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Capt Gordon Churchill
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Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2001 - 10:45 am:   
Subject: More dolphin on fly

The weather finally settled down enough to allow us to head offshore and
do some dolphin fishing. The great thing about getting into a new area
of fishing is the new skills that you learn. I finally learned the
proper way to rig a ballyhoo (Thanks, Tom) and I learned that you can't
have four guys swinging flyrods at once when dolphin are schooled up
under the boat. :-) We found many dolphin under the weeds about 5 miles
past the 14 Buoy off of Morehead City. We even found a wahoo (that
didn't make it into the boat however). When the water is calm, and you
can hold next to the weed rafts that are about the size of a house, then
you can cast to them and have a chance at hooking up a dolphin. However
the most consistent way to get dolphin for the flyrod is to troll a
rigged ballyhoo and look for followers. That often produces the most
exciting strikes. The following dolphin will immediately attack
anything that lands within 6 feet of the hooked fish. We also had good
luck with bringing in whole schools of fish that would follow the hooked
fish in. We had one school around the boat for two hours. Try a plain
white streamer with no flash on a size 1/0 Octopus hook and throw it in
the middle of four chunks of chopped up chum. This becomes the only way
to hook them after they have been around the boat for an hour or so.
Dolphin fishing off of Morehead City should be good for quite some time.
I encourage fellow flyrodders to give it a try.

I am now getting numerous requests for info on false albacore trips. If
you are interested in this great fishing now is the time to make your
plans. Look to be here between Columbus Day and thanksgiving. This
offers the best chance at good sized schools of fish and decent weather.

My saltwater flyfishing school is on September 8 and 9 in Morehead City.
Contact me now for all the details.

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