posted by John on May 1
Dan, Jayson, and I rolled out of the marina at 5:45am. Dan’s boat, the Misadventure, slipped effortlessly past the Rod n Reel out to the calm bay. Once past the go slow zone, Dan said, “Let’s go south”. Jayson and I said, “Go for it”. Twenty minutes later, we were setting the spread near the eastern channel edge opposite the power plant.
Never having used planer boards, we followed Dan’s directions to set the planers. Once they were set, it was easy to set lines. We put white lures on the starboard side and green lures to port. We used 6 tandem rigs. 4-5 oz heavy jig w/ a 9-11″ shad combined with 1.5-2 oz light jig w/ a 6-7″ shad. We trolled around about 2 hours looking for signs of sea life. Finally we found a group of fish in an area to the west of James Island. We caught seven fish, all over 30″. Our entry was about 40″ and 28.34 lbs. We did not win, but had a great day on the water.
posted by John on Aug 23
I had to take my wife back to Boston this morning, so since I was going to go fishing out of Chatham inlet, I drove by on the way back. It was a good thing I did. While there was rain and a little wind on the highway, there was a flippin’ nor’easter going on. 25-35 knots E-NE wind steady with gusts over 40. The ocean was angry and did not want my puny, little, tiny boat going out today. Here is what the ocean showed me.
posted by John on Jul 18
Found tuna fish, could not connect. I saw splashes, but by the time we got there they were down. Blind casting to where we thought they went did not work. I never marked a fish.
It was a highly frustrating day. On top of that the trophy tuna season is closed for me as of tonight at midnight. Recreational permits may no longer target, catch, or keep any fish over 73″. Now I have to go find footballs. It looked like some of the tuna jumping today were small enough. Yesterday we saw a huge bluefin launch itself clear of the water.
If it looks like the tuna are heading in a given direction when you see them, is it a good assumption that they will stay in that direction? I tried that and that did not seem to work either.
