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40 knot gusts. 8 foot seas - pictures soon to follow. So.... I'm tying some flies as this guy runs circles around my legs - he got one of my bucktails a few minutes ago...

I teamed up with Captain Billy Brewer of the Fisherman's Inn (www.fishermansinn.net) for a two boat trip with a bunch of great guys from the midwest. Flounder was the plan and these boys wanted to get some dinner in the boat. With 100 mullet in the livewell, and with Captain Billy following, i headed out [...]

On Wednesday August 10th, I went fishing with my friend Captain Scott Crocker of Shackleford Charters. Barely 8 miles off the beach (in an area I fish my own boat all the time), we found a great weedline and started looking for dolphin. We found an old stump covered in baitfish and started waiting...it wasn't [...]

With the day off and a bunch of trips booked, i decided to spend the afternoon checking out the water conditions so i couild personally verify the reports of beautiful water from shack to the shoals. The rumors held true and the water was gorgeous - i caught several spanish (1 on the fly) outside [...]

Started this glass-calm day off trying to get a little flattie action in the outside waters, and unfortunately, when i pulled up to some of favorite live-bottoms, the water was brown and murky. But we still gave it a shot and boy was I glad. Two days ago I reported the flounder were not all [...]

After a very successful first day with Tom the business guy – we decided to try another fishery. With bottom fish, flounder and Spanish under the belt – he wanted to give the kings (and maybe the mahi) a try. So we motored out to a few of the familiar spots outside of Beaufort Inlet [...]

Headed out on a full day trip with Tom, a business guy the Midwest. Down here on both business and vacation this past Sunday (7/25), he wanted to give a bit of everything a try—kings, dolphin, flounder, Spanish – so he booked me for 3 days solid. He couldn’t have picked a better weekend - [...]

No pictures with this report - unfortunately, but I have trips from sunday and today (monday) that i will post this evening. The ocean was as beautiful as it will ever get - slick as glass for almost the entire weekend. As i like to say - much too calm. Well, that phrase wasnt really [...]

Another beautiful slick-as-glass morning and I’m up and rarin’ to go at 5am – then my charter calls with some bad news – a late start combined with car issues. So we postpone our 6:15am launch time to (YIKES!) 10am! Since they booked me for a full day, I wasn’t worried. I was just a [...]

Booked for a half-day, I headed out with Philip and Shawn from Raleigh with Spanish and flounder on the agenda. Just after 6:30, we made our way to the Beaufort bar looking for some Spanish to cast to. Didn’t take long – birds were working and the Spaniards were busting the surface – little greenie [...]