Nita Dream at the ESMC Tournament

Had a great time at the ESMC Tournament this year, the weather (Wind) was a little hard on us but we still caught some nice fish.

Friday started out really nice with light wind we made it to just shy of the Washington Canyon for lines in, we had fished about an hour when we were HOOK UP on a White Marlin it only lasted a couple of minutes before he spit the hook but he gave us a great show coming out of the water a dozen times in that short order. We trolled for another hour before our next hit but this fish did not come out of the water but stayed near the top so we weren't sure what we had but after about 20 minutes we had a nice 61 pound Yellow Fin in the boat then just a little while later we had two fish on that both turned out to be nice 50 + pound Yellow Fin. By this time the wind was up to 20 MPH with the waves building we started trolling for home then just before lines out 3:30 we missed a nice Wahoo at the boat and landed another nice Tuna

At the end of the first day we were in 1st place in the Tuna Division with a 61 pound Tuna

Saturday with a forecast of 15 to 25 Knot winds we decided to stay in the few boats that went out caught a couple fish but they paid for them. Sundays forecast was even worst (20-30 Knots) so we stayed at the dock again the few boats that fished Sunday had a rough morning but the weather got better in the evening and there were a few Marlin and Tuna caught and at the end of the day when the final boat weigh there fish White Bite had won the Tuna division with a 65 pound Tuna

Good Fishing Capt. Frank Large

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Eastern Shore Marlin Club Standings

Standings as of Sat night 7/ 24
Top boat first day : Katherine Jeannine 2 white marlin
Top Boat overall : Katherine Jeannine 2 white marlin
Second Boat Overall: Fish Hawg 1 white marlin
Third Boat Overall : Bluefin 1 white marlin
Top Boat Second Day : Teaser 1 white marlin
Largest Tuna : Nita Dream 61 lb yellowfin
Largest Dolphin : Byte Me 29lb citation dolphin
Largest Wahoo : Relentless 39 lb wahoo
Last day to fish is Sunday 7 / 25 / 10

Yellowfin

Bill Dean caught these nice yellowfin on tackle he created from All Tackle.

Offshore anglers are having a great time. Marlin, Yellowfin, Bluefin, wahoo and Dolphin are continuously being released or brought back to the docks.

Life doesn't get any better!

First Wahoo in Wachapreague

Steve Linhard brought his boat "Hot Tuna" around from Annapolis Md and landed the first Wahoo in Wachapreague.

Exciting times

George Hall, Andy Cather and Ken Peterson had a nice catch of Bluefin and Dolphin around Sam's hill on Thursday. They were fishing out of Wachapreague on their Parker.

Off shore Action

Marc Quin aboard "Little Rock" with a colorful gaffer.

The fleet has moved to Sam's Hill, Lumpy Bottom to find Bluefin, yellowfin, White Marlin and Dolphin. The Bluefin have been in mixed size groups with some days in the 35" range up to a Jumbo released by a Wachapreague angler of 77" this week. Many Whites were either caught or in the spread tearing baits up. The action is alive and the weather has been great.

Flounders are still around

Keeper flounder can still be caught out of Wachapreague. Anglers are releasing an average of 30-50 fish a day and are still able to put keepers in the boat.

These flounder were caught on July 6.

Bluefish

Ed Smith on his 21' Shamrock was covered up with bluefish at the 15 mile hill. Multiple hook-up after hook up eventually wore him and his baits out. The bluefish were used the next day to catch a nice 125 lb mako in the same area. The blue fish were between 10 to 15 lbs.

Bluefin Fever

Teaser Charters with Keith Neil showed 1st timer, Jim Beletti what tuna fishing was all about with 13 released bluefin and kept one 42". They left Wachapreague at 4:30 am and caught all their fish before 11 am. Jim had hook ups of two and three at a time.Teaser went to Bob's canyon from the 26 mile hill and had a large blue marlin momentarily hooked up.

Very exciting trip.

Teaser is a 4 person charter aboard the first class 2002 28' Carolina Classic.

Keith can be hired for a full day @ $900.00 plus mate tip.