Headed to HI Sunday night with the intentions to camp/ party in the parking lot get up early in the AM and roll out. Well...we make a split decision call while en route to the ramp. If we can find a tackle shop open and we can get squid and hooks instead of waiting for Teaches to open we will putt putt out and see what we can do. Luck would have it, TW's was open quick stop and a small purchase and a run next door to 7-11 for energy drinks (what did we do without them!) and we are south bound.
Get to Teaches around 10:30 or so and put the boat in. Talk to Jim (jfish) for a hot minute and we idle out of the inlet. Once we clear the last bouy we set our marks for 4 wrecks before we hit the rock pile for the remainder of the night. We catch sea bass, pinfish, some crazy looking fish we assumed to be poisonus ( we assume most anything we catch and cant ID to be poisonus) and had a big ass school of AJ's circling in the lights on the wrecks. I tell you what, it is quite the sight way out there in the pitch dark. Billions and billions of stars. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
Hit our final night dropping mark near the Rockpile and we catch close to 100 vermillion and red snapper. Get broken off by 3 or 4 grouper im guessing and by 5:15 we were up and rolling with the trolling spread out. We all snooze and catch a quick nap while heading deep at 6 knots looking for the break. about 7:30 I see some debris floating and we pick up a handful of gaffers on the troll and cast spinning rods with ballyhoo rigged to the others that were "picky" and well...they got their last meal. Troll some more and pull a few more off weedlines and more debris we found. Lost a couple also. Dang it. 10:30 we pulled the trolling spread and dropped for Triggers. We caught them, and snowy grouper, rock bass, a big ass Sea Bass and a few more vermillion. By lunch time we pointed it inshore.
Ran through the dolphin inside and sight casted a few bailers the kept rolling in. We began our "man hunt" just north of Okrakoke Inlet. Saw 4 brown suits. One was jumping no opportunity there, one was hauling freight and not interested in eating and a pair that was very willing. Both met the steel. one paper at 40lbs on the nose and the other was 35 and some change. Saw a school of Red Drum and a bunch of Sheephead. They are heading north! Also had a Hammerhead chew on a bucktail for a hot minute and a few Blacktips that we messed with for a while.
19 hours on the Yamaha without a Hick-up
Ended the day with 2 boxes full!
7 for 9 on gaffers
5 man limit on vermillion and Red snapper uncounted released
A dozen or so jumbo sea bass
Snowy Grouper
Handfull of Triggerfish
2 cobia
A Hammerhead with a bucktail strip bait in his belly
2 Lucky Blacktips
5 dog tired Great Bridge Boys
Capt_Ben
NoMercy
Above Average Sportfishing
Ps. Thanks Doug and crew on the Natural Bite for paying the ramp fee for me!
Full Version: HI 5/25-5/26 overnighter
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What an awesome trip! Sounds like plenty of action for everyone. Great report and congrats on the fish!
Nice.....Great job and sounds like fun was had by all....bob
Nice work Ben!
QUOTE (capt_ben @ May 27 2008, 09:47 PM) 
Headed to HI Sunday night with the intentions to camp/ party in the parking lot get up early in the AM and roll out. Well...we make a split decision call while en route to the ramp. If we can find a tackle shop open and we can get squid and hooks instead of waiting for Teaches to open we will putt putt out and see what we can do. Luck would have it, TW's was open quick stop and a small purchase and a run next door to 7-11 for energy drinks (what did we do without them!) and we are south bound.
Get to Teaches around 10:30 or so and put the boat in. Talk to Jim (jfish) for a hot minute and we idle out of the inlet. Once we clear the last bouy we set our marks for 4 wrecks before we hit the rock pile for the remainder of the night. We catch sea bass, pinfish, some crazy looking fish we assumed to be poisonus ( we assume most anything we catch and cant ID to be poisonus) and had a big ass school of AJ's circling in the lights on the wrecks. I tell you what, it is quite the sight way out there in the pitch dark. Billions and billions of stars. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
Hit our final night dropping mark near the Rockpile and we catch close to 100 vermillion and red snapper. Get broken off by 3 or 4 grouper im guessing and by 5:15 we were up and rolling with the trolling spread out. We all snooze and catch a quick nap while heading deep at 6 knots looking for the break. about 7:30 I see some debris floating and we pick up a handful of gaffers on the troll and cast spinning rods with ballyhoo rigged to the others that were "picky" and well...they got their last meal. Troll some more and pull a few more off weedlines and more debris we found. Lost a couple also. Dang it. 10:30 we pulled the trolling spread and dropped for Triggers. We caught them, and snowy grouper, rock bass, a big ass Sea Bass and a few more vermillion. By lunch time we pointed it inshore.
