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Hauling Mutton And Grouper

Off The Marathon Bottom

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Darcie Arahill’s biggest mutton snapper to date came from 200 feet of water off Marathon in the Florida Keys.

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ottom fishing is about hard-pulling fish and filling the cooler with some delicious table fare. With grouper season in full swing, there may be no better way to get your daily workout than floating over a reef or wreck. And you’d be hard pressed to find a better place to do it than off of Marathon in the Florida Keys.

Darcie Arahill, host of the YouTube channel Darcizzle Offshore, spent a day with Capt. Dave Schugar and the crew with Sweet E’Nuf Charters out of Marathon and absolutely loaded the coolers with mutton snapper, amberjack, blackfin tuna and yellowtail snapper. It was the kind of trip that bottom fishing is supposed to be.

Capt. Dave spent the early part of the day hopping from wreck to wreck and patch reef to patch reef, briefly prospecting each one with baits before moving on in search of hungry fish. He eventually found them over structure in about 200 feet of water.

“You gotta keep moving to find those bites,” said Darcie, understanding the searching it takes to find productive bottom.

But after setting up a drift on this spot, the whole boat knew they were on the fish. The action started quickly and it was fast, with multiple double and triple hookups. They caught some fish vertical jigging, but Darcie’s largest mutton snapper ever—a beautiful 13.6-pounder—was battled off the bottom after it ate a live pinfish. The live-bait rig consisted of a pinfish hooked through the lips with a circle hook, which was tied into 25 feet of leader and a three-way swivel. A 10-oz. teardrop sinker was deployed off the other arm of the swivel to get the bait down to the bottom.

The group hauled several muttons up from the depths, and they also caught amberjack, jack crevalle, bonita and blackfin tuna off the same spot. Capt. Dave took the opportunity to give a quick demonstration on how to properly bleed a blackfin to deliver better tasting fillets to the table. Instead of cutting the fish’s throat, use your hands to tear the gills beneath the gill plate.

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With the fish boxes filling up, Capt. Dave decided it was a good time to head for shallower water to pursue grouper and yellowtail snapper. They ended the run in about 100 feet of water over the sunken center swing span of the original Seven Mile Bridge. In the 1980s, 4,500 tons of concrete and steel from the bridge were sunk as a part of Florida’s artificial reef program.

Constructed in 1912, the Over-Sea Railroad bridge connected the Florida Keys to the mainland and to each other for the first time.

Now pieces of the railroad make great fish habitat.

With a couple heavy-duty grouper rigs deployed with big live grunts, Darcie went to work on the yellowtail. Yellowtail fishing with light tackle offers fast action and delicious fish. It’s a lot of fun and a perfect style of fishing for families, Darcie said. With chum out, it’s as easy as flipping out a piece of cut bait on a lightweight spinning rod and allowing it to drift with the chum until a fish picks up the bait.

As the boxes continued to fill, this time with yellowtail, there was a vicious takedown on one of the grouper rods. A grueling struggle to haul the fish up was rewarded with a big 25-pound black grouper. It was the exclamation point on the end of a fine day on the water.

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t all began with a hungry Finnish guy and a carving knife. It was the 1930s when a simple fisherman made an observation of simple genius: Big fish eat little fish, especially little fish that are wounded. So began one of the greatest fishing stories ever told. As Lauri Rapala fished the waters of Finland’s Lake Paijanne, he quietly rowed and watched. And what he saw was how hungry predator fish would dart into a school of minnows and attack the one that swam with a slightly off-center wobble.

Lauri realized that if he could craft a lure that mimicked the movements of a wounded minnow, he could catch more fish, earn more money, and not spend time constantly baiting lines. So Lauri set to work. He whittled, carved and shaved. Eventually a lure took shape. Using a shoemaker’s knife and some sandpaper, he created his first successful lure from cork in 1936. Tinfoil from chocolate bars formed the lure’s outer surface. Melted photographic negatives were the protective coating. It perfectly imitated the action of a wounded minnow. Legend has it that Lauri sometimes caught 600 pounds of fish a day with that new lure. And as word of his abundant catches spread, the lure’s reputation grew. The rest, as they say, is history. That first lure was the forefather to the lure that has helped more fishermen experience the thrill of more big fish than any other: the legendary Original Floating Rapala.

