Obsession Fishing Charters Outer Banks North Carolina

Last Thursday, Tony Journigan, from Tidewater VA fished with me for the first time in a number of years..... I always enjoyed fishing with him and his crew and was looking forward to putting him on some good gaffer dolphin fishing like we had been experiencing....anyway, headed a bit south of where there had been some tuna action the day before, in hopes of finding some conditions and getting a catch of mahi, and then working north towards the tunas..... unfortunately, no sharp change and just a slow dolphin pick, so we finally ran up north..... caught a handful of nice yellowfin but hard luck again & again, hooked a nice blue marlin but the line broke, late in the day we pulled the hook on a nice tuna right at the boat, and then hooked another to end the day and damm if a shark didn't eat that one!
AND to end a perfect day, as we were running home at an easy cruise, my 3412 CAT, which I had a routine (and ahead of schedule) valve job lined up to be done this past weekend, DROPPED A VALVE!!! and tore up a piston!!! So after a few miserable days of diagonsing the problem, lining up help, thanks to Rick Moore and John Bayliss's yard crew, I have the motor ready to be removed from the boat tomorrow morning for a total rebuild..... no sense in just replacing one cylinder with 12,000+ hours on it..... SO, I have been putting my scheduled groups on other available boats, and hope to be going again by very early next week......If you are reading this Ken Henry & company, I am hoping to take you fishing next week baring any more disasters! And we will be in Morehead for the Big Rock the following weekend come hell or high water!!!

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Last Thursday, Tony Journigan, from Tidewater VA fished with me for the first time in a number of years..... I always enjoyed fishing with him and his crew and was looking forward to putting him on some good gaffer dolphin fishing like we had been experiencing....anyway, headed a bit south of where there had been some tuna action the day before, in hopes of finding some conditions and getting a catch of mahi, and then working north towards the tunas..... unfortunately, no sharp change and just a slow dolphin pick, so we finally ran up north..... caught a handful of nice yellowfin but hard luck again & again, hooked a nice blue marlin but the line broke, late in the day we pulled the hook on a nice tuna right at the boat, and then hooked another to end the day and damm if a shark didn't eat that one!
AND to end a perfect day, as we were running home at an easy cruise, my 3412 CAT, which I had a routine (and ahead of schedule) valve job lined up to be done this past weekend, DROPPED A VALVE!!! and tore up a piston!!! So after a few miserable days of diagonsing the problem, lining up help, thanks to Rick Moore and John Bayliss's yard crew, I have the motor ready to be removed from the boat tomorrow morning for a total rebuild..... no sense in just replacing one cylinder with 12,000+ hours on it..... SO, I have been putting my scheduled groups on other available boats, and hope to be going again by very early next week......If you are reading this Ken Henry & company, I am hoping to take you fishing next week baring any more disasters! And we will be in Morehead for the Big Rock the following weekend come hell or high water!!!

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