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OBSESSION CHARTERS FALL NEWSLETTER WINTER 2015HIGHLIGHTS OF 2014 OREGON INLET FISHING SEASON
April 12, our first trip back from Mexico, with good friends Jim Kitts, Reed Newton and their sons on their first offshore adventure... 10 year old Collin Kitts fought a big bluefin for almost two hours, then dad took over and an hour later he had it along side the boat.... measured better than 105 inches and close to 600 lbs.....unfortunately the season on giants had just closed so we had to release it. Remy Newton, 13 years old, caught a foul hooked 400 lb 10ft hammerhead shark! Then 14 year old Reed Newton II and 10 year old Collin Kitts teamed up to put a 88 inch (approx 350-400 lb) bluefin alongside the boat in an hour. MAY and JUNE was an exciting mix of 'gaffer' dolphin and yellowfin tuna, with great catches of both throughout the month. In early May, a 'Make-up' group including regular customer Ben McCracken, Antonio Garabaldi, Bill Allen & wives filled the box with 10-3 lb 'gaffers', and ended the day with a cobia.
Three bigeye tuna hit us one day in late MAY... Scott Creswell boated one 120 lb, Justin Snow's weighed 130 LB, and after a grueling 2 hour battle, David Dretel boated one 155 lb, all earning NC citations for their endurance. In early June, Matt D'amico & crew, who fish with me a few days every year, , started their first day with a double and triple header of yellowfin tuna, one pushing 60 lb...... then a small blue marlin missed the bait, then 20 minutes later a bigger one showed up, Lucas fed it & David Lloyd released the 400 lb blue marlin after an exciting 30 minutes... late in the day we hooked a double header of 50 lb yellowfin, got going again & the big yellowfin hit everything..... Matt & company boated all six, some in the 55-65 lb class.
The next day, Mike Hall & crew, who have fished with me forever, set out and immediately caught a pair of yellowfins, and for the next 5 hours picked away at 20-45 lb yellowfins, one at a time, till they had their limit!
After that, we had good tuna fishing the first part of July, plenty of school dolphin and increasing numbers of billfish. Early in July, Mike Beard & crew bailed a limit of dolphin to start their day....we put the spread out and started trolling around.... saw some huge beds of grass offshore and trolled by them looking for a predator, and here he come....crashed the flat line dink bait.... "HOOKED UP BLUE MARLIN".....20 minutes later, Tim Draughon caught his first (100 lb) blue marlin on 30 lb line. We didn't have all the baits out when two poles bowed over.....TUNA!! and the guys boxed a pair of 40-60 lb yellowfin ..... put the boat back in gear..... sometimes you just can't make a wrong move....we again didn't have all the poles out and hooked another tuna..... suddenly, yellowfin were jumping and chasing flying fish everywhere around us.....everyone saw them grab flying fish in mid air....exciting show...lasted an hour during which time the guys boated 7 yellowfin up to 60 lb .... when that dissipated, we trolled around the same area, raised four white marlin, with Tim Draughon & James Danford each catching their first white marlin. The next day, long time customer Keith Sneed wanted a bigeye....as luck would have it, we hooked three, but no fault of theirs, two, including Keith's got away, but Keith's grandson Dakota Sneed, from Clyde, NC, did a great job during a grueling 1 1/2 hour battle, boating a 188 lb bigeye. In late July we had an epic day for the OBSESSION..... went south meat fishing, and were having good action on big yellowfin. With no current in the Gulf Stream, conditions were great for marlin, which I stated over the radio....and no kidding, it was like a marlin alarm, cause the blue marlin started biting.... boat next to me hooked a blue one, then we hooked one, and got going again and hooked another..... long story short, Greg Dickson caught 2 blue marlin, Tyler Lysovitch caught a blue marlin, Maranda Lisovitch caught a white marlin, father Charles caught a white marlin and they also boated 6 40-50 lb yellowfin tuna, 2 20 lb wahoo, and Tyler caught a 50 lb yellowfin on a TLD 20......Nice when it is your day!!!! Marlin fishing was good from late July thru mid-September. In late July, Brian Herlihy, for his 13th birthday, caught and released 2 white marlin, his friend Brendan Borowsky released his first marlin and David Duhamel released a white marlin. Mark Mills & crew came up from Texas, fished the first 3 days of August and released 10 white marlin, and caught a bunch of dolphin including the seasons largest 42 lb mahi. In Mid August, David Bauer, who fishes single handedly with me every year, had his best day releasing 