Wrightsville Beach Report 4/26/08 Close Encounters

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Started off this morning headed up the beach to the high 200's lookin a gaffer edge the guys were on yesterday. After a 2.5 hr run we set out mid 200's up inshore of the change and grass edge we were looking for on a few scattered boards. Picked a mid 40's wahoo and 3 mahis then worked on off to the warm water grass edge. Fished up and down 10+ #'s steady picking mahis and another upper 30's wahoo. After hearing of a few blue marlin hook ups and releases we decided to work up the grass edge another 20 #'s to almost the 300 line. Well around 2 or so we get another mahi on a dink pole and Derek is cranking it in i guess about a 10-12 lb fish then from out of no where about 20 ft off the transom i see a shadow come up under the mahi and there she is blue marlin rolled up on her side mouth open ready to eat our mahi. I holler down to get a bait over to her Matt throws a bait, Josh throws one and i get my mouse trap over to her but no dice as fast as she came she was gone all we had to show for it was a mahi with a foot long bill mark down its side. To bad nice fish i'd guess 400 or so i got a good look since all this happened 20 feet or less from the transom. We ended up with 2 wahoo's and 16/17 mahi's we kept 12, threw back 4 or 5 small slingers. Could have caught all the slingers you wanted in the grass but the call of blue marlin beckoned. From what i heard on the radio on our end 5 blue ones released and a sailfish and atleast 4-5 others seen or pulled off. One fish caught on the Buck Wild was about 475 according to Capt Parrish Warren after a 2 hr battle on a 50. So pleanty of action on our end today with low to mid teens mahis and a few scattered wahoo's and blue ones to boot just wish we could have got that one to eat a bait behind our rig but was pretty cool to see none the less.

[SeaBiscuit]

Good fishing John! Plenty of action and a drive by by the man himself. Definitely worth the price of admission.
Thanks for the report & where are the pictures?
SeaBiscuit

[slip slidin]

Congrats to the Trophy crew. Great catch along with the encounter with the blue suited one. Sounds like the mahis have brought some predators along with them.

[JMS-ILM]

great day in the deep....thanks for the ride.

[WAHOONBOX]

PRETTY WORK THERE TROPHY CREW!!