As fishermen around the world began to catch more and bigger fish with Rapala’s lure, it became clear that what triggered them was the lure’s tantalizing

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ne of the most prolific inshore species available to anglers on any coast, spotted seatrout come in two varieties: eaters and gators.

Eater trout—those measuring in the 15-inch range—are extremely popular, due to their affinity to gather in big schools and chase down lures. Gator trout, however, are a whole different ballgame.

Targeting big trout requires a different approach. Most resources suggest moderate-sized artificial lures, like imitation shrimp, for seatrout of any size. Yet, on numerous occasions, I’ve had big gators run down and attempt to swallow smaller trout while I’ve reeled them in.

As seatrout grow larger, their diets shift from small crustaceans to almost exclusively fish—the bigger the better. Live baits are my preference for targeting big fish. Mullet are a favorite, as are pinfish and croakers.

With big baits in the livewell, it’s time to find gator water. While it’s common to find schools of smaller trout in deeper channels adjacent to shallow flats, trophy trout spend more time around subtle depressions and breaks. If you’re catching large numbers of eaters, a change of areas is usually required to find gators.

Most of my fishing is done in super-skinny water in heavily pressured areas with tough fish. Fishing these small, shallow areas requires stealth and patience. For big trout, I move into an area as quietly as possible, put the Talon down, and wait.

As things settle down, it’s important to assess the area. Flooded oyster bars or current-swept mangroves are always worth a shot, but don’t overlook inconspicuous spots. If an area is relatively shallow, with one washout or depression that’s just a foot deeper than everything else, that spot can be key, especially at low tide.

Before the first cast is made, it’s important to select proper tackle.

Line and hook size should be greater than what’s considered routine.

With a mainline of 20-pound braid, I attach a long leader of 25-pound test fluorocarbon. It’s my only hope against razor-sharp oyster bars. I tie on a 5/0 to 7/0 VMC circle hook that’s super strong. A small float helps keep track of a hard-swimming mullet.

It’s important to lob baits delicately toward the target. However, once a fish is hooked, any delicacy is tossed aside, as big inshore fish don’t play nice. Here, the proper rod becomes key to the equation. I like St. Croix’s Mojo Inshore rods for gator trout hunting.

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Celebrating 25 years as an innovator in their industry, Blue Ridge Log Cabins have been featured on “Extreme Makeover,” HGTV’s “Amazing Log Homes” and were recognized as America’s Favorite Log Homes 2017 in a survey conducted by Log Cabin Hub. Editor’s Note: the logs used by Blue Ridge Log Cabins are engineered in their state of the art, 110,000 square foot, temperature-controlled production facility in South Carolina and are kiln-

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he Texas summer surf can spoil a newcomer in a heartbeat and is what the seasoned surf angler awaits each year.

Vacation days are set aside well in advance and excuses to come in late to work are ready and often recycled. Spoil a newcomer, addiction, you might ask, what is so special about the surf?

My fastest limit, 10 trout from the upper Texas coast, came on 12 consecutive casts. One was a dud, a lost fish, and 10 were solid trout, 19.5 to 24 inches. After I caught my limit, I continued to catch and release solid trout up to 5 ½ pounds. If that doesn’t spoil you, nothing will. Days like this are not uncommon when the conditions are right. The key to a successful morning in the surf is to remember you don’t plan a trip when you want, you go when the surf calls you.

Green incoming tides rising with the sun paired with a calm surf are my favored conditions. May and June routinely provide the best odds of landing the larger trout with Independence Day marking the arrival of masses of school-size fish.

