10/9 report out of Pirates Cove w/pics.

[netman9]

Its been great putting another week in the books with our crew that gathers every October for a little fishing covering the waters of the Outer Banks. This year was different without my brother on board as he stayed behind for the early ducks in Central VA and was replaced with my good friend Scott that reported the loss of a F150 on his twin outboard 23' Polar the day of our BW3's meeting to make final plans of the trip. Fridays forecast for Saturday was promising even though 8 of the 11 of us returned to C'ville for various commitments.

Spent the evening preparing baits and tackle for the 5:00 departure heading to The Point. On the ride out I discussed that we would run light on the drag hoping for multiple hookups. 7:00 lines in or at least we tried as it was game on having the first 5 rods get hit before the longlines were in the water.



Managed 4 Black Fin on the small side keeping a couple of dinks not knowing what was ahead of us this day. We were running a pair of birds with green machines WB and WWB off the rocket lunchers, a green squid spreader bar w/green machine close and down the middle, purple squid daisy chain w/knaked hoo off a flat line, another knaked hoo behind a squid bar off a cleat and a little meat off the the outriggers. (whats up with ***** hoo?)

Scott pretty much ran the show with help from myself running the boat and occational rigging and setting lines while Steve who's a VDGIF officer helped out every where possible on his first private boat offshore experience.



Steve ended up bringing our only fish to the boat that saw steel for the day.



The little guys chewed up anything green all day crushing the spread and keeping us busy.



Talked on the radio to a guy running a 26' Pro Sport Cat telling him of our bite N of the fleet. He moved our way finding few along with 8 or more YFT. We ask for help on the YFT and got a purple cedar plug ready and another BFT hammered it before getting the rod near the rod holder.



On the way in we were guessing our count to be around 12-15 in the box releasing around 10 for the day with numerous fish lost while fighting. We were not close with estimates and pleasantly surprised when we put them on deck for a photo.







What a day to end the trip!

From left, myself, Scott and Steve.

[gottaflylee]

Congrats on you fish, looks like ya'll had a good time...

[bobdu11]

That's a nice mess of fish right there ...Bob

[SeaBiscuit]

Blackfins eat good no matter the size! Good catch!
Love the picture of the boat cruising by the ripe marsh grass.
SeaBiscuit

[BTH284]

Those little tuna put up a nice fight and eat great too. Pretty work on your fishing guys!

[Nauti Natured]

Ahhh ..


Theres the beef.


Great report and pics.

Thanks!