Day 1 on F/V Hardway: Crossing Oregon Inlet and Diamond Shoals
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is day one of my first fishing trip on F/V Hardway out of Wanchese, NC with Captain Wimpy. Before I left town, I visited my friend and mentor, Sea Bound, a top tuna fisherman from Hatteras Village. He was working on some longline gear and gave me the encouragement I needed to get out there! That and all those tunas I have seen coming off his boat over the years! I have been chomping at the bit to get out there because I never get to see tunas before they have their heads, tails, and fins cut off!
I left Hatteras and drove to Wanchese, we got fuel, bait, ice, and groceries then left the harbor and headed south towards the Mahi grounds. It took about 6 hours after I left Hatteras for us to get down to Hatteras via boat. A long ride but I would definitely consider it a part of the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway as well!
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Just stumbled across this video and I love your energy. It’s infectious!
Thank you for the kind note! Glad you enjoyed watching 😀
what a great ist hand look at the prep the inlet and the challenge ...more of these ..I love the outer banks ,I visited many many times but never Wachese..but I will now ..thanks again for sharing..cant wait to see day 2
Drove through here in June, on a 3 day trip. Had lunch in Wanchese. Next time, I will spend more time in the Outer Banks and this area in particular. Thank you for posting this.
I appreciate the video but where's the fish?! I was hoping you would show the process of putting out the long line and seeing what they caught when they retrieved it. Please include that the next time! Nice shot of the bridge
There is a second video that goes into great detail about the actual longline fishing. Check it out ua-cam.com/video/r7QHB6PqqvA/v-deo.html ! Thanks for watching, working on a tuna video. There is also a swordfish longline video on our channel
@@HarborHouseSeafood okay, thanks. I did not know, keep the videos coming!
Thank you! Really enjoyed this.
Thanks for watching! I’m having fun sharing about fishing on the Outer Banks , stay tuned for a tuna video next!
Thank you, great video!... It 'interests' me watching the UA-cam videos of the 'bad' inlets in Florida, and some other places. They don't know what bad is. They have to bounce through a couple hundred feet of moderate waves, then into 'the clear'.... We all (that an all-inclusive y'all) in NC, and I'll also credit Columbia River Bar) have to beat through miles of crappy water...
Oregon Inlet is a whopper! In the mid-1990s my dad was going out Oregon Inlet around 3am in his 32’ BHM. His friend in front had gotten across the bar fine, called my dad and said it’s clear, go for it. My dad went for it, white water crashed into him and busted out all the windows - this was so long ago they were still glass. My dad goes flying into the transom and gets knocked out. My 6 year old brother was asleep in the cabin, comes up after 20 minutes, my dad had already regained consciousness
and asks “dad, where did the windows go?”
I laugh at those videos. They always say "huge waves" and what you get is a 4-5 foot chop at worst, they just look big because people are dumb enough to take lake boats with 2 feet of freeboard out of them. They've never seen what a 12 to 14 foot breaking bar looks like! I wish we had go-pros and UA-cam when I was in the Coast Guard!
@@erichammond9308 The Outer Banks of North Carolina are known as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of these dangerous seas! DONT TRY THIS AT HOME!
@@505LandOfEntrapment stationed on the OBX for 4 years. Give me me old 44' MLB and it's "Oh hell yeah!"
That's so weird not seeing the bridge I've crossed hundreds if not thousands of times. It was beyond time for a new one and it seems like yesterday when I had the best job in the world, saving the lighthouse from falling in the ocean.
I remember we went out on a charter boat out of Oregon inlet a few years ago. Crossing the bar was so much fun. We joked it was like being on a roller coaster lol
Hopefully a ride you enjoyed! For the real fun, you need to visit during bluefin season if you haven't already. That's a lot of fun with a big sea.
Fishermens wharf. Wow I remember that
Love it
... how big ... waterline length is the M/V Hardway ???
Well, that's misleading, diamond shoals is 30+ miles south of Oregon Inlet.
Yes, Diamond Shoals is about 30 miles south of Oregon Inlet. They are located directly off Cape Point - you can see the Cape Hatteras lighthouse in the distance which was built to warn mariners of the shoals. I actually had to call Jeff, a Hatteras local who is seen in the first scene, to get current numbers of the slough. It’s a challenging area to navigate but Wimpy is a great captain! On this trip we were targeting mahi so went down to Wilmington, about 100 miles south of Oregon Inlet that’s why we crossed the shoals.
@@HarborHouseSeafood sounds like a heck of a fun trip! I just wouldn't want to do it in anything like rough weather. Even on sunny days I've seen it go from manageable 8 foot seas to 16+ foot and breaking 6 or 7 miles out on the south side of shoals, especially if the swell gets up from anything NE to SE
@@erichammond9308 Its not a place you want to get caught in and have the seas build! A few old timers have found themselves quickly in a deadly situation on the shoals at night. Things change so fast in those waters that most boats try to fish alongside someone else. Tell you what, I got a phone call around 8:30pm a couple years ago - "your brother is stuck on the shoals and is taking on water....." Absolute worst feeling in the world, turned out he was stuck outside Hatteras Inlet - still bad but not as bad as the shoals!
@@HarborHouseSeafood amen to that! That was a sunny day (blowing about 30-35 kts from the SW and flipped to SE) right as we got to the trawler we were sent to tow in (he lost his prop). Ended up towing him back through Hatteras inlet and that was breaking 12 foot across the entire bar.
Worse bar on the coast & looks like nobody is wearing a PFD. Am I missing something ?
Yea these guys are strong swimmers! But seriously, its not that scary to us because we use this inlet in all conditions and have the right vessel, equipment, and expertise. It may be the worst bar on the East Coast to you, but it is standard operating procedure for us. Look, our commercial fishing vessels have average of $15,000 worth of safety gear that is updated and inspected annually by the US Coast Guard. So if something were to happen, a lift raft automatically deploys along with an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon). In addition, longline boats must notify NMFS when they leave the dock so they can be monitored by GPS during the trip so they would notice if we went offline. They have saved a few vessels this way! Private / charter boats are not required to have this safety gear or monitoring - all they are required to have is a life vest and a whistle. So if one was traveling out Oregon Inlet on a private/charter boat with an unexperienced captain and crew then yes, I would 100% recommend everyone on board wear a life vest because you lack safety equipment. You should also take a bible because you will need it. BUT on a commercial vessel it is a professional operation where you are always prepared for the worst, which is why we coordinated and followed Miss Kaleigh out. Actually, she cracked a window right before us but you have to go through it, can't go around it, so we charged on. Oh I forgot to add, I can get my survival suit on in about a minute :)