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WMO/OCMD

August 12th, 2011

88.5 lbs. white/nice fish…..699.5 Lbs. Blue One…..Participants comments coming….www.whitemarlinopen.com/leaders/

This entry was posted on Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 8:57 pm UTC and is filed under Travelogue.

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On August 13th Tim said:

just finished up fishing the WMO on the Fujitive with Captin Wayne Lauman and Mate ryan greenway and josh twilley had a great trip 1 st day a little slow fished the 1000 line poormans water was deep blue got 1 white and 1 28 lb dolphin which was almost dinner then decided to go weigh it as it turned out it was worth 8930 bucks 2nd day 1000 line wilmington only four boats was awsome bite pulled hooks on 6 whites released 4 not to shabby couldnt figure out why so many pulled hooks 3rd day 75 boats 1000 line bite slowed catch 1 for one overall great tourny with great friends and the weather was absolutely beautiful
On August 14th Jim said:

Harry – John, Bob, me and Charley also just fished the WMO on Bi-Op-Sea (59′ Spencer out of Pirate’s Cove, NC) with the owner, Dr. Dell Dembosky, Capt. Jesse Granitzki, and mate Chris Stine. Practice day on the way up, got a blue and a white at the Norfolk in about 2 hours (see videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc1GdldbR80 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGJMO9icLk). It was very fishy but we had to leave to get into OC 🙁

Fished Mon between Poormans and Baltimore and got 2 whites. Tuesday at Norfolk and then got impatient and left for the Washington, but no fish for us either place (we were fishing next to the Tighten-Up at Norfolk which caught the first weighed white (86.5) late in the afternoon and ended up second overall. Lesson: don’t leave to chase a morning bite, it will almost certainly shift to wherever you left!

Interestingly, at second place, Tighten Up won ~$700k but the first place boat failed to enter all the calcuttas and only got around $200k. Lesson here: If you enter the WMO, act like you mean it!

Friday, outside of Wilmington with about 50 other boats, 3/6 on whites (like Tim said, the ability of those fish to pull hooks was a bit mystifying). Videos at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGA2XYHYDs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0gkAC7kV4.

So no money (actually, we paid a lot of money!), but a good time. We’re ready to come back down for some big “Thumpin” fish with you Harry!
On August 15th Charley said:

Fished with Jim, Bob, John, and Dell on the Bi-Op-Sea as mentioned above. No significant water mass boundaries so the fish and boats were spread out from the Norfolk to the Spencer. Some pods of whites were found and some nice flag stringers came in on those boats but overall the lack of a Gulfstream eddy and not much in the way of surface features and life resulted in what seemed like slow fishing to me. We ended up with 5 whites released out of 10 bites during the week. I feel like we should have started out where we left off in the south Norfolk on Saturday before the tournament but I was not running the boat this year. Sushi 57 footer next year.

Much thanks to Bob, Jim, John, and Dell for the opportunity to fish the WMO again this year. Thanks also to Rich for the OC lodging at his house and to Keith and Kirsten for hosting us. It’s always exciting to fish the WMO and the socializing opportunities are top-notch.
On August 16th John Green said:

Had a great tournament, fished with good friends and that always makes a difference!!! one of only 18 boats to cash…that makes 2 years in a row. Pulled the hook on too many whites,but memorably finished 2nd day of fishing with a triple, right at lines out!!Top boat caught 16 bills in 3 days of fishing..Billfisher on Saturday after tourney goes 20 for 30 on whites, hope things keep getting better like last year.

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