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FISHING REPORTS

May 29

TUNA TUNA TUNA. . .

Adrenaline Sportfishing strikes again. The boat owner, Bill Pino, wanted to go out and put his brother, Charlie, on some tuna. With that said we headed out to do just that. I played mate all day as Bill was doing a fine job of running the boat. I had Carl working by my side in the pit. We arrived at the Washington Canyon to find 62* water. Once again it didn’t take more than twenty minutes to get our first bite. A blue fin double header. The action continued steadily until 11.00am when we landed our first yellow fin. Once we found the yellow fin we worked them hard. Cover up after cover up it didn’t take long to fill our limit. Most fish where in the 15-25 lb range. We where close to filling the yellow limit when a large hole opened up under the bird/squid nation chain combo. It was on. This beast peeled half a spool off a 50 weight combo and stood fast. After a 40 minute battle, Charlie finally finished the fish off. Turned out to be a nice 103lb blue fin tuna. Our first legal blue fin. We boxed him and promptly finished up on our yellow fin limit of twelve fish. With both our yellow fin limit and blue fin limit we started “havin’ a little fun”. We switched over to Squid Nation Spreader bars. Two of them to be exact and no hook baits. Tight off the corners we had tuna busting on them. We fired baits back at them on light rigs and spinning rods. It was a good time to get in on a little bait and switch with the tuna. Final tally was 25-30 blue fin and 12 yellow fin. The bite is smoking hot folks. If your looking for tuna NOW IS THE TIME. Don’t put this one off. We are smack in the middle of WORLD CLASS tuna fishing. Come and join us for a trip. We’d love to have you aboard for a trip of a life time. I’ll keep you posted on our trips… Stay tuned.

Captain Travis Schmidt

May 27

Just another BANG-UP day for Adrenaline Sportfishing

On Saturday we had a bachelor party on board and these guys had no idea what was in store for them. The ride out was a little snotty but the Mirage tore it up and we had a comfortable ride out. About 15-18 miles from the beach Capt Travis and I spot a pod of pilot whales breaking the surface. We pull back and let the boys have a closer look. Hey, while we are at it, lets put a few bluefish lures out for about 10 min and give it a shot. First line is not in for more than 30 seconds and we got em on. I never had a chance to set a full spread and we kept nailing them. Finished off with a tripple header and tossed over half a dozen blues in the box for shark bait later.

Capt Travis points the bow east and we are back under way. We arrive at the north tip of the poormans and we were still in a pocket of 58-59deg water. Capt Travis can sniff out the warm water better than anyone I know and about 10 min later the temp guage starts to jump. . . he throttles back and I set the spread. Today it took a little longer to find the fish as we had to wait almost 30 min for our first bite. From that moment on, it was constant action all day. It took us about 25-30 bluefin releases before we found the yellowfin. Once we weere on the yellowfin, it was more constant action with mixed catches of yellowfin and bluefin. We ended the day when the boys cried mercy and couldnt lift their arms anymore. . .but not before we bang up another tripple header of bluefin just as we are pulling the lines.

It ended up being a beautiful day on Saturday as the water flattened out and we made 35kts on the way home.

I will have some pics up later today.

If you want to get in on some of this action, give myself or Capt Travis a call. The boat has over 150 tuna in just 3 days of fishing. BOYS, IT REALLY DOESNT GET ANY BETTER THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW~~~

May 24

WOW, what a day out there yesterday!!!

We were heading towards N. Poormans and pull back just inside and we set the lines. We had blended water in the low 60s and within 5 min had a quad hook-up. We get 4 undersized bluefin to the boat and have a hard time lifting the 5lb BFTs into the boat, but they went home happy and lines go back out. Just as all lines are re-set, we get covered up with smaller bfts. OK, lets get out of these. . .

We point the boat offshore and we head over. Just past 100fathoms, the fun starts. We were still in blended water with temps reaching their peak at 66 deg, but the tuna didnt mind one bit. It was One bite, 2 on, 3 on, 4 on, 5 on. . . we are covered up. Action stays like this all morning and we make short work of our limit of yellowfin. We continue to work the yellowfin and probably catch around 35 of them.

