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 [...]
With family and friends in town for the 4th, I cleared my work schedule and didn’t book any charters. The ocean was a zoo anyways, and the inlet so confused with boat wake it looked as if we had a hurricane coming through. But, nonetheless, the water was beautiful – breezy enough to keep us [...]
I’ve seen a lot of people asking about they can go about catching dolphin near the nearshore live-bottoms and wrecks – so I’m going to explain to you how I go about catching them. You don’t need a big boat to go after these guys, and they’re around all summer – just pick your days, [...]