Here we go!!! Thank you Lord!!! The Steelers did it and fishing is good!
Finally got a day off. Between the stripers and trout fishing been very busy and successful!
The fishing has been great lately. We have landed fish every trip. Some days jigging but most days trolling. And I will admit this time of year I prefer to troll because I get bigger fish to the boat with bigger baits trolled on the bottom. We have not landed our fifty pluser yet this year but I have a good feeling about it. With a forty eight, 47, 45, 45, on and on. Danny Arnold crew trolled up a few on the 1st of Feb then we quickly switched over to jigging and landed 17 nice bass with some into the mid forty pound range. Gotta crank out a couple videos of the action here for you guys tomorrow. Matt got his 40lber off Nags Head on the 27th of Jan. Kerry and Sam also whacked them. Pics will be coming as well. Sam runs the Atlantic anglers web site and represents our industry well so check it out.
One of my favs the crazy Asian Super Randy Wong has been dragging up some nice moby's as well of lately. You probably will see alot of pics from him because his fishes every friday and sat. for four weeks. This keeps him in the yearly peak of piggy time! He also got a nice 5 pound speckled trout with me. Of course we have a couple stories of the ones that got away. Some days we have to catch and release and some days we keep a few like yesterday with the dynamic father daughter dou. Half day trip yesterday afternoon from my super bowl victory hangover whacking 14 on the troll with stripers up to 40. Two miles off the beach 12 miles from the dock. The Ball family had a BAll! Captain Ball runs trips on Lake Michigan www.fishtalescharters.net/first for Salmon, trout, and perch, call him if you are in the area. Also special thanks to his wonderful daughter for protecting our country and giving us the opportunity to fish in this great country serving in the United States Navy!!!!
The last 10 trips we have landed fish within 15 miles of Oregon -Inlet. Once again I must remind everyone not everyday is gonna work out for the meat guys, some days we must catch and release. Have a few open dates left for Ches (Carolina Blue ) or a myself as well. Just call the house to get rigged up. Also need one or maybe two to hop on with cool clients on 15th and 16th of Feb to help fill an unexpected void in on a trip. 252 441 6575 is the booking number for either boat. Thanks to the guys already booking ahead for summer cobia and next winter striper/ trout fishing. Also booked a few for late feb and into middle March when we will be fishing out of Cobb's marina about a mile for the Chesapeake bay bridge to get in on some good jigging pre spawn pig whackings!!! Hope you guys can tell I am pretty jacked up on the fishing. The only bummer has been the beach net, drop net, and trawling seasons all have been open. This is the first time ever in NC history to my knowledge that all three are open at the same time. The trawlers have been super whacking them hopefully they crushed their quota. Everyone wants a piece of the ever dwindling pie and we have to get all this mismanagement in order or in three years there will be no stripers!!! DEPEND on THAT!!! Depend on it!!! Greed is wiping out the stripers. I do not want commercial fishing out of the picture but reasonable harvesting techniques and accountable quotas need to be in place. So guys lets try to throw a few back for seed. And to all you high graders... rec and commercial...quit . Seeing floating 15- 20 lb stripers half dying on top of the water because the trawler wants to sell the biggest 100 he can box is wrong. It is good busines for him and most of us would do the same in their shoes. Put an observer on the boat the them whack the crap out of em and when the poundage quota is filled then they go harvest something else. Besides the 15-25lbers to me taste better. I am telling you guys the stock, just like I said last year at this time are down, try way down to 20% of what is was five years ago. That is forty million stripers gone. It blows my mind in the year 2009 we are going to finish off the striper stocks to endangered because of greed. Not many in the industry both commercial and charter want to admit it openly but believe me behind the scenes the consensus is the same, the ha ha ride is gonna end.
Thanks to everyone for fishing!!!
Finally got a day off. Between the stripers and trout fishing been very busy and successful!
The fishing has been great lately. We have landed fish every trip. Some days jigging but most days trolling. And I will admit this time of year I prefer to troll because I get bigger fish to the boat with bigger baits trolled on the bottom. We have not landed our fifty pluser yet this year but I have a good feeling about it. With a forty eight, 47, 45, 45, on and on. Danny Arnold crew trolled up a few on the 1st of Feb then we quickly switched over to jigging and landed 17 nice bass with some into the mid forty pound range. Gotta crank out a couple videos of the action here for you guys tomorrow. Matt got his 40lber off Nags Head on the 27th of Jan. Kerry and Sam also whacked them. Pics will be coming as well. Sam runs the Atlantic anglers web site and represents our industry well so check it out.
One of my favs the crazy Asian Super Randy Wong has been dragging up some nice moby's as well of lately. You probably will see alot of pics from him because his fishes every friday and sat. for four weeks. This keeps him in the yearly peak of piggy time! He also got a nice 5 pound speckled trout with me. Of course we have a couple stories of the ones that got away. Some days we have to catch and release and some days we keep a few like yesterday with the dynamic father daughter dou. Half day trip yesterday afternoon from my super bowl victory hangover whacking 14 on the troll with stripers up to 40. Two miles off the beach 12 miles from the dock. The Ball family had a BAll! Captain Ball runs trips on Lake Michigan www.fishtalescharters.net/first for Salmon, trout, and perch, call him if you are in the area. Also special thanks to his wonderful daughter for protecting our country and giving us the opportunity to fish in this great country serving in the United States Navy!!!!
