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.