Great Day
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.