Today the weathermen (and women) defied us again - and this time, they were so wrong that i'm ready to kick some ass. The offshore forcast was calling for light and variable winds starting to build in the late afternoon to 10 to 15 knots out of the NE. At 5:30am we were leaving the [...]
Today the ocean was as calm as I've ever seen it - windless and slick with an eerie winter silence so quiet you could hear a pin drop. The water was so clear and blue, imy propwash looked like ice. Today, Captain Scott Crocker and myself decided to head out in search of some warmer [...]
It was a beautiful day - mid-february and we were fishing in short-sleeves! After a brief south blow, the winds died come sunrise and left the ocean with a beautiful glassy swell. Since one of my "make-up" charters couldn't make it out today, Captain Scott Crocker and myself decided it would be time to go [...]
Tuesday 12/28 - I was having some routine maintenance done on my boat when I heard of a good striper bite. I got the boat in the water and made the tail end of the bite - pulled in two nice fish very quickly and had a really nice fish break the line after about [...]
First CL Striper of 2004...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]