I apologize for the lack of reports - I've been extremely busy over the past couple of weeks. Partly because the fishing has been EXCELLENT. We finally had a few streaks of gorgeous weather and we were able to put a serious hurtin' on some fish. The king mackerel bite is OFF THE HOOK right [...]
5/20 - As a participant in the NCWatermen Military Appreciation Day, today I had the pleasure of fishing with Robert and Conrad (and NCWer DaveDownEast) - both marines from Cherry Point. Well, it was a tough, tough day. With a steady 20-25 knot wind (and gusts up to 30), the conditions were not so favorable. [...]
5/14 - This morning I again had the pleasure of fishing with Henry and his father - last year Henry, hiw wife Susan and I put a hurtin' on the flatties and spanish . Well, the weathermen were a bit wrong today. It was nice on the way out but it started building quickly. We [...]
This April I was privledged enough to add Jones Brothers to my list of sponsors - they custom built me one of their brand new, redesigned 20' Bateaus. The demensions are similar to the old 198 but with some serious upgrades - in addition to having gunnels that are 8" higher than the old model, [...]
I went up to the Roanoke River this past sunday (4/30) to get myself situated and run a few trips before coming back down to the coast to be with family for a couple of days. 5/1 - Today I took out Bill and Rich - decicated fly anglers - to find the bite. Well, [...]
This morning I fished with Dave - and we were lucky to get a big enough window of weather to get out and chase the little speedsters. Dave had caught Bonito before off the coast of Japan - and he told me that they are much the same over there...an elusive, seasonal fish completely dependant [...]
The Last week has had some of the best Bonito action that I have ever experienced. Not only has there been large numbers of fish - but the average size has been BIG (our average has been around 7lbs - with many over 8lbs). Mornings and evenings - it's just been RED HOT....and to top [...]
This morning I fish with two really good buds (as it was too rough for most people) - Vernon and Captain Gordon Churchill. We wanted to leave at 0darkThirty but it was a WEE BIT ROUGH to run the inlet in the dark. Well, after surfing the 8 footers in the inlet, we pounded our [...]
This week I had two days with Wright and Wright - two of my favorite, regular clients. On Thursday we somewhat struck out - we missed the Bonito bite by about 30 seconds (they were busting for awhile - until I was about 300 yds away from them) and disapeared for the rest of the [...]
This morning Katie and I went out with my friend Madison (in his boat - so i was incognito) to do a little Bonito scouting. We got a little bit of a late start, but no worries - we checked out the "pack" first and no one was catchin nothing. We plugged away for a [...]