8 December Oregon Inlet

[bobdu11]

really crazy day we missed the fleet heading out and I didn't have any tracks for OI left on my GPS. So..about 5 small boys pulled out and started the run out of OI...well, one of the boats a couple of boats in front of us went out of the channel and went into the mud on the right of the channel as your heading out....chain reaction and 3 or 4 boats including me went into the mud. Had to trim the motors way up and back out of there.....so we get out, run the crack and get up on plane...well Still Think'n is listing hard to port, appears one of my trim tabs had mud or something in it which prevented from coming all the way up...stopped the boat and Otter gets over the side and clears the planer. Jeff and Todd and crew on black pearl comes by to make sure we were OK..tks for that buddy, appreciate the assist.

Get back up on plane and everything is running great.....get lines in and start the troll...well, we find a huge POD of porpoise with only a couple of Charter boys on them...Tried working them but it got very crowded very quickly... so we left and went north to the 750 line and were working behind a trawler with no luck so we went back to the 700 line but went deeper than most other boats and found Black Pearl out there working a POD of two tones. We spent a couple of hours working them by ourselve (with black pearl) before we come tight on the TIKI bar. This fish was pulling hard man...we thought it was a beast..get him in the boat and find the line had wrapped around his gill plate which is why he was so hard to get in. I don't know how the line didn't get cut as the gill plate is pretty sharp.

That was about it for the day...about 15 minutes after I get a fish in the boat here comes the fleet and they were on us again.....tough day out there for sure....but had a blast, ERIC did great dealing with my crew of scalleywags and all their hijinxs...Otter got right back in the swing of things after some time off and DON and Steady as always were on their a-game..well other than the naps they both took while we were fishing ! Guess they need nappy time....tha's gonna wind it up for 2007 offshore....but 2008 is only 3 weeks away

[FinRazr]

Good deal Bob are ya gonna get in on some striper action at the beach?I'll be down wed-tues.

[bobdu11]

gonna try and hit up the stripppppppers on Sunday. I"m having a Christmas party on Saturdy night so might not be a wise decision on my part to fish Saturday...but Sunday I'll definately be out there !....They're killing the hogs at the high rise.....Bob

[carom]

thanks for the report Bob, great shots there!

[trollman]

way to hit 'em dude. congrats. thanks for the pics.

[captjimf]

Good job out there. Iwent out of OI on sunday the 9th and we caught 2 yellows out of 6 bites fishing the two tones. We were in that same general area as well. Our planer rod seemed to be the ticket.