Only a few boats headed offshore yesterday, with 20-25 knot NW winds blowing, but fortunately I had a salty crew. Navigating Oregon Inlet was challanging due to the lack of funds to properly dredge the inlet and shoaling unlike any we have ever seen, but everyone got out there OK and the warm Gulf Stream water was shoved in over the Point and the bluefin were scattered about over a 15 mile area. We caught 6 fish in the 180-250 class trolling in the morning….once we got on an area of fish we pretty much had a bent rod for 3 1/2 hours…..then the fish moved, so we moved north, relocated them again but they would not bite the trolling stuff so we got on a good mark of fish, stopped the boat and started chunking and hooked four more fish, two double headers, catching 3 three of those in the 250-300 lb size range. All the fish were too large to keep, but Richard Jollon (4 releases), Thomas Dolan (two releases), Andrew Butts (three releases)&William Pillor (one release) all earned citations for releasing big bluefin tuna. 
WORLD CLASS BIG BLUEFIN TUNA FISHING YESTERDAY