The last 10 trips we have landed fish within 15 miles of Oregon -Inlet. Once again I must remind everyone not everyday is gonna work out for the meat guys, some days we must catch and release. Have a few open dates left for Ches (Carolina Blue ) or a myself as well. Just call the house to get rigged up. Also need one or maybe two to hop on with cool clients on 15th and 16th of Feb to help fill an unexpected void in on a trip. 252 441 6575 is the booking number for either boat. Thanks to the guys already booking ahead for summer cobia and next winter striper/ trout fishing. Also booked a few for late feb and into middle March when we will be fishing out of Cobb's marina about a mile for the Chesapeake bay bridge to get in on some good jigging pre spawn pig whackings!!! Hope you guys can tell I am pretty jacked up on the fishing. The only bummer has been the beach net, drop net, and trawling seasons all have been open. This is the first time ever in NC history to my knowledge that all three are open at the same time. The trawlers have been super whacking them hopefully they crushed their quota. Everyone wants a piece of the ever dwindling pie and we have to get all this mismanagement in order or in three years there will be no stripers!!! DEPEND on THAT!!! Depend on it!!! Greed is wiping out the stripers. I do not want commercial fishing out of the picture but reasonable harvesting techniques and accountable quotas need to be in place. So guys lets try to throw a few back for seed. And to all you high graders... rec and commercial...quit . Seeing floating 15- 20 lb stripers half dying on top of the water because the trawler wants to sell the biggest 100 he can box is wrong. It is good busines for him and most of us would do the same in their shoes. Put an observer on the boat the them whack the crap out of em and when the poundage quota is filled then they go harvest something else. Besides the 15-25lbers to me taste better. I am telling you guys the stock, just like I said last year at this time are down, try way down to 20% of what is was five years ago. That is forty million stripers gone. It blows my mind in the year 2009 we are going to finish off the striper stocks to endangered because of greed. Not many in the industry both commercial and charter want to admit it openly but believe me behind the scenes the consensus is the same, the ha ha ride is gonna end.
Thanks to everyone for fishing!!!
damn a fifty pound trout??? Where you been fishing man??
ReplyDeleteSorry been typing up the update. No 50 pound trout. Just hope to get a 50 pound striper. We did land a 5lb trout. I never will make it as a editor just a dummy fisherman. Thanks anonymous!
ReplyDeleteAaron, I'm coming up this Friday and Saturday from Atlantic Beach for Rock. On average, about how far north have you had to run to find fish? Also you mentioned having to fish deep or bottom a lot. What seems to be working best or most consistent and color?
ReplyDeleteYou have a great site here and you are right on about the commercial fishing. I agree and hold a commercial license too, but it doesn't seem like we've learned anything over the past 30 years about managing our Rock fishery in NC does it? Thanks for your help. Rusty D.
I am glad someone other than me has seen what is happening to our rockfish. I see the devastation on the roanoke river the albemarle sound,the bay and the ocean. All you here is how the rock have made this great comeback and everyone patting each other on the back while stocks are crashing. Yes they came back but they went right back to what decimated them in the first place. You hear all kinds of excuses why the runs are less and less. Bottom line they are in trouble again.Perfect example in the roanoke river 22 to 27 in fish are protected so you would think that size fish would be plentiful but there are fewer every year.WHY
ReplyDeleteThanks for the posts fellas. Come on up and enjoy the fishing. Mojo rigs are getting it done mostly with char and white dominate color, come by and ask about purple death.
ReplyDeleteXeroxman.. tough to figure out why so many know the deal and stay scared and rather have the fence post up there..just want to see fish for everyone in the future.
Capt Aaron,
ReplyDeleteMy how the fishing has changed in the last 3-5 years. Call it like you see it.... Ugly and Ugly It Is!! But take a minute and look through The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Sept 2008 Atlantic Striped Bass Profile
http://www.asmfc.org/speciesDocuments/stripedBass/profiles/speciesprofile.pdf
According to this profile the recreational anglers are the biggest fishing threat. They claim commercial guys are running about 6mil pounds each year… rod and reels took >29mil pounds in 2006. Take a close look at the dead discards from commercial versus recreational. Pretty interesting. I ain’t no genius but I can see this “data” will force a moratorium for recreational anglers and the commercial guys can keep culling the little keepers.
Like you I want my kids to be able to see stripers rolling, gannets diving, and whales feeding on those huge schools of bait.
We are getting warmer. Also need to realize how many pounds go outta here not recorded without trip tickets. Why would you want (as a commercial guy) to load fish across a dock and have it go against the quota when you can slide them up the road unrecorded. You cannot count rec fish counts by trailers in the parking lot or even released mortality percentages. We all know you can make the number say what you want. The ugly truth will always rear it's head at some point and it is coming. I am just trying to raise a little awareness. It does upset me the ones in the know do not try to stand up for themselves and consider themseves leaders in the industry...
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