Offshore fishing anyone???

rockcity

rockcity

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Greenville, NC
Whelp, the regular crew is dropping out and I'm all ready to head out Sunday, Nov 1.

Heading off shore for mahi, wahoo, etc.

2 spots open.

Just help pay for fuel and that's about it. The boat holds 126 gallons but usually burn a little over 1/2 tank.

Anyone free on Sunday, I'm headed out of Morehead. Will likely head toward 90' drop or even Big Rock.

We meet at the dock around 5am and try to get back in by 4. With daylight savings, it will be dark by 5 so we want to be back early enough we aren't running back in the dark.

Sometimes we catch a lot, sometimes nothing at all. Just depends on the bite. It's rare we don't come back with something.

Heading out on my 24' Albe. Anyone want to go, PM or post up.

Here is the boat:
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Man have a good time I love those albemarles, buddy a mine has a sport fish. I'll be working this weekend trying to beat the ,rain good luck.
 
geez. wrong time of the year for me. blackpowder will be in tomorrow and im off the next 2 weeks. have been looking at buying a boat to chase the reds, flounder and trout. would love to go outside and catch some mahi. keep us posted if you catch anything. when I was younger I lived in florida. my dad had a 18 foot sea craft. we went out one day and were back home by 2 and caught 60 mahi. I will have to post some pictures 1 day of the fish he used to catch. he has photo albums at his house full of pictures and citations. good luck. jesse :beer:
 
Sorry, bud that I never responded earlier.

Family luncheon I can't escape Sunday. Good luck.
 
Update...


Saturday morning I woke up with an insanly sore throat and head congestion. I decided to still go out but stayed near shore and make it a short day.

Fished the Lookout jetty and caught at least 100 specks. Released all but our limit. It was crazy good fishing.

Caught a few flounder there too.

The exciting point of the day was when I hooked into what I expect was a huge shark. I had my 80 series offshore trolling rod and threw a bottom rig out off the stern while we caught trout. Halfway through the morning the reel drag started singing quite a bit. I locked the drag down to full drag (52 lbs of drag)... No change, the fish just kept going. I caught it for a few minutes and it spun my boat around (7,000 lbs) and drug is around backwards against the wind and current and broke our anchor free. It was a rough ride. After I gained on it and got it within 30' of the boat, the line finally broke. Inspection of the line revealed heavy abrasion on the last 12' of the line; beyond 12', it was free of any abrasion. I could feel the shark's tail slapping the line as it took off. Not sure on exact size or type, but it was a wild ride for a reel and line (at 120lb test) was undersized!


After the wild ride and trout fill, we headed in. We saw thousands of birds working the entire inlet at Beaufort, so we drifted the inlet and plugged with spoons. I bet we caught 75 bluefish before we gave up after about 2 hours.

It was a fun trip. I'm ready for the next one. :)
 
Definitely should be on everyone's bucket list if they've never been. Memories of a lifetime...

If I wasn't so busy Rob I'd GLADLY join in on the fun.
 
I had fun inshore but kind of wish I was not sick and headed off shore. Buddy from the marina (cuddy version of my boat) went to the same place I had planned on going and came back with 3 wahoo and 15 mahi. They finished up those and bottom fished some rocks and picked up 12 nice trigger fish and 10 snapper. Was good fishing all around.

:)
 
If cooked right, my fav is Shark. Backed by a couple freshwater fish (Trout / Bass) and then Wahoo. But if it swims besides Carp, I'll eat it. And they are all in a very close race...
 
Let me know if you want company again. Be happy to put gas in the tank or whatever else you need. I just bought this thing with my old man and we are looking to get out with someone to figure out what gear we need and stuff like that. We kinda bought way more boat then we need but we didn't want to have to upgrade in a year or so. We are fixing up a few minor issues on it this winter and I plan to have it ready to fish for the spring. Let me know if you ever want company.
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Better to have too much boat than not enough!

The ocean outside Beaufort inlet (including the inlet) can turn very quick!

