8-5 to 8-10, 2010

We have been busy with 3 half day trips and 2 ¾ day trips in the past 5 days. The spanish mackerel fishing on the ½ days has been really good, only problem has been sorting out the short fish and the keepers. There have also been plenty of bluefish mixed in to keep everyone busy. On our ¾ days we have been catching some spanish on the beach early and then heading offshore. Trolling out has produced some small kings and mahi. The bottom fishing remains awesome with lots of snappers, seabass, and groupers. Captain Ty and Joe have a ¾ day today, so I will post up a report tonight. 

Tomorrow is the only open day left this week, so I will keep the reports coming.

7-29 to 8-4, 2010

Finally we got a break from the heat last week with light NE winds for most of the week. We spent Wednesday on a full day bottom fishing trip and we had a good day. With 150lbs + of grouper, snapper, sea bass and more the guys were happy. 

Friday and Saturday we fished the Eddie Hannaman Inshore Sailfish Tournament. Great charity event with a unique set of rules, you must fish with-in 20 miles of the beach. Only problem was the water and fish were not inside 20 miles in good numbers.  A total of 7 sailfish were released, but none by us.  We did see one each day, but no good bites. We did catch some bonitos, and had more bites from bonitos, mahi, and king mackerel.  We are back at it hard the next two weeks, fishing 10 days out of the next 14 coming up. 

7-28-2010

We had a full day bottom fishing trip today and what great weather. Really nice to see light winds and not southwest at 15-20. We spent the day with 4 boys constantly hooked up, catching over 200lbs of fish. They caught gag grouper, red snapper, pink snapper, black sea bass, grunts, rock bass, sharks, and triggerfish. The highlights would have to be 5lb pink snapper and a 15lb American red snapper. We are back at it for Friday and Saturday, but open on Sunday and the weather looks great, so let’s go fishing.    

7-19 to 7-25, 2010

7-16,17,18- 2010

We just finished the Barta Boys and Girls Billfish tournament and for the third year in a row, the weather just stunk. Southwest at 15-20 knots and gusty made Friday tough. We caught a blackfin tuna and had a couple of wahoo bites and the small mahi's attacked us, but we were fishing for billfish with circle hooks, and did not have a bite from a sailfish. On Saturday, Dr. Mark and his daughter Emma joined us for some Spanish mackerel fishing around the inlet instead of making the run offshore again.  We caught some spanish mackerel and bluefish, the neat thing to see was the other 15 big boats doing the same thing for the kids on their boats. The good news was the number of wahoo bites everyone had fishing this weekend. Looks like they are showing up early and the mahi are still biting.

7-9, 10- 2010

Well, first a Wrightsville Beach fishing report. The inshore fishing for spanish mackerels has been fantastic.  We had a 1/2 day on Thursday morning and again had great fishing with over 2 doz. spanish mackerel caught in a few hours.  Saturday we headed offshore in less than ideal conditions, SW 15-25 knots and the farther offshore we got the closer to 25 it got.  Anyway I set out on the break and caught two nice wahoo, both were 30 lbs or so. By 10:00 am it was just blowing too hard and I set out trolling back inshore for a few hours. Thankfully we found mahi, sailfish, and king mackerel and barracuda inside to keep the charter and Rick busy. At 2:00 pm I called it and we steamed for home. We stopped right outside the inlet and spent about 20 minutes catching a dozen spanish before a big storm ran us to the dock. 

Now let’s talk billfishing. It has gotten red hot in Morehead City just in time for the Barta Billfish tournament coming up this weekend. Yesterday three boats caught 23 white marlin and sailfish and missed or lost another 30 or more. This was after they all caught a bunch of bailer mahi inshore. Folks, we still need a couple of anglers for Wednesday or Thursday. Let me know if you want to join some great fishing.

7-8-2010

7-6-2010

Today we had a great day spanish mackerel fishing with the Leonard family.  The boys had a blast catching 30 macks.  Parker had a nice 3# spanish.  I think Peyton liked the lizardfish because he caught more of them than the spanish.

7-5-2010

6-25, 26, 27  2010

On Friday had the Essilor guys for an offshore trip.  Southwest at 15-20 made for a rough day, but we made the best of it.  King Mackerels, Mahi's,  Barracudas, and a Sailfish on the dredge made for a good day.   

