Entries Tagged as 'Fishing'

Bluefin Redemption

got a text at 9pm thurs from drew asking if i wanted to go bluefinning at 430 friday morning. gotta take advantage of the windows of the relatively calm seas in the winter when the bluefin tuna are around. was time for redemption after getting skunked on monday. the wind didn’t let up as forecasted, so it was pretty sloppy most of the day, 4-5 ft at 5 seconds, but it didn’t matter cause bluefin were thick. saw 80-90 inchers swimming in the waves and 50 ft thick marks most of the day . unbelievable. hooked up on an 82 incher after about 10 minutes of trolling and i faught that one for 45 minutes. my biggest fish yet…very stoked. 30 minutes later we hooked up again but lost that one close to the boat. 10 minutes later the 130 is screaming again. craig battled the one below for about 2.5 hours. yea thats two and a half hours. matt did a great job keeping the boat positioned over the fish the whole fight so we didn’t lose it. heres a few photos i took of craigs fight and he and drew securing the fish. photos don’t do the size of the beast any justice. both of em were almost 7 ft long and around 400 lbs making them quite challenging to get into a rocking boat. labor of love.  they will sell for about 5 grand to the japanese. not a bad way to make a few thousand bucks. Season closes tmrw.

Skunked

Went bluefin tuna fishing today. They slayed em yesterday. Everyone goose egg’d today. What a difference a day makes. Never know unless you go. Still a beautiful day on the water and it ended like this.

Game On

Here is the sportfishing boat ”Game On” on their way to the gulf stream during last years Pirates Cove Billfishing Tournament. If you’ve never been offshore fishing, I highly recommend it. Cruising at full speed into the wide open ocean amongst the fishing fleet with the sun coming up and the anticipation of catching something huge…doesn’t get much better. You never know what the day has in store for you at this point and its such a rush. The bluefin tuna will be showing up soon and I can’t wait to get back out there!!

Morning Blues

I get excited when I hear thunder booming within an hour or 2 of sunrise. Regardless of when I went to bed I’ll get up and check the radar for the potential of sunrise thunderstorm photos. If I see spotty red blobs on the radar I jump out of bed. This morning I grabbed a coffee and walked out to the end of the Avalon Pier to photograph the storm over the ocean to the south. It wasn’t nearly as intense of a storm as the one that hit a few hours earlier, but still made for some cool ominous photos. There was a nice tailer bluefish bite at the end of the pier with a few big spanish mackeral mixed in. Blues were flopping around everywhere. Was a good start to my day.


Aerial Boat Photos Posted

Click here to view aerial photos from Tuesday morning or click on the image below of the PentaGone. Contact me if you’re interested in purchase high resolution images on a DVD.

Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournmanent

Photographed the Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournament all last week and had a blast. Taking photos of beautiful sportfishing boats, fishing weigh ins, and people having tons of fun is what I love to do. The event was a success and I met some wonderful people. Here’s a few moments from the week. Click here to view many more. And here to purchase prints. Aerial gallery will be posted soon.




Pirate’s Cove Tourney Day 3

Here’s one of the images I took yesterday of the boats coming back in to pirate’s cove marina flying their marlin flags. I had my camera in my waterhousing and paddled out on my paddleboard for this perspective. The anglers had a great day catching over 70 marlin.

Heli Sportfishing Boat Shoot

I might enjoy photographing boats more than surfing, esp when I’m shooting them from a helicopter with the door off 30 feet above the ocean going 40 miles per hour at sunrise.

 

Pirate’s Cove

Shooting the 28th Annual Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournament this week. The marina is so photogenic…here’s one I got this evening. Fishing starts tomorrow so hopefully I’ll have photos of some huge marlin later in the week. Check back.

The Bridgot Denise, Wanchese, NC

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