I like to start my day before the sun’s rays illuminate the horizon. Standing on the sand, tossing topwaters or suspending baits parallel and as close to the sand as I can effectively work the lure.

I have caught many trout pushing 7 pounds along with large flounder and snook using this approach. It is amazing the size of fish that will feed in mere inches of breaking water.

As the blanket of darkness no longer conceals my presence, I will begin to gradually angle my casts towards the open Gulf. I will broaden my search area and structure type until I find where the fish are feeding, never overlooking the shallow water where I began my day. As the sun climbs, the trout will typically find comfort in the guts, chasing mullet, shrimp, shad and other baitfish. When this occurs, I still vary my cast from parallel to offshore, covering the deep guts and not overlooking the structure, which is the bar. As you would do while fishing the bay, don’t overlook the drop off. Casting along it can produce great catches.

White water and waves crashing is an often-overlooked hot spot. I seldom see surf fishermen casting into the whitewash, which can be a huge mistake. The turbulence disorients the baitfish which are easy meals for the thick-bodied, strong-swimming surf trout. I can remember one day in particular when most, if not all, of my trout were caught in the white water on top of the bar. A solid trout inhaled my slow-sinking lure as it tossed and turned in the froth. After that, I made repeated casts into the turbid water to end a successful day that up until that point had been quite slow.

Let me check the forecast, is it calm yet?

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aving been actively involved in the sunglasses industry for over 20 years and having sold over 25,000 pairs of sunglasses last year, I’m often asked, “What is the most important thing to consider when choosing a pair of sunglasses?” My answer is always, “the way they fit your face; comfort is the most important consideration.” I’m surprised at the number of people who choose their sunglasses based on brand. For anglers, and I am one, the next consideration can be offshore or inshore. The blue mirror lens models hold the best lens clarity for offshore while the green mirror/amber lenses produce the clearest lens visibility for the inshore angler.

I’ve been a big fan of Revo’s Blue Crawlers for my offshore sunglasses, and I switch to my ambers as my go-to inshore glasses.

Another big consideration for some is OSHA-approved eyewear. The correct approval body is ANSI approved. This ANSI validation of the sunglasses is the only accepted approval

by OSHA’s requirements, however, few brands actually possess the ANSI approval. If OSHA requirements are important for your choice of sunglasses, make sure you’re seeing the ANSI approval in writing and not simply relying on your representative’s assurance.

Finally, if you’re a prescription eyewear user, ensuring that the lens you receive when you request your prescription sunglasses from your favorite brand is not always apples to apples. Make sure that the exact same lens technology

is available for your prescription sunglasses as their nonprescription lenses. Otherwise, you could own an expensive pair of non-angler-friendly sunglasses. Believe me, it happens all the time.

There are many new entries in the sunglasses field these days.

Lens technology advancements continue to improve the quality of the angler’s viewpoint. If you’re in the market for a new pair of sunglasses, I recommend you do a little research before you make your purchase. Don’t just go buy XYZ sunglasses. Find the pair, regardless of brand, that’s best for you.

If Fowler’s can be of any assistance in helping you make that decision, please feel free to call or email us. We’re happy to help ensure that you’re completely satisfied with your next sunglasses purchase.

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SUNGLASSES NATIVE EYEWEAR SIGHTCASTER Native Eyewear’s Sightcaster is all about giving you the right tool for the pursuit of a good catch. Color enhanced, high-definition optics cut through glare on the water allowing you to see deeper and farther.

Native’s premium polarized lens technology also blocks up to four times more infrared and protects against harmful UV rays, helping your eyes stay fresh even after a long day on the water. The full-wrap, X-Large frame comes with nonslip grip material along the temples and nose pads to ensure all-day comfort with a lightweight and secure fit.

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Costa Del Mar was born on the water and is committed to protecting it. This summer, Costa will celebrate its tradition of conservation by launching its OCEARCH Limited Edition collection.

