4 for 10 on wahoo - two citations...congrats to George Wood on his 43 pounder and to Jerey Settle on his 44 pounder - NICE! Fat Wahoo..mmmm. Anyway the rest of the day was a steady pick at yellowfin - 6 in the box and one blackfin as well. Many Thanks to Terry who had big compliments on the Tuna Fever and much love goes out to John Swim who retired this year - we missed you!!
We are booked out for the next couple days due to weather but we are open Monday and Tuesday - after that there is not much (the Billies are even booked on Thanksgiving!) Heres the open days.. 15, 22, 28, 29 and 30 Tight Lines!

11/3/2010
Lucky Wednesday - the boys finally got out!!! Billy has spend the last several days rebuilding some reels and hunting (of course) and today the seas fell out enough for Ron Mattox and the boys to hit the Stream. Actually they ping ponged around all over the place. There were yellowfin all over - troyuble is they would pop up and bite then disappear....which means there were some excellent catches in the fleet and some no so excellent catches in the fleet. Maxwell chased the bite here and there and back over here and then out there and then back there and over...well, you get the picture. In the end the Billies pulled out a great catch - at least as far as Ron and the boys were concerned - 10 yellowfin and I think 6 or 7 blackfins; yes, the blackfin are still hanging around. Yummy!!!!
So there is life in the ocean after all! The crews are headed out tomorrow and then guess what - yep the wind is coming back and it is going to be nasty till maybe Monday. We have cancelled Friday right through Sunday and have Monday and Tuesday open next week. I will update you on the weather as we go. Tight Lines!

Tuna Fever Charters
135 Berry Road
Manteo, NC 27954
Oregon Inlet Fishing center
252/473-1097 (Ph) 800/272-5199 (OIFC)
http://www.tunafever.com/index.aspx