07-01-2004, 11:12 PM
If it's dolphin that you are in search of, be prepared to do lots of running. There has been little to nothing to fish to off the Haulover area. When you find a group of birds, spend some time following them. That has been the key to our success for the past few trips.
Meanwhile, inshore the tarpon are still cooperating for the most part. Government Cut and live crabs are still the ticket. We have had strikes on each of our last three trips and have hooked up and caught fish on two trips.
Saturday evening (6/26) we had to wait till late in the dusk period for our first tarpon bite. Our next bite came during our last drift of the evening. Michael Oshry from Hewett Harbor, NY caught and released both fish that were in the 70 pound category.
Sunday morning (6/27) Michael Vincent treated his Dad, Sandy to a half day of dolphin fishing. Also along on the trip was Faye Naylor and Warren Colozzo. The wind conditions had picked up to E/ESE @ 13 - 19 MPH. The search had us running out as far as 19.9 miles from Haulover Inlet. Once we got beyond 5 miles, the ocean was a beautiful blue with nothing to fish to. Michael's great eyesight finally picked up a group of about 5 birds working the clean ocean. They split up and we continued to follow the group of 3 birds for about 20 minutes. It paid off and we had the school of dolphin all around the boat. Everyone got in on the action. By the time the fish moved on, we had a good catch on board and had also released numerous other fish. Like all half day trips, the time seemed to pass by all to quickly. Back at Spinnaker Marina, while I cleaned the fish, everyone got to see the show as I threw the scraps to the tarpon.
Sunday evening (6/27) was the one evening that the tarpon decided to take the night off. We got one half hearted strike from a small tarpon that came up jumping after pulling about 5 feet of line off the reel. When a fish does this, the hook is usually thrown and this time was no exception. On our next drift, the rods barely wiggled and both crabs were gone. That was the sum total of the action for the entire evening.
Monday evening (6/28) it was back to Government Cut for some more tarpon fishing. After last night's lack of action, I wasn't sure what to expect. Scott, Frank, Jeremy, and Red were ready to do battle with the silver king. Just after sunset, Frank hooked up and found out what tarpon fishing is all about. Just when he thought he had the fish whipped, it made a 100 yard run. His friends caught the expression on his face on film and there was lots of good hearted ribbing going on. The fish was released and now it was Jeremy's turn. The next drift, he was hooked up to a fish of the same size. His fish was much more cooperative and it only took about 10 minutes to release the fish. On the next drift, Scott connected with a larger fish and the fight was on. His fish had no intention of giving up without one whale of a fight. We headed north to the jetties before the fish turned west toward Fisher Island. Then it was south toward the range markers. We came close to touching the leader several times only to watch it disappear when the fish ran off 50 yards of line. Now it was time for pay back for all the ribbing on the first two fish. The camera kept flashing while catching all of Scott's facial expressions. By the time we had worked our way south of the range markers, 40 minutes had passed. Scott's hard work paid off and the catch was made.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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Meanwhile, inshore the tarpon are still cooperating for the most part. Government Cut and live crabs are still the ticket. We have had strikes on each of our last three trips and have hooked up and caught fish on two trips.
Saturday evening (6/26) we had to wait till late in the dusk period for our first tarpon bite. Our next bite came during our last drift of the evening. Michael Oshry from Hewett Harbor, NY caught and released both fish that were in the 70 pound category.
Sunday morning (6/27) Michael Vincent treated his Dad, Sandy to a half day of dolphin fishing. Also along on the trip was Faye Naylor and Warren Colozzo. The wind conditions had picked up to E/ESE @ 13 - 19 MPH. The search had us running out as far as 19.9 miles from Haulover Inlet. Once we got beyond 5 miles, the ocean was a beautiful blue with nothing to fish to. Michael's great eyesight finally picked up a group of about 5 birds working the clean ocean. They split up and we continued to follow the group of 3 birds for about 20 minutes. It paid off and we had the school of dolphin all around the boat. Everyone got in on the action. By the time the fish moved on, we had a good catch on board and had also released numerous other fish. Like all half day trips, the time seemed to pass by all to quickly. Back at Spinnaker Marina, while I cleaned the fish, everyone got to see the show as I threw the scraps to the tarpon.
Sunday evening (6/27) was the one evening that the tarpon decided to take the night off. We got one half hearted strike from a small tarpon that came up jumping after pulling about 5 feet of line off the reel. When a fish does this, the hook is usually thrown and this time was no exception. On our next drift, the rods barely wiggled and both crabs were gone. That was the sum total of the action for the entire evening.
Monday evening (6/28) it was back to Government Cut for some more tarpon fishing. After last night's lack of action, I wasn't sure what to expect. Scott, Frank, Jeremy, and Red were ready to do battle with the silver king. Just after sunset, Frank hooked up and found out what tarpon fishing is all about. Just when he thought he had the fish whipped, it made a 100 yard run. His friends caught the expression on his face on film and there was lots of good hearted ribbing going on. The fish was released and now it was Jeremy's turn. The next drift, he was hooked up to a fish of the same size. His fish was much more cooperative and it only took about 10 minutes to release the fish. On the next drift, Scott connected with a larger fish and the fight was on. His fish had no intention of giving up without one whale of a fight. We headed north to the jetties before the fish turned west toward Fisher Island. Then it was south toward the range markers. We came close to touching the leader several times only to watch it disappear when the fish ran off 50 yards of line. Now it was time for pay back for all the ribbing on the first two fish. The camera kept flashing while catching all of Scott's facial expressions. By the time we had worked our way south of the range markers, 40 minutes had passed. Scott's hard work paid off and the catch was made.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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