Headed out of Beaufort inlet yesterday, broke the inlet at 0500. The crew was Doug my buddy from work, his son RJ, Caleb and me. We pushed out about 50 miles trolled between 25-35 Fathoms water temp 81-83 degrees. We had to dance with a pretty good rainstorm the first hour or so of fishing, but we didn’t have to change our plans too much. This week was the exact opposite of last weekend, last weekend we couldn’t buy a bite trolling, but did well deep dropping for groupers. This weekend the bite was all on the troll, when we bottom fished we only caught a handful of small AJ’s and 1 short scamp.
First line in the water at 0700, first steel to Wahoo at 0709. We caught 5 Wahoo between 0700-1100 they weighed between 20-35 lbs. Pulled in the trolling spread at 1200 and did some deep dropping bottom fished from 1200-1430. All the hoos where caught on the top with almost every position getting hit, we had hits on the WB, rigger, and short. We ran wire everywhere except the flats right behind the teasers those were naked ballyhoo (luckily those did not get hit by a hoo).
We had 1 bite on the planner rod, but it did not trip the planner we saw it when we checked the bait. Now can someone please tell me how a Wahoo can hit a bait, eat all but the head of the ballyhoo cut off half a squid body, put teeth marks in the chin weight and not get hooked or trip the planner. I’d sure like to know.
We had a couple of other knock downs that never hooked up, but every fish that hit hard met steel. We didn’t mark much bait today there were quite a few flyers though. The crew worked very well together. I have to say this was one of my most enjoyable days on the water. I think this was a great way to send RJ and Caleb back to school after summer break.
Enjoy and crank it up!
Admin and or Jer - I tried to upload the video and pics to this site and thread and I kept getting errors.
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