Another Albie Trip for the books (pic heavy)

Spent 5 days down in Morehead last weekend for our second albie trip of the season. Weather was perfect with the exception of Sunday, we got blown out. Probably could have fished it but would have gotten our butts kicked. Saturday and Monday were filled with plenty of 8-12lb fish but Tuesday the big boys moved in. 18-25lb fish were the norm. We hooked a Blackfin that would have gone 30 on Tuesday morning 4 miles off the cape. That's a first for me that close in. Lost it at the boat when the hook pulled after an hour fight, heart breaking. Saw plenty of kings casing bait everyday but was unable to stick one on the fly.
If you have never fished for albies before I highly recommend you do this at some point. This our 7th year fishing them and I cant get enough. If the weather is good a sturdy CC in the 18-21' range is all you need.

The gear


The Bait




The Fish

The Scenery

That`s some awesome pics of some beautiful fish and scenery!

You are the Albie king for sure!!! Nice work. Love the pics too!

Theres nothing else like it. Not for a fly guy, at least.

Beautiful pics. Thanks for posting.

Nice work. I am waiting on the big boys to come around this month. Hopefully they will show in good numbers like the smaller ones did in Oct.

Wow awesome trip!!

I think an Albie is pound for pound the best fight in the ocean plus they are one pretty fish!

Congrats on some awesome catches on the long pole.

From what I saw the big guys are showing up really well. I have a feeling the blow they have had probably messed things up for a while

Great pictures.

Catch and release, right?

Nice! Congrats on a mess of fish. 👍


Sent from wherever I was at the time...

Beautiful fish! Congrats!

All C and R. You could not talk me into eating one of those guys!