Fishing in Virginia – Hunting in Virginia

Team North strikes with the first buck of the season.

It has been a while since I posted anything on the blog. I wanted to post the tuna fishing trip John, Brandon, and I went on with Jordan West. Jordan is the captain of the West Wind and he runs his own charter service called West Wind Charters out of Chincoteague Island. Mostly he provides Chincoteague boat charters that are for sight seeing or inshore fishing but we talked him into going offshore. We all went to college together and this was the first time we all could make it to the island at the same time.

The trip did not start out so good as we got 10 miles offshore headed for 30 miles Jordan remembers that we left the gaf in the back of my truck that morning.  Well as luck turns out 10 minutes after we arrived at our first fishing spot we hook into a large tuna.  John is up and fights this tuna for about 30 minutes until he gets it to the boat, Jordan then lets us know that he is going to grab this tuna by the tail and pull it into his boat (21 or 22 foot Sea Hunt).  Brandon and I just kinda look at each other like yeah right.  Well after another 15 minutes or so of fighting the tuna right at the boat Jordan reached down and somehow pulls this thing out of the water by its tail, we then through a t-shirt over the fish's eyes to try to keep it calm.  This was one of the craziest things I have ever seen while out on the water.  Here are some of the pics.  The first on is when Jordan was getting ready to reach in and grab the 150 to 160 pound tuna by the tail.