Birthday Blue Suit- Oregon Inlet

[TunaTeaser1]

5/28-Fished my buddy's (Full Choke) Regulator on Friday looking for the gaffers south out of Oregon Inlet. It was a little choppy on the way out, but when we arrived to our spot we found that we were all alone- a rare thing this time of year, especially Memorial Day weekend.

The morning started off very slow with only a couple bites from bailers and the gaffers eluding us. Ended up getting into the tunas pretty good starting at around 9. Caught 11 and kept our limit of 9 before working up the beach. Around noon the billfish bite started going off at around the 400 line and we were right in the thick of it. Only 10 boats fishing this area and I think every boat had at least one encounter with a billfish. An hour into it we had caught a couple gaffers when I see the short rigger get plowed out of the corner of my eye...hooked up blue marlin. 15 seconds later the 350 class fish jumped off. An hour later we got another shot off a blind bite. This fish stayed deep and never jumped. 30 Minutes later a #225 class fish is boatside and released healthy. The action for everyone in the area was pretty good.
At one point 3 boats were all lined up backing down on blue ones...one captain said "you know its a good bite when everyone is tripping up on each other because they're fighting blue ones!" And he was right....

Finished the day keeping 9 yfts, 5 gaffers, 1-2 on blues.

5/30 Fished with Michael, Mark (offshore), my brother and a couple others on the Tuna Teaser. Had the pleasure of having Elson Myers on the bridge....class act guy and really enjoyed fishing with him. Cleared the marina and had fuel issues. Turned around and got everything resolved just over an hour later. Our late start probably didn't help, but we managed to stop right on top of some fish. Ended up catching 5 tunas and 9 gaffers. No luck on the billfish today and broke a couple tunas off on light leader, but overall a nice day.

5/31 Spent a couple of hours just south of the inlet catching a bunch of spanish, blues, and albacore. No luck with the cobes.

Depsite the rough weather saturday, it was a good long weekend!

[NJPete]

Grats on the fish and thanks for posting. I have to ask though, in pics 3 and 4, is that the line from the tip to the fish going over the wireman and the other guy or is it a rigger line???

[offshore]

Alex,
Great fishing with you guys on Sunday. It was a blast. Hope to have some video posted in the near future. Nice photos of the Blue one. Did Michael get the part for his Camera Mount??. Mark

[TunaTeaser1]

Grats on the fish and thanks for posting. I have to ask though, in pics 3 and 4, is that the line from the tip to the fish going over the wireman and the other guy or is it a rigger line???

Good question. With only 3 of us on the boat, the camera man was still wearing bucket harness with rod attached, rod angling outward. Hook had already been removed at that point and lure was tossed on deck behind both myself and the other guy holding the fish.

[NJPete]

thanks again, just had to comment since its a nice fish but nothing i would want to lose my head over..lol...

[TunaTeaser1]

Mark, Michael got his camera stuff thanks. How's your hand feel after that tuna spooled the teaser to the knot!!

[offshore]

Mark, Michael got his camera stuff thanks. How's your hand feel after that tuna spooled the teaser to the knot!!

Wooo Whoooo baby!! That thing was smokin!! Elson tried to stop it first then I tried to stop it after he got fried!! We watched him hit that teaser 3 times then on the forth time he ate that hoo on the end and it was on!! He was still on it when I finally got control of the reel ( All the way to the knot!!). We had the drags buttoned down but didn't slow him down ... Nice fish ! I thought he was going to foul the other three that were hooked up because he went from the port side all the way to the Starboard side of the boat!! I little excitement from the bridge thats for sure .... Love it!!

Dont forget to re-tie the let out rope on the port side outrigger...

[chumslicker27]

Pretty work there fellas.. Hell of a good day!! Congrats!!!!

[perfectscore]

Wooo Whoooo baby!! That thing was smokin!! Elson tried to stop it first then I tried to stop it after he got fried!! We watched him hit that teaser 3 times then on the forth time he ate that hoo on the end and it was on!! He was still on it when I finally got control of the reel ( All the way to the knot!!). We had the drags buttoned down but didn't slow him down ... Nice fish ! I thought he was going to foul the other three that were hooked up because he went from the port side all the way to the Starboard side of the boat!! I little excitement from the bridge thats for sure .... Love it!!

Dont forget to re-tie the let out rope on the port side outrigger...

does elson charter fish anymore??

[offshore]

does elson charter fish anymore??

I believe he is running the Canyon Blues in Wanchese for the owner . He is doing tournaments as well. Great guy smart as a whip on the water!!......Mark