ONE WAHOO TWO WAHOO....THERE WERE NO SHEEP IN THIS DREAM..........
BANGALAMA KAPOWWOTANNGO !!! WHO JUST DROPPED THE ATOM BOMB ????!!! GEEZUS H WHERE'S THE MOSSBERG TO SHUT THE FREAKING ALARM OFF ?
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IT WAS 50 DEGREES ON THE BANKS MARQUEE AS I HEADED TO BEAUFORT YESTERDAY MORNING.....I COULDN'T SLEEP WORTH A HOOT SO I WATCH BLACK HAWK DOWN FOR THE NINTH TIME AND FINALLY DOZED OFF ........MY GLASS OF ICE CREAM LOOKS LIKE GRAVY WHEN I FINALLY WOKE UP
I WAS HOPEFULLY LOCK'D N LOADED WITH THE RIGHT SET-UP FOR THIS SEASONS INAUGURAL MEAT FISH HUNT WITH
CAPT TY ...SOUTHSHORE30" AND WILLIE ANOTHER CHARTER CAPT FROM CAPE COD.......BOTH ARE MASS' BOYS WHO SHARE THE SAME PASSION AS I.........THEY HAD ALSO INVITED CAPT MIKE TO JOIN US ON THE HUNT....
IT WAS AN EASY TEN OUT OF THE NORTH......I HOPED IT WOULD HOLD UP AND WE GET THE DAY IN BEFORE THE
NWS SCREAMS BAD SATAN AND HELLSGATE OPENS UP..............
WE PULLED UP TO WET OUR LINES JUST ABOVE THE SWANSBORO HOLE......NO MUCH TO GO BY AS FAR AS SIGNS TO GO BY ......A COUPLE GROUPER BOATS WERE PIVOTING ON A SMALL LEDGE TO THE SOUTHWEST....THE RUTGERS SAT SHOT SHOWED SOME BACKING CURRENT INSHORE THE 100F
NO BIRDS...NO MANTAS...NO FLYERS AND NO WEED.......MMMMM....74 POINT SOMETHING AND DOWN GOES THE SNIPER ROD TO ABOUT 25 FEET TO START WITH.....WE ADDED A 7 ROD STAND-UP SPREAD WITH 100% BLUE CRYSTAL WITCHES ....100 # LEADER....
COME ON BABY!!! CHEWWW!!!
GOOD TO BE BACK OUT HERE FOR THE 34TH SEASON.
HOLEY SMOLEY THE FINRAZOR DEATH STICK JUST BUCKLED AND THE LINE ANGLED UP....."GOT HIM ON"!!!!!
TURNED OUT TO BE LIL WAHOOSKI.....MAYBE 15LBS.....NO STUD BUT HE SURE BAGGED UP NICE!

............CAPT TY CIRCLED THE WAGON ON THE JUST NOW VISIBLE CURRENT EDGE......LIGHT SCATTERED GRASS........IT WAS A BIT LUMPY OUT THERE WITH THE DREADED OFFSHORE SWELL THAT TENDS TO SHUT DOWN YELLOWBELLIES.....I HATE THIS! DANG A SWELL!
SNIPER ROD NOW RELOADED AND BACK DOWN TO HUNT...........HOLEY CRAPOLA IT JUST BUCKLED AGAIN!!!.......NOW ....NOW THIS IS GOOD........HE'S PULLING SOME DRAG THIS TIME .......THERE IS SOME THICK HAM ON THE OTHER END AND HE IS PISSED OFF!!!
WAHOONBOX! 38 MAYBE 40 ....NO MATTER HE IS OURS.........I'LL TAKE ONE IN THE 30'S ANYDAY....
ALL IN ALL.....WE SHOULD HAVE-COULD HAVE DONE BETTER.....WE PROBABLY HAD A TOTAL OF 10 LEGITIMATE BITES ALL DAY.......PULLED ONE WAHOO OFF RIGHT AT THE GAFF.....HAD 3 WAHOO CUTOFFS AND WE CLEARLY SEEN THE WITCH THIEVES AIRING OUT AND BYE BYE......SEE YA LATER.....;
AND THEN WE HAD AN AFTERNOON TUNA BITE IN 97 FATHOMS ..... AND FOUR TO BE EXACT PILED ON AT ONE TIME AND WE MANAGED BUT ONE YELLOWFIN FROM THIS......IT WAS STANDUP ON A TYRNOS 30 DINK BAIT...80 LB LEADER ...SPLIT BILL BALLYHOO BEHIND AN ILANDER CHAIN....
MOREHEAD CITY

.....MARCH LOOKS VERY PROMISING

.....I WILL BE DINING WELL TONIGHT..........
I JUST NEED TO COME TIGHT MORE OFTEN.....
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