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The beach fishing doesn’t get much hotter than right now in terms of shear numbers of fish. The Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish are here, and provide tons of action when the weather is nice enough to break the inlet. The Spanish have been big lately, with many of the fish being over 16 in and a few are mixed in over 5 lbs. Bluefish are found in and around the Spanish schools, and they are also really thick in the Inlet during the morning. They are also nice sized and will tug the line and give you great table fare at the house.
A few flounder have moved into the river, but are still few and far between. The trout are present in the river and some are nice sized, but will continue to increase in size and numbers as the month goes on. Black drum and Red Drum are around and can be caught if you set up in the right spot, but have been concentrated in just a few small spots lately. The fishing will continue to improve as we progress towards summer time and get closer to the fall pattern we all crave around here.
The flounder fishing is also great right now, and should keep up for a few more weeks. The fish have been averaging around 3 lbs. but have been caught up to 10 lbs. They are willing to bite and prove to be a worthy adversary for any angler novice or pro. Come join us for a fun day of inshore flounder fishing around Carolina Beach and the Cape Fear River.
The 2008 season has been great so far with many different species of fish biting. The flounder have been biting well, with most of the fish being keeper size and a few fish hitting the 4 lb mark. The king mackerel have been biting great and are about 12 miles off the beach, so it makes for a good half a day. These kings are not only biting well, but are big also. We have had several fish in this area go up to 25 lbs and three over 30 lbs. They are putting on a great show when biting and have been skying on the baits. The grouper bite has been the best in years with many limits coming and several 20 lb fish as well. There are plenty to make you take a break as well. Sailfish and dolphin are also around and willing to bite a live bait when its trolled in front of them. Tarpon have showed up in there usual spots and will be willing to bite big mullet when available.
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Well, we were finally able to get offshore and fish the beautiful water of Southeastern North Carolina. We headed out of Wrightsville Beach, and started fishing soon after. The bluefish are everywhere from 1 to 3 miles off of the beach right now. There are a few Bonito around, but they seem to be to the north now. We fished for a little while and it was just so dang pretty that we carried the clients offshore. There are tons of glass minnows out there from 7 miles to 18 miles. This only means that the Spanish mackeral will be right on their tails, chompin’ away. We then proceeded to catch very nice keeper Black Sea Bass and Flounder to our surprise and the clients couldn’t have been any happier, we also pulled out a triggerfish and some grunts. They went home with a good sized meal for the both of them and had a great time. The next day we decided to go shad fishing and caught 46 fish in 4 hours, it was just about non-stop action. These are some of the hardest fighting fish caught on ultralight reels and 10 lb test. We hope to have a video with the shad action on here tomorrow. Things are getting better everyday and wth this steady warm weather coming up, it should pull everything together in the next two weeks.