In the afternoon, with a lot of tired anglers on board, we start to troll toward the barn. As we get a little further inshore, we spot some tuna busting in front of us. About 30 seconds later, the are busting in the spread. . . HE HIT IT, hes on, no he is off. . . OK got him again. There are rods screaming all over the place. . . in the holders, off the tower, too many rods and not enough anglers. We get these Bluefins to the boat and they are a better class of fish in the 40-50lb range, but still under the 47" minimum so they swim free. We could have stayed and caught a couple hundred bluefin. . .you could toss a flip-flop at them and they would eat, but everyone was too tired to lift their arms (myself included. . .they kept tricking me into reeling in fish. . .)

Want to thank everyone that was on board, what a great group of guys and some good fishermen.

We will be back at it this weekend. The tunas are snappin off OC, come on out and get some of this action

May 13/14

I had a chance to get out and chase some Blue fish this weekend. With all the talk lately about the toothy demons, I figured I’d share a report with you guys needing a Blue fix.
Saturday, Bill Pino and I left the dock and headed for the Twin Wrecks. We found plenty of fish to be had. I saw pod after pod of nice blues just sunning on the surface. The first few we caught where a bit on the small side, but the quality of the fish increased as the evening progressed. We hooked fish both on the surface and down deep. The fish where very concentrated in a band of 57* water. We had a nice afternoon pulling on some Blues.

Sunday morning Dave Sikorski joined me for a morning trip. With the amount of Blues we saw on the surface the day before, Dave came equipped with his fly rods. The plan was to sight cast to the blue devils for some great fly rod action. Mother nature had her own plans.
With a heavy fog, stout seas and wind clipping along, a shot with the fly was not to be had. We changed up our tactics and set out a trolling spread. It wasn’t long before we had our first fish in the boat. Aside from the inclement weather, Sunday played out much the same as Saturday, with the fish and the bait concentrated in narrow bands of warm water.

The blues have definitely made and appearance. The action was not hot and heavy yet, but there was a steady bite.

Capt. Travis Schmidt

May 8, 2006

We have been doing a lot of prep work on the boat and getting all tackle in top shape over the past few weeks with a few days on the water mixed in. The trips we have been taking down south in Hatteras, NC have been yeilding good catches of wahoo and tuna. Wahoo have been ranging anywhere from 20lb snakes up to 50lb slobs. The tuna have been a huge surprise this year with many fish ranging from 50-70lbs. Hopefully this is a great sign of what is to come for Ocean City.

We have also been taking trips on the Chesapeake Bay and landing limits of Stripers on almost all trips. So far, fishing has been spectacular in both North Carolina and the Chesapeake Bay.

In Ocean City all the action has been inshore or off the beach. Anglers fishing the surf in Assateague have been hitting some larger stripers up to 40lbs as well as a lot of skates and some have been surprised with an occasional bluefish blitz. In the inlet, shad and bluefish have been biting well and anglers are catching togs around the rocks. With air temps a little lower this past weekend and sustained winds, not many people were fishing.

A little further offshore, there are decent catches of Sea Bass and Tog.

On a bright note for us and other offshore nuts, there was a hard break in the Toms Canyon off New Jersey as some warmer water pushed in from the Gulf Stream. Of the boats that were able to get out, many got their limit of yellowfins in the 40lb class as well as some bluefins. Things are really starting to shape up for the season and it looks like it will be a great one.

The bluefish should show up on the inshore shoals any day now and the MAKOS will not be far behind. Take a look at our booking calendar and see what dates work we still have open and take a shot at some of the monster sharks we have off the coast of Ocean City.

We will start running bluefish trips next week and the sharks should make their showing by the end of May! GET READY, THE SEASON IS ONLY A FEW SHORT WEEKS AWAY.

SPRING YELLOWFIN IN NORTH CAROLINA

3-31-06

The weather broke and gave us a shot at the fish. SharkJP and myself headed out to chase some yellow fin off the Carolina coast. Terpheels join us in the action and we did some product testing on his new SST software. Worked like a dream. We fished aboard the Crystal Will, my private center console. We found the yellow bellies just north of the 400 line and just inside of 100 fa. The bite was steady, but certainly not red hot. Ended the day with a box of small yellow bellies and a mako that we released. Great day out. On the ride in we happened across a huge Tiger shark basking on the surface. She let us get quite close. An easy grander to be sure... The video didn't capture the scene. Gonna have to take my word on this one, she was a pig!

Not a bad day of the Carolina Coast. It won't be long till these fish are in our backyard. We're ready and waiting....

Check out the video...

http://www.adrenalinelures.com/~videos/chilliandterpyft.wmv

-Captain Travis