Ran through the dolphin inside and sight casted a few bailers the kept rolling in. We began our "man hunt" just north of Okrakoke Inlet. Saw 4 brown suits. One was jumping no opportunity there, one was hauling freight and not interested in eating and a pair that was very willing. Both met the steel. one paper at 40lbs on the nose and the other was 35 and some change. Saw a school of Red Drum and a bunch of Sheephead. They are heading north! Also had a Hammerhead chew on a bucktail for a hot minute and a few Blacktips that we messed with for a while.
19 hours on the Yamaha without a Hick-up
Ended the day with 2 boxes full!
7 for 9 on gaffers
5 man limit on vermillion and Red snapper uncounted released
A dozen or so jumbo sea bass
Snowy Grouper
Handfull of Triggerfish
2 cobia
A Hammerhead with a bucktail strip bait in his belly
2 Lucky Blacktips
5 dog tired Great Bridge Boys
Capt_Ben
NoMercy
Above Average Sportfishing
Ps. Thanks Doug and crew on the Natural Bite for paying the ramp fee for me!
Get to Teaches around 10:30 or so and put the boat in. Talk to Jim (jfish) for a hot minute and we idle out of the inlet. Once we clear the last bouy we set our marks for 4 wrecks before we hit the rock pile for the remainder of the night. We catch sea bass, pinfish, some crazy looking fish we assumed to be poisonus ( we assume most anything we catch and cant ID to be poisonus) and had a big ass school of AJ's circling in the lights on the wrecks. I tell you what, it is quite the sight way out there in the pitch dark. Billions and billions of stars. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
Hit our final night dropping mark near the Rockpile and we catch close to 100 vermillion and red snapper. Get broken off by 3 or 4 grouper im guessing and by 5:15 we were up and rolling with the trolling spread out. We all snooze and catch a quick nap while heading deep at 6 knots looking for the break. about 7:30 I see some debris floating and we pick up a handful of gaffers on the troll and cast spinning rods with ballyhoo rigged to the others that were "picky" and well...they got their last meal. Troll some more and pull a few more off weedlines and more debris we found. Lost a couple also. Dang it. 10:30 we pulled the trolling spread and dropped for Triggers. We caught them, and snowy grouper, rock bass, a big ass Sea Bass and a few more vermillion. By lunch time we pointed it inshore.
Ran through the dolphin inside and sight casted a few bailers the kept rolling in. We began our "man hunt" just north of Okrakoke Inlet. Saw 4 brown suits. One was jumping no opportunity there, one was hauling freight and not interested in eating and a pair that was very willing. Both met the steel. one paper at 40lbs on the nose and the other was 35 and some change. Saw a school of Red Drum and a bunch of Sheephead. They are heading north! Also had a Hammerhead chew on a bucktail for a hot minute and a few Blacktips that we messed with for a while.
19 hours on the Yamaha without a Hick-up
Ended the day with 2 boxes full!
7 for 9 on gaffers
5 man limit on vermillion and Red snapper uncounted released
A dozen or so jumbo sea bass
Snowy Grouper
Handfull of Triggerfish
2 cobia
A Hammerhead with a bucktail strip bait in his belly
2 Lucky Blacktips
5 dog tired Great Bridge Boys
Capt_Ben
NoMercy
Above Average Sportfishing
Ps. Thanks Doug and crew on the Natural Bite for paying the ramp fee for me!
Great job Captain its always extra special when you do those marathon overnighters and have constant action any size to the snappers. Conch
Thanks for the great report.
Great job and sounds like fun thanks for the report 
We definately had an eventful and non-stop action trip! Our vermillions averaged around 2-3 lbs and we had a couple of the Red's pushing close to 10 lbs.
Capt_Ben
NoMercy
Above Average Sportfishing
Capt_Ben
NoMercy
Above Average Sportfishing
GREAT report! congrats on all the sucess!
if you have pictures please post!
if you have pictures please post!
definitely one of the better reports I've ever read on here. Sounds like a great time.
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