Archive for May, 2010

18 Hour 5-23-10

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Greetings All,
We had a great Day trip Saturday day and after a few hours rest we left the dock at midnight for 18 hours of PURE fishing fun! The Ocean was flat as a pancake and the fish were HUNGRY!

So off we went with our friends from New York!
North Carolina Party Boat - Continental Shelf

1st Stop….It was ON! Gang Busters all the way around the boat as hard as we could go!

We hit our limit on Bee Liners in one stop!
Pretty Stuff too!
North Carolina Head Boat - Continental Shelf

So now that we had our Bee’s we headed off to DEEP BLUE to chase some Beasts of the Deep! My favorite….Big Red Grouper…
Red Grouper

Red Grouper

Red Grouper

We spent a good part of the day in the deep….and were rewarded with 14 Grouper Total including 3 over 20 lbs

Time was starting to run short so we moved back inshore and went to work on the Big Blue Headed Seabass!
Black Sea Bass

Only 1 Mahi on the day….They should be showing up any ol’time now! The bite is one and the fishing will only get Better over the next few weeks.

Here are a few more pics….
North Carolina Party Boat - Continental Shelf

North Carolina Head Boat Continental Shelf

North Carolina Party Boat Continental Shelf

You can see all the trip Photos HERE

or see every Trip for the last 5 years HERE

Lets go kill something!

Call 252- 726-7454 to book your spot.

Till next week….

Captain Dave Tilley

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5-22-10 Day Trip

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Greetings All,
We had a great trip Saturday 5-22-10. The weather was excellent but the morning fishing was S-L-O-W. I could not buy a fish at the supermarket. We would move and drop…nothing, move and drop….nothing. I was sweating it. Then about 12:30-1:00pm….you would have thought the dinner bell rang and it was GANG BUSTERS! 2 at a time as hard as we could go. The next 2 hours saved the day. The trip turned out to be pretty dog gone good!

North Carolina Party Boat - Continental Shelf

Nice Groupers
Red Grouper

Scamp Grouper

The COBIAs have started to show up too….
Cobia

Pretty Bee Liners
Vermillion Snapper

Vermillion Snappers

Vermillion Snapper

All in All a great trip and a pretty Ocean. We were due for a nice weekend….

You can see all the trip Photos HERE

or see every Trip for the last 5 years HERE

Lets go kill something!

Call 252- 726-7454 to book your spot.

Till next week….

Captain Dave Tilley

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5-8-10 Overnight Trip

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Greetings All,
We had a day trip on Saturday 5-8-10 but the weather was just plain Ol’Crappy so we scrapped it and went with the Overnight trip on Saturday night instead.

ReefCast ( http://fryingpantower.com/North_Carolina_Offshore_Weather_Forecast.html ) My very own weather forcasting system called the weather window to a TEE!

All day Sat we had 20 kts out of the South West….RC said 10:00pm’ish the wind would come around to the North. ReefCast said around noon the next day the wind would fall out to nothing…..

We postponed leaving the dock until midnight Saturday night and were meet with 20 knot winds out of the North. The sea on our stern off we went.
First stop of the morning was all Pinkies. Pinkies to the left….Pinkies to the right!

About time the sun came up and the fishing turned on.
Big Ol'Gag!

Big Ol'Gag!

About 11:00am the wind started dropping….and the fishing got better….
Big Ol'Gag!

Big Ol'Gag!

By 1:00 pm the wind had fallen completely out and the fishing turned HOTT!
Big Ol'Gag!

Big Ol'Gag!

Big Ol'Gag!

As the day wore on the Big Blueheaded Seabass came to visit and we even came up with a Queen Trigger.
Big Ol'Gag!

Check out Sunset….It was Lake Atlantic….
Big Ol'Gag!

All in all….Limit of Pinkies….Most had a limit of Bee liners….7 Grouper and a ton of triggers and Big Ol’Bass!

My first overnight trip of the season was quite the success.
Big Ol'Gag!

Big Ol'Gag!

We havea Day trip next Saturday and another Overnighter the 29th.

You can see all our photos here….
http://fryingpantower.com/modules.php?name=gallery2&g2_itemId=60730

Our Schedule is here…
http://continentalshelf.com/North_Carolina_Party_Boat_Calendar/

Come on Orr the 2010 Season is heating up….
Lets Go Kill Something!

Dave

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5-1 and 5-2-10

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Greetings All,

We had a great weekend on the water.  The weather was decent for the most part.  Little bouncy in the afternoon but overall pretty decent.

Saturday we had a Day trip with my friends from Pa.!

The fishing WAS HOTT!

We had a mess of Grouper, we limited on Vermillion Snapper, Silver Snapper and came real close to our limit in GIANT Blueheaded Seabass.

It was one of those days were the fish were chewing the bottom out of the boat.  I was very pleased.

Sunday….

OOOhhhhhhhhhh what a differance a day makes.  We were in the same area as Saturday, doing the same things and just about could not buy a fish at the fish market.  We scraped together a catch but we had to work for each and every one.  The vermillion never did really bite.  There were some decent catches but overall it was a hard day on the water.

Looks like we have a decent weekend coming next weekend and we have our 1st 24 hour overnight trip of the year.  I am really looking forward to it.  It will be time to HUNT some of those fat Red Groupers I have been dreaming of.

Lets go kill something!

Call 252- 726-7454 to book your spot.

Till next week….

Captain Dave Tilley

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