Costa is a primary supporter of OCEARCH, a research organization that generates critical scientific data on keystone marine species like great white and tiger sharks. Its vessel, the M/V OCEARCH, is an at-sea laboratory that puts science on the side of sharks to help protect our oceans worldwide.

One of the models in this OCEARCH Limited Edition collection is the Remora, a brand new frame that features all of Costa’s signature performance technologies. This particular pair features a brand new lens as well!

The Gray Silver Mirror lens is great for all-day wear. It is a polycarbonate lens with silver mirror on a gray base. The frame color is called Tiger Shark, and reflects the patterns of its namesake. Think of it as the popular tortoise shell in a more shark and ocean-inspired colorway! MSRP: $169. These glasses also come with a limited edition cleaning cloth and C-MASK. For more on OCEARCH, go to www.ocearch.org.

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Designed for the outdoor lifestyle, all Rio Ray sunglasses come with 100 percent optically correct polarized CR39 lenses, indestructible TR90 frames, optical spring hinges for maximum comfort and a hassle-free lifetime warranty.

All Rio Ray hard-coated polarized lenses are made of the highest quality CR39 and contain nine layers of protection with 100 percent UV protection.

A hydrophobic coating on the front repels water, sunscreen and dirt, which makes cleaning and maintenance easy. A vibrant flash mirror provides additional glare reduction and a superior scratch resistant coating prevents lens damage. The backside anti-reflective coating eliminates bounce-back glare.

Rio Ray MaxFlex frame technology makes these the most comfortable sunglasses on the market utilizing lightweight TR90 nylon, which maintains the frame shape and offers incredible durability.

Our frames were designed to be 100 percent prescription ready, and each pair comes with a full array of accessories including a hard and soft case, cleaning cloth and retainer.

There are over 40 styles to choose from, an average MSRP of only $149.99, and new styles are on the way for each season. Replacement lenses are available for only $24.99.

Rio Ray is always looking for high-quality retailers to partner with, and they have the best retailer friendly program in the sunglass industry. For dealer inquires, call 800-498-2104 or email jarrod@ riorayoptics.com.

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With two new frames, the Guide II and the Guide S, Revo seeks to fill the needs of those seeking the best in performance sunglasses. Both frames feature HighContrast Polarized Serilium lenses that are lightweight, shatterproof and formulated of polycarbonate. Revo’s 8-base lens technology offers a more curved fit relative to your face, and elastometric nosepads provide a more secure fit for active wearers.

Sleek and modern, the Guide II adds an element of comfort to the all-activity, allcondition mentality. What carries on in the Guide lineage, however, is the confidence to exceed expectations and reach the objective.

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New for 2018, take hold and be bold with Flying Fisherman’s Moray sunglasses, a sporty frame equipped to take your fishing game to the next level. Built with durability and comfort in mind for anglers who work hard and play even harder, the medium fit, semi-rimless wrap-around frame provides generous lens coverage, helping shield the sun from all angles.

Non-slip, co-injected temples and adjustable, rubberized nosepiece give this frame solid performance and comfort for all-day wear.

The Flying Fisherman Polarized, AcuTint lens coloring system eliminates glare and enhances color contrast, without distorting natural colors. The enhanced visual sharpness and comfort adds to fishing productivity, and maximizes the outdoors experience for anglers and watersports enthusiasts who need to see below the water’s surface to spot fish and structure.

Morays are available in matte black frames with copper-red mirror, smoke, or smoke blue-mirror lenses, matte grey frames with smoke blue-mirror lenses, and matte white frames with smoke-blue mirror AcuTint lenses. MSRP is $24.95 - $29.95, and the Moray will be in stores this September.

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Skeleton Optics high-performance eyewear delivers superb craftsmanship, trend-forward innovation and advanced technology for outdoor enthusiasts everywhere. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, Skeleton Optics sunglasses are designed to empower ordinary people to do extraordinary things, inspiring them to live the “No Boundaries” lifestyle.

