Merry Christmas!

Mery Christmas to your and your families! May peace and joy fill your hearts!
May mirrolures, coastas, gift certificates to TW's, rock solid tees, and cobia bucktails fill your stockings and line your trees!
Here was another shot of another day of whacking speckled trout! Fish ranged from 3-6.5 lbs. These were landed from a little creek mouth. Ches and myself had a ball! After Christmas the trips pick back up and between Oregon-Inlet, Little Creek out of Chesapeake bay Virginia, and little boat trout whacking we should keep you with some nice options till spring. Talked with buddy Lee on the Gouger yesterday and he hit the big Red drum 30-50lbers off Hatteras as well. I have not looked but have heard the reports of the guys that went up early to Virgina have been enjoying a good striper trolling bite. Merry Christmas everyone!

Need some cowbell!

Ole JR had his way with beautiful giant speckled trout. Capt Ches and myself enjoyed a change of pace from the stripers. It was fun to fish with Ches. He and JR quickly teamed up on me. Ches is laid back and will not talk your ear off like I do. Day one was 30 specks. 9 of them were small summertime fish and 21 of em were whoppers!!! 21 over 4lbs, few 5.5ers and 5.11, 6, and 6lbers.!!! These two JR is holding were landed back to back 5, and 5.5 lbs. Second day one 20 inch puppy drum, 12 trout all 4-5.5lbs!!! Absolutely fantastic calm water light tackle fishing and can be done day or night. So if you want to try big speckled trout or stripers in NC or Virgina give us a call! Fish were landed on jigs, mirrolures 808, and livebait, all on eight pound spinning tackle. We are trying to give other fishing options because some days are just not fit for ocean fishing, and I love calm. Thanks JR, cowbell.!!!

And then we got em!

Well today was a new day. Weather cooperated, seas were nice and we found plenty of fish. Out of Oregon-Inlet, I ran the beach and Capt. Tillet of the Carolinian ran the three mile line and after 47miles up the beach we found just a couple of nice bait marks that were loaded with stripers. We quickly had a limit and threw some back for next time. Fish were 12-25lbs! Thanks guys for not being scared! Maybe fish will creep a little more in reasonable range with some cooler water temps.

Gotta a piggy spec trout trip tomorrow so I will let ya know if we score. We also will have the Carolina Blue creeping around the Chesapeake bridge for some trips day or night and some ocean rock as well. Give me a call or e-mail if you want to have some fun! Thanks everyone for fishing and putting up with us!!!

Joe the plummer are you hiring?

Off today with a good crew and up the beach we go out at first light 22 miles up the beach all slick calm and then Doa Donnie and myself got blasted by a straight "black wall of death" The front that was to come in during the evening came early. We had to do the big u turn and get back to the inlet. We fished a little around the inlet but the foul weather took our stoke and lack of bites took us back to the dock for an half day on an all day trip. Getting your butt kicked and washed around for some fish is no good. I am more interested in you guys having a good time catching fish and not getting your butt kicked. If you want the washing then washing you can get like the poor two guys that were holding on the floating cooler for 45 minutes that were lucky enough to rattle off a cell 911 call to notify the coast guard who asked me if I had seen a boat who got their butts saved by the dredge who saw them from the bridge.
Fishing however has been tough. Weather has been non cooperative. I hope to get some opportunity to run up the beach looking for some more fish. Finally looks like I get to try tomorrow. I thank everyone for fishing hard and picking out a few and making the most of the bites we have had around Oregon -Inlet NC. Gotta a trout trip this week and a few striper trips so I will promise to update quicker. Talked to Ches a few hours ago and he fished for the big trout in Va. Try to get some pics and updates when we can! Thanks everyone for fishing hard and supporting us!!!

Dec 2nd, fished this afternoon and we got them, fat ones 37, 36, 35, 35, 34, 33 are the weights of the ones we kept. We needed this because the last couple of half day trips were big bummers with sharks and no stripers. These fish were caught trolling off Nags Head. We also got the privilege of jousting with omega proteins the giant menhaden boats with little sci fi like scooter purse seiners and spotter planes all fighting for the same resource. We literally had these giant boats setting all around us netting the uhumm bunker for fertilizer processing. Its 2008 and I get to continually watch the wasting of "resources" They were aggressive and very good fishermen. I guess it was legal bycatch and all. I will try to show what crummy photos I got when I get a chance. Truth be told. We gotta save the crumbs. Thanks everyone!

