I had Winnie, Mike, Nick, Al and Tony come down from NY for 2 days of NC jigging. Day #1 we had flat calm seas and a great ride out. We started in 280 feet of water and there was zero current and wind. It took a couple drifts to find the fish but once we found them it was none stop all day. This was Tony’s 1st trip to NC and his 1st trip jigging and he started things off right. His 1st fish was a fat 57 inch x 36 inch fish. Everyone caught nice fish and with no current they battled all the way to the boat. The sharks took a few fish and when I dropped a head overboard we saw a large Wahoo swim by the boat/head while drifting down. I put a swimming plug on Nick’s popping rod and we went up for the next drift. We only moved a short distance and the popping rods started screaming drag. Nick landed a nice 56 lb Wahoo. The largest fish of the day was caught by Al and giant 59 inch x 38 inch 100 lber. After a long morning/afternoon of jigging we went looking for some bottom fish but very slow.
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