Bonito & Spanish trip 4-30-07

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting and fishing with a new friend, Gary from Nashville, NC.

We met at the ramp at 5:45 and headed out by 6am. The weatherman got it right, 10 knot winds with 1-2 foot seas - absolutely beautiful today. We headed out of Rich inlet with our first stop being AR364. As we aproached we deployed a few Yozuri deep divers and had a hit with in the first minute. Blue fish. Another bite, blue fish. More bites, more blue fish - all snappers.

We tired of that after 15 or so fish and decided to head to the top secret ship sunk off of Masonboro Inlet - there we fished with what seemed like the entire WB fleet... We hooked up with a pair of nice Spanish Mackerels and a decent sized Bonito all on deep divers. But the bite was slow and we wanted some top water action. Couldn't see that happening with 20 other boats buzzing around so we decided to leave.


Oh yeah, one of those other boats happened to be my friend "Big Al" and his lovely wife. We talked them into going with us to a different location (we really had to twist his arm)


Next stop was that top secret rock about 6 miles off Topsail (same name as a city in Texas that starts with a D). There we found some top water action and hooked up another nice bonito and lost a couple others to pulled hooks and a cut off. Al and his wife found some black bass. We all smiled and had fun (we were the only boats there).



Oh yeah, we had a Mr. Brown Suit (Cobia) come up and check us out at the boat but before we could scrounge up something to throw to him, he left. We also saw a big Ocean Sun fish. Man that is one ugly fish!


Great day with friends and fish!