12/20 – First Striper of 2004.
First CL Striper of 2004...
12/9 – Specks and BIG TAUTOG
Today I took out Madison from Greenville for some speck fishing lessons - we've spent a couple of weeks trying to get our schedules too align and after one weather related cancellation we finally made it happen. It was beautiful december morning - flat calm with a glassy swell and in the 70s. A december [...]
12/1 – 12/7 – SPECKLED TROUT
It's been awhile since I posted a report - mainly because the weather was bad during thanksgiving and i haven't taken many pictures of the fishing I've done. However, the weather has been great the last week or so - lots of beautiful calm days and the water has really cleared up from the muddy [...]
11/23 – The most AMAZING ALBACORE DAY…EVER
I know I've said this several times before, but this year has had some of the most amazing days of false albcore action that I (and many others) have ever seen. Giant baitballs, thousands of fish - you name it the action is incredible. Today was the hallmark of this season (so far). I went [...]
11/19 – BIG SPECKS, PUPS, Flatties and Albies…
Today was a great day, with some great company - I took out Steve and Rett of New Bern - offshore fisherman who are really wanting to learn the ways of the inshore fisherman. Steve was stoked about learning to catch speckled trout as well as some puppy drum - if the conditions allowed. Well, [...]
11/18 – Albies on the Fly, Specks and Pups
Today was day 2 with Greg and Pat of the Virginia fly fishers and we were after more albies on the fly. The fish were a bit less scattered that Tuesday the 16th but still hard to get on. But. I combined some creative driving with general knowledge of albacore behavior (which i owe mostly [...]
11/17 – Albies on the fly, and TONS of SPECKS
Today is my only day off this week - so i do what a guide does on his off - GO FISHING. I persuaded "Trophy Trout Hunte Katie" to take a day off to fish, as the weather was gorgeous and I needed to do a little recon for my upcoming charters. We got a [...]
11/16 – Albies, Specks on the fly – and skying bluefin
Today I had the pleasure of fishing with Greg and Pat of the Virginia fly-fishers club. As a good friend of mine would say - a prince and princess among men and women. As far as albacore goes, today was TOUGH. The fish should have been showing with the north winds (and all the bait), [...]
11/15 – MORE BIG SPECKS
I took out Kevin and DJ - fisherman who frequent the areas of the western pamlico in hopes of tracking down some of those big specks. We worked a lot of my favorite holes hard - and we managed a very good first hour of fishing and a very last hour of fishing (always good [...]
11/14 – BIG SPECKS + 8 POUND *CITATION* SPECKLED TROUT
With NE winds blowing 20-30knots, the conditions were not favorable for fly casting to albacore so I decided to go trout fishing with my two best buds - my fiance katie and Scott Crocker of www.shacklefordcharters.com. So we loaded up on live shrimp and headed out around 8:30am. Before trying some trout holes, we popped [...]