The Spanish Mackeral are here. I had a 1/2 day charter fishing trip today and found the Spanish Mackeral off of Oak Island. The fish were hitting 00 Clark Spoons. Most of the fish hit on the planers, but caught our share up on top. We ended up the morning with 25 keepers. I heard reports that some grouper are biting, so stay tuned for more reports and pics.
Well it feels like summer is finally here. Over the past few days the weather has been awesome and the fish have been biting like bulldogs. I have fished almost everyday out of Holden Beach and had great success everyday. Most of my catch have been Vermilion Snapper (better known as B-liners), Black Sea Bass, Grouper, Mahi, Amberjack, and King Mackeral. One morning while fishing an offshore reef our party was suprised as the King Mackeral we were fighting turned out to be a real monster. I’ll be fishing some more this week so stay posted for more reports. If you would like to book a charter or just talk fishing feel free to shoot me an email or just call. Tight Lines!!!
On Saturday I had a 3/4 day trip with some great guys from the Winston Salem area. We were greated Saturday morning with gusty winds around 20 knots out of the north. Because of the rough seas offshore we decided to fish nearshore at the Lighthouse area to catch some small Bass and Sharks while the winds diminished. Here we caught a ton of throw back Black Bass and Sharks, but very few keepers. Luckly these winds slowed and the seas had laid out enough to run about 28 miles offshore. The deeper water was holding some nice Black Bass, Geniune Red Snapper, Chopper Bluefish, and plenty of Sharks. Overall I would guess that we caught well over 100 fish.
The middle to latter part of the week is promising better weather. The stable weather will have the fish hungary and feeding. If you would like to get into some of this great action get a party together and lets go fishing.
Had a 3/4 trip with a couple boys from the Lexington, N.C. area. We had a great trip fishing in the 35 mile range. Once we we were anchored on the rock, we had steady action of nice 3-4 pound, green head Black Bass. Mixed in with the bass were B-liners and Grunts. The action was so hot that I forgot to put out a light line. Once I figured out something was missing and got a cigar minnow in the water, it didn’t take long to snag several King Mackeral and loose a couple more.
One of the boys caught a b-liner and I decided to put it down on the bottom. About 3 minutes later the Penn 70 International on a bent butt rod was bowed over touching the water, the fight was on. Vince grabbed the rod and begin to pump the big fish toward the surface. At first I couldn’t tell who was winning, but after a few minutes a nice 40 pound Amberjack was in the boat.
With the warming weather all types of fish, including grouper and cobia are starting to migrate in to the 80-100 foot depths. These awesome fighting and eating fish are a blast to catch. I’m going to post two pics from a 07 spring trip. I was fishing with two great friends Toby Fulford and Randy Robinson. We loaded up on the Cobia and Scamp Grouper, you can tell by all the brown in the pic. One of the Scamps would be a state record in South Carolina and Georgia. North Carolina doesn’t recognize it as of yet, and I didn’t know that we could have set the bar, maybe next time. The fish are biting, come on down to the coast and lets go fishing.