Tuck Trout!!

Had a wonderful float on the Tuckasegee River,  near Western Carolina University. We caught a mess of trout, small bass, and suckers. The trip green horn managed to pull the 16in. Brook Trout!! Beginner's luck!!

We decided to fish the upper section of the Tuck, b/c down below was high and murky. Our original plan was to fish the lower section for small mouth bass which is suppose to be hot right now.     We fished a variety of lures including in-line spinners, mepps spins, and crawfish crank baits..

July 2-4 Southern Outter Banks

5 nice Spanish to finish off the day, all caught on free-lining cigar minnows. 

About 3:45pm the wind changed and started blowing from the SW at 10kt. pushed the bigger fish right in, so we set up at the Cape lookout rock jetty and pulled in some nice fish.  I missed/lost 8 fish one being a monster( right at the boat), such a tough balance between wire and floro leader. Seems like they would not bite any size wire and would bite off even 40lb. Floro.  The one's we landed has perfect hook jobs right in the side of the mouth using 40-60lb floro leader.

The definition of fresh fish dinner.

Going to add to the Crazyness!! 4th July!

Our fav little campsite on core banks, not to far from the lighthouse.

So, I'm heading back East for the 4th weekend do do some more camping and fishing on the southern outterbanks with my buddies John and Mike. I'll be sure to post a detailed fishing report maybe Monday night or Tuesday morning.  I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday weekend. Tight lines

Should be a great time, the weather for Saturday is lining up nicely with inshore report of :    

Fri.

 NE WINDS 5 KT...BECOMING SE IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS
 2 TO 3 FT.

 FRI NIGHT
 S WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.

 SAT
 SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT.

 SAT NIGHT
 SW WINDS 10 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.

Old Menhaden Factory, Beaufort NC

History...  Beaufort waterfront.. 

Bear Island, NC: Sometimes it's Worth the Hike...

Black Drum in the hole!!

My Personal Best To Date!!!:
Black Drum 6/11/11 22in. long / never weighed :S

Decided to go try a little hole on Hammocks Beach Saturday morning. After the quick ride over we got set up fishing a dead low tide around 10am, as soon as that tide started coming in , so did the action.. Caught one small blue, 6 black drum, 2 reds, 2 whiting, and one short flounder. One black drum was my personal best at 22in. but never weighed. Used a basic bottom set-up with size 4-6 j-hooks. All on fresh shrimp with tails off, 25 yards out if that.  

We really went over to do some Pompano fishing but found those drum as a great surprise and they put up a great fight in the surf!

Full cooler of cleaned fish!! I had to run fish back to mainland to be iced down..

25 in. Red Drum on fresh shrimp on a small j-hook, bottom rig.

18in. Red Drum in the surf!!
Sweet catch and release Andrew!

SOBX Adventure

The best way to spend a weekend at the end of May is cruising around NC's jewel, the Crystal Coast. Sun, Sand, Bugs and we managed to Camp out on Cape Lookout National Seashore and had a blast fishing in the surrounding waters. We caught a variety of fish including Flounder, Blues, Spanish Mackerel (personal favorite!!), Red Drum, and Sharks/Rays. I got to explore a bunch of new areas including the Lookout Shoals, East side of Shoals and Shark Island, all really impressive places. Found some amazing shells on shark island along with Reds, Chopper Blues, and tons of undersized Flounder in the surf!!!

The trips highlight for me was when we decided to tromp over Core Banks to the east side for body surfing and surf fishing...at the same time. You see, I was riding crystal blue waves and all of a sudden I saw a Spanish break about ten yards away, called to my buddy Mike onshore who slung our secret weapon out just in time, About the time his lure hit the water and I hit the beach, he was bent over fighting a 3 pound Spanish from shore!!! Can't beat that...

Surf Fishing for Spanish!!! Nice Catch Mike...

Blues and Spanish buffet, man what a fish-fry.

Spanish Mac's Are In...

Decided to bump back down the shack  from our camping adventure and picked up this one on a hand tied pinky squid rig.

The wait is over, Spanish fillets on the grill!!! Man i missed drinkin a cold beer and eatin some good fish...

 Live -Bait Mac !!! Fell for a pogy on a circle hook.

Disney, where all your fishing Dreams come True..

Spent Six day in Orlando at the Old Key West Resort in Disney. Had a blast bass fishin at the many canals and golf course ponds!!! Here's a few pic's from the Journey...

Average class of fish 3-4 pounds, and yes i have a size 15 foot.

fat gill hits a phat bait!!!

Flying yellow worm!!

Big fish of the trip!! 5.7 pounder on a bright yellow floating worm.

 On our trip we were able to land a couple bass around 5 pounds, tons of bass in the 2-4 pound range, at dusk and dawn we smoked them on top water (Rapala Skitterwalk blue gill color) John caught a massive Chain Pickerel on a spinnerbait near a clear water spring. We hooked some long nosed gar but never landed any on our lake trip.   Thanks Florida!

Suspending stop and go hard-baits 2nd top producer during the day

Got the Blues..

11.5 pound Bluefish in the Bite of Cape Lookout!!

Got to Bleed those big boys to get the fishy taste out.

Found a secret weapon that NC fisherman have not caught on too. Rapala's Glidin Rap!!!