Fished friday the 13th with Todd, Craig, Tom, Matt, and my buddy Pat on board the Nancy K out of hatteras harbor.
Me Pat and Matt drank on the dock Thursday with The Hatteras Bunch and saw the only 2 boats that went out that day (left at 10:30) come back with slim pickings. One boat(the godspeed) had 2 junior blackfins, and one YFT.The other boat had 2 YFT. Thursday was 10ft with 6 seconds intervals.
We checked in to the motel there at Hatteras harbor, Did i mention that we had a 1/2 gallon of Capt Morgan??? Well we drank off that, I went to bed at 11:00. While Todd and Matt decided they wanted to try their sealegs after a hard nights drinking. They messed with me all night !! I knew though that revenge would be mine the next day !!
Met Ej at the boat at 6:00, Under way in rank conditions. 7-8 swells and sloppy. Wind was 30knots out of teach's .We pressed on ! Fished somewhere where i had no idea where we were for a while. picked up one BLT YFT(barely legal tuna) then about 30 minutes later..Triple knockdowns with Gaffer dolphin ! .
Sea's calmed down about 12:30. We went to the 230 line and it was on ! We fished hard and got 4 nice wahoo's and another YFT about 25lb class. Had 2 wahoo breakoffs and Pat missed a Lunker YFT(don't stop cranking). Then a nice calm ride back.
Oh ///Did i mention that Todd was puking the whole time we fished !!!! VENGANCE IS BITTER SWEET !!
The other boats who fished the 230 line earlier had great catches of 40-50lb class YFT. But No wahoos ! Dons Wahoo slayer got demolished !!! They ate the spoon of it ! Thanks again for the rigs don, The hatteras fleet know knows the power of get reel lures !
Had a great crew and a fun time. Thanks guys for coming and lets do it again sometime.
Todd, Did you learn a lesson?? =

Captn Fatbeard ..Out !

Jeff,
Great work Man! Glad you got into the fish. Don called me and said that you are spreading the gospel about Get Reel Lures. They produce, no doubt about it. Maybe Don will take us fishing on his boat when he is rich and famous...won't be long.
Tight lines!
Dave

Pretty work Jeff. And I just left Don and Neal (Wired Up) in Hatteras. They stayed on the dock while Todd (TMBeck) and crew headed to the Rockpile this morning. Hopefully Todd and his son got into the fish!

glad you guys got into some fish!

Good to see you guys down there...looked like an awesome time despite the seas and Todd chumming!! It was like a VBSF convention!

Jeff,
Thanks for the intro to Capt Ed!! Seems like the "Heavy D" did its job very well. Here's the before pic...Tom's going to send me the "After" pic. Great job Fellas!!!

After photos

After 2

Jeffs Fish VS Toms Fish

Chumming

Great work Guys! Perfect way to put GetReel Lures to the test!!!!
Tight lines.
Dave

Toms fish again

Nice job Guys

Todd...that's not your best side!!!

Tom, thanks for the pics!! Those are some nice hoos!!

Damn ...Even i didn't put the pics of todd. Chumming !!!

Looks like Tom got the bigger fish but Jeff got better distance in the projectile vomiting contest!

Trust me, it will not happen again.
I have a new policy: DO NOT DRINK ANYTHING THE NIGHT BEFORE!!!

I feel the same way. Were you guys high speed trolling? Where was it in the spread? Thanks!

C-note,
Jeff told me they had the lure running off a planner at first and then just ran it as normal. It has a 10oz head, so it will run sub-surface. I had it rigged with 225# 49 strand cable.

I've run it highspeed...16-18 knots...while fishing on "Billable Ours" with a 16-20 oz cigar trolling weight in front of it...runs great.

Yes tom's fish was bigger, And i did not puke !

We trolled at 7-8. No high speed needed, The Hoo's are there in force ! Teh hoo rig did look great trolled on top, Put out some nice water !

Pretty work

Thanks a bunch. I have been fine tunng my wahoo spread so maybe I should get one of these heavy d's!

Good job guys!

You just can not beat a good chum slick. It looks like it worked again!!

C-note,
Here's the colors.....

That was a good time. Thanks Jeff for putting everything together!!!