These guys took their dad fishing just before T-day and only caught one striper but it was a 40lb good one. Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone is eating drinking and enjoying their families at home today. Thanks everyone for supporting us.
Hope you like the lastest vid we hit these fish off Nags Head a couple days ago. The last few trips I have ran we have landed citation fish of 35lbs or better. Did have one afternoon trip where we went 0 for 2, sorry guys. As a whole it is a welcomed sign maybe with the cooler temps we can enjoy normal OBX striper fishing as well. Some of our guys have headed up to VA as well and they seem to be doing good as well. So book a trip we still have a few openings for trips and accomadations open. Thanks Aaron

Striper Video

The Ocean Stripers are back!!!

I went out today on my friend's ''go fast boat,'' looking for the first ocean striper. When we left the house this morning there was ice on the canal so I had a good feeling about the day! We ran all the way to Sand Bridge Virginia with out any good signs of fish. On the way back down we found birds so we put out the baits and started to troll. The first few fish to bite were big Blue Fish, in the 16-17lb range. The Blues were a lot of fun and put up a good fight! Of course when we broke out the light tackle rods to play with the Blues we hooked up with the first big stripers of the season off the Outer Banks. All of the fish we caught were very nice size, two of them being over 35lbs! Unfortunately we had to leave the bite to make the run back to Kitty Hawk before dark. So if any body is up for catching a big Striper or Blue Fish on light tackle give us a call. Welcome back cold weather and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Saturday evening here just updating from a cold day of fishing. Rough conditions and did see some bird play but could not try em just too rough. We picked out a few but the bites were scarce but we did get another citation fish today of 35lbs! Nice to see quality fish early in the season. We have been landing these fish around Oregon Inlet N.C. Got a couple half day openings left in the next few weeks and hopfully the fishing will get better and better. Thanks guys!

November 21, 2008 - Outer Banks, NC shoals

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41 ib striper on the shoals of Oregon Inet today on the Rock SOlid.

Quick post here as I climb out of my hibernation. Been off the fishing scene for a few days now due to my little girl getting baptised and the foul weather has kept us in as well. Got a couple all day trips tomorrow and sat. just got the call from the fishing center 7 nice big rock off the shoals this afternoon! Soooo looks like the cold fronts did bring us some rock. Still have some spots open so give us a call and get rigged up. Thanks everyone

It got cold!

We finally got done with building and bushing blinds. The fun part starts from here on out! My Buddy's Drew, Joe, and Nate have been hunting a few more times than I have this season so far. Aaron and I have been working on the Carolina Blue Boat and the good news is we now have forward and reverse!! We're all ready for full on rock fishing! This cold weather should bring the fish down pretty fast. The sound rock fishing is still good. I have some days open after thanksgiving if anyone is interested.

Drew and I went hunting today and had a good shoot with a mix bag of gadwalls, mallards, green wing teal, and some bonus snow geese. We should have had a quite a few more birds but we had some shot guns shells made by PETA! Yeah like that was the problem. So if any one's got some good shells, we got the ducks. There are nine Blinds we hunt in Currituck and Dare County and we also have float blind permits for both. My duck hunting is just like my fishing style, I go were they are. A good plan I think.
Looking forward to fishing The Rock fish Rodeo on December 6th. Lots of fins and feathers to all and good luck to Aaron with his togey togs. The first few big rock fish are making me jealous!!

Nice 41" striper!!!

Fished yesterday afternoon and we landed one nice 41" striper!! A nice fish and hopefully one of many more to come this winter. This is the first big ocean fish we have seen this year to start. As waters cool we should see more and more. We also landed a few flounder casting jigs.

Skinny from swimming his butt down south but happy to see him, maybe the shoals will give some up soon!!


Toggy toggers posting on the blogger! This was a half day on the 10th and we landed nine nice tog around the inlet. Been fishing about every day still mostly half days. Been tough lately with scattered blues, specks, puppy drum, and stripers. BUt not many at any given spot. Hope waters keep cooling soooooo we can get some better striper fishing. Thanks everyone!

Getting ready for duck season

This week we are finally getting started with bushing all the blinds,yeah not the fun part. We did see a good number of ducks, the November season opens on the 8th so if any one wants to book a trip call me and we can set something up. This could turn out to be a fun day, with the possibility of duck hunting in the morning and fishing in one of our boats in the afternoon. The rock fishing is still very good in the sound. Hopefully if the weather gets cold enough the ocean rock will be here in full force soon! Here is a picture of my Chesapeake ''Teallie'', and a few swans from last year. The weather looks pretty ugly for the next few days so finishing the blinds should be more fun than normal. That's all right it's still fun? The fishing should be good after this blow. There are a lot of nice slot size drum in the sound that may want to check out a bait. These fish are great fun on light tackle! All right I should go to bed now because my blind partners will be ready to roll early to finish the blinds before Saturday rain or shine, we'll see......