Topsail Angler's Fishing Blog
State Record Tarpon
Thursday, September 18, 2008
A new North Carolina state record for Tarpon was set yesterday by Malcom Condie. He was fishing off the end off Sea View Pier at North Topsail Beach when he landed the 193 pound fish. Condie was using 30 pound test line with a pop-eye mullet as bait. It took him under an hour to land the Tarpon. The previous state record was a 175 pound fish caught in 2005 by Jesse J. Lockowitz.
Surf City Pier Tournament Results
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Surf City Ocean Pier held the 4th annual Mike Martin Memorial Fishing Tournament this past week-end. By any measure it was a huge success. The turnout was the largest yet, the weather was perfect and the fish even showed up! Fish were caught in 8 of the 9 categories with only King Mackerel being shut-out. There were a lot of door prizes this year and lots of smiles!
Of course the big news is that a speckled trout was caught ending the drought from the last tournament. The winner received this year’s grand prize of $500 plus the $500 prize carried over from last year when no specks were caught in the tournament. In fact the first speck of this tournament was caught less than 30 minutes from the beginning on Saturday. However that fish was eclipsed by a larger fish on Sunday morning. Following are the complete results:
Children’s Division
1st Tim Jenkins 6.39 lb Puppy Drum
2nd Gavin Jones 1.57 lb Spade
3rd Garrett Burgess 1.54 lb Spanish
$1000 Speckled trout Tony Lane (pictured above)
Flounder
$100 Gene Rivenbark 2.65 lb
$50 Brian Glasnapp 2.59 lb
Spot
$100 Virginia Speaks .40 lbs
$50 Shelly Phillips .36 lbs
Spanish
$100 Augie Hernandez 2.24 lbs
$50 Russ Becker 1.63 lbs
Sheepshead
$100 J.M. Dupree .51 lb (released to grow up)
V.Mullet
$100 Doug Keicher 1.55 lb
$50 James Tyndall .80 lbs
Blue
$100 Todd Andrews 1.23 lbs
$50 Michael Bryant 1.18 lbs
Pompano
$100 Alex Beasley 1.40 lbs
$50 Virginia Speaks 1.35 lbs
The largest fish caught on a Gotcha Plug was a flounder that weighed 2.26 lbs caught by Tanner Jones. He won a rod and reel combo (valued at $240) donated by Sea Striker
The largest fish caught on a Clark Caster was also a flounder this one weighed .98 lbs caught by Candice Burke. She won a Gift bag full of Clark Casters, spoons and shinners a value of $100 donated by James E. Clark, LLC a division of Sea Striker.
A New Addition to the site: Wiki (knowledge base)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
I have just added a Wiki module to the site and have begun to populate it with articles. A Wiki is a type of knowledge base, one of the best known is the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Ours is unique to the Topsail area and fishing. We hope you enjoy it as we expand it from its humble beginnings today to a master resource for our area in the future! A link is on the menu bar or you can click here.