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My buddy Steven and I decided to head out for a early offshore fishing trip. The plan was to head out 50 miles to an area where I caught a Mako shark last year, then venture further out to the Canyons and troll for Tuna...We left Annapolis at 2:30am headed for Chincoteague VA.

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The conditions were near perfect and the weather was to improve throughout the day. Once we arrived we began chumming and within an hour we had birds and our first shark for the day, a brown shark possibly a "Silky" over 5' in length. I reeled this one in and after a couple pics was released.
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It wasn't long and after a battle, this 7' Blue shark posed for a picture. Steven reeled it in along with our third which looked approx 6'....

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No Mako's today so we decided to head further out to the temp break I have been watching. This was an area beyond the Norfolk canyon in 1000 fathoms, 84 miles offshore. The conditions were now perfect so we decided to go check it out and try for Tuna and whatever else...

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We found the area which looked very fishy the current was very defined going from a green water 67 deg to electric blue water 69.7 deg. We began trolling, through the area through the cold and warm water. We found plenty of birds flying fish, scattered sargasm weed, small bait fish and several very large pieces of lumber, holy cow!! This cradle was one of several and was the size of a Ford Excursion. Wouldn't want to hit that...

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We trolled a few hours with no luck. We did have 3 hard knockdowns/strikes that didn't hook up. We suspected Mahi-Mahi...Pulled up and headed home, great day on the Ocean, love that blue water.

On the way in we came across what looked like 100 of these Dolphin who were nice enough to give us a show for our efforts.
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