9 white marlin. Congratulations to Bob Fischer, Charley Townes, John Proctor and Paul Race for super team effort & a great job of angling, winning a daily prize at the Virginia Beach Billfish Tournament. They released a single white marlin to start our last day, then two out of three sailfish and then another white, all in the first two hours, giving us an early lead for the daily.... then the morning bite slowed up..... late in the day, our closest competition, the Biopsea hooked 5 sails and caught 4, but simultaneously we hooked and caught a triple header to give us a one fish lead for the daily! October and November provided good action for yellowfin & blackfin tuna & wahoo. In early October, Jim Worton and crew started their day hitting 4 or 5 blackfin tuna a few times to warm up, then steadily fought and boated yellowfins, filling the box by early afternoon, including a citation earning 72 lb fish boated by Jack Baron. In November, Ed Watson & his crew had outstanding tuna action.... took an hour to get the whole spread out as we kept hooking one or two or three at a time right from the outset....guys boated their limit of yellowfin tuna by noon. Overall, anglers fishing on the OBSESSION earned 164 North Carolina citations, including 121 for white marlin releases, 12 for blue marlin releases, 15 for sailfish releases, 5 for bigeye, 3 for wahoo, 4 for dolphin, one for yellowfin tuna, two for bluefin tuna and one for a hammerhead shark. MEXICO
SUN JAN 18 The cost of chartering the OBSESSION in Mexico in 2015 will be $2200. This fee covers 1-6 people and includes all bait & tackle, food and beverage for the day. A 50% deposit is needed to secure your fishing dates. The deposit can be sent to: Captain Jeff Ross 3102 S. Ocean View Ct. Nags Head, NC 27959.
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2014 was an exciting year fishing out of Oregon Inlet. With extremely limited government funding to dredge Oregon Inlet, every morning was an adventure trying to navigate around unmarked shoals, but thank the good lord, we managed to avoid disaster though my hair is much grayer then it was 8 months ago. Fishing was excellent, in spite of a mid season hurricane that caught us by surprise, and we had some phenomenal catches, with some of our best with some of my oldest and favorite groups!
In mid-May, every-year customers Irving Pritchett & Robert Crowder had unbelievable action, filling the box with a beautiful class of mahi, ranging from 10-26 lb but averaging a whopping 15 lb.
Good buddies Billy & Bryan Pittman have fished with me forever. Billy caught his first blue marlin with me several years ago with guest mate Capt Glen 'Floridian' Cameron...apparently it was his brother Bryan's turn, but somehow Billy ended up in the chair and caught the marlin. This mid-June, Bryan started their first day by catching a white marlin.... then with son Randy, the three filled the box with 25-60 lb yellowfin..... we spent the afternoon looking for a big bite, and sure enough, Billy yelled "there he is!!!"..... I woke up.... I mean I turned around, and a big blue one was lined up on a tuna bait attached to Billy's personal rod with a light tuna leader.... I calmly SCREAMED "switch him off' but as usual, they ignored me and fed him the tuna bait...."HOOKED UP BLUE MARLIN!!!" Billy grabbed the rod, and unbelievably handed it to Bryan....I would have cranked the damn thing in myself but they are nice guys.... Bryan did a great job and released his first ever 500 lb blue marlin after a very exciting battle. 
In late June, long time customers Richard Watkins & crew, started with good yellowfin action, boating 8 fish from 30-50 lb in the morning, then Rookie Dan Williams, from Springfield, PA hopped in the chair, not knowing what he was getting himself into, and a grueling 1 1/2 hours later boated a 221 lb bigeye..... a short while later Jack Monahan caught his first white marlin.
July 3, with forecasts of a minimal Cat-1 hurricane, I decided to keep the Obsession at Pirate's Cove, removed the curtains and added a few lines....when they upgraded the storm, we had second thoughts, so other captains and I stayed with the boats. Prior to the eye going over us, tide was low, boats were fine even though wind blew 80-90 from the east... when the eye past, the wind come around to the west & the '... hit the fan'.... tide came up 5 feet in 2 hours....6 of us were scrambling to adjust lines to keep boats from beating on and getting over the pilings.... at the hight of the tide, the OBSESSION was precariously above the pilings but I had enough lines adjusted so it stayed off of them till tide receded... we were worried, but it worked out.
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