Do I have a fishing report today or what?
Seriously, it's not that Bill Cummings and his crew filled the box, because they didn't (or the Billies didn't that is) but the boys experienced the true joy of fishing today and have a fabulous time.
It all started out at the 230 rock where Haywood found those blackfin yesterday. No blackfin today but Maxwell had some bait marks so they pulled out some new rigs that we got over the winter. Some folks down south have had some luck with deep water jigs on tuna so Billy bought some and couple Shimano stand up rigs - that butterfly jigs went down and each jig brought a bite - mostly jacks of all flavors and couple that the Billies didn't recognise but great fun was had by all fishing for them. Then the boys foul hooked what Maxwell thinks was a big dusky shark and the battle ensued for an hour and half - everyone fought the thing and in the end Dickerson broke it off.
After that the Tuna Fever headed up to the 280 and pulled off two yellowfin on the way - ooohhh - one in the box though at 35 poundsish. at the 280 they got some fuzzy marks and dropped the jigs again - coming up with some other kind of jack. Stripedy ones. on the way to the 330 they didn't see much of anything so they ran to the 400 and found a small weed line with a nice color change.11.5 knots of current going down the thing and one fat gaffer in the box when it was all said and done.
All in all it was a hell of a day and a load of fun, Generally speaking. Many thanks to Bill and the boys for playing today!
We are starting to do some regular days now - Billy is booked from Thursday on through next weekend but we are open on Sunday from a cancellation. If you need a weekend you had better grab that one as thats the last available weekend day until July. Call us at home 252-473-1097 and Tight Lines!