Congradulations to those that got one the last few days
We opted to return home to Cape May and let my crew recharge their batteries after spending the Christmas Holidays down in MHC with nothing to show for it. It figures the bite semi-turned on as we were supposed to fish yesterday but decided against it. No big deal as we will be back real soon and if lady luck smiles on us we hope to get our shot after New Years. We fished real hard the last 3 days in the wind, fog and rain with part of the crew from the Miss Andrea joining us over this past weekend with not one legitmate GBT bite. No big deal as this is GBT fishing and the good news is some fish and bait showed up and glad to hear that some fish were caught finally after a pretty slow last few weeks for many of us overall. Congradulations to everyone that got one and sorry to hear some pulled the hook on thier fish yesterday and I know personally how frustrating this can be. Looking like some better days may be coming to both the MHC and the Southport boats and hopefully these NW or West winds make for some better GBT fishing for everyone. Happy New Year to everyone and best of luck to all the GBT fisherman in 2009.
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First let me send out congrats to all boat and crews that got a BFT that got one. Now I'm going to throw my 2 cents worth in here and that's all it is worth. For a number of years now I have been in the middle of the fray or on the sidelines watching this, and here is some food for thought for you guys. When the bite slows in Morehead, seems that a short time later, the Southport bite picked up and when it disappears (Southport bite) the Morehead bite starts back. The BFT are a nomadic crowd of fish, just like False Albacore. They come in and feed on a bunch of bait till they bust it up and move on till they find another easy target of fish. I feel that a lot of these fish make the "loop" from Morehead to Southport/ Cape Lookout Shoals to Frying Pan Shoals looking for easy pods of bait, feed on it till it gets busted up to much and moves on to the next area making a big circle. Now with out a doubt, there are more than 1 main mass of fish here and when there is to much pressure in an area, some of them move and the big circle starts. I do feel that if someone could follow the mass the number if fish caught would be staggering. Just some "fish for thought"...
Lee, I think you are right on. we discussed the same thing several times. you can pretty much count on a bite down that way a couple days after the bite dies off in mhc... bite dies down there and a couple days later... bang! it's going off in mhc again. I really think the reason mhc has a more consistent bite is due to "new" arrivals from up north vs. the cycling of fish that's here up and down the coast. No further than it is from cape lookout to frying pan it's just a hop, skip- & jump for this whole ocean traveling fish to move back & forth.
That's very interesting Lee, makes perfect sense to me.
Does anyone know if Dr. Block released any information from her Tag-A-Giant program? There has been a lot of tagging activity focused on these fish for several years so there should be a body of data floating around out there somewhere that would tell us where these fish move (besides just migrations up and down the coast, I mean more like micro-movements between the shoals off NC).
Let me see what I can dig up, maybe someone else can pitch in with info...
Lee, I have to agree with you on this.. These fish are on the hunt for food and like Lee said when the bait scatters so do the fish. I've noticed when the pressures on a school of fish they get pushed down. Last couple seasons we worked the edges of these bites and off to the SW and had pretty good sucess. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come seing alot of us have been sitting idol just waiting for some fish to show.
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