Fishing Report 10-15

So the Hatteras fleet back offshore again.

They had, continue to have pretty good dolphin fishing or mahi, whatever you want to call them.

Um, and they're gonna be our last hope for the mahi fishing as they move south.

The Oregon Inlet fleet is, I won't say they've caught the last mahi for the season, but, um, as they move south, Hatteras will get a, a look at them.

So will Ocracoke and then Morehead City, and then they'll be gone.

But that's a crowd-pleasing fish.

Great to eat, fun to catch.

One of the most absolute beautiful fish in the ocean.

Um, they also had a few blackfin tuna down there and a scattered wahoo.

Wahoo are always scattered.

And if you get one wahoo in a day, that's really good.

Um, and they, they have not had the wahoo fishing this year that I thought they would have.

September and October is supposed to be better than it was for them, but they're still catching one or two per day per boat.

Uh, and then they had an inshore, nearshore fleet out yesterday.

Some of them are back in the sound, some of them are around the inlet, some of them are in the ocean.

But they had really good fishing with bluefish and big drum.

So they're whacking and stacking the bluefish and mostly turning loose the drum unless it was in the slot size there.

For the Oregon Inlet fleet, it was tuna, tuna, tuna.

Again, my old dock partner, Arch Bratcher, on The Pelican had a beautiful catch.

Looked like mostly blackfin tunas.

And, uh, I've been seeing in the catches lately a few king mackerel, and what that tells me is when they're blackfin tuna fishing, they'll be up in the shallower water often, up on top of the shelf, the continental shelf.

When you get in there, that's also a great place for king mackerel.

And, uh, he had a, Arch had a nice big king mackerel and looked like 20 head of tuna maybe.

Um, so good day for them.

But we still haven't seen the yellowfin tuna bite kick off.