Wow piggy fishing continues!!!

It has been a great run lately!!!! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving with their families! Sorry for the lax reports but man, been busy fishing. Morning , afternoon , and my favorite the night trips. We have not been getting tons of bites but the fish we have been landing have been pigs. Some trips getting just a couple bites and some getting 15 -20 bites. We did have two trips where we came up short with no tide and one or two bites and either broke off the fish on the pilings or pulled hooks. Sorry guys. The other trips have been good, landing 2-12 fish. Fish have been averaging in the 30 pound range! We normally catch nice fish this time of year but this is much better than the last few years. We have landed a 40, 40, 41, 42, and today the Hollowell set the bar high with a 50 inch 50lber today!!! That is one of the nicest fish we have landed around the inlet. Also if you can brave the chilly nights the night stuff has been good as well. Most fish have been on eels and a few on the gibbs darter. Been fishing the ledges and bridges. I hope the big fish stay around but who knows. Also been fun to see some other private boats catching a few piggies themselves! Fished the shoals and caught a few but really I try to stay away from them since they are so rough and dangerous and I am becoming more of a wuss the older I get. Special thanks to everyone for fishing hard. Got a few openings next week so give us a call if you wanna go.

Still Gettin some nice fish!!!

Had a half day fishing trip today and yesterday and we caught fish both trips with a 38lber being the biggest. Most of the fish have been really really nice for this time of year 27-38lbs! Really fun fishing now four days straight. Hope it continues and hope to see a few more folks book some trips. There are a few guys that are doing it and we all could use and appreciate the business! Less than $90 a man or woman. I spend more than that at walmart any afternoon! Thanks guys for fishing!!!

More Stripers up to 37lbs!

Off out again this afternoon with some of the fishing center's crew and a journalist from Raleigh. So you know we are not going to get any bites. Got lucky. Caught a few sheepshead and then had 8 striper bites and got 4 nice fish in the 30lb class to the boat pretty work guys!!! Saw a few more boats lurking about and probably see a few more but hopefully the fish will hold and get better. Give us a call and get rigged up! Thanks Aaron

Finally back to the water! Stripers!

After over a good week and a half of looking at wind, rain, and beach erosion we finally got a chance to go back out. And of course the name of the party was named Windy. These guys are from Tenn. and had a crappy vacation week with the flooding/ weather debacle and I could not promise good fishing but they were not scared and tried it anyways. They were rewarded with the first nice ocean rock of the season out of Oregon Inlet. We fished the afternoon around the inlet shoals and all. We landed 4 out of 5 fish up to a citation 35lbs! So that is always nice to see some of these nice Rock making it down to NC! Thanks Fellas for fishing! Still got plenty of openings for this upcoming winter season! Thanks Aaron

Toggers on the Blogger.

Still catching fish. Water was 57 degrees. Of course it will warm up some with this favorable weather. I am trying to fill the gaps with some fun tasty, togs and sheephead till a decent sign of stripers show... Also got a few bookings to fish the bay in the upcoming months and the the big pig trout hole is starting to load up as well. Tog are a cold water wreck fish, flounder, tilefish, big blues, speckled trout, reddrum , king, shark are options besides stripers this fall and winter. Ches has some duck hunts on the books as well. You gotta see the pontoon float blind duck death trap he has created. Well we are not going anywhere just gonna fish when we can, eat oysters, and shoot ducks. Feel free to call the house for any info you need. Special thanks everyone for fishing on the Rock Solid and Carolina Blue!

Soundside stripers and good redfishing!

Off today with Doreen Doreen the fishing machine and her crew. We have hit the soundside stripers three years in a row with them and they enjoy the light tackle action. So back we went and we landed a nice 12 fish limit on the light spinning with a few fish over 28". We also got a nice bonus drum as well. Honestly the fishing has been so good around the inlet with drum, triggers, sheephead, and tog, that I have not focused much at all on the stripers till the waters cool. I also know that this will be the primary quarry this winter so it is nice to mix it up while I can. We also had a nice 10 redfish morning yesterday and the day before we whacked them landing over 25 fish with some over 20lbs!!!

