Well, I've been fishing a few tournaments lately, before rockfish season get's into full swing. My buddies Brian Bracey & Tony Ross headed down to Biloxi, Ms, for the SKA Nationals. After finshing 4th in NC in the div. 2 class of the 23ft. & under, we headed 16 hours to the south with high hopes. During the first part of the week, the fishing was pretty hot, but as luck would have it, a cold front went thru on Wed. and changed everything. On Friday, they were calling for 6-9ft. seas. We didn't fish Friday, but did go on Saturday in 5-8ft. swells. The area that we fished was 70 miles out, which took us 4 hours to get there. Once the lines were out, the fishing was off the scale. 25-30lb Kings jumping everwhere chasing bait. We fished hard for one hour, boxed our two biggest fish, and rode 4 hours back in to finish in 6th place. Not bad for our first national event.
We didn't have as good luck last weekend with the rockfish. In that tournament, we finished 18th out of 23 boats and had the smallest fish at 26lbs. That won us the Bunker award and some cash. It's better than last place and no money. The Striper fishing on the Outer Banks has been hit or miss. No telling from one day to the next if you are going to catch fish, but it should only get better as the weather gets colder. Give me a call and lets go catch some fish. Here is a photo of Tony & me with a King we caught pre-fishing Monday.
Thanks, Ray
