tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116373692008-09-04T14:08:14.959-07:00Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-19135798489778558002008-09-04T14:05:00.001-07:002008-09-04T14:08:14.970-07:00Wow-what a day of fishing yesterday. 4 whites, a blue and sail-better known as a grand slam plus 3. We also had a 70 pound yellowfin plus several dolphin. We saw 12 marlin and caught 6-not great percentage wise but I'll take that day of fishing every day. We had a quad of whites come in one time-hooked all 4- but only got one-bummer. Fishing is as good as it gets right now-hopefully the storms won't mess us up. We've have plenty of open days-give me a call. 252-473-1964Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-71830925145277056932008-08-30T04:31:00.000-07:002008-08-30T04:36:59.510-07:00It's really been a mixed bag this week. The first of the week we had great tuna fishing then they kind of disappeared. There were also lots of sailfish around-I can not remember a summer when we have had as many sailfish as this summer. We caught 4 one day and another boat caught 10 and then 8 the next day. Pretty unbelievable. The middle of the week we had all the dolphin we wanted and then yesterday (Friday) we caught 4 sails, one tuna, one wahoo and some dolphin. We saw a lot more sails but we had some bad luck and only ended up with 4. Some of the other boats that stuck it out on the tunas ended up with decent catches. Fishing is really picking up-we have plenty of open days in September and October-let's go!! 252-473-1964.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-40822768111715372312008-08-23T08:42:00.000-07:002008-08-23T08:47:14.872-07:00It's absolutely crazy what a difference a couple of days can make. There have hardly been any tunas caught over the last month-I mean almost zero. Then, yesterday, we caught 7 plus a couple of sailfish plus a dolphin or two-pretty good fishing really. Then today we got slammed by the tunas-bigeyes and yellowfins. All the yellowfins were nice too-at least 50 pounders. We filled the fish box and headed home- a great day of fishing! We have plenty of open days next week and in September-we even have Labor Day weekend open-give me a call at 252-473-1964 if you want to go.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-79512002563982491832008-08-17T08:35:00.000-07:002008-08-17T08:39:44.479-07:00Sorry it's been so long since a report but there really hasn't been much to talk about. We've had some good days but mostly it's been kind of slow. We've been catching dolphin and a few marlin. We just finished up the Pirate's Cove Tournament this past week and we won for the biggest yellowfin tuna. Not exactly what we were after but we'll take it. I think we tied for 8th overall (out of 99 boats) so we didn't do too bad. The big news was a 1,228 pound blue marlin that was boated by a Spencer boat. That is a new state record and obviously won the tournament. Hopefully marlin fishing will pick up a little bit and it won't be long before the tunas start showing up in full force again. Give us a call if you want to go-we have plenty of open dates. 252-473-1964Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-72449430652071913472008-07-09T08:34:00.000-07:002008-07-09T08:36:52.410-07:00Fishing has been up and down lately. Before the 4th of July marlin and dolphin fishing was pretty hot. This week things have kind of slowed down- a few dolphin here and there and maybe a couple of sailfish bites. Hopefully things will turn around pretty quickly.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-19276212767069800642008-06-25T07:44:00.001-07:002008-06-25T07:46:52.099-07:00Fishing has really been off the charts lately. We've either had a limit of dolphin or a limit of tuna. In addition, we've been seeing a lot of billfish. It's pretty early for all the white marlin that have been seen but it's a pretty good bite right now. A lot of blues have been seen as well. We have plenty of open dates in July so give me a call. 252-473-1964.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-7152811435355197052008-06-15T06:29:00.000-07:002008-06-15T06:31:53.158-07:00Fishing has been pretty steady lately-tuna, dolphin with a a marlin or two. Yesterday we caught about 5 tuna, a limit of dolphin and pulled the hook on a blue. The day before, Friday, was a limit of tuna-great fishing. We have lots of open days in July so give me a call-252-473-1964.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-80745026768062758582008-06-10T05:21:00.000-07:002008-06-10T05:25:28.118-07:00We've continued to have pretty good fishing except for Saturday. That day we struggled a little bit and only caught 3 tuna. Most days however, have seen at least 6 or 7 tuna with a couple dozen dolphin and a couple of shots at blue marlin or sailfish. Our luck with the billfish this year hasn't been so good-we've been seeing our share but either we can't get them to bite, we just flat out miss them or we pull them off. Hopefully our luck will change in that category.