Fishing Reports

Maximum Gusto crew pushed off to the edge of the Wilmington Canyon in search of tuna. We only found swordfish, mahi and tilefish, but the trip was a success and everyone on board had a good time!

We decided to take the boat down to Hatteras for a week’s vacation. Andi, Karl and I ran the boat down and back stopping at Rudee inlet in Virginia Beach to get fuel and overnight. Overall, we had a good trip but it was not what we expected.   On the negative side, we went…

The tuna have finally arrived at our canyons about 3-4 weeks later than the last few years. The weather forecast was marginal but it looked like we had a weather window from Friday night through Saturday evening and decided to make a run to the Poor Man’s canyon. We headed out at Midnight in pea…

The Maximum Gusto crew was itching to get out and bend the rod.  Last year at this time, we were pointing the boat east and heading to the canyons for some yellowfin.  We were hoping to do the same this year, but things didn’t work that way for us this year. With the water temperatures…

After being weathered out for 5 weeks or so, we were pretty anxious to get out. A Northeast gale blew all week. The winds began to subside and they dropped the gale warnings on Saturday morning. We decided that things should be calmed down enough to begin running to canyon Saturday night for a short…

This past weekend we had hoped to fish offshore but there were no good fish reports anywhere. To give you an idea of how bad the fishing was, last week in the White marlin open 329 boats each fished 3 days for a total of over 900 fishing days. Only one white marlin met the…

This past weekend we entered the HUK Big Fish Classic tournament out of Ocean City Maryland. Karl, Rich and Matt re-rigged all of our baits with circle hooks to comply with tournament rules including the trolling baits swordfish rigs, shark rigs, everything. We picked up more lures for big eyes, prepped the dredges and acquired another…