CAPE FEAR BFT RPT 1/13

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

WELL WE SET OUT AT IN THE FAIRWAY AREA LOTS OF BAIT 59.5 DEG WATER FISHED BAIT MARKS FROM 6 AM. TIL AROUND 9 WITH NO LUCK. TROLLED INTO THE SLOUGH THEN SAW A GROUP OF BIRDS DIVING HARD ON SOME BAIT WE WORKED IN TO THEM 60.8 DEG WATER LOADS OF BAIT THEN BOOM BFT MARKS. WATER DEPTH CREPT UP FROM 40 TO 24 THEN 17 FEET WE ADJUSTED OUR PLANER RIG ACCORDINGLY THEN SNAP THE RUBBER BAND BREAKS HERE WE GO 20 LBS OF DRAG GOES SREAMING OFF PUSH IT UP TO 33 LBS STILL SCREAMING BUT NOT FOR LONG AS WE BEGAN TO CLEAR THE PLANER AND GET READY TO DO BATTLE IT WAS OVER AS FAST AS IT BEGAN OH WELL WHAT DO YA DO. DID NOT HERE OF ANY OTHER ACTION AROUND US TRIED TO CALL CAPT. JON BUT COULD NOT HEAR THEM HOPE THEY HAD SOME LUCK DOWN BELOW US. HOPE TO GET OUT THERE AGAIN NEXT WEEK.

[WAHOONBOX]

AT LEAST YOU WERE THERE BIG DOG!!!! I HEARD MAHIS WERE CAUGHT UP OUR WAYIN THE BFT CROWD ...73 DEGREE WATER AND SOMEONE HAD A SAILDOG IN DA BAITS!!!

[Capt. Squiddly]

Wait a second...how deep of water are you guys fishing these Giants in??????

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

USUALLY 60-30 FT. BUT THEY GO WHERE THE BAIT IS THEY AIN'T GOT A DEPTH GUAGE.

[cape_fisherman]

Squidly he said 17'. I don't doubt him one bit as I know for a fact back in our hayday bite there was one caught in 6'. Yep, on the beach trolling in and out of the breakers. I isn't that uncommon down here...well it didn't USED to be that uncommon.

Jay

[Capt. Squiddly]

Wow, I really didnt think you guys were fishing in that shallow of water down there...

[Sea Draggin]

We spent all day on the beach off Bogue Inlet and the letter bouys. Perfect, clean 61 degree water and good bait. Just one thing missing. The tunas. Apparently the few that were around, were in grassy 69 degree water on the shoals.

The best report that I heard today was from a boat that went off shore. 12 blackfin, 1 weehoo and one 90 lb Hoo!

It was a pretty day with a great party. Thanks Pete, Carl and Matt.

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

Capt John, I tried to call you this morning. We fished about 4 miles off Ocean Isle Beach today with no luck. I fished around the knuckle yesterday with a charter. About lunch time they were waving the white flag so it was off to the west after some sea bass. After jerking a couple hundred with only about 40 keepers we decided to call it quits, put everything up & was fixing to cut my BF rigs off but had been seeing a lot of bait around and the temp was 58.5 so I talked them into fishing for about 20 mins, just to give it one last chance. As soon as we got back trolling I started to mark haystacks 20'-30' thick and BAM! got him on! It made four good runs but finally got him inside our circle and worked him up. right as the swivel was about to clear the water I saw him shake his head about twice and threw the hook. Oh well, at least my charter got a tug and saw the fish. We fished till dark and marked the fish a couple times but that was it. We started there this morning and followed the bait west all the way down off the Little River jetties till dark. I marked the fish today & seen'em bust on the pogies one time, just couldnt get the bite. A 93" was killed just inshore of the raritan wreck this morning as well as a 72" rec fish caught this evening around the same place. I'm taking a couple days off but Capt. Roger will be out that way in the morning running the "Showtime" on ch. 11. Good luck if you're fishing tomorrow.

[ifish4tuna]

Squidly he said 17'. I don't doubt him one bit as I know for a fact back in our hayday bite there was one caught in 6'. Yep, on the beach trolling in and out of the breakers. I isn't that uncommon down here...well it didn't USED to be that uncommon.

Jay

Cape_fisherman, what distance off shore are you 17' deep? For us around here, that would be a few hundred yards in most cases unless we were near an island or some shoals. Also when you say hay-day - do you mean about 5-10 years ago?

Trophy, did you throw the hook or something else? Also - just as an asside, we run our drag quite a bit higher than that to start. Between 35-40lbs for strike.

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

DOWN HERE ON FRYING PAN SHOALS WHERE WE WERE TODAY ABOUT 10 MILES OFFSHORE FISHING UP ON THE SHOALS. IT IS WHAT IT'S CALLED SHOALS THAT RUN OFF TO THE SE FROM THE BEACH TO ABOUT 30 MILES OFFSHORE VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THE GUYS AT MHC ARE FISHING WE HAVE MORE WATER ON FP THAN THEY DO ON LOOKOUT SHOALS. MOST OF THE DEPTHS ARE 12-24 FT THEN AROUND THEM ARE 35-60 FT.