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try again.  not a member?   December 15, 2010  Mid-Atlantic
Bluefin Bonanza  Tuna fishing heats up off Virginia and North
Carolina  It's late winter.  I'm standing on the bridge of Capt.
Jim Bowman's Marlin Mania as it rolls along the edge of the Gulf
Stream 25 miles off Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. All around
the boat, bluefin tuna have turned the water black. In the
cockpit below, four anglers are holding tightly to bucking
jigging rods.  Fast-forward two months. Now I'm standing on the
bow of Capt. Charles Haywood's Rigged Up 30 miles east of the
Outer Banks' Oregon Inlet. In my right hand, I hold a heavy-
action spinning rod rigged with a big topwater popper as I watch
bluefin tuna rocketing out of the water.  Jump ahead two months.
This time I'm standing in the cockpit of Capt. Mike Standing's
Waterman. We're fishing the Virginia Beach Tuna Tournament, and
the money-winning bluefin just attacked a Hawaiian Eye on the
way-back shotgun.  Th