After a morning spent fishing for kings and albacore (landed two big albies and a nice king) with my buddy Captain Scott of [url]www.shacklefordcharters.com[/url], we decided to head back in the marsh to get into some of the specks and puppy drum working the grasses. We worked jigs (didn't much feel like live-baiting today) along [...]
The funny thing about the king bite lately is that it's been extremely hot - but very spotty at the same time. Basically this means that one day the cape has an amazing bite, a couple of days later the barge wreck will be on fire then 315 - and so on. I keep up [...]
As I was the featured guest on Dr Bogus' radio show this morning (every monday at 7:30am on 107.3FM), I did not have a charter booked. After having a great time discussing albies and kings, I took out my lady and her mother who is in town visiting. We had a great time catching 1-3lb [...]
On Friday the 9th, I had the pleasure of taking out Steve and his two work buddies Brenden and Joel - both of whom had never really fished saltwater before. Within minutes of leaving the inlet we were into albies - albies that were biting readily. Steve, a great fisherman, caught a big houndfish and [...]
I had an inkling that with the cold front and nice NE Blow that my favorite buddies - the false albacore - would be back on the beaches. I walked out on the beach to take a look at the surf and low and behold - their were alberts right behind the surf line. I [...]
Today was an interesting day, to say the least. The fishing was not hot and heavy but all the bites we got were solid, awesome fish - to top it off we saw just about every weird sight you can imagine - all of this will be explained in my following narrative. David and his [...]
Saturday wasn't the best of days - beautiful weather with not much happening in the ocean except for the good flounder bite. My charter did well with the flounder in the morning but my baitwell pump decided to die..ends up being a short in the wire due to a bad connector - so i spent [...]
Went out today with Dave DuBuisson of the Pecan Tree Inn in Beaufort (www.pecantree.com) hoping to cash in on some of the albie action of yesterday. Fly and spin gear in hand - we set out with albies on the mind. The biggest problem today was the wind - there was none! It was glass [...]
The hard NE blow started to subside today and come noon the wind had died to a comfortable 12 knots. Since no one has fished in days, I decided to check things out and get a hand on what's happening outside of beaufort inlet. The combined cold front and hard NE winds have lowered the [...]
I'll get to the good part in a second, but let me recap what's been going on in other areas. With the water clearing up (and calming down for a few days), the ocean flounder bite has heated up big time - they're fat and fiesty this time of year. Gray Trout in the usual [...]