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I'm prolly going Monday, weather depending, watching these swells crossing OI everyday has me confused, because there's a lot of energy in the ocean and a cold front approaching for this weekend.
By next weekend, the hurricanes in the atlantic will be gone and so will my window, so...
BTW, Big eye's showed up again at the point yesterday, several over 100 lbs. Everything else is 40+ YFT's.
Im with the rest of you on this. We are going to hold out and see what happens next week. All we need is two or three good days together and we are there!!! Everything is ready to go and so am I........Mark
The tuna bite looks good out of OI right now. Hatteras is pretty slow except for the Hoo's. I'll probably be staying in Hatteras but driving over to OI to launch. I'm hoping to buddy up with some of you guys out of OI. I am finishing up my pre-rigging this week. Cedar plugs, sea witches, spreader bars and green machines (along with one down deep rig). That should do it. I am just hoping for a southerly flow mid to late next week.
I'll let you guys know what I find, I'm gonna run behind a charter captain Monday out of OI and see what we end up with. Green machines, blue/white, black purple islanders, rainbow spreader bars, cedar plugs, pulling all dead meat. Hopefully I'll have some good company and equipment with me. Gonna spend the next few nights rigging, and try a few things I haven't tried before. I'd like to try a downrigger for dolphin and YFT (naked ballyhoo, or maybe pogie to entice the wahoo) at about the 35-40 foot deep line during the mid-day non-bite under a weedline and see what that produces, if anything.
If you guys need an extra crew member to front for gas money next week, just let me know when and where, and I can be there on a moment's notice, this is prime fishing season, and I don't want to miss it.
If you guys need an extra crew member to front for gas money next week, just let me know when and where, and I can be there on a moment's notice, this is prime fishing season, and I don't want to miss it.
New cell is 252-216-5736.
Chris,
I plugged your new cell # into my phone. What is your work schedule next week? I am not sure how many guys I will have with me. I have two buddies staying in Hatteras at their house. They like to fish but have very little experience and may not want to go out much, especially if I get up at 4oam to drive to OI. My normal Asheville crew may be tied up next week.
If you guys are going this weekend, you better have one big a## boat, because the swell coming across that bar is not pretty at low tide. Bring your surfboard, because you'll need it.
Bright green sea-witch with a med. ballyhoo is all we could hook YFT on a few weeks ago, the fish would not touch any other color or any artificials. Fished the area of Tower B.
Got the report today from the Captain's at OI. YFT hit the deck, although unregularly. If you missed the morning bite, well, you missed the tuna. The ocean was like a rolling lake at the point, the inlet bar was rolling hard, but once you passed it, smooth rollers for the next 30 miles.
Guys that missed the morning bite tried every color known to man, but could not reproduce it. One charter had a big eye swirl on the green stick, and he left a wake the size of a VW bug, but he missed it and it was over. The tuna need another few weeks to migrate it seems and then all is well. Bailer dolphin are still here, several boats went the limit today.
I looked at the bar today at low tide, and while uncomfortable, it was'nt unpasssable. Monday may hold another story, with the cold front coming in Sunday night. I'll watch closely and prolly make my decision Sunday night. Sometimes I hate the weather men.
Bright green sea-witch with a med. ballyhoo is all we could hook YFT on a few weeks ago, the fish would not touch any other color or any artificials. Fished the area of Tower B.
New Moon was the witch green or chartruse???? Thanks Mark
Bright green sea-witch with a med. ballyhoo is all we could hook YFT on a few weeks ago, the fish would not touch any other color or any artificials. Fished the area of Tower B.
New Moon was the witch green or chartruse???? Thanks Mark
LOL, Mark you have to have three of each already somewhere in that assortment of yours! Pulled the plug on trying to fish this weekend, not to be with this weather. We'll try again next week.
Chris, thanks for posting up the charter results...interesting variation in catches this past week.
Who's fishing OI or Hatteras this weekend? 
oam to drive to OI. My normal Asheville crew may be tied up next week.
Pulled the plug on trying to fish this weekend, not to be with this weather. We'll try again next week. 
