September 5th, 2009
We finally had one day we could go out. With the hurricanes and the September winds doing what they normally do, it has been almost impossible to fish. Saturday we took out the Brian and Jinni Allen party and had a ball. Saturday was day 2 of the Marlin Club White Marlin Tournament and all of the boats went north for Marlin. My charter was interested in catching Dolphin so we went south. We saw one other boat all day. The weather was beautiful and the fish cooperated. We originally thought we would bail all day, but they didn't seem to be hanging close to the pots. As soon as we started trolling we started catching. I mapped a line of pots and started a pattern and we had a great time. We caught 13 Dolphin weighing a total of 149 pounds. We did have a Wahoo bite, but one bit through almost immediately and we got one all the way up to the boat and it bit through the leader while Justin was gaffing it. It was a heart breaker, because it was about 6 ft long. All in all we had a great day! We will have video soon.
- Capt. Ken
August 15, 2009
Capt. Jason ran the trip for us today and I was very glad he did. He is an excellent boat handler and he knows fishing as well as anybody in Ocean City. He went out to Poorman's Canyon and released a White Marlin and caught a huge gaffer Dolphin on the troll. There were several knock downs two of which broke the outside rigger lines. We are going to have them replaced by this weekend to be ready for the next trip. Evidently the eyehooks have become worn and chaffed the halyards. Maybe this hurricane will bring the Yellowfin close enough to spark a mid summer bite.
- Capt. Ken
August 15, 2009
We took out the Jim Woods party Saturday and had the most fun of the season. Fishing, weather, and crew couldn't have been better. We went a against all odds and went south again when predictions said it would have been better to go north. We went to the same area where we lost the Bigeye a few weeks ago. After a 2 hour and fifteen minute cruise we had four out of five Dolphin in the cooler one a real nice gaffer over 15 pounds. We went searching for marlin and tuna and it would have been a long day except for the crew. Two friends Jim woods and Kevin Scully brought their sons and their buddies. They were out there to catch fish, and relax. There was a lot of laughing, talking, stories going on. A couple of them got sick, but that didn't matter either, they laughed at each other, themselves, drank a few beers (we also made them drink plenty of water) and had a great time. I found a lobster pot that had produced some large Dolphin on a previous trip, but it had been worked over already, so I headed for a group of boats. They were working this 100 fathom area so hard, I was sure something had to be there. I called one of the boats I knew and they said no one had caught anything. This was about 1:30 pm and time was getting short. I headed for the place I had been earlier in 50 fathoms. As soon as we arrived, the far outrigger went off on both sides. We almost got spooled on the port side before we could get everything out of the water. I thought we had a big blue marlin on. The other side had a nice gaffer so we boated it and I started backing down to get some line back. About 10 minutes later we boated a white marlin. It was a large white, maybe 85 pounds, but we couldn't figure why it almost spooled us. On the next run over the same spot the same rod (Justin's White Witch) went off. At first we thought it was a tuna, because it stayed deep, but 10 minutes later we released a 250 pound blue marlin that had a hook still in its bill, so it must have been caught earlier. We caught a skipjack and a jack at a floating spool, before we headed home with some nice fish in the box. I have some video, but not a lot of it was good quality, because I had to handle the boat. I am going to try to get Jim to send me some of his so we can put together a good video.
- Capt. Ken