Va Beach Rudee Stripers
 

Me and the crew are thinking of heading up Friday the 13th (I know, I know) and coming back Sunday or Monday. Anybody else planning to hit the ocean side the 14th & 15th, weather permitting?

Weather permitting I will fish everyday I can for the next 3 weeks. Come prepared to hook into a big bluefin tuna on sttiper set UPS! The tunas have been chewing the past week and a half inside the three mile line. My hooked and released a 120 pounder yesterday on a 330 Penn and a umbrella rig, fought the fish for 2.5 hours and then broke em off beside the boat. Pm me your cell or I will send you my cell number,I don't like using or talking on the radio with all them yahoos!

YJust look at the "striper" they caught in the tourney today!


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Kracker, will do on the PM. Tried to tell my buddies we should take the 50 wide and run something on it......then I came to my senses and realized the V has nowhere to properly store such a beast so even if we did luck up we'd have to run straight in with it. You better believe it won't be released if I spend over 2 hrs landing it!

Blue:

Tail rode it and drag it to the beach! Make sure you have your permit though!

Kamikaze

They sold one off the dock yesterday at the fishing center for 20 dollars a pound. I weighed 256 pounds.

Went a little late today but we boated two nice stripers around 36 pounds each. I rented a slip for $150 a month right there inLynnhaven so I'll get plenty of chances to fish this month. They were killing the BF today. I have never seen so much bait in the water and saw whale after whale.

More tunas caught today. This morning at one point 4 of our Rudee fleet boats were double and triple hooked on fish over 175 pounds. The charter guys are fishing nothing but 50's and 80 wides with all striper set ups (mojos). You will not see a tuna bite like this for a very long time. BLUERUNNER GET DOWN HERE NOW!!!! LOL!

That's a pretty good payday at $20 per lb! Too bad we don't have much in the line of large tackle. We have 20's, 25's, a couple 30's and one lone 50 wide. Can't imagine catching one of those beasts.

As of right now we're heading down this coming friday. I checked the extended forecast and it doesn't look too bad....fingers crossed.

Kracker I will give you a shout Friday afternoon or Friday evening. Don't catchem all before we get there!!

Yesterday report is a sad one!!!! we hooked on a giant around 8:30 yesterday morning we fought the fish for 45 minutes and ultimately breaking him off. We hooked him on one of our 9/0 on a custom rod that we use offshore for a planer rod it has half a spool of 100# pound mono with a top shot of 65# braid with a 100# leader (crank on). Caught the fish on a 32 ounce mojo chartchruease and white with white shad bodies. BLUERUNNER get 12" inch white shad bodies!!!!! we normally troll 10" inch shad bodies but we switched to 12 inchers for obvious reasons(bigger bait for bigger fish. The main set ups for trolling for these tunas is 16 ounce inline with built in swivels one end to reel mono and the other side 20 ft of 100# mono to a single 24ounce or 26 ounce or 32 ounce parachute rigs with the 12 inch white shad bodies.

Yea call me friday BLUE we have to get up at the ramp and we can head out together.

My Yukon is in the shop right now getting a new fuel pump, shaft seal, and heater valve. Kinda bummed since this is the 2nd fuel pump in about 2 years. Truck was bucking around 50 - 60 mph and increasingly harder to start - 3 turns. Noticed coolant level dropping which was the leaky heater valve. If this fixes it I should have something to tow with. If not it doesn't look good for this weekend....buddies truck has issues also...

Well that sucks!!! Happy Birthday by the way!!!!!!

I got the Yukon home from the shop.....and the transmission went out in the driveway!!!! Had to borrow a car hauler and take it to the tranny shop. Wow!!

Needless to say we ain't gonna make it to Va this weekend. But we may be there next weekend. I will keep you posted.

holy cow!!! Im gonna mail you a horse shoe!!! no need to worry ab out this weekend because its blowing its a$$ off here wind was steady 20 to 25 today. Rode down to the beach today right down the street from my mom and dads and the birds were diving like Ive never seen!!! just to rough to fish. There still here. Leave the your boat and fish with us if you want.

BLUE 6 confirmed tunas caught yesterday. The striper bite is in full force. send me your email and I will send you some cool video of the ganets diving at cape henry. the video was taken by my brother. We are fishing Friday.

if your looking for a cheap decent large reel to use occasionally for the monsters go with a diawa 900h can get a decent used one on ebay for around 40-50 bucks. they hold up pretty good, i have two for shark fishing and they handle as well as my senator 114 6/0, just be prepared to spend another 50 or more filling those bad boys with line.. I been too busy to get the boat prepped to head out of Rudy. but the fish are still there

Past 3 days more tunas. Buddy of mine caught one 275 yesterday

Yeah looks like the tuna are biting better than the stripers based on reports. You been catching any striped fish Kracker?

Yea we fished last tuesday and caught limit in 20 minutes. Its hit or miss but there are definetely fish here. and the way this weather is acting there gonna be around for a while

I saw on OIFC.com that the BFT season has been closed by the NMFS so it is catch and release as of 1-22-12 at 2330 hrs.

BR, I don't thing you were supposed to go with all that happening to you.

RB - No immediate plans to go as of right now. Got the blown tranny rebuilt ($1349) and had to take it back to the shop this morning. Truck has a stumble around 50 - 60mph and has had the stumble for over a year. I always thought it was the tranny on its way out but mechanic took a ride with me yesterday and swears its a plug or a wire. We'll see.

Out buddies did end up going that weekend we were supposed to go. They made it out in the blow that Friday 1/2 day and all day Saturday. No fish friday and one keeper Saturday.....that my friends is what you call a long, tough, expensive trip. Same thing happened to us last season. Fished two days...one fish and the durn thing wasn't even a keeper!

Have not eaten striper in two years. :-(