Another Great day of Bluefin Tuna fishing

Coming by Diamond Shoals light on the way home . It's still standing.

Yesterday was another great day of Bluefin Tuna fishing. Lots of big fish around right now. Actually there are all kinds of sizes but the last couple of days the bigger ones have been biting. We had them rolling in the chum yesterday afternoon when we found a place of them off to ourselves. That is a pretty sight to see. The video clip is of one of the bigger sized fish we caught when we lip gaffed him to measure him. We had to turn him loose because he measured at around 78 to 80 inches. Would be nice to be able to keep one a day that size but that's the law and we don't break them. Still a great day of fishing with some spectacular trolling bites. It gets your heart pumping when you see a 300 pounder blow up on your flatline about 30 feet off your transom. There's a good showing of these fish so if you ever wanted to come and catch one take a couple of days and come on and do it now.

Another beautiful day in Hatteras and the Bluefin are snapping

63 degrees here today, woo hoo! I am so ready for the spring to get here so I can get some boat work done and be halfway warm when we're fishing. The Bluefin bite was excellent yesterday and it sounds like it's on again today. Get some friends together and come on down and catch a few while they're here. Here's a little video I put together just goofing off of Sundays fishing day, just click the link.                           
 Bluefin Fishing on The Native Son 2-13-11

Bluefins are biting again today

Video clip of one of the nice Bluefins that we released on Sunday. The gaff was just for lip gaffing the fish to get the hook out. If you ever wanted to catch a Bluefin now's the time. Today was the first weather window since Sunday and the bite is on. Give us a call and let's go fishing.

2-13-11 Bluefin Tuna Fishing was off the hook today

Richards Bluefin

Mikey and Jake with his 1st Bluefin

Richards Bluefin

Hooked Up

We got lucky and set right out on the Tunas this morning. We never went more than maybe 10 minutes with out a fish on and there were some spectacular bites to go along with it. We saw the fish several times on top rolling and shoving water and had a continuous mark for a lot of the day. My buddy Michael and some of his friends had the boat chartered for the weekend. He brought his grandson along and he caught his first Bluefin that weighed in at 105.lb. The video clip is of his fish. He was wore out after that. We also took our trophy fish for the year as well with a 74" 210 pounder. We caught three or four more fish that size or bigger before we called it an early day around 11:30 and went home. The guys had a long drive back home and were tired from the butt whipping we took Saturday and the good fishing Sunday. We ended up catching 10 Bluefins between 100 to Probably 250 lb.s for the day. The weather was beautiful and the fish were biting, couldn't ask for much more than that. It looks like it's going to get nice for Wed. and Thursday of this week if you can get here. We have a few more trips coming up so check back in.

A few more after snow morning pictures

Gonna throw that dummy or what?

Bailey in the backyard.

Snow people and friends

Side yard

Down The Road

Back of Truck

Just a few more pictures from around the home.

The day after the Big Snow

Here are some pictures from the day after the snow we had here in Hatteras. It was pretty the next morning. The ocean was beautiful as well with a lone dolphin swimming along. The Brant and Geese were so close you could have hit them with a slingshot, notice the snow covered dredge island in the background? And how would you like to go fishing and stand in the cockpit of the boat in that snow.  We wouldn't have to worry about keeping the fish cold.

January 22nd Snow at the beginning

This is some video from the beach about an hour into the snow. The wind was blowing it right off of and over the dunes. Sometimes you could not see the ocean for the big clouds of snow blowing down the beach. It was neat to watch for awhile. I'll have some pictures of the morning after in the next post.

Sunset before the big snow

This was the sunset the night before we had TEN inches of snow. You Read that right, Ten Inches. It was pretty the day after and I will post some pictures of that after this.

January 30th

We went fishing for the last day of commercial Bluefin tuna season today. We had one bite from a nice fish but couldn't hang on to him. Lost a nice fat wahoo right at the gaff because he chewed through the leader, what a bummer. Would have been nice for dinner on the grill. The Bluefins are here folks if you want to come and catch some now is the time. There are also some makos and blackfins around as well. Finding the days for the weather has been the struggle. I guess it's just like every where else in the country right now. It's been a long cold windy winter and I'm ready for it to go away and to go fishing.