A few months ago it was a little windy but fairly smooth heading out. 2 hours later the waves inside the inlet were huge! Every wave I rode in was taller than my boat is long. Basically I was driving up the back of the wave like the fishing boat in the closing scene of Perfect Storm. It was nuts! Sure was glad that say I had enough boat and motor!


I just bought it last year and have been using it quite a bit this summer and a little this fall. Since May, I think I logged about 150 hours on it. I e spent a ton of $$ outfitting it and have only scratched the surface of gear! :lol:

I may end up trying to go out later this fall as time allows. Will likely be working 7 days a week till Christmas but will like work a day in here and there
 
Well let me know if you have space for a couple guys. We are usually pretty flexible. Most weekends I'm just farting around playing with stuff on the boat or my Jeep.

With the boat we bought the biggest thing it needs is the generator repaired. Besides that it is just a bunch of little things and once over for my own piece of the mind. It only has a 115 hours on it so most everything is in really good shape. I'm finding that buying all the fishing gear is going to be one of the biggest costs. I also really wanted to upgrade the Lowrance to a larger screen but the current one might just have to do the trick for this year.
 
My Garmin is a 7" screen and it works great. I'd love a larger screen but the 7" works great given the size boat I have and I can see it while standing on the swim platform. The biggest upgrade I would expect to do next is to have dual units so I can have sonar on one screen and chart on another. Having a split screen on a 7" unit can get tedious at times. But it works.

I would recommend getting an epirb. I never go without it either attached to me or on the ditch bag. Get a good waterproof handheld with GPS locator as well and keep it in the ditch bag I case you have to abandon ship or need a backup radio and GPS.

I would invest the extra $ for a fortress anchor. It's nice to have a storm anchor for the boat my wife can pick up and launch because it's light. Plus the only potential rust I would have to deal with over time would be from the chain.

I've found that preventative maintenance is the key factor for continued reliability so far. It's not really cheap but poor PM tends to cause a snowball affect and ruin a nice day on the water and in the wrong conditions could be life threatening.



I'm always up for fishing inland and offshore. I'm still getting used to the boat and the gear, but I've come a long way from my first trip out. ;)
 
Yea my boat came with a Lowrance 7HD so I was going to add a 12" screen so I could run bottom on one and GPS on the other. I'd like to get radar too but we'll see. Already been looking at the EPIRB and handheld GPS's. I won't go offshore until both are purchased along with all the other necessary safety gear. I already have a ditch bag started from my old boat and duplicates I have from my off-road bag. I've looked into the sea anchors and need to do some more research on them. The biggest problem with this boat is for its size there isn't a ton of storage. I need to start figuring some of that stuff out because spring is going to be here before I know it. The boat has every option available so all the places that would normally be storage in the cabin are filled with AC units or water heaters ETC. I have some ideas for stuff but I need to really figure a few things out.

This thing is going to take a lot of getting used to for me as all I have ever had is go fasts and jet skis. This thing is a totally different animal at 9000 lbs. It feels under powered and slow to respond but the surveyor said everything was in perfect working order and I needed to get used to a heavy fishing boat not a speed boat.
 
I actually have an ACR PLB in lieu of the EPIRB so I can take it with me, etc. it activates after I hit the water in case I'm thrown from the boat, etc. For my smaller boat, I thought it was a better fit than the EPIRB.

Ike the handheld VHF with built in GPS. That is my emergency backup GPS and/or radio. It's waterproof and floats. I keep it in the ditch bag in case I have to exit out in a hurry.

Storage is a major issue with my boat too. But it can be a blessing as with limited storage you learn to have just what you need and not too much to weight the vessel down unnecessarily.

9,000 lbs is heavy. What size boat? What motor(s)?
 
It's a Proline Express 29. It is just short of 33' with the euro transom and anchor davit. It has twin 225 etecs on it. Proline lists the weight as 7900 for the boat and 10,000 with trailer but it doesn't say if that is with a full load of fuel (200 Gallons). I'm also not sure if that is with the motors or not. I need to run it over the scales and see what it actually weighs so I know. Last night I found out I can't tow it in SC without a permit so it looks like I'll be leaving out of NC ports when I take it to the beach.
 
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