The new Skeleton Optics Renegade frames not only embrace that belief but take it to the next level. Adding to their already popular Original Collection, Skeleton Optics took the wraparound feature of the best-selling Scout model, and extended the frame width while working closely with the Zeiss Optical team to increase the lens height and create the all new Renegade sunglasses. Rugged and durable, yet sleek and stylish, Renegade sunglasses are perfect for a day on the water, on the trail, in the car, at the beach or in town.

Renegades feature polarized polycarbonate lenses by Zeiss with 100 percent UV protection and advanced TRI-PEL/RI-PEL coating to enhance colors and promote clear vision in any outdoor environment. Lenses also include a premium hard coating for scratch and impact resistance. Grilamid TR-90 frames were designed and manufactured in Italy for lasting durability, comfort and protection.

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That’s where Popticals steps in. This revolutionary new line of portable, pop-out sunglasses has a patented design that makes storage safe and convenient. Popticals’ FL2 Micro-Rail System allows the sunglasses to easily fold down to be stored in a small hardshell case. You won’t even notice this compact design in your pocket, and the unit can be clipped to anything with an included carabiner.

These glasses are high-performance, as well. The NYDEF Nylon Lenses manufactured by Carl Zeiss Vision are clearer and 16 percent lighter in weight than polycarbonate lenses. They offer complete UV protection, filtering out 100 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays, while hydrophobic and oleophobic technology repels water, oil, sweat and dust. The Swiss Grilamid TR 90 frames provide long-lasting durability and resistance to extreme temperatures while remaining lightweight and comfortable for extended use.

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t’s tarpon time! Many of you will be headed to tarpon waters this summer looking to hook one of ocean’s greatest gamefish on the fly. When you go, consider altering your fly retrieval technique from the standard one-hand strip to the two-handed stip. If you do, you might be surprised at how effective a two-hand strip can be at catching this great gamefish.

There are some saltwater fish that react to a fly that is stripped as fast as possible. Tuna, barracuda, roosterfish, amberjack and yellowtail are all good examples. These guys prefer a fly that moves like an Indianapolis racecar. If the fly isn’t imitating a fleeing baitfish, and suddenly stops, this group of gamers will turn and swim away.

The two-handed strip is also a wonderful technique for feeding a well-presented fly to a tarpon. But there is a difference. The twohanded strip is slightly different for tarpon than it is for offshore and nearshore species. Where offshore fish like tuna want the fly to burn through the water without pause, a tarpon often wants to see the fly move through the water at a slower pace while still keeping the fly’s continual motion.

An advantage of the two hand strip technique is the angler has total control of the fly’s pace through the water, making it possible for the angler to speed up or slow down the fly depending on the reaction of the tarpon to the fly. For example, if a tarpon reacts aggressively toward the fly, the angler might speed up the retrieve to initiate a strike. If the tarpon’s reaction is less aggressive, almost passive, the angler can manipulate the fly’s speed and try to turn on the tarpon’s “light switch” to instigate a strike.

Another advantage to using the two-hand retrieve is that the rod is placed under the arm rather than in the hands, making it almost impossible to lift the rod tip on a strike. This combats the urge of freshwater converts to set the hook by lifting the rod, a big no-no

in tarpon fishing.

With the rod under and arm, the only way to hook the fish is with a solid stripstrike.

For a successful twohanded strip do the following: • After the fly has been cast, place the rod under the arm (right or left).

• Point the rod tip down, keeping the tip on the water at all times.

• Begin the strip by pulling the fly line with your hand at the first stripping guide. Repeat this with the other hand.

• There should be a continual motion, changing hands with each strip.

• Vary the speed of the fly as you strip it through the water.

• Strip the fly all the way to the boat and repeat. If you feel a strike, give your line a solid strip-strike.

Use the two-handed strip, and I guarantee you will never go back to the one-hand strip again. Good luck on the tarpon grounds this season!