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-44839668179859354122008-06-04T04:12:00.000-07:002008-06-04T04:15:11.084-07:00Yesterday was kind of slow for us. One tuna and about a dozen gaffers. Not sure what our problme was-it just wasn't our day. The few days before that we had pretty decent fishing. About 7 tuna per day-nice ones too-and plenty of gaffer dolphin. A couple of days we even had a blue marlin or two thrown in there. I guess you can't be on top every day-but it sure would be nice!Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-1411252505294206112008-05-28T11:02:00.001-07:002008-05-28T11:04:05.940-07:00Tuna fishing has been fair to good lately. We didn't fish on Tuesday or Wednesday but over the weekend we caught around 7 fish a day-maybe one day we only had 4. Some days it was yellowfins and other days it was bigeyes. We will be fishing again tomorrow and don't have an open day until June 9th. I'll let you know how we do.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-70175104196805849212008-05-22T03:37:00.000-07:002008-05-22T03:39:17.148-07:00Wow-we had a great day yesterday-5 bigeyes all weighing over 100 pounds and 4 or 5 yellowfins plus a couple of gaffers-the fish box was full! Also, finally it was calm-I hope today is just like yesterday-got to go.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-11979560516755886452008-05-21T05:24:00.000-07:002008-05-21T05:29:56.696-07:00It was nice when we left the dock yesterday morning but 15 minutes after we put lines in the wind really started to blow. It got rough quick but we managed to catch 7 yellowfins a one gaffer dolphin. The yellowfins were really nice-up to 70 pounds. We called it a day early and headed on in.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-72842490459695184032008-05-19T07:28:00.000-07:002008-05-19T07:36:35.665-07:00We finally went out last Thursday and Friday and caught a few tuna. It was pretty slow fishing but it was good to be back out. We got blown out on Saturday but made it back out on Sunday-much better fishing for us. We caught about 40 gaffers-a lot of them 20 to 25 pounds. The fish box was full and we headed on in. We're off today (Monday) but booked for the rest of the week.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-52444619899084403672008-05-10T07:34:00.000-07:002008-05-10T07:38:23.826-07:00Wow, we're finally up and running again-it's hard to believe. We ran her yesterday and cruised at almost 26 knots and topped out at 31 knots. At cruising speed we were only burning about 38 gallons per hour so I'm real please with that. I brought her back to the slip today for the first time since February 12-it feels good to be back home! Give me a call if you want to go fishing-I'm ready to get back out there. Unfortunately, it looks like it's really going to blow for the next few days so I probably won't make it out until about Wednesday.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-20756914604515025972008-05-08T13:50:00.000-07:002008-05-08T13:53:02.344-07:00Well, we finally got our risers today and Rick, our mechanic, has installed everything and we are ready to go! We'll have Caterpillar on the boat tomorrow to test out everything and we should be ready to go fishing! I can't wait-this has been a long time coming.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-21366530646589178052008-04-24T08:37:00.000-07:002008-04-24T08:40:22.454-07:00It is not going well for us. On Tuesday I went and picked up the parts (our risers-part of the exhaust system) we needed to finish installing our new motor. Our mechanic started installing everything and realized that they weren't right. The company that had made the parts didn't do it correctly and now they have to remanufacture what we need. I have no idea how long that's going to take-I'm hoping the end of next week at the longest. Bummer.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-68203847518983830972008-04-21T06:00:00.001-07:002008-04-21T06:03:08.092-07:00We are very, very close to being done with the installation of our new motor and hopefully we will be ready to go by Wednesday. Not many boats have been fishing-the weather has been terrible so far this spring. When they have gone the tuna fishing has been spotty at best. Hopefully that will turn around soon and the tuna will be here in full force. We're supposed to go Thursday and Friday so I will let you know.