Fall fishing is on the way!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

We are coming up to my favorite time of year for fishing down here in Wrightsville Beach, NC.  Fall fishing in southeastern North Carolina is wide open for a multitude of species.  The grouper fishing is awesome right now with limits of gags, scamps, and reds almost every trip.  The wahoo fishing is great right now with most boats going to the gulf stream catching at least three or four with lots of reports of double digit days.  King mackeral will show in big numbers any day with a few already trickiling in.  These speed demons are a blast on light tackle.  I typically target them with light spinning gear so the angler really has his hands full when we hook the big one but it is always a ton of fun fighting them on the light gear.  The beaches are covered up with big spanish and albies everywhere so now is a great opportunity to really load the boat, even on a half day trip.  Come on down to Wrightsville Beach and experience this great fall fishing! 

Wrightsville Beach Jigging, Popping, Bottom Fishing Report 8/23

Sunday, August 29, 2010

On Sunday Capt Arlen and myself teamed up to to put Jack and Brian on a nice mixed bag of fish out of wrightsville beach.  The plan was to start the day with some topwater AJ popping.  We were not disappointed.  We got to the spot and the fish were eager to eat anything and everything we put in the water.  Livebait, poppers, jigs it didn’t matter.  After somewhere between 15 and 20 AJs, we decided,with the slick calm conditions, to run around and look for some different species.  We made it about 2 miles before a floating board stopped us in our tracks.  The board was loaded with mahis and a suprise wahoo that ate the first bait we put in the water and was gone.  Half an hour of mahi mayhem left us with a limit and it was on to the next spot.  The next stop was Arlen’s african pompano hole and once again we weren’t disappointed.  Jack put a live bait over and got bit right off the bat and after a 15 minute battle he put a 35 pound pompano on the deck.  This day just keeps getting better.  We rounded out the day hitting a few grouper holes and bagging a limit of grouper.  It ended up being another day for the record books out of Wrightsville Beach NC.

5/23 Wrightsville Beach King Mackeral and AJS

Monday, May 24, 2010

Today was a fun fishing day with my brother, Danielle, Kate, and Alexa.  With no luck finding any pogeys the call was to just troll dead bait.  The ocean was slick calm and after we made a few passes with tre trolling gear out we decided to bring it in and break out the poppers.  First cast the fish missed.  Second cast, she wasn’t so lucky.  With a sloid hookup i handed kate the rod and she fought her first amberjack like a champ.  Landing a decent sized amberjack around heavy structure is not an easy feat but she did an awesome job.  Unfortunately Zack dropped the fish overboard before the picture so she had to catch another.  Cast the popper and it was on again almost immediately.  Once again, Kate was on the rod and she whooped that fish to the surface in no time.  The next hookup was Alexa and she did a great job fighting the fish.  After the amberjack bonanza, we went back to trolling and managed a few kings before it was time to come in.