Cape Cod 10/19/2010

Went up to the Cape with Sherman and Benson from New York.
Met up with Captain Eric and 1st mate Jason of Livewell charters in Green Harbour at 6am. Weather was chilly in the lows 40s, headed out to the fishing grounds and saw tunas scattered and jumping in all directions ranging from small 15-20 pounders to nice 200lb fish.
As usual the fishes dived as soon as we approached them and we had to depend on the birds to lead us, after a couple of cast, we saw a couple of birds flying low and staring at the water, casted 3-5 yds ahead of where the birds were heading and let the lure float on the surface for a couple of seconds before working it, i was working my lures really slow as they didn't seem to be really agressive. About 10yds from the boat and as soon as the lure stick its head out from the water, a huge boil came from behind.
@#$% he missed it! 4 times it happened to me on different lures!
Made another cast and again let it sit in the water and work it real slow, sweep...stop, sweep stop, another boil surfaced but this time the line went tight, FISH ON! i thought to myself and fought the fish in, it was a nice 53 inch keeper.
After the 1st fish was landed we headed towards the south east corner of the bank and was greeted by a whole fleet of boats, many familiar faces, Capt Josh, Capt Dom, Capt Richie...
After saying "Hi" to Dom and Konishi-san who was fishing with him we headed out in search of more fish and again i worked the lures slowly and was rewarded with another fish, it was slightly bigger then the 1st fish 56inch estimated and brought it alongside the boat only to have the belly split ring failed on me and the fish escaped before any photos could be taken.
It was a nice day out and even nicer with the fish coming back, been a real bad season and i'm glad they are back! On the way back we saw a commercial boat trying to haul a 800lb to their boat.
Here are the tackle used,

1st fish - Souls PS-075P3CS, Shimano Stella 10000FA with 16000 spool, Souls Nardo lure, Varivas SMP PE8 and our own 130lb loop to loop twisted shock leader with 130lb bite flouro leader.
2nd fish - Race Point Special, Shimano Stella 18000SW, Shout prototype lure, Varivas SMP PE8 and our own 130lb loop to loop twisted shock leader with 130lb bite flouro leader.
Other Rods - Smith Tokara
Reels - Shimano Stella 18000SW
Lures - Carpenter Gamma & Pandora, Daiwa Dorado sliders, Shimano Ocea pencils, Souls Brabus and Bombers.
Here are the some of the pictures, in case you guys don't recognize me...yes i cut my hair
Cheers,
Paul.

North Carolina with our Japanese guests 13/10, 14/10 2010

I had the pleasure to be part of this great trip that took place in Wilmington North Carolina,
Mogi-san along with Shout field tester Ono-san and Aramaki-san ,Horiguchi-san and Sano-san and myself made it to the gulf stream to have a taste of pain,
Captain Mike from Liveline and Captain Rick from living waters were our guides
We started our day with triple hookups on almost every drift until the fish start to shy away and we changed places and still manage to get a fish here and there,
The highlight of this trip was Mogi-san AJ at 59inch estimated at 102lb according to Captain Mike chart followed by Ono-san from Shout,
I have to admit that I fished with one of the best jigger I have seen, Ono-san really impressed me with his jigging style and when the fish shy away from everyone he still manages to get a strike,
It was a pleasure to watch him jig and see his skills in jigging, not just speed jigging but sliding, jerking as well.
After all everybody was happy and we manage to have a shot on the second day.
Tackle used:
Rods: MC-Works, Shout, Valleyhill,
Reels: Shimano Stella, Daiwa Saltiga, Studio Ocean Mark,
Jigs: Shout, Deep liner,Smith,Sanme jigs,
Line: Sunline PE Jigger
Enjoy the picture
Tight lines
Sami

I finally had the pleasure to fish alongside Carpenter’s president Konishi-san, Mogi-san, Beerman Okubo-san, Ajichi-san and Hiro-san,
This is not the first time that Mogi-san and his group fished Cape Cod,
In the past year Mogi-san and his group visited the US on 3 occasion,
They came all the way from Japan to have a shot at our Atlantic Blue fin tuna, we had to charter 2 boats for the group and the arrangements had all been made long ago,
I had Capt Dom of Coastal charters sportfishing and Capt Eric of Livewell charters teaming up for this group,
The guys have been sitting at the dock and waiting for the wind to die down for the past 2 days.
We took our shot yesterday and made it with very rough condition to have one hook up by Ajichi-san, unfortunately Ajichi-san lost the fish yesterday at the boat side,
so we called it off at around 10:00AM. The decision was right as the sea condition was really bad,
as the condition got better today in the morning we had multiple shots at the smaller fishes,
I came in tight first, landed and released a nice 50 inch fish,
We then started seeing birds working and Capt Dom put us in a great position with 3 lures being launched at the same time
3 anglers came in tight at once, it was the best feed of the day and some of the best shots in a long time and we made it happen,
Beerman Okubo-san came in tight first, follow by me and then Konishi-san!
We landed all 3 fish and released 1 and kept 1 over and 1 under,
the biggest was 58 1/2 while the other slob was 43 inch,
We had a great time on the water and we will be back at it tomorrow morning,
It was great to see Capt Josh on the water and to see my friend Raymond getting hooked up on his first Bluefin tuna on topwater.
I would like to thank Capt Dom and Capt Eric for their joint effort they put on the water today.
To summarize it, it wasn't bad at all to go 4 for 4!
rods: Carpenter prototype
Race point
Souls PS-075PC3S
Reels: Shimano stella 18000/20000
Line: Sunline, Varivas SMP,
Lures: Carpenter, Moutoukenamru, daiwa Dorado Pencil

3rd Saltywater Tackle RACE POINT SPECIAL Prototype.

Here's a sneak preview of what's in store next tuna season!

Cheers,
Paul.