Had Otter, Don, Mark Voodoo and his son Hunter fishing with me today...we had wheels up from my house at 0300..everybody on time and not hungover, which is always a good thing....we make it down to OIFC at approximately 0450 and go grab a couple more bags of ice as it's supposed to be a nice, calm hot day out in the gulf stream..as we get down to the Kitty Hawk area coudn't help but notice that all the flag (big flags) were standing straight out flapping in the light and variable (read 15 - 20) knott wind....Hum, must be a short onshore breeze.....well we get to the ramp and people are discussing the weather...but everybody had driven from somewhere out of town so we all decided to hit it....got in line with the fleet at approximately 0530 and made a quick run out to the stream....started at the 650 line in 71 degree water, nice break with two tones all over the place....I followed those two tones most of the morning with the only thing getting hit was the planer getting bumped by one of the many dolphin swimming around the boat...got down around the 560 line (south of the point) and get our first Mahi...little bailer out of the blue and Mark Voodoo make short work on him....get lines back out and something hammers my TIki bar which is riding on a 6/0 senator and is ripping drag...ends up breaking the mainline which must have had a nick in it that I didn't find.....good bye Tiki Bar and G&H sea witch..enjoy your ride in the deep....get lines back out and another TIki bar and get hammered on my pink spreader bar, otter's on t his one and it's a nice Mahi....left long goes down hard with the 2nd half of the Bull/Cow pair and Mark gets his 9 year old son Hunter belted up and on the rod....Hunter make quick work of his fish and Don stick a nice Gaffer....Otter gets his in which is pulling pretty good on a Large spreader bar and Don sticks this one also...Nice Bull and cow in the 20 pound range...get lines back out around the point in 200 fathoms....Otter tell Mark's 9year old son, Hunter, hey greenhorn, the Capt said only 45 minutes left of fishing...you know you have to bite the head off the Ballyhoo and we'll have luck.....Hunter's all over it, Mark says no hunter and then turns around to check for weed...Hunter then commences to completed RIP the head off a thawed out Ballyhoo, take a couple of chews and then spit it out...HOly shit, I can't believe I just saw this....Hunter then hands the half a Ballyhoo and tells otter to take a bite...Well, what is Otter going to do, a 9year old just called him out...so Otter take a big ole bite of ballyhoo belly and just about hurls, but manages to keep it down...wow, good for you guys, Fear Factor on Still Think'n..I'm loving this..Just about the time Otter is shotgunning a Miller LIte to wash his mouth out...Bam Left long, G&H Sea witch gets hammered, this is no Mahi, it's a tuna...marks on the rod....jig the rest of the rod...right long gets hit but comes unglued, otter's is retrieving the Flat line when a YFT comes cutting through the seas and hammers the G&H Pink ballyhoo, otter drops back and he's on it again and is buttoned up...about this time Mark's YFT shakes the hook so we're down to just Otter...we get the fish boat side and Don stick the first YFT of the year on Still Think'n.....by now it's about 315PM...blowing 15 - 20 Knotts out of the SW and we still have a two hour ride through Nags Head Bike week to get home...so we call it a day...back at the docks most boats I talked with had between 1 and 3 YFT and some Mahi...alot of guys fished south around the 300 line with a couple around the point...bite was very slow all over with fish here and there..most of the Tuna came out of Two tones...

Blue FIn Tuna 13 April

Got home Easter Sunday from South Carolina and started poking around the internet....Saw a weather window for today with it shutting down for the rest of the week...took a peak at the sat shot and saw some good water arond the 000's and south.....started making the calls..Fatbeard - I gotta get my boat today and I'm going Tog Fishing....okSteady - I'm in Minneapolis...(good reason)Jeff "F" - I'm I'm in Boston (good reason)Don (Skinny) - I've gotta work (his 1 day a year he has to actually work...lol)Otter - I've gotta work and I'm taking off friday (take this weekend off every year)Todd (Knott Wishn) - Parents are in town (another good reason)Colt (firefighting fisherman) - I'm on the podium tomorrow or I would goVooDoo - Hell yea I'll go...Ok..I need at least one more person so I post on here looking for riders....no takers...I have them take the post down after a couple hours cause I didn't wanna have to look through volunteers in the morning.....Ok...Me and Mark (VooDoo).....let's do it...Leave Owls Creek at 0545 to a wind free morning, slick ass calm ride out to the 050 line...find 63 degree water and start trolling ...we came out of Rudee same time as Canyon Express who headed way south as he's moving his boat to OI for the spring season.....no hits for a while so we call up Canyon Express who's about 10 - 15 miles south of us and he's into em pretty good.....We pick up lines and head south....find Canyon Express and put lines out....We see a very large school of two tones and head towards em....as the spread goes through the two tones the left long and left short explode....I haven't heard the 50 wides scream like that in a very long time.....Oh no, we've got a double on and there's only two of us...we let the two rods go as Mark and I clear lines.....I had told mark to get the belt out and be ready so he's harnessed up and I'm fighting mine from the gunnell...no time to get belt on at this point.......about an hour later we get marks fish boatside and I leave my rod in the aft Rod holder and go over to get marks fish in the boat....I get on leader as the fish is doing his death circle...I tell mark to unhook the rod, and grab the gaff....Putting the drag down lower in case I loose control of the fish....Mark times it perfect and stick the BFT in the head...I grab the 2nd gaff and stick him....start to lift him over the gunnel but my gaff pulls.....put the steel in his eye and we hoise this big bitch in the boat.....Go back to my rod and work him in...get him on leader and working on getting the hook out..the SOB bit me !...I've got the marks to prove it....as we're trying to remove the hook he rubs up on the side of the boat and breaks off...that's cool....clean release.....AT this point we're frigging done man.....it's a little after noon....we're down at the 830 line (78 Nautical miles south of Rudee) and we've got no more fight left in us......Clean up the mess and motor home.....Don and Billable meets us at the fishing center and Don graciously volunteers to clean the fish at my house while Mark and I clean the boat up.....Jeanette serves up some Sashima and Cavichi at the Bargola.....to go with our ice cold beers.....I'm just happy to have some Tuna on Still Think'n again...it's on now...!.....I'm sure I'm leaving some stuff out but Mark can fill in...He did a great job on his fish today......it's all good.....

Fishing has begun

Well.....Hit up OI on Sunday....no fish for us so this will be short and sweet...conditions were good we just we not on em today....Reports should hopefully be better in the future..until then, enjoy this Video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DglFE8M0lNA