Topsail Angler's Fishing Blog
Topsail Spanish 8/31/10
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Gery (hunters haven) and I left the dock about 6:15 this morning to do some trolling. Our first stop was at the hard bottom and ledges about a mile of the beach in front of the Jolly Roger hotel. We caught a couple of nice Spanish Mackerel, one weighed over 4 pounds, and a small bluefish.
After an hour or so we decided to head further out as we really had hoped to find a king or two. We went to four or 5 different locations over the next few hours with not so much as a sniff. We came back to the Jolly Roger reef and tried a few more passes then headed home about 1:00. The seas were very calm and very little wind. Gery and I commented on how different that patch of ocean is likely to be two …
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Cobia & a King
Saturday, August 07, 2010
The marine forecast took a turn for the better today so Gery and I decided to do some king fishing. We had passed on entering the Wild King Classic at Wrightsville Beach cause the forecast seemed a little iffy yesterday morning for a 19’ boat. But this is the Saturday for my fishing club’s monthly inner-club tournament so we fished in it.
Finding bait was no easy task, at least not decent sized menhaden. We did manage to finally get some, not as many as we would have liked but it was closing in on 8am and we wanted to fish. We had some ballyhoo for back-up anyway. There were four - five footer rolling in to New Topsail inlet and across the shoals but we made it out with no problem. It was smooth sailing from there with 4-5 foot swell on a 10 -12 seconds and almost no …
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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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Slow day for catching
Monday, July 05, 2010
Took my good friend (he was the best man in my wedding many moons ago) and his grown son fishing today. We left at 6AM with a beautiful sunrise to greet us as we hit the waterway. The seas were calm and there was just light breeze.
We headed out of Topsail Inlet and went straight for the first set of box cars (AR362) and out out our spread. Nada after an hour so we moved over to 9 mile rock, nothing. then we headed for the second set of boxcars but on the way we saw some bait busting near 18 mile rock so we stopped and trolled.
We got a short strike but at least it was a start. Then we got a shark. Okay better but still not what we were looking for. Then finally as I was letting the starboard …
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Boat update
Thursday, June 24, 2010
I’m happy to report that my boat is fixed….for the third time this year. They say thing come in threes so hopefully all will be well the rest of the season. First my fuel injectors were clogged up, that took three weeks to get repaired (wait time at the shop), then on the first day in the water after that repair, the steering went out.
Once I got the boat back from the shop after they replaced the steering cable and helm gearbox, I went to take it out for some king fishing with my buddy Mark. As we were going through to make sure everything was working before we left for the ramp, we found the GPS/Sounder would not come on. We had to scrap our planned trip. Found that the cable was bad up in the sealed (waterproof) section near the plug. Had to order a plug …
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