Hitched up Still Think'n and headed south around 0315AM. Onboard myself, Otter, Brian steadman and Owen (FelixtheCat). Met Owen down there around 0515 or so, put the boat in the water and followed the fleet out in pitch black conditions. Inlet was a bit bumpy but not bad. Temperature was a brisk 34 Degrees, felt like a striper trip for sure !. Lines i around 0745 or so at the 650 in approximately 50 - 75 Fathoms. Water a nice 73Degrees and clear green with some mixed Blue water patches. Watched charter boys pick at singles and double until around 1100 when it was finally our turn. First fish was on the WWB Boone Bird/Green machine. Otter's on the pole, puts up a good fight and Steady sticks him..nice fish probably 40 pound class YFT. Lines out again and Blue/White sea witch gets slammed. This fish is screaming drag off the reel, Steady's up on this one...after the blazing run and then decent fight we knew it was a Hoo....Otter sticks the gaff and nice Citation 40# wahoo in the boat. Lines out again. Blue and White GLH islander lure gets hammered hard...Owen's on this one, nice fight on the fish and STick another nice YFT, head shot by otter !.....
30TW blue/white get reel shooter goes off, short rigger, they decide to be gracious and give me the rod...get another nice YFT to the boat, have him on leader and we take a bit wave on the side, the boat slams the fish right as otter is getting ready to stick him, pisses him off real bad, he takes off, leader, swivel and get reel shooter in tow...he's gone !...
Get lines in again, right long goes off, blue/white islander, Owen's on this one. Again, screaming run of about 100 yards of line, the kind of run that makes your blood boil !...awesome sound...Owen wrestles another big Hoo to the boat, this one goes 42#, 2nd citation of the day....
Throw in a couple of small bailer Mahi on the cedar plugs and we complete the Meat slam out of Oregon Inlet.
Still Think'n ate up the seas, a great day out there with some awesome company...Here's some action shots from the day
We had Mono out...lost about 3 fish to bite offs...all the wahoo came at about the same time..we were getting ready to change to wire but it was getting time to go.....Bob
Is that the 28 Southport? I fished a 26 this summer out of Wachapreague and I've not seen a better thought out and quality boat. Top notch. She was bit bumpy due to spread but very nice overall.
Nice catch. That blended water from about the 650 to the 750 sure looks pretty, much like that filament that spun off a couple weeks ago...
Terp...yea, that is a 28 southport, it is the absolute best made 28' boat made. You have to ride one to understand. That finger of water is where the fish were yesterday. The Wahoo were in about 280 feet, the Tuna were a bit deeper.
I use hatteras Cheaters but didin't use them yesterday. They're pretty awesome...Bob
Fine report Bob. Thank you and congrats on the meat fish slam!
Right on on the southport boats! All around the finest Carolina center consoles in the high 20's. I get to fish on a 26 with twin 250s. The sky is the limit for these battle wagons!
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Great camera work to boot.