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orth Carolina’s Oconaluftee River has a multiple personality disorder. Its headwaters fall from an elevation of more than 5,000 feet via a little creek called Beech Flats Prong high in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Beech Flats gains flow from multiple tributaries and becomes the Oconaluftee in a more than 8-mile run through the national park.

With the influx of Bradley Fork at Smokemont Campground, the “Luftee” is one of the larger flows in the GSMNP. Above Bradley Fork, the river is small and steep and home to small and beautiful wild trout. Below Bradley Fork, it is one of the most easily accessible and overlooked opportunities in the park.

Downstream of Smokemont, a buddy and I once stood on the elevated bank and watched a pod of a half dozen 10- to 12-inch rainbows in a flat blue pool feeding calmly on caddis. That was enough to get us excited. I dropped in downstream of them and began a slow approach, gently moving into casting range to avoid spook-

ing fish in glass-slick water. I was stripping line to cast when my buddy, who was still spotting from above, began pointing and making strange muffled sounds. I didn’t find out until later that I had kicked up a very large brown trout, which moved to the head of the pool and then disappeared. It had scattered the smaller fish in the process.

It taught me that it pays off to be patient and watch the water before making a move in the Oconaluftee. U.S. 441 is hard on its banks, making for extremely easy roadside access, yet big fish live there. They are smart due to the fishing pressure they receive, which is pretty limited considering how easy it is to get there.

The ’Luftee flies under the radar for a couple reasons. A lot of anglers drive right up the river in search of more secluded destinations. And, the Oconaluftee within the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Qualla Boundary draws attention away from the Oconaluftee on the national park. The river takes on its next personality when it is joined by Raven Fork and enters Cherokee lands.

By this point it is a big river. Cherokee maintains some of the highest fish densities in the east through extremely heavy stockings of rainbow, brook and brown trout. The fishing pressure can be enormous. Still, fishing can be good, and it’s a great place to introduce a youngster to trout fishing.

Flyfisher’s Guide To North Carolina & Georgia is 218 pages of extensively researched information on the area’s best trout fishing.

It includes more than 40 full-color maps, driving directions, GPS coordinates to access points and tips and tactics. It is available on Amazon, and signed copies are available by contacting the author at nsc8957@gmail.com.

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By CAM Staff • Photo courtesy of Hightower Marina/Facebook udging by the size of this bruiser’s belly, it’s not too hard to imagine it eating a lot of McDonalds.

The story of this Texas largemouth has been making the rounds on the Internet lately. At 10.802 pounds and 24.5 inches in length, it is certainly an awesome fish. It’s a new record for 3,138-acre Lake Bardwell, just south of Dallas near the town of Ennis, Texas.

But the reason this fish went viral has to do with the bait. Mathew McNellis and his girlfriend caught the bass in May on a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget. They were jugging for catfish, which is a technique that involves setting out numerous floating plastic jugs with lines, hooks and baits suspended beneath them. They weren’t having much luck, and that’s why McNellis’ girlfriend suggested they try the nugget, according to KDFW Fox 4 News.

After boating the fish, the couple took it to Highview Marina, where it was weighed, photographed and declared the new record by the marina. The fish was then released.

It bested the previous Lake Bardwell record of 10.44 pounds. The previous record, held by Artee Lewis since February 2006, was caught on a more conventional bait… a minnow.

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I hope you don’t have the blues. But if you are a trout angler, I do hope you have some blue flies in your boxes. You will be hard pressed to see any blue trout flies in the bins of your local fly shop or in many fly pattern books. This is understandable, since so many trout anglers are strict “match the hatch” believers and trout do not feed on any blue prey items. Despite this, blue flies are very effective. Here are a few you should consider.

John Barr ties a blue version of his very effective Copper John nymph. Just replace blue copper wire for regular copper wire in the fly’s abdomen. A few years ago, Atlanta guide Dave Johnson requested that his friend Scott Abernathy design a blue nymph for his clients. Abernathy said the fly, which became known as the Blue Assassin, is based on the Rainbow Warrior nymph but with a really bright touch of blue. He speculated that its effectiveness might be because blue is the most visible color in deep water, as scientific studies have shown. This nymph is an extremely hot fly for Georgia trout.

