North Carolina Party Boat - Captains Log

6-12-10 Day Trip

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Greetings All,

The fishing is on fire! Big 2 to 4 lb Beeliners, BIG Seabass. Big Triggers. Nice Groupers. It is on.

We had a Day Trip this Saturday! My youngest joined us for his very first trip offshore. (6 years Old)

Man did he have a ball. He told me he wanted to LIVE on the boat.

Here he is with his VERY FIRST FISH.

first fish kiss

Had his eyes closed and everything! You Go Boy!<- Thats MY son!

LOL!

The fishing overall was excellent. We had a Couple real nice COBIA....

40lb COBIA

NC Cobia Fishing

Not to be outdone by his little brother….Here is my oldest one with a nice Scamp!

Scamp Grouper

It was a good SOLID catch all the way around.

North Carolina Party Boat Fishing

North Carolina Head Boat Fishing

Scamp Grouper

North Carolina Party Boat

The Pool Winner

All in All a Great Day Fishing.

You can see all the photos here…

We have a Day Trip this Saturday leaving the dock at 6:00am and an Overnite trip leaving at 8:00PM….Let’s Go Kill Something!

Captain Dave

6-5-10 Military Appreciation Day

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:06:05 +0000

Greetings All,

Military Appreciation Day (MAD) is one of my 2 favorite trips of the year. It is an honor to be able to take these guys and girls out for a day of fun!

If you do not know who MAD is….You can check them out here…

http://www.militaryappreciationday.org

We had a great day fishing. We have to have these guys back early every year so we can get too far offshore but the fishing was still great.

Beeliners

Morehead City Offshore Fishing

Black Seabass

Amberjack Fishing

North Carolina Party Boat

All in all an Excellent Day!

I look forward to it again Next Year!

Captain Dave

5-29-10 24 Hour Trip….

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:45:07 +0000

Greetings All,

The fishing was EXCELLENT. This time of the year the fishing is about as good as it gets.

We started out on the Vermillion and Silver Snapper. By the time to sun came up, we were done and had our limit all the way around the boat.

Off to the deep blue yonder we went in search of creatures of the deep….

….and we found them!

Red Grouper

Big ol'Red Grouper

Red Grouper

Scamp Grouper

You get the idea….

North Carolina Party Boat - Continental Shelf

About noon we headed off in search of the Seabass…We did OK with them…Could have been better. I was tring to find some new bottom to work. Someone has to go first!

Black Seabass

Black Sea Bass

All in All an Excellent Trip!

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

5-29-10 Day Trip

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:06:48 +0000

Greetings All,
The Fishing just keeps HEATING up. We an excellent Day trip. The bite was steady all day from start to finish.

Vermillion and Big Ol’ Seabass

Toro Snapper

All in All a Fine Day of Offshore Bottom Fishing

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

18 Hour 5-23-10

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:24:03 +0000

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!

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!

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…

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!

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….

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

5-22-10 Day Trip

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:04:59 +0000

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!

Nice Groupers

The COBIAs have started to show up too….

Pretty Bee Liners

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

5-8-10 Overnight Trip

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:15:40 +0000

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.

About 11:00am the wind started dropping….and the fishing got better….

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

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

Check out Sunset….It was Lake Atlantic….

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.

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

5-1 and 5-2-10

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:40:14 +0000

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

The Season has begun…

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:28:27 +0000

Greetings All,

We started the season with a BANG…too bad it was the wrong kind. We had a day trip Saturday. The boat was slam full….and it was blowing it’s butter bean off! 20-25 knots. The fishing stunk. The weather was nasty and the catch showed it. In seas that big it is hard to hit what spots. Getting the anchor to hold is all but impossible and even when we are on the fish the angler can not hold bottom and can not “Feel” the bite. It just made for a tough day all the way around. We caught a mess of Triggerfish and some Silver Snappers. The water was still real cold. I did not take a single picture.

Hopefully we will have it better next weekend.

Till Then!

Captain Dave

What is all this protest about?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:16 +0000

I got an E-Mail today asking what all this was about. It would be a TON to type out all this so I am going to supply some links for your reading pleasure.

First this is an article that appeared in a Washington paper and is the most complete of the ones I have seen (Not because I am in it) but I thought this guy did a good job on the subject.

Anglers Dock in D.C. to Voice Concerns
By Bennett Roth
Roll Call Staff
March 1, 2010, 12 a.m.

http://fryingpantower.com/ftopict-16840.html

Second…

Here is one that appeared on EPSN recently

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

Also there is an entire forum about what is going on in the fishery with the current administration.

http://fryingpantower.com/forum-130.html

It is not just us here in NC. The problems we are seeing is from Maine to Washington State. We as fishermen are under attack from the left wing wacko’s and from the folks that are running NOAA and NMF.

Captain Dave