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Fished solo today just because the weather looked too good and found the king fish at the 27 mile rock area. Got out there at 10 am. and bottom fished till 1 pm. , just small black bass and pigfish so I started trolling cigar minnows and 3 1/2 drone spoons, caught 13 kings by 3:15 and called it a day ! Sizes between 6 and 15 pds.
Go caught em !!
Capt. DaveMabes
P.S. the weather was choppy in the A.M. but got calmer as the day went.
Good Luck
Nice. Yeah, I knew I was wasting my time fishing the 5 mile AR out of LF but didn't want to go all the way out there. Darn sharks, I hate catching sharks!
Isn't it amazing how we can all remember (almost to the date and time) the fish we've caught in the past? I can tell you when I caught my first yellowfin tuna (Oct 3, 1994) of the day I caught my first Wahoo (July 3, 1997)...but I can't remember what I had for lunch a week ago.
Don't mean to hijack this thread...but Hblac's recollection of his fishing trip one year ago is so typical of offshore fishermen.
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Spring Fever - 2007 Regulator 26FS
70 West Marina
Wilson / Atlantic Beach, NC
Actually it was three years ago and the reason I remember it so well is that I was being towed in by TowboatUS. It was the defining moment when I decided to sell my old Albemarle 24. We had a small electrical fire. That was the last straw.
Anyway, David's an excellent fisherman. He's bound to catch fish no matter where he goes.
I fished approx. 27-30 miles out of little river @ the Atlantic ledge. I wasted an hour @ 90/90 it was dead there. The surface temp was only 63, from there I moved to the Little river off shore reef, temp there 64.4 I jigged up about a dozen cigars and headed to the ledge. Trolled the ledge from 2 PM till 4 PM. Boated four kings in the high teens, low twenties, lost a bunch to bite off's. Some of the stinger hooks were bit off as well. I managed to get a treble deep in my index finger while replacing stingers. I asked my buddy to hank it out with my needle nose it was deep and he gave it a hard pull and it didn't budge. I cut it close to my finger and pushed it through "OUCH". wiped my finger with a little bleach and put a band aid on it and I was fine. The kings are apparently moving out to warmer waters now. The surface temp at the ledge was 67.8. I left while the kings were still biting, but I wanted to make the inlet before dark. Cruised back in at 30 knots and it was wet. Beam sea on portside had me taking a shower. All in all a good day on the water.~JJ~
__________________ "Jay"- 04 HydraSport Vector 24 CC 250 Yamaha fourstroke
hblac, got your # in my cell as Hal Albemarlin, must have been from back when you had your Albe. I'll have my son (11yrs) and a nephew w/me so my ability to venture far won't be great. They really love the bottom bite so I'll be mostly looking for cbass/flounder and other quick biters. I'm sure you know deal there . Headed down Sat in the AM from MD.
Glad to hear I am not the only one who discovered what a treble hook feels like although I hate it happened to you. I put a #2 into my left middle finger through a yellow grip glove while fishing solo 12 nm out in October. Pure stupidity. I make a bad decision while release a 12# mac and paid the price. There was no way I could get it out with the glove on so I headed in after 1 hour of fishing. The worse part is a had a well full of live cigs and the seas were flat. It was a perfect fishing day on a weekend (and those have been few and far between).
I went to the ER and needed a few stitches. Live and learn. Glad to hear your mishap didn't ruin a hard-to-come-by good day of fishing!
Wanna laugh, I was living in Florida about ten years ago and I was fishing Boca Grand pass for tarpon. With my brother. I was sight casting to rolling tarpon and the wind caught my large lure with rusty trebles and slammed it into the back of my head, I laugh now but at the time it was horrible. The hooks were so deep that my brother had to rush me to the nearest emergency room which fortunately was on Gasparilla, Everyone I passed was laughing I had this huge lure dangling off the back of my head like a colorful ponytail. Six of the nine barbs had been embedded. Big rusty hooks. The doctor was great, said he gets this all the time. He numbed the area and cut the hooks out and gave me a tetanus shot. And we headed back out to the tarpon grounds. My brother caught a 100+ tarpon I got skunked. And to make matters worse, we hit a horrible electrical storm going back to port and had lighting all around us. We ended up intentionally beaching the boat to avoid the heavy lighting and spent the night on Sanibel Island getting eat up by mosquitoes and no-seeum's. I will always remember that trip. We should have a craziest fishing trip thread some time. I can think of a handful of really weird trips I have had in the Forty years I have been boating. ~JJ~
__________________ "Jay"- 04 HydraSport Vector 24 CC 250 Yamaha fourstroke
11/13 27 Mile area off Lockwood folly 
hblac, I'll be down all next week at the beach house...bringing the 24. 