Pennsylvania angler Charles Meck included two blue dry flies and one blue egg in his book, “Fishing Tandem Flies.” Meck wrote that he began tying blue flies because of studies that showed that blue and purple flies “are the last to disappear as the fly sinks deeper in the water column.” The Blueberry is an egg pattern Meck ties with a brass bead and white or cream Glo Bug yarn, which is dyed with Rit evening blue dye. Meck swears by his two dry flies, the Patriot and the White-Winged Bluebird.

Although uncommon, blue is a very effective color for trout attractor flies. Give them a try.

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tarting in the 1970s stocks of Atlantic striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay and the Roanoke River experienced unprecedented spawning failures. The cause of these annual spawning failures was overfishing, severely altered water flows during spawning time and poor water quality caused by pollution from numerous sources. In an effort to support striped bass stocks and fisheries until successful natural reproduction could resume in the Roanoke, Tar/Pamlico, Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission initiated striped bass stockings into these coastal systems in 1980.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of striped bass of various sizes have been released annually into the Tar/Pamlico, Neuse and Cape Fear rivers on a rotating basis.

Q: What are the goals of the striped bass stocking program?

A: The goal of the stocking program is to augment the striped bass spawning populations and fisheries until self-sustaining populations can re-establish themselves and stocking is no longer necessary. This goal has already been met in the Albemarle/Roanoke system.

Q: Are the goals of the striped bass stocking program being met?

A: Yes and no. To evaluate if stocked fish contribute to the spawning population and fisheries, the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries places internal anchor tags into 3,000 stocked fish in each river every year.

A total of 9,000 fish are tagged annually. Tag returns have always indicated that stocked fish contribute to the spawning populations, but

the exact contribution of hatchery fish to the total striped bass population cannot be determined from tagging alone. Starting in 2010, genetic techniques were employed to better calculate the contribution of stocked fish to the total striped bass population in all three systems.

Results so far indicate that nearly 100 percent of the fish returning to the spawning grounds are of hatchery origin. Beginning in 2016 and continuing this year, fin clips will be collected from fish harvested in the fisheries.

The results will show a more complete idea of the hatchery contribution.

Things are different for the Albemarle/ Roanoke stock. With stocking beginning in 1980, the Albemarle/Roanoke striped bass stock began successful natural reproduction by 1993. After several years of successful spawns, stocking in the Albemarle Sound ended in 1996. In 1997, the Albemarle/Roanoke stock was declared recovered.

Q: Why did the Albemarle/Roanoke striped bass stock recover and not the Central/Southern striped bass stocks?

A: North Carolina coordinated with Dominion Power and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop a water-flow plan that provides conditions as close to natural as possible in the Roanoke River during spawning season. Sufficient water flow is necessary to allow striped bass eggs to successfully hatch and be transported down the river to nursery areas in western Albemarle Sound. These changes increased the likelihood of successful reproduction of striped bass in the Roanoke River.

The same flow regime agreements are not in place for the Tar/Pamlico, Neuse, and Cape Fear rivers.

Q: Would the Central/Southern striped bass stocks recover if harvest was not allowed?

A: Although harvest is a critical component in the abundance of any fish stock, it is often not the most important factor in the cause of stock declines and poor annual spawning success. This is especially true for fish like striped bass that rely on coastal rivers for spawning habitat and the estuaries for juvenile nursery habitat. There has been a harvest moratorium on striped bass in the Cape Fear River since 2008.

While the total stock abundance and the abundance of older fish in the Cape Fear has increased, there have been no signs of improvement in annual spawning success. Important factors in the decline of Central/Southern striped bass stocks include loss of spawning habitat due to dams, poor water quality from residential pollution, industrial and agricultural development and severely altered water flow regimes