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Mackerel
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
The marine forecast was looking great for today and my friend Mark from Sanford was down. So we decided to go out for a half day of fishing. We didn’t find any decent sized menhaden close by and didn’t want to spend all morning looking, so we headed out of the inlet around 7:30 with some nice ballyhoo.
Our first stop was the rocks off of South Topsail Beach. We hadn’t been trolling long when the starboard long line goes to singing, nice sized Spanish - about 5 pounds worth. Then a king takes the other long line. After a pause, we boated another Spanish, this one just under 6 pounds and then another king.
Low tide was at 9am and about 8:30 or so the bite just died - nothing between then and 9:45. So we decided to head offshore and fish for an hour or …
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Invited a Red Drum to come home today!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
I had a chance to go fishing with Breadman and Breadman Jr. today. We fished on his end of Topsail Island in some skinny water . It was pretty windy, his famous last words when he called to invite me were “I’ll get us out of the wind, don’t worry”. Ha!
I’m happy to report he put us on some decent fish. I quit counting after 15 reds. All three of us boated a fair share of reds and few small flounder. I caught the big one of the day, measured 26 1/4 inches. I also caught a nice 24 inch fish that had a NCDMF tag.
Thanks for the invite Breadman!
Blue Fin Tuna
Saturday, January 02, 2010
The last couple of weeks I have been chasing Blue Fin Tuna on days the weather will allow. I’ve teamed up with James P from Cape Carteret and Tim C from North Topsail Beach. We are fishing on James’ boat, the Storm Catcher, a 26’ Sea Hunt. The first couple of times out we didn’t hook-up but yesterday we finally did hook a Blue Fin!
We trolled for about 2 hours when we hooked-up what turned out to be about a 6 foot tuna on a pink & white Blue Water Candy Jag. We fought the fish for over an hour. Somewhere during the fight the line became frayed just above the leader. Then the drag washers gave out on the old Senator 10/0 reel and soon after the line snapped …
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Wahooooooooooo!
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Man what a day, great weather, good friends and some very nice fish! Here is my latest fishing report from Topsail Island:
I headed out of New River Inlet this morning at 5:30 with my buddy Taylor and a couple he is friends with, Jerry & Carla. We were headed for the gulf stream and loaded for Wahoo. It was a little choppy on the way out but once the sun came up and warmed the air, the seas calmed down and were flat as a pancake.
We arrived at our spot near the Gulf Stream, about 65 miles from the inlet, and quickly deployed our spread of ballyhoo on a variety of rigs. Just as I put out the last of the lines one of them went to screaming. A few minutes later we had a 28.2 pound wahoo in …
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First Flounder
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
On Monday of this week I had the opportunity to fish with my good friend and missionary, John Shepherd. He is staying in Surf City this week and hasn’t fished in the salty stuff much. So we headed out in the morning before the wind got bad searching for some flounder.
John lives in the foot hills of east Tenn. and enjoys bass and trout fishing, so he applied his techniques for catching small mouths with a C-rigged lizard to flounder fishing with Gulp! and quickly pulled 4 fish to the boat. Two of them were nice keepers. We were fishing around the docks in the Surf City area from my boat. The wind picked up and the bite shut down pretty quickly after that.
I filleted the flounder for John and fixed a crab/shrimp stuffing for the fish …
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