Saturday, February 28, 2015

Feb 28- Cold Cold Cold

No fishing guys! I can't believe that my "no fishing streak" continues. It's sickening, really! Those thugs stole my soul. Hard to believe that theft happened on November 11. I think that's when it was!

Anyway, moving on, how about the weather. I tell you guys, February of 2015
has been the most brutal calendar month that I can recall. I'm talking cold. Extended cold. Brutal cold. Wind-driven cold. I started working on the Ferry in the Spring of 1992. So, starting in the winter of 1993, I have been following the weather pretty damn closely on the Central NC Coast. Standing out "in it" for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, every other week. That's a pretty thorough observation, I'd say! Regardless, without any real data or historical information in front of me...... I can easily say, based on Capt Marty's skin test.....

THIS WAS THE COLDEST, MOST MISERABLE FEBRUARY EVER. PERIOD.

Tomorrow begins March of 2015. Hopefully we are in for a change of direction. Capt Tuggwell and Capt Columbus are ready to go exploring to the Eastern..... Schools of Red Drum and Bluefish await us. Acres of Bullet Mackerel will taunt us. Huge Basking Sharks will frighten Tuggwell briefly. Something always turns routine days on the Ocean magically into amazing events and memories that last you a lifetime. That's the whole catch, right? It happened to me 40 some years ago and it has DEFINED WHO I AM. I turn 50 this year. I AM A FISHERMAN. Not for a Living. I AM A FISHERMAM BY THE GRACE OF GOD.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Feb 16- Brutal Cold and No Fishing

I'm in the longest "no fishing slump" of my life since 1986. Looking back, from 1981 until 1985, I discovered girls (live ones, I did grow up across the road from an X-rated Drive In Theatre)..... Anyway, when I got my Drivers License, I put the rods and reels down for s few years..... Funny that a Speeding Ticket brought ole Randy Sugg and I to Beaufort in April of 1986, and a stick of ganja influenced us to walk out on the old Causeway Pier. That single night, and a run of 15-20 lb Smooth Dogfish Re-ignited my passion and I fished every single opportunity of my life from that night on..... Up until the Pill Heads stole my Fishing Tackle!

It's been a Bad Winter. I'll get my mojo back. Fish will fall again. The Bonito and Cobia are coming....

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Feb 5- Buying New Stuff

Hey Everybody! Well I've began the process of buying new stuff! I am going with a set of AVET Reels that will serve as multi-purpose Reels and I will use them for Cobia bait fishing, Live Bait King Mackerel Fishing, Grouper, Shark, Red Drum Fishing, as well as Offshore Trolling. One cool and fun thing about the AVETS is the colors that I decided to buy. I am getting a Blue Reel, a Red Reel, a Black Reel, and a Green Reel. This will allow me to intimately know each reel and also know the "catch history" of each individual AVET Reel. By the way, these small American made aluminium Reels will be matched with Shimano Trevalla Jigging Rods. Buying these Reels have ole Captain Marty slowly returning to normal and thinking about Spring Fishing!