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Written by: Capt. Jake

Category: Virginia Beach Fishing Reports

 Since last weekend's heavy rains, the fishing has been tough inshore for mackerel. We've seen some decent cobia fishing and some ribbonfish to keep meat in the box, but today finally some mackerels bit this morning. We caught 3 cobias- 42", 38", 26", a nice king mackerel, and some nice spanish mackerel. Just in time for the weekend!

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Written by: Capt. Jake

Category: Virginia Beach Fishing Reports

Saturday morning Jeff Landis and I set out of Rudee Inlet on a mission to go catch bluefin tuna. There have been some really big fish around and I saw an opportunity to re-set the Virginia State record for bluefin tuna. The current Virginia record is 606 pounds caught April 6, 2015, aboard CJ Dawson's "Ate Up" by my late friend Chase Robinson. I was a part of the crew that caught that fish and I always thought since Chase's passing that it would be fitting if one of Chase's friends broke his record. Earlier in the week, I saw a weather window that looked good for fishing and made some calls attempting to recruit anglers to come crank fish for me on an over night trip on my 35' Henriques Maine Coaster "Toro". I even invited CJ and Phil Casone, but neither could make the trip. No one could. I cant really blame people. Cranking giant bluefin tunas isn't much fun. It's hard work, and when you tell someone they can go crank on a potential record fish, I think their reaction is "I'm not your fool today!"

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