Daddy daycare

Off today and the kids are taking over. This is way harder than fishing in the rain, wind, or rough ocean. Fishing has been good overall some trips have been slow and some trips have been pretty good. Trout, red drum, bluefish, flounder, occasional striper have been rounding out the bit. Red drum have been 24-31 inch range and fun on the 10-12lb spinning gear. Yesterday was interesting. am trip we landed a keeper flounder, then a few throwbacks, and a couple taylor blues. We were trying for drum but not getting any love. Then we hooked up line peeling out and there we go a 15lb bluefish?!? Have not seen big blues since last Jan. Hooked another and he chewed through the 30lb leader. Then in 2.5 feet of water we hooked a drum, and then we hooked up and this seamonster came up splashing and thrashing for a moment and we realized we were hooked up to a 7-8 foot bull shark only problem is was on a 10lb spinning outfit. After a few minutes he broke off but kinda creepy west of the bridge where the locals clam a shark of that caliber creepin around. Then we stood in the driving rain for a few hours with the wind blowing south hard we picked out a small puppy drum and some small speckled trout. Back out again in the afternoon with 71 yr old Roger Weekly from Pa. I was kinda scared but he was not. So we tried the sheepshead with the rain clearing as the first zephyr of wind came from the northwest. The fish were biting one or two on every drop with four or five following it up, water was right and I really have not seen the sheephead quite that aggressive before. Everything was poppin on the front. Roger had plenty of fish for dinner and wanted to try another fish. So we moved to the trout hole and every cast we landed a speckled trout or missed the bite! Most were small spike trout but I will trout fish when it is that good. I am sure we landed over 50. Now the winds were pushing due North and crankin about 30-35knots and Roger wanted to try one more spot. So back to the bullshark hole for hopefully a drum to round off the afternoon. Third rod in the water hooked up! 31 inch redfish in the boat picture and back over since he exceeded the 27 inch keeper length. A flounder a couple of blues and then one more nice 29 " inch drum and finally Roger and trip time were finished! Of course not every afternoon trip is that good but it sure is fun to watch everything unfold at the right time and right place. ROger had fished an am trip with me earlier in the week and we worked of butts off four five hours to get two bites and land one 27 " inch keeper redfish. Thanks to everyone for keeping myself busy supporting the family and keeping me from changing diapers!!!!

I am still alive!

Hey guys It's been a great summer/fall, lots of fish and lots of great people! Sorry I've been off the grid this summer still can't believe its mid October. Now its time to change gears and start thinking about Rock fish and drum! Thinking about taking the boat to Chesapeake Bay for a change of pace. I kind of think it might be a cold winter this year, so rock fishing may start early. Also going to go back to south Hatters to play with the sea monsters and big groupers. We have also been working on the super duper float blind for this years duck season. Its the greatest thing ever! Stay tuned for pics. Got to fish tomorrow so going to bed. See ya!

Striper season open and Moby Amberjack!

Been back at it for the last few days and fishing yesterday was tough with just a few drum bites, throwback flounder, oyster toads, lizardfish, strange stingrays and a few more exotics. If it was not for the birds and whitewater splashing taylor blues on the light spinning then we would of been super struggling. Today the sound striper season opened so we fished around a little bit this morning for them and got four keepers to the boat. This fishing should improve as water temps start to fall. Afternoon we landed some blues then went to an inshore wreck which was loaded with false albacore and amberjack. We landed some nice fish and on the last drop hooked a boated and AJ that was entirely too large just under 80lbs. A 35lber pulls too hard as you guys that have been amberjack fishing with me know. So as you can imagine this one was mean. Thanks everyone for fishing and fishing with us!!! We are taking on all fall winter striper bookings now and we will have the 27' diesel at Oregon-Inlet and the 26' Carolina Blue up to Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel starting late October. We are gonna do half, 3/4, and all day trips. Also the night light line fishing is a choice as well. The ridiculously large speckled trout fishing trips were great last winter so if you want calm fun fishing with a realistic chance to catch 6+lb specks then come on. There may also be a few spots left for April Destin Fla fishing as well. Thanks guys!