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 [...]
Water is still dirty from the rain but clearing up daily - particularly with this northeast wind. It's just going to take time for the bottom of the water column to clean up. Beaches and Piers - Some fall spots are starting to show up along with some black drum. Good-sized pompano have been the [...]
This lucky angler, 15 year old Alex Horton (along with his dad) caught and released this sailfish at honeymoon rock last weekend. I wasn't involved with the catch, but Alex asked me to post these pictures for him. Doesn't get better than this - father and son and sail!
I went out today with some friends to check out a variety of things - among them large weedlines less than 5 miles from the inlet, etc. All of this produced nothing. With no fish in site we decided to check out the reported action on the east side. It was pretty calm so i [...]
Headed out this morning with Derek, Bill and Trevor on one of their many yearly visits with flounder on the mind. Three generations of fishermen on one boat always makes for a good time--nothing like father and son. On the way out of the inlet, we ran into huge clouds of birds and giant baitballs [...]
This afternoon, I headed out to a few of the ARs with good buddy Captain Scott Crocker of www.shacklefordcharters.com in search of some clean water and good fishing. Unfortunately, the clean water didn't ever find us or vice versa but the fishing was steady (if not a bit slow). The better water is still east [...]
So after a day that inclduded taking the puppy for his booster shots - i finally got out to do a little "Scouting" come 5 in the afternoon. The water was calm (and very brown) out to about a mile from the inlet. The only boat on the water, i headed out to a very [...]
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 [...]