Pretty weather today in SE North Carolina. Light south winds, cloud cover and cool (for August) temperatures.
Squid and I got an early start this morning. By 9 we were 40 miles off shore armed with state of the art tackle, primo bait and a burning desire to administer carnage to the fishes! The newspaper said there was a solunar peak activity period in late morning, and I believed it! No one told the fishes, however. 5 stops in good bottoms only gave up two red grouper, a big strawberry and a damn amberjack that bruised my groin
My friend Paul had followed us all the way out there in his 19 foot skiff and I felt terrible that my pet fish were not showing him a good time. So off we went another 10 miles offshore looking triggers and scamps. Found some of each and things started looking up. Returning to the morning grounds in early afternoon, the red groupers & beeliners finally decided to come out to play. Snake kings and small mahis kept the light lines buzzing.
Red was the color of the day
When the box got full we headed home
No action shots today, sorry. Left the fish chillin. I'll do a line up photo tomorrow.
Enjoyed it brother Squid!
Cheers,
SeaBiscuit
Last edited by SeaBiscuit; 08-29-2008 at 10:11 PM.
Nice job Nick. Red seems to be the color of choice lately and that aint a bad thing. Hopefully we'll escape these hurricanes and roll into some nice fall fishing!
Nice write up Nick! Tough bite this morning but we finally made them pay this afternoon. The gags got lucky that we skipped over them, but their time is coming! Awesome time as always and I greatly enjoyed it! Sharpening my knives tonight and I'll see you tomorrow....
Hey.......Nick...........Great report.........
That's alot better then we did.......
We tried some inshore spots for Gags & got covered up with Sharks.......
Went to a spot a few miles out & started catching Scamps & Gags ( all short ) ended up with a box full of Grunts, a Squid ( caught on a sabiki ), a Spanish ( caught on a sabiki) & a Pinkie - the little finger on my left hand ( also caught on a sabiki )..........ouch! & more Sharks
Saw 2 Water Spout several miles off, had Dolphins swimming across the bow, 4 foot Remoras chasing our baits & a few Kings slashing thru bait.......no takers on the lite line or topwater plugging. Had trolling rods rigged, but never put them out..........
Mostly worked on my anchoring skills, dragging it behind my Cat & trying to get on the spot.....
( note to self ----- skills need more work )
Should have followed you & Paul out.........
We had this waiting for us on piling ........
Bad Omem - that sort of explains the day............ICM
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No one told the fishes, however. 5 stops in good bottoms only gave up two red grouper, a big strawberry and a damn amberjack that bruised my groin
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And, plenty to eat later...yummm...Squid better save me some!
. Hopefully one day.
