Memorial Day weekend...what a weekend....we had good fishing but very rough seas off the beach. Inshore the spanish were plentiful and even a few Bonito were still to be had at the wrecks! With the light east winds, both saturday and sunday (and the later we had already learned our lesson...), we decided to chase [...]
Not fishing related, but pretty cool. Saw this guy down the street from my house, feeding in a cut field. They're a very rare sight in NC as we're at least 2000 miles out of the flyway. He was also huge - about 5-6 foot tall and easily had 1-2 foot on a great blue [...]
5/16 - Today I had regular Gregg and one of his employees. When it comes to Bonito, Gregg has about the worse luck of any client I have ever had chase them. The first three years he tried to get out for them he got blown out each time. The fourth year we finally got [...]
After several more days of GALE FORCE WINDS, we finally got another window to fish. I had some regulars again to day - the Barnes crew - and they were DUE for a good day. It was way too rough in the morning but come afternoon it got very, very nice. We decided to fish [...]
5/6 - After several days of severe (and often gale-force) south winds, we finally had a short fishable window. I have to admit, i was not keen on fishing today and would have probably cancelled in a heart beat but the fish had been there and Bruce (and his wife) REALLY wanted to go as [...]
The wind started to blow again from the south, and as it picked up - so did the fishing. The Southwest winds brought in the bait and the predators were fast on their tails. 5/1 - I had a great time, AS ALWAYS, with Hardy and Phil today. As always - great company and awesome [...]
Sometimes they bite - sometimes they don't. We had one of the most incredible stretches of weather this past week as it was SLICK CALM from 4/23 to 4/28. I mean SLICK. After three days of good fishing, everything seemed to slow down, spread out and shut down. It was like being in a stagnant [...]
After a few days of gale conditions, the ocean let up and we were able to get out and chase after the Bonito. I had clients lined up and we were good to go. While the fishing was not RED HOT, it was very steady and we were averaging about 6-8 Bonito each morning. We [...]
I had heard of them out of Wilmington for a week or so, but Charles got lucky and we were actually able to get some decent weather and get out and look for the buggers. The SSTs looked good and Charles was ready to take a bit of a gamble. It was slick-calm, over-cast and [...]
Speckled trout are always pretty fickle, and this spring is no different - they came at us in waves Most days we would pick away at a few but they would go crazy the day before a front would roll through, and I had a few days that we just wacked them. Unfortunately I was [...]