A couple of my buddies were dying to get on some tuna. With my boat still sitting in the yard, I called my friend Jeffrey in Hatteras and he offered to put us on. So I agreed to play cockpit monkey and off we went.
Saturday we decided to fish for bluefin offshore of the tower. Alot of fish were caught there Friday but after four hours, we only had one yellofin in the box. The bite had moved way up the beach so after lunch we decided to make the move almost 20 miles. Our first bluefin bite was on the 450 in 3500 feet of water so I stuck him even though he was a 40 lb. schoolie. It was getting late and we were 55 miles from port.
Sunday was a different story. We only had a few hours to fish since we had a nine hour drive home so there was no way we were going to run 55 miles to get on the bluefin. Gameplan... beat the YFT around the 280 and it didn't take long. In four hours we had 10 in the boat and could have had 14. Yellofin were hitting everything and skying on the teasers. We had five on early and boated three. Another triple, a double and a two singles by 11:30. 300 lbs of fish in the boat.
Enjoy the pics and if you ever want to fish with a born and raised Hatteras boy who knows his stuff give Jeffery Quidley on the Island Girl a call at 252-305-6721. He won the under 40 foot boat division of the Big Rock last year. He will take you fishing..... not catching. If you know how to fish you can work the cockpit on his boat and get some expert tips.
Nice photos Alan!! Stan did good!! I am glad to here you put some YFTs in the box. You couldn't ask for two prettier days... I am ready to head back out myself but it looks a little windy this week..Nice Mark
Hatteras YFT 3/20 & 3/21
Nice job guys. 10 yellows in the box in 5 hours is pretty damn good
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