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Box Full and Flags Flying!!!

What more could you ask for!  The past several days have been great!  A nice mixture of tuna, gaffer dolphin and white marlin.  Today Jeff Dooling and crew filled the box full of dolphin and released six white marlin!  Great fishing guys!  The billfish season is starting off quite nice as sailfish and white marlin have been […]

Great Fishing aboard the Pelican!

The Pelican has enjoyed great catches of nice sized mahi this past week.  There has also been tuna and billfish.  Marlin season is upon us and we are looking forward to another great year.

Great ending for the Dare County Boat Builders Tournament

Congratulations to all the boats and anglers who fished the Dare County Boat Builders Tournament.  It was a true test of determination considering the weather conditions.  Most boats fished first and last day ending the tournament with close to 120 Sailfish released.  The Pelican finished winning the Tuna category landed by George Cecil.  Summer Bracher […]

Dare County Boat Builders Tournament Day One

The boats did a great job for the first day.  The weather was challenging as seas were rough and SW winds at 15-20 knts.    The Pelican ended the day releasing four sailfish.  John Bailey released the first on the right flat  and soon after, we had a triple header!  The Pelican is lucky to have  […]

Marlin, Tuna and Mahi

The Pelican scored again with an excellent catch!  Congratulations to the Stillwagon party as they proved  their angling skills by releasing two white marlin and adding four nice yellowfin tuna and twenty dolphin to the box.  Again, our weather has consistently been great and ocean conditions have made for great fishing.  Great fishing!

Meat Lover’s

The Pelican and the Burgess group had an exellent day landing their limit of dolphin, six nice tuna, and two wahoo!!!  Great day on the water, light winds and all around great conditions.  Great job to the Burgess party!!!  The Pelican is gearing up for next weekends Boat Builder’s Tournament and looking forward to seeing […]

White Marlin Surprise!

Capt. Arch and the McGeever party had an excellent day aboard the Pelican.  They couldn’t have asked for a better day, the weather was perfect and the sea was calm.  The Pelican raised ten white marlin and released seven along with a few mahi for the cooler.  Another great day aboard the Pelican!!

Excitement aboard the Pelican

Out of no where an est. 800 lb bluefin tuna skyrocketed the right rigger crashing on the ballyhoo, hooked and running, Arch sped the boat up to chase this monster of a fish.  With about ten yards left on the spool, they were still able to maintain control and gain line and after a great […]

Box Full!

The last several days have been a very successful.  Yesterday Chris Walters and friends caught their limit of mahi and raised a sailfish.  The fleet is starting to see several billfish and taking advantage of the great fishing that we have been fortunate to enjoy.