On Saturday we had a great crowd of deputies for a 3/4 day charter.  Unfortunately the trolling was slow for the entire fleet for the day.  We tried everything and finally found the bonito and Spanish biting about three miles offshore and salvaged the day.   

On Sunday we had a 1/2 day with dads and kids.  Knowing the bite has been better early, we headed off the dock at 6:00 for some trolling around the inlet.  Glad we left earlier, by 7:00 we had 33 Spanish Mackerels.  More and more boats came out the inlet and pushed the fish down, but we stuck it out and ended the morning with 49 Spanish, 3 bluefish, and a bonito. 

The weekend weather is not looking great for offshore fishing, but inshore looks good.  We have a few days open this week so come fishing.

6/27/2010

6-17, 18, 19,  2010

The Big Rock is over. What a long week with very slow fishing for almost everyone. The first two days were slow for us, with a white marlin trying both flatlines and a few dolphin hitting the deck. On Thursday, our third day of fishing, we had our shot when a 500lb Blue Marlin piled on the left short rigger and the fight was on. Unfortunately after running 500 plus yards off the 130, she threw the hook on us. We fished our last day on Saturday and again a long slow day dodging big thunderstorms.  

On Saturday before the Big Rock, we had a great group on board for a day of charter fishing and ended up with a good catch of dolphin, a few gaffers and the rest bailers.  Had a white marlin on the left teaser, but never got a bite out of the fish.

On a good note, the fishing from Wrightsville Beach has been good this past week, with lots of Dolphin, some sailfish, king macks, and a scattered wahoo and marlin.  We are fishing Friday and Saturday but are open the rest of the week.   

I have had several folks inquire about a make-up trip in the next few weeks, so give me a call if you would like to be part of a make-up trip.

6-15 & 16-2010

Big Rock Days 2 & 3

Day 3 - 528 pound blue marlin weighed by Carnivore currently in 2nd place for a potential $220K payday if it holds up. Conditions so far have been warm and calm which is not considered to be prime for marlin fishing.

6-14-2010

Big Rock Day One

$60,000 Mahi on Fishin' Days! 

Well Jason's 60.3lb Dolphin could have been worth that next week for us in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament.  This is the biggest Dolphin caught on the Fishin' Days yet.  We got lucky on Sunday and managed to get out early in the morning and beat the 20 knots of SW wind they were forecasting, at least until lunch time and then it started blowing.  It was a great day of fishing, in addition to Jason's huge Dolphin, we caught 11 more Dolphin and 2 barracudas.  We also lost a sailfish, that schooled Jason on the long rigger, all we got back was the seawitch and a hook.  

I am heading to Morehead City on Thursday with the boat for a weekend of charter fishing, and then the Big Rock start on Monday for us.  I am going to try and post daily fishing reports on the website during the tournament, so check in there to see how we are doing.

Offshore fishing this past weekend on Sunday was not bad.  The trolling bite was slow, the full moon and east wind for four days hurt us on Sunday, but we managed some nice mahi mahi trolling.  But the bottom fishing was awesome for us with a limit of big pink snappers and sea bass, rock bass, and grunts helping fill the fish box.

Monday we had a great crowd that was ready to go offshore.  Only problem was the girls had no desire to leave site of land, and with two of the ladies pregnant, guess who won that contest.  So we got to troll for about an hour before the ladies were bored and we headed in to anchor behind Masonboro for the rest of the day to swim and have some fun in the sun.  We did manage to catch some spanish and blue fish before heading in.

We are heading to Morehead City next week to get ready for the Big Rock and need a few people for a Make-Up trip on Friday, June 11th.  Call me and lets go fishing.

5-29/5-30-2010

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Offshore fishing this past weekend was good with lots of Mahi being caught, some nice sized wahoo mixed in and the billfish have shown up with blue and white marlin as well as sailfish being caught.   

Fishing around the inlet and beach was good on Saturday with a bunch of Spanish mackerel for us and all the bluefish you could want. A few cobia were caught along the beach, but the east wind had the water dirty so sight fishing was hard.

We are OPEN this weekend and also could use a few folks for a trip on Monday.  Weather for the weekend looks good with light E-NE winds and 2-4ft seas.  Call me and lets go fishing.