Albies with Chuck and Dick
Captain Jake sent the following report on my old pals Chuck Furimsky and Dick Talleur. If you are at all interested in getting in on some of this fishing, click on Captain Jake’s link to the right.
Greetings from Albie World:
The last couple of days I had Author and famous fly tier Dick Talleur along with my friend Chuck Furimsky (owner of “The Fly Fishing Shows”) with me aboard “Fly Reel”, fly fishing for false Albacore. After a week of rain and flooding it looked like the Albie fishing was going to be hard, the morning temperatures were in the high 40’s, the water was dirty, and the bait was hard to find. Then on October 8 Chuck, Dick, and I found a few fish and lots of bait, the weather calmed down and my anglers released a half dozen Albies along with some Bluefish.
October 9, started out with calm seas but the North wind had slid to the west but that didn’t matter, after looking to the west we then headed over to the east side of the shoal. At 10:30 Am we found lots of 6 to 10 pound Albies in 55 feet of water a few miles off of the beach. On the first cast Dick and Chuck hooked up a double header and shortly later we had released those Albies and were hooked up again. Chuck had the hot rod by catching half a dozen nice fish from that school and Dick fought a few more but had a tough time keeping them on his flies. Later near the beach we caught a dozen or so 2 to 4 pound Bluefish before the wind swung to the south west and increased to 20 knots. The seas became choppy and confused so we called it a day at 3:00 PM and headed to the dock after another successful day of Albie fishing in the beautiful Cape Lookout area of eastern North Carolina. I am on my way to the dock now for another day chasing Albies with Chuck, I love my job, more reports to follow.
Captain Jake (left) with Dick Talleur and Albie.
Chuck Furimsky with Albie.