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Were Fishing Hard!

Monday, August 09, 2010, 08:12

It has been a busy week and a half for us. Had a nice yellowfin last saturday about 60lbs.

Monday tues and wed we were fishing in the White Marlin Open. Had a few shots at whites , lost two on different days within 20ft of the boat with the hook just pulling out, gotta keep that line tight! :shock:. Those darn things would jump right over my naked hoos and grab the artificial every time, errrr. Had a small tuna and a bunch of dolphins with 2 large ones. Our handheld scale showed 21 and 27#'s for the two largest. We went to the scales for the first time and missed the money by half a pound @ 25.5#s (26# was weighed in that day), I have said in the past that if we ever made it to the scales I would be happy!

Back on this past weekend, we got into the dolphin again and had 4 shots at whites that we couldnt keep on the line on saturday. Finally a blue came in and ate like a fish should and we got a release.

On sunday we changed strategy a bit chasing a non existant (for us) tuna bite in the norfolk. Came inside in the afternoon and got a strange banded jack fish and a real nice wahoo @ 42#

These dern marlins have been beating me to death, I have yet to have a good chance at putting this circle hook in the jaw of one, I have two pretty naked flats waiting for them and it amazes me how those things want to eat green machines instead, oh well, thats fishing!

Yellowfin Marlin and Dolphin

Monday, July 26, 2010, 04:53

Its all here now!! We have been canyon fishing and the tuna and marlin have shown up! The yellowfin have been nice size too! We got another Blue Marlin yesterday! That fish was good enough to get us a top boat prize for day 3 in the Wachapreague Marlin Tournament.

The dolphin have also made a good showing around the lobster pot balls and keep it mixed up throughout the day.

If you have been wanting to go fishing, now is the time!

Were still on the bluefin!

Friday, July 09, 2010, 05:41

The weather has been good, the crews have been fun and Fishing has been great! We cant ask for a better past week. Fish are coming over the rail! A mix of Nice size dolphin and bluefin tuna have been the typically catch this week. Look for the Wahoo and Marlin to start in the next few weeks!

Here are a few pics of the past week. Look at the fun we are having! Get your crew together and come join us!

Were Catchin!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 07:47

Come join us!

Were back fishing in 2010!

Monday, June 28, 2010, 09:48

Topless has been busy fishing the start of the season for the last few weeks. We have caught dolphin, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna and even a blue marlin so far this year! The tuna fishing is hot right now and its short runs to the fishing grounds. They wont be this close for long, if your thinking about going now is the time!!

Fishing is still red hot!

Saturday, July 18, 2009, 18:34

We have been running a lot in the past few weeks, The big bluefin are around so its short runs to the fishing grounds. We had one that weighed 129 lbs today! We have open spots next week, give us a call!

Here are a few pictures that I snapped last week, I am out of a camera for a bit, its sent off for some major repair :-(



The Kids can do it too!



Heres Bill Hill with his nice bluefin!



Picture in action!



Capt George of the Janie Mac fished with us last week, Here he is inspecting the situation.



This is a sight you want to see while fishing, theis means that tuna have been feeding and the birds are picking the scraps, get ready for a bite!

Its Tuna Fishing Season

Monday, June 29, 2009, 17:38

We have been busy for the last two weeks, There has been a good yellowfin tuna bite in the canyons and the fishing has been great!

We Have a couple days open next week, This is better fishing than we have seen in a few years, Its time to go out!

Call Capt Perry, He is ready to talk some fishing!

Long range trip 5-24/25

Monday, May 25, 2009, 17:46

Topless left the dock in Greenbackville at 5:30 am headed south to a warm water eddy off the gulf stream. Fished in the afternoon around a large fleet that was having a scattered tuna bite. We managed a nice mako on the troll and a yellowfin near the edge of dark. Setup for the night where we released 2 more makos and a hammerhead (also released, his lip was a little bloody but he was ok). We could have caught many more, there were small makos around the boat most of the night. By morning the hot water had moved out and the rainstorms had moved in. We did get a gaffer before we pulled lines around 9am and ran home. It was nice to see a tuna again!

