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 so - tried a couple of spots about 8 miles out with no luck.  We needed to be finished around noon so we headed back for a few more trips around the South Topsail rocks.  Nothing except one small shark (the only one for the day).  We ended up with 2 Spanish and 2 kings - not stellar but we had a very enjoyable morning and are having fresh fish for dinner so no complaints here!

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