Topsail Angler's Fishing Blog

Gulf Stream Trip

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

We left out of New River Inlet this morning about 4:30 and hit a starting point for trolling right at sunrise.  It was a smooth ride out but got pretty choppy and was down right lumpy by mid-morning. 

We had 30 ballyhoo rigged but decided to start with some fast trolling lures we also had rigged.  Within 10 minutes we had the first fish on which turned out to be a 20 something pound Wahoo!  We landed him amongst high fives around the boat.  Twenty minutes later the port long line goes off, then the starboard long, then the starboard mid line and then, you guessed it, the port mid-line.  We had a quad hook up and it looked like a fire drill was in progress.  We manged to land 3 of the 4 fish, 2 gaffer dolphin and a small Wahoo.  We released the Wahoo.

Then things go quiet for a while. Our buddy boat was yet to hook up a single fish pulling ballyhoo, so we decided to stick to the high speed stuff and cover some ground. Then two reels go to singing at the same time, we landed both, a pair of blackfin tuna!

We had a couple of short strikes, then another tuna was boated. This repeated several times. Then we had a screaming rod, over 100 yards peeled off then the reel went silent - we’ll never know but it acted like a Wahoo.  Then we boated 3 more tuna during a period of about an hour.

By noon it was getting snotty so and we had to head directly into the wind/seas to get home, so we started in.  About halfway in the wind laid down a bit and we did some more trolling with no luck.  then a bit of bottom fishing.  We caught a few nice black sea bass on roscoe jigs.  We are treated to watching a Navy carrier and some Marine Harrier Jets running ops, that was very cool.  There were also some helicopters in the air and one buzzed us a few times checking us out but we kept a safe distance from the ship but was close enough to enjoy the view.

Great day on the water!