North carolinia fishing tactics

[ocalex]

I might not be the best to answer this but the easiest place to use split bills are gonna be on your flatlines. If your clips are low all you need is to keep it underwater. I typically only marlin fish so i rarely go over 5.5knots and if you are using small ballyhoo that is all the faster you would want to go, mediums larges and horses hold up with higher speeds but whitey's love the smalls. i splitbill all my baits when rigging and if the weather coperates then my rigger baits swim relatively well most of the time skipping only every now and again to make them easy to see. If it gets windy and stuff starts blowing around add 1/8 oz wieghts and that should keep them in place and swiming, adding a seawitch is just adding color to the bait great for tuna not my favorite for marlin. Islanders same sort of thing but make the bait last much longer (no washout) and changes the action, short rigger for blue marlin or wwb for tuna. Both seawitches and islanders will let u troll faster and at more of a tuna speed. Now that i spoke my peace we can let the pros teach us all

[DROPBACK]

Hey box.................remember that time I rolled into your shop around 9:30 on a friday night about 5 years ago................

Karl

[waynofish]

Pay attention to what the boys around you are doing. North carolina has the best fishing possible without needing a passport. I started in the early nineties out of OC MD in the summer and Hatteras in the spring and the techniques I learned at Hatteras have carried me through to this day. Tuna trolling with ballyhoo/seawhitches and the old hawaiin eyes/bally has decked plenty of yellowfins up to about 250lbs and plenty of dorados (not to mention blue ones) in other countries for me.
Be ready for anything. one thing I liked about there is you could get covered up with tunas one minute, find a log full of gaffers the next, and have a blue one fire in while your still cleaning the bloodbath from the pit. Always be ready. And the grass, AAHHGGHH.

[trollman]

You will hear pleanty about using meat instead of Fu Fu in NC, so I'll leave that to others. There are a few Carolina traditions (rules) that may help you

The only flags that are flown are billfish flags--- period;
Flags are only displayed on the starboard side;
Flags come down at sundown;
a job well done is "pretty work";
you address all women (with the possible exception of fellow female mates) as Maam in a polite manner;
ball busting is left up North;
depth is in fathoms not feet (unless in the Sound or very near shore);
position is in TD's, not Lat Long;

Your captain will need to learn to read and fish current (very important point)

You will have a love/hate relationship with sargassum (grass).

Learn to twist wire.

Good luck.

as a damn yankee (and a fomer #1 gaffman myself), i can vouch for almost all of what these rebs are saying, including the advice to join WAHOONDABOX's rigging course (which i some day hope to do myself after my wife gets her new private jet), but do not listen to this crap about leave the "ball busting" up north (geez, to guys like me Richmond is NOT up north). these guys are the best fisherman going and as one who has seen it first hand i put them up there against the best in the world! but they will also bust ur balls with the best of them. check out some of the videos on this site and u will improve as a fisherman 3000%, also you and others might find this article on Temperature Breaks interesting (Cap't Lee you already know this stuff cold!)

http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/sa...491663,00.html

but anyway if they bust ya balls here, it is all in good fun. for instance, there is a gentleman on this site, i am not at liberty to say his name, but he really sucks (i mean he really BITES ME ) as a gaffman - he is probably #5 or #6 gaffman - he knows WAHOO he is, but we love him. see what i mean?

[Cowboy]

It is neat to see this thread back at the top now, So #1 Gaffman how do you like the ride so far Glad you joined? And to think Glenn got a ballyupda arse for his reply to your first post. Funny shit I don't care who you are!

[#1Gaffman]

It is neat to see this thread back at the top now, So #1 Gaffman how do you like the ride so far Glad you joined? And to think Glenn got a ballyupda arse for his reply to your first post. Funny shit I don't care who you are!

Oh, HOWS THE RIDE YOU SAY??? Im loving it!!!!


Trollman, ive been to 3 of Wahoonbox's schools, ive got my 4th coming up.

Cowboy-Ive met some great people, learned a whole lot, fished with in my opinion some of the best NC has to offer. Had some great days and got my fullfillment of blood in NC.

And more importantly ive made alot of new freinds in this world.

SOON THE TIME WILL COME FOR ME TO PUT WHAT IVE LEARNED IN ACTION UP HOME!

[Cowboy]

SOON THE TIME WILL COME FOR ME TO PUT WHAT IVE LEARNED IN ACTION UP HOME!

Just leave the fruit tree crappola for down south

I knew you would like it here, look forward to trolling beside you shortly.

[#1Gaffman]

Just leave the fruit tree crappola for down south

I knew you would like it here, look forward to trolling beside you shortly.

I dont know, i just talked to chris the other day, Ill be mating for him when i can,

I SMELL A DRIVE BY BY NANAING!!!

[gottaflylee]

I dont know, i just talked to chris the other day, Ill be mating for him when i can,

I SMELL A DRIVE BY BY NANAING!!!

If I were you I would LEAVE IT ALONE...IT WILL COME BACK AND "BITE" YOU!

[#1Gaffman]

If I were you I would LEAVE IT ALONE...IT WILL COME BACK AND "BITE" YOU!

Yea, dont worry dont worry i learned my leason


Cowboy ur safe, there will be know fruitings linked to me this summer.

JUST LOTS AND LOTS OF BLOOD ON THE DOCK!!!!