 9/12/2009
Today we were priveledged to be fishing with Martin Shaw and his son, Mark from Greenville, NC. Martin and Mark have been with us many times over the past several years and have been in dire need of a good weather day offshore! Well today was the day that we were fortunate to have this accommodation and Capt. Butch, myself, and the crew made our way to the Amberjack hole and once again the Pogeys seemed to do the trick.
Mark and Martin both fought and landed a couple Amberjacks and then we decided to move on off in search of some bottomfish. At first things seemed bleak due to the fact that all of our good bottom fishing holes were "dry" but at least the current wasn't screaming for the first time this year! Capt. Butch continued to push further and further offshore checking locations the whole way and finally once we neared the Gulf Stream and reached 100+ feet of water the bottom began to mark up with an abundance of bottomfish.
The first lightline deployed proved deadly for a teenager King Mackerel and then we started dropping Pogeys and Cigar Minnows and cut bait to the bottom and the Gray, Vermillion, and Silver Snapper began to role in alongside a few Black Sea Bass and 4 decent sized Grouper! Several times the Amberjacks reappeared under the boat and then we had a school of 40-50 pound Barracuda's come around the boat.
Capt. Butch hooked a couple of the 'Cuda's but with their teeth they were both lost in the battle and lived to swim another day! Capt. Butch even dropped down one pole with two live Pogeys on it and hooked a Grouper that snapped 100 pound Ande mono. like it was nothing!
On the way back in the schools of 2-5 pound Spanish Mackerel were all over the top about 5 miles off of Bald Head the same way they were this morning and seemed to be willing to bite from the radio talk. #00 gold and pink clarkspoons behind #1 and #2 planers will usually do the trick, make sure you use a long 20-30 foot leader from the planer to the spoon and lots of ball-bearing swivels.
Martin and Mark, as always it was great fishing with you guys and the Capt. and myself definitly look forward to the next time.
Fall fishing is on the brink, and is really starting to kick off! Here in Southport you can even feel it in the air!
FISH ON!!!
Capts. Butch and Chris Foster
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