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It was cold and rough early, cold and calm late. The spray from the first wave froze on contact with the windshield. RADAR became very important. By the time we got to the fishing grounds, the boat was a solid … Continue reading →

We got out yesterday and did some bottom fishing. As expected, the spiny dogfish were bad, especially on the south side of the canyon while trying for golden tilefish. On the north wall of the canyon, we caught a lot … Continue reading →

We ran to the Triangle Wrecks yesterday to see if the big bluefish were around. When we got there, we put out some plugs and trolled around. The bottom machine showed the fish hanging beside the Clark. I told Wes … Continue reading →

We fished the warm water just east of the Cigar yesterday. Our target was baby bluefin tuna and we failed at those. We caught a few frigate tuna and a dolphin on the little spoons. The big baits did better. … Continue reading →

We wreck fished yesterday. The main target were triggerfish and we caught a ton. Also had a good catch of sea bass, bluefish, a few jacks, and a couple of flounder. Also had some sandtiger shark encounters.

We went out with Dr. John Graves and his graduate student Douglas Jensen to tag cobia. We saw a few, caught one that was fitted with a satellite tag. We also caught some nice Spanish mackerel and false albacore. We … Continue reading →

Retired Virginia Marine Police Officer, Keith Nuttall did his share for science today. We trolled for king mackerel while looking for cobia. No kings but we caught 3 nice cobia and a blacktip shark. All were released….the cobia with fancy … Continue reading →

I went out with Charles Southall this morning in a stiff NE wind. We did not fish long. We were back in about 10 am. We were very busy the few hours we fished. We landing 9 cobia and missed/pulled … Continue reading →

We ran out with Dr. John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science yesterday. He brought along PhD student William Goldsmith. Willie took the attached photos. After I checked that he would send them to me to share, I … Continue reading →

We ran out to the Norfolk Canyon yesterday to troll live chub “tinker” mackerel for marlin. We had to work at catching the tinkers. Better than the tinker bite was the squid bite. Our best squid catcher was Congressman Rob … Continue reading →