Baitballed
Here’s an image of my brother Dave surrounded by a huge menhaden baitball last summer a few hundred yards off the beach in Nags Head.
Entries Tagged as 'Fishing'
Won’t Be Long
There’s been a few days of clear water inshore lately along with amazing weather. Getting me really excited to spear fish again this spring and summer. Love stocking up on fresh trigger fish! Here’s a photo I shot a few years ago of Ryan Rhodes hunting at a wreck in Kill Devil Hills.
Mako
Scariest looking fish in the sea right here. Caught this last winter offshore of Hatteras. Tasted really good.
In the Bite Magazine Ad
Here’s the ad going in the upcoming issue of In the Bite Magazine, featuring my photo of the Bill Collector from the PCBT last year. I think it turned out great! Please feel free to contact me if interested in having your boat photographed!
Bill Collector
How beautiful is this boat??? Shot this last year during the Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournament. It will be used in an advertisement in upcoming issue of In The Bite Magazine. I’d already shot countless photos of the boats from the docks and the air so I wanted to get a different perspective. I decided to paddle out on my paddleboard with my camera in the waterhousing and shoot from the water. I wanted to get the bridge in the photo so I sat just outside of the channel at the entrance to PC. I currently only have fisheye and 70-200mm ports for my housing so I had to go with the fisheye to get everything in the frame. Using such a wide angle meant I had to get relatively close to these huge boats coming in and it was pretty intense. This photo looks like I’m about 50 ft from the boat but I’m actually only about 25 or so. You should’ve seen the looks on the fishermen’s faces when they made the turn and saw me floating there on my board holding my giant water housing right outside the channel. Some of em must’ve thought I had a machine gun. Ended up getting some cool shots though so it was worth it. Looking forward to shooting the Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tourney again this year.
Gottem
My brother hooked up on a nice trout back in the day.
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.
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