14 July VB Tuna Tournament

Well....we fished north at the Washington Canyon area for the first time on Saturday. The tournament we were in called for lines in at 0730...we were in place at 0645 and had fish all over the area we stopped in however we could not get lines in. We watched fish roll for 40 minutes, then at lines in everything went down. I believe it was due to the Full moon that fish were feeding early. trolled all day with basically two Mahi which we picked up off some boards. Had one White Marlin crash our spreader bar a few times but did not come tight. The best bite this weekend came for people chunking for Tuna vice Trolling. Notice the slick calm conditions out there, the weather man called for 4 - 7 seas with 15 - 25 Kt wind. There was 0 wind and 2 - 3 south swell with waves about 15 minutes apart. Great time with Don, Otter, George, Brian Stedman and Todd. until next time....Capt Bob out

4th of July Report VaBeach

Departed Owls Creek at 0430 destination the 10th Fathom hump SW of the Cigar. Onboard Paul, Otter, Don and myself. Arrived at the hump at 0630, 3 lines in the water and BAM...Blue-Fin commits suicide on a cedar plug. Don makes short work of him and he's in the boat. Start trolling towards the Cigar...fight really bad sargassum grass the entire way. Pick up a Gaffer Dolphin on the Cigar, head east to deeper water but no bites. Backlash landed a Blue Marlin a few miles from where we were on a spreader bar. trolled back towards the hump and pick up 3 more nice Gaffer Mahi's. Hot lures were Cedar Plug and Get Reel Lure TCB. Experienced Electrical problems due to wiring on the boat. Lost my Furuno GPS/Fishfinder and lost power to my trim tabs. Had backup Garmin GPS up so we were good to go. Seas were 3 - 5 laying down to 2 -4 later in the day. Had about a 10 - 12Kt SSW wind all day. made the ride in very nice !.....gotta put the boat in for repairs at Ski Boats Unltd so probably last report until the Virginia Beach Tuna Tournament.

7/1 report Virginia Beach

Well...we did our first run out of Virginia Beach on a beautiful, calm day. Onboard I had myself, Paul Westrich, Patrick Camacho, Ray Camacho, Tony Deunos, and John Hamilton. We left Owls Creek promptly at 0430AM along with a few other boats. Our first destination was the fingers to get in on a good Blue Fin bite. We had our first blue fin (40 Pounds) in the boat by 0730. We were being covered up with blue fish so we moved over to the Norfolk Canyon and fished there for a few hours with no fish. Pulled lines and headed to Waynes world, on the way we spot a trash back floating and stopped, put a couple of lines in and caught a gaffer Bull dolphin. Stopped and chummed for a few minutes and hooked up with the cow, The Penn spinner broke drag and the fish got off. trolled the area for a while, saw a BLue Marlin sunning himself, did not bit, saw a couple of large sharks, unknown species. tons of turles out there today. pulled lines to head back into the fingers for a little more blue fin action. On the way trolled passed a 2x4 and pulled another Mahi off that. ended the day with 1 Blue Fin, 2 Dolphin and a bunch of blue fish. Had fun with all the In-laws.....until next time....Bob