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Had friend Dan Dauchess along with his friend Jerry aboard. The wind was suppose to blow 10 knots- it did ----plus 10 more!!! The 2-3 foot seas were more like 3-5 footers. But we still managed a some grouper. Most of the were a little too short but did manage enough keepers. These guys were both good fisherman- and under the conditions we did pretty well...
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Chad Casteen snapped some really nice pictures of the USS North Carolina on the way out of the river after being Christened in Wilmington, NC.
How would you like to be these guys trying to catch a flounder! Now you see them now you don't!
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Chad Casteen ended up with a good day offshore Friday- even though the winds were a little harder than expected and the sea conditions were a little choppy. Ended up catching some nice Scamps (grouper) and a ARS - American Red Snapper. He also reported plenty of other critters on the bottom biting as well- Plenty of Vermilion Snappers and Silver Snappers as well as some nice black bass.
Brandon Dean had a 1/2 day inshore Sat morning and had a good trip with a few trout a couple of nice redfish and a flounder. The trout were caught on live shrimp- everything else was caught on Gulp baits.
Back at it again tomorrow- will have more to come.... |
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Chad Casteen had a good trip offshore and had an excellent catch of Grouper, King Mackerel ,and Snapppers. Chad's back at it again today so I will report the results on Monday.
He's open next Tuesday and Wednesday 5/6 & 5/7 and the weather's looking great- get out there and catch some fish!
14 king Mackerel were caught off the pier last week so there are fish close to shore as well!
One Happy Kid!
Another Good Scamp
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After being out of commission for a while (from being sick) I finally got back on the water!
Tony Delagato and I headed offshore and we had a perfect day to go! We stopped and jigged bait until the live well was full and then headed to some rocks to grouper fish.
The grouper were not biting that great but Tony still managed his limit - with 4 scamps and one nice red grouper. We caught some of the biggest black bass I've caught all year as well. A few vermillion snappers and some silver snappers as well.
The BIG sharks moved in and Tony ended up getting at least three of them to the boat. They were not the usually small dog sharks these guys were 60-80 pound blacktips and but up some fight.
Stopped back by Frying Pan Tower and caught a limit of king mackerel in a matter of minutes! We could only get 2 rods out (and usually only one out before we had a fish on).... It was a great day- and I know Tony's arm were tired- but it was a good tired!!! What a great guy to fish with!
Tony with a Big Red Grouper!
Jacks were everywhere! All we needed was a fly rod and 45 minutes! |
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Fishing has been pretty good the last few days. King Mackerel are fired up at Frying Pan Tower. Also dropped down yesterday and caught some nice grouper. Sorry no pictures- I put my camera in a safe place and forgot where the safe place was.
The water warmed up almost 5 degrees in one day- 73.5 at the tower and 66.5 at the inlet! Everything moving closer to shore and hungry- what more could you ask for! Let's go fishing. |
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Fished with Whit Fosburgh (vp of Trout Unlimited) and his son Peter, and friend Paul. They were down on spring break and I had looked forward to fishing with them again this year. We had a good trip last spring and we all wanted to top it this year...
We started off fishing to some really nice reds that were waking and pushing water down a bank at dead low tide. Threw everything at them but they would not bite! Nice class of fish- not sure what the problem was?
Moved on and fished several more spots before finding the lucky dock and pulling out 9 reds (one on the fly) and the elusive croaker on the fly as well... Great time and good to see these guys again!
Here's Pete with an 18 spotter!!!
Paul graduated from '07 Croaker King to the '08 Druminator this year...
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Spent a day with two of the nicest - FUNNIEST guys around. Ken Dickens (Jr) is soon to graduate from NC State - in civil engineering- so his dad and I had a plan to put him on some reds! Usually when you plan a trip this far in advance the weather is horrible- but not today! It was really nice for a change. The water was a little off color due to all of the recent rain but we still managed a few fish.
Kent caught one soon after we started and although not a monster red at least we would not be skunked!
Moved to another spot where I had found a big school of fish a couple of weeks before and it took us about 20 minutes to find them but when we did we caught 6 out of that school before they wised up...
Moved again and found some really large fish- Kent caught the biggest fish of the day a nice 24+" red. Got a few shots with the fly rod but they were a little picky- had a couple of fish swirl on it but no hookups. It was a great day with a really nice father and son team aboard. That's what fishing is all about!!!
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A little on the rough side yesterday- ok it was really rough- suppose to lay down in the afternoon but I think the wind blew harder as the day went on. Still better than sitting around the house all day. The king mackerel bit pretty well - and all of them were jumbos! Big fish for this early in the year. The fish below was well over 30 pounds and we lost another one at the boat just as big.
Plenty of birds working about 20 miles offshore so I'm sure the bonita are there - just did not have time to stop yesterday...
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