Blue Marlin Yesterday

There has been a very good blue marlin bite going on off of Virginia the past couple of weeks. There seem to be a lot of fish everywhere. They are being caught out past 100 fathoms but also in as shallow as 20 fathoms. Several were caught right on top of the Cigar yesterday. The bite has been anywhere from the Triple 0s area on up to the Norfolk Canyon. Most boats are having encounters with a lot of boats seeing multiples in a day with as many as 4 caught. Yesterday, the top boat I heard had 3. We saw one and caught it, nice one. Most of these fish are in the 300-400 pound range with 200-600 pound fish being caught. We also caught some dolphin and a keeper-size mako.

The day before, I got the boat ready for our offshore trip and did a little trolling and sight fishing along the oceanfront and in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. There are a lot of cobia, red drum, Spanish mackerel and some large king mackerel in the area. I did  not fish long but did catch a cobia on a plug.