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Caught a bunch of flounder using the mummichog tipped with squid. They were thick just under 10", boys had a blast with Wyatt picking up one NC keeper at 16". Gave up on the flounder and headed over to the Pamlico Sound for spanish mackerel. Brought in a few heading S with a good NE 15kt wind. Turned back and proved to be rough but the boys were busy landing fish so we continued. 1 hour later we joked about setting our boat record at 30 macks. Then approached the 40 mark and had to scramble to look up regs on keepers. 2.5 hours we had to call it quits releasing those that hit before we cleared the lines. Pack up and head in when the Yam saftey switch kicked in and throttled us down for low oil. Thought my cable had failed less than 5m from OI fishing center. Sea Tow talks me through it and has me head on in (1 hour @idle speed)meeting wife at ramp with gal that I usually keep on boat. Lesson learned as today was the day to top off gas and oil, came up 12m short on oil. Added the oil and made the run on in to Pirates Cove to start the cleaning process. Thanks to KD for his input on the flounder. Used small planer with smallest silver clark spoons. Fish didn't touch anything on lead or gold spoons so we changed to the 4 planers.