I also got a new camera so I was playing with it.

Eairly Season Bluewater Trip

Monday, May 11, 2009, 13:19

Had an itch for some blue water so we strached it, till it was raw!

Left greenback aboard the TOPLESS at 7am friday heading south to the swirl of warm water off Oregon Inlet in hopes of finding a bluefin. Hit the edge of the water around 1:00, 51 to 64 deg break, trolled all the way across it without a bite! Found the two tones and bait, but still nada. So, Plan B, hit the edge of the stream overboard about 12 miles away. Hit the edge and it was pretty rough. Got 1 gaffer on the troll south down to the point off Hatteras. The day was looking pretty bleak up to this point. Setup at night to drift across the point, current was doing at least 2 knots, shark baits were draggin along the top and my sword bait was struggling to get down with a lot of lead. This is where the fun started. Steady bites all night, released a est. 175lb Shark of some type, looked like a dusky, but they all kinda look like duskys??? every 45 mins a rod would go off. Pulled 2 hooks on the sword rig!!! errr!

Then at 12:00 shark rod goes off, and really takes off. Now this rig is a 20/o Circle hook with HEAVY cable, a really potent piece of riggin hardware. Tighten up the drag and fish on! We have him hooked up to an 80 with 250 yards of heavy braid and mono below. Before I could do much the damn thing had spooled me of braid and was steady taking out line. Down to half a spool. Slick had the boat fired up and we were backin down through rough ass seas with water flying everwhere. You would have thought we had a grander hooked up in the big rock or something the way we had to chase this darn fish. The fish would come up and you could hear it jump and splash and then sound again. I just knew I was hooked up to a 400lb mako or some kinda beast of the ocean. I have never felt anything with so much power on the other end of a rod and reel. He had me, I didnt have him. This fish was doing what he pleased, Up to the top then sounding down cutting back and forth the whole time. We got him close a few times but just outside the light we couldnt see what we had and it would jump and sound again. Mike Tyson couldnt have beat me worse than this fish was doing. 40 mins into it I start going above stike on the reel, somethings gotta give, we are wet and wore out and this damn fish hasent lost a bit of power. More drag, Ive got the braid back at this point and am really putting some pressure on. Then, the fish came up beside the boat in the lights this time, Splashed and thrashed and dove again.

There was a period of silence, crickets, crickets...

That was a damn porpoise!!!! Hooked in the corner of the mouth with the circle hook, WTF! ate a giant chunk of bluefish! Never have we seen this happen or even heard about it for that matter. What do we do now??? So now we had the fish, well, mammal, close to the boat. We have got to get this critter off the rod asap for its sake. (notice to PETA people reading this, we did all we could) I slam the reel Max drag and hold the spool with a glove, he was still taking it, but not for long. he turned and ran right up to the boat, leader outa the water, Full pressure on him. This was out chance to cut him off as close as were gonna get, and we did. He took off, much happier than he was during the previous hour. None of us could believe it, he ate a cable shark rig. I would have never guessed thats what I was fighing the whole time. Tired and woreout at 1:30, we didnt even put a rod back in the water that night...

Up at Daybreak started trolling home, Found a weedline on the edge of the stream and started working it offshore to no mans land. It was game on on the dolphin. Had 2 bulls that went 31 and 27 lbs and a dozen other gaffers over 10lbs. We could have worked that line forever it seemed like. It held nothing but dolphin though, I kept waiting for a hoo or a big blue to crash in but it never happened. We pulled lines at 10:30 and pointed toward home 130 miles away. It was smooth sailing with a tailwind and made it home for supper.

I think that trip should cure the itch for a few weeks at least.

Rock fishing is hot!

Thursday, February 05, 2009, 13:42

They wont be here long, come get in on the action!

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