Saw a decent weather break for Saturday, 16 June so put together a crew of your truly, Lanie, Greg, Tom, and Naved. Dang cloud cover could not get a decent SST shot so we packed up both the trolling gear and deep dropping gear. Headed out with some left over swell from the NE blow but was not too bad. I think my crew slept most of the way.



Went just South of the Norfolk Canyon and and found some water going from 64 to 67. Even though we didn't see many signs of life, we started out on the troll for Mr. Bluefin. After about 2 hours of trolling without even a pull and no good marks, we put away the trolling gear and headed to deep drop. Little did I know that some 70 degree water had moved in just north of the canyon.

We started out grouper hunting in deep water. No grouper joy but Tom pulled up some of these Black Bellied Rose Fish. Cut little suckers but not really worth cranking at 125 fathoms.



Tried a few more spots grouper hunting but no luck. Brought along some live croaker and spot and put them down deep but nothing touched them.

So headed over for some blueline tile fish and found a nice class getting our limit of 35 in short order absolutely stuffing my 2 main fish boxes. Them things are a blast and after cranking at 100 fathoms, 50 does not seem so bad. Talked to Jake on the Matador who was having a good day dropping too.

Here is a short video from the day.

Norfolk Canyon Deep Dropping Video.

Tom got a nice 18 1/2 pound tile.













Well after bringing home so much meat, you would think I would be satisfied. But I wanted to catch that big cobia I lost at the boat last Father's Day so we headed out Sunday to try to get him. Set up in the same spot we caught 2 cobia last Monday, just off the rockpile off Grandview. Threw everything I had, menhaden, eels, and croaker. Chummed the bottom, dripped oil on the top. Fished for 8 straight hours. Only one cow nosed ray....no cobia showed up. I guess the fishing gods knew I had my share of meat for the weekend. Great Father's Day anyway...doing what I love with my main crew, Lanie and son Michael Jr who sat for 8 straight hours with me.

Go catch em up.