Saturday July 3 2010 Headed out of Lynnhaven around 8 am in search of some flounder and spade. And boy did we find them! On our first pass we caught 3 flounder within 4 minutes two were 19+ inches and one was at 18 1/2. We threw the 18 1/2 back to grow. Of the three lines 2 had live bait one had a bait strip . Then we continued to check out areas in the fourth island and continued bailing fish pretty much all morning. It was a blast to say the least and we had caught well over 2o fish prior to checking out the spade action . So then by mid day, we decided to head over to different areas in the bay and check out the spade scene. We were so happy to see that the spades were waiting there for us with open their \"arms\" and hungry tummies. I dropped my line and produced a fish within minutes. Kevin, Jim, and I limited out on spades and Chuck also caught two nice ones. We did not keep all of them as some were on the smaller size. We used dropper loop rigs with 6 oz of weight and 1/0 to size 2 hooks with clam to get these little buggers to the boat. I even did a little jigging and was very happy to produce a decent sized trigger for the box. We headed back to the islands after this in search of more flounder and began to pound them again. Rig was a 4/0 kahle hook attached to 3 to 3 1/2 feet of 50# test on a three way swivel with weight ranging from 10 to 12 oz. We tossed back many 18 1/2 inch fish ( I mean like 10 or so!!) and also had many shorts in the mix. The 8 flounder we kept were in the 19 to 23 inch range but overall for the day we boated at least 50 + fish. The action was insane and a blast to say the least. We roamed to the 3rd and 2nd island as well and found some more love for the fish box. There were a ton of boats out there today and most people seemed to be having a great time. I know we did!

    On Sunday Feb 21, 2010, the six of us, Captain Conner(C-note) ,Mike (Southpaw), Beth (Classicrockfish), Kevin (Classicrockfish), Bill ( Billfisher), and Dirk decided to go out for a little Bluefin and Blacktip tuna action on Conner's boat (C-Note). We all arrived at Teaches Lair around 5:30am and by 6:15 or so we were heading on our way. We arrived on the scene around 7:20am or so and set the lines down to troll by 7:45am, we had 3 lines screaming all go off at once with bluefin on them. Due to some rig issues unfortunately we lost two after about a 5+ minute battles due to a break in the rig where the crimp had been applied to the rig malfunctions. But when dealing with large fish like these Conner reassured us that stuff just sometimes happens. The third line continued to hold and Dirk fought that fish with everything he had. My camera was having "behavior issues" on the boat and kept closing up when I would try and take a shot so I was not able to get all of the action. Mike was kind enough to shoot some video and said he would add it to the post after he did some editing. Dirks Bluefin that was brought in after a sweet 35 minute battle. Lure color was pink and purple with ballyhoo attached. Shortly after that the lines went off again and this time Kevin grabbed the rod. His fight lasted well over 50 minutes and I managed to get a few photos in there. Mike also also able to shoot some video. The fish was caught on a "naked hook" with ballyhoo attached. After Kevin got his fish to the side of the boat we all agreed that it w as just as big as Dirks if not maybe a tad bigger. The fish was released while still in the water at the side of the boat. The pictures of Kevin at the dock are actually with the first captured tuna because Kevin had to release his fish (as per the rules because a bluefin had already been captured on the boat for the day) This was Kevin's first Bluefin tuna trip ever so I wanted to at least capture the moment on film! We continued to troll for a while and then went off to jig for some Amberjacks and hopefully check out the blackfin scene. We had a blast with the jacks and pulled in quite a few. Kevin and Mike also caught a Bonita (false albacore) and Bill, Conner and Dirk were pulling in jacks as well. Conner/Bill helped me learn a rhythm for the jigging which was helpful. I pulled in some jacks as well but then I increased my jigging speed to add something different. I had read in a few articles the night before that suggested you need to increase your jigging speed up if you are only pulling in amberjacks in order to entice a blacktip, so I tried it. We had not heard of blackfin being boated yet for that day and all of the sudden my rod bent over something serious like it was going to break! After a very sweet and rewarding battle, I pulled up my first blacktip tuna weighing 18 lbs. We had a fantastic day on the water!. Conner was an exceptional Captain, knowledgeable and very fun to be around and our entire crew absolutely had a blast out there!

Can't wait to do it again!!! Thank you Conner, you rock!!!!!