What Are Your Plans for 2008?

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

The weather is about to warm. Also in less than 2 weeks we get to spring forward and have more time in the evenings. I thought I'd throw up this cabin fever post.

1) Have you planned any fishing trips yet - where and for what?

2) Do you plan to target anything different this year than in years past?

3) If you could go fishing or lay in bed with your girl, which would you rather do?


Here are my answers:

1) Cape Hatteras, Memorial day weekend offshore dolphin, wahoo, tuna
2) Cobia, Tuna, trigger, sheepshead
3) Go fishing!

Hey I might be down in Nags Head on Memorial weekend and would love to take the boat off shore. I've been out 4 time in the V but sense the motor has a few more years on her I'm not up to running out alone. It adds safty for both of us and it would be fun making the run. Let me know what your plans are as we get closer to Memorial day. I'm sure I'll be down that weekend as my parents have a cottage around the 81/2 mile post in Nags Head.

[tsubaki]

Blue, sorry about the hijack of the thread.
1. Lower Lake George Fla. June 14-22 (willy should be busy elsewhere). Bream.
2. Anything, if I can hook it or stab it.
3. Don't matter what I'd rather do. Her favorite greeting to me, "don't you have something you can go kill or catch"?

[Blue_Runner]

Tsub, no problem. I liked the "wings with teeth pic." Never seen those before but they look gnarly.

Hey I might be down in Nags Head on Memorial weekend and would love to take the boat off shore. I've been out 4 time in the V but sense the motor has a few more years on her I'm not up to running out alone. It adds safty for both of us and it would be fun making the run. Let me know what your plans are as we get closer to Memorial day. I'm sure I'll be down that weekend as my parents have a cottage around the 81/2 mile post in Nags Head.

Still, I'll let you know when I get down that way. We'll probably be heading out of Hatteras inlet, so it'd be a small drive for you but I bet you $5 we'll catch some good fish!

I would like to try to catch a tarpon, they say they are around the Fryingpan Shoals in the summer.

Emerald Isle, right outside of bogue inlet in mid July they are there. Saw them rolling there 2 years ago. It was cool. We were not prepared to throw at them.

[parishht]

1 - Nope - I'll know that I planned the trip when I step foot on the boat.

2 - Nope - Whatever I manage to hook, that's what I will catch.

3 - Lay in bed, I am just too lazy and work too hard during teh week to drag my *** out of bed.

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

Tsub, no problem. I liked the "wings with teeth pic." Never seen those before but they look gnarly.

Still, I'll let you know when I get down that way. We'll probably be heading out of Hatteras inlet, so it'd be a small drive for you but I bet you $5 we'll catch some good fish!


Emerald Isle, right outside of bogue inlet in mid July they are there. Saw them rolling there 2 years ago. It was cool. We were not prepared to throw at them.

Blue I was given a cottage to use that week so I will be down for MM weekend. I lucked out and was given a three story cottage right on the beach for the week. We will have a few friends down that weekend so I would have a crew of 3 to make the run. Ther's no problem towing to Hatteras so thats not an issue. As we get closer to that weekend lets talk and see if we can make it a trip.

[Blue_Runner]

Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!

[Stillrunning]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!

Always a good problem to have when the fish is too big for the box. My second off shore citation was a Wahoo which weighed in around 64 pounds. We lost one that was allot bigger but we never really had much of a chance with that fish. If I'm correct don't you need a seperate tuna lic.? For that insulated fish bag. If you go to thehulltruth.com and ask there you will get some good info on them and the best place to order one.

[Blue_Runner]

Yes on the tuna permit. Federal HMS (highly migratory species) is required which is like $22 or so.

I got boarded by the coast guard last year and the coasties tried to tell me you have to have the HMS for mahi. I had it but what kind of idiots are they if they don't even know the law? I had to just nod and say yes.