4/29 PM – ALL THE REDS YOU WANT!
After a fantastic morning of fishing, I headed home - ate some lunch (a little seared Bonito) and walked the dog. Less than two hours after having arrived back at the sli[, I was with my friend Scott Crocker of [url]www.shacklefordcharters.com[/url] at the ramp - time for fishing part 2. We headed out to the marsh to look for some [...]
4/29 – Finally. . . BONITO!!!
Yesterday, after having finally found (and hooked) a few nice Bonito yesterday, I was off in the early hours to search for more with my friend Captain Scott Crocker of [url]www.shacklefordcharters.com[/url]. So we loaded up my Parker and headed on out. The fish required some new tactics to produce a strike, but it didn't take long. Once we found the [...]
Bonito Article
Everything you need to know about the Atlantic Bonito... By Tom Roller When North Carolina’s spring finally rolls along, local fisherman are usually preoccupied with the Roanoke River stripers and dreaming of a day offshore chasing yellowfin tuna. Many anglers overlook one of North Carolina’s most consistent spring fisheries – the fantastic April run of the hard-fighting and delicious Atlantic [...]
3/10 – Beaufort Inlet Offshore – Tuna, Grouper
Again today, I begin my report with a tirade against the weathermen. Today, again, they were quite wrong - but, to their credit, their errors were less than they have been lately. The early forcasted offshore 10-15 knot wind was an easy 20 and the 2 foot forcasted seas were an easy, sloppy 4-5. However, to their credit, the wind [...]
2/23 – Offshore report w/ Capt. Jay
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 inlet and heading out to [...]
2/20 – BIG SEABASS and lots-o-BIG Blues
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 water for some big ol' [...]