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-23270266387518388782008-03-26T04:31:00.000-07:002008-03-26T04:38:03.646-07:00I thought I had posted a report about two weeks ago about our project this winter but obviously it didn't take. Anyway, "The Hooker" is getting a new motor this year. We're putting in a 1,150 horsepower CAT. We had a 800 horsepower CAT so our new motor should push along pretty good. We're hoping to cruise at around 26 or 27 knots. We're also putting in power steering, a new gear, new electronic controls, new shaft and a new wheel. We're not quite done but I'm hoping by the end of next week we will be back in the water and ready to go! We've been in the yard since early February so I'm dying to get back out there. Give us a call-we've got plenty of open dates this spring-hopefully we will have great tuna fishing. 252-473-1964Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-27382941255724503582008-01-07T12:26:00.001-08:002008-01-07T12:28:39.073-08:00The rock fishing is getting better and better and a little closer. We've been the last three days and gotten our limits plus throw backs every day. Yesterday we were throwing back 40 pounders! We have really good fishing right now-give us a call to if you want to go-we have plenty of open days. 252-473-1964.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-49291002096186723452008-01-03T04:13:00.000-08:002008-01-03T04:17:05.859-08:00I had the same party for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and they had some world class fishing. We had to run about 30 miles each day but it was well worth it. New Year's day was the best. We caught plenty first thing and then started jigging with light tackle for a few releases. Then it went slow for a little while but about 1:00 it went crazy. I couldn't even get the boat in gear-big 30 to 40 pounders as soon as you set out. It was the best I've seen this year.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-25695005813136545142007-12-30T09:29:00.000-08:002007-12-30T09:34:04.419-08:00I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and is getting ready for the new year. The rock are finally starting to show up. Yesterday we caught 10 nice fish very close to the inlet. We set out just 3 miles north and ended up only 6 miles north of the inlet. We also came up on a schoold of big blues and the guys had a lot of fun with light spinning tackle. Today was a little slower-only 6 fish-but still only 7 miles from the inlet. We are supposed to get a big blow from the north west on Wednesday and Thursday and it's going to be really cold. I'm expecting the rock to be here in full force after this blow-we have plenty of open dates in January and February-give us a call to get in on some world class striper fishing. 252-473-1964.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-65287089447227376912007-11-12T07:37:00.000-08:002007-11-12T07:41:20.034-08:00Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while but there hasn't been much to report. The weather on the weekends has been terrible over the last several weeks so we haven't done a lot of fishing. When we were able to go there wasn't a whole lot to talk about. Until now that is! The tunas have finallly made a showing. Friday we caught about 6 yellowfins, a wahoo and a dolphin. However, on Saturday, most boats had their limits early and were back at the dock before lunch! I hope they're here to stay for a few months now-we have plenty of open dates so give me a call at 252-473-1964. Also, it's almost time for the rock to show up-book your date now!Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-19007081343756191492007-10-08T13:27:00.000-07:002007-10-08T13:30:12.793-07:00As hard as this is to believe we've had great dolphin fishing the last several days. Yesterday we caught a box full of gaffers and 5 wahoo. The other days we've had about 25-30 gaffers with a white marlin added as a bonus. The tuna fishing still hasn't picked up yet-usually only a few to the boat.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-9393948367939379822007-09-19T05:09:00.000-07:002007-09-19T05:13:37.160-07:00It seems like January here on the Outer Banks. It's been blowing Northeast for a week and we haven't been able to get out since last Friday. It's supposed to lay down tonight and hopefully we will make it out tomorrow. Not sure what we'll try for-before this blow the marlin fishing was slowing down and the tuna bite hadn't really started yet. I'll let you know how we do.Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11637369.post-35046011685028048942007-08-25T08:10:00.000-07:002007-08-25T08:14:09.141-07:00Wow, what a day yesterday. The marlin were thick yesterday-they just kept coming in the baits. I think we saw 11 whites and one blue and finally called it a day. They were close too, only 28 miles from the inlet when we picked up. We have plenty of open days in September-give us a call if you want some of this action! 252-473-1964Capt Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590302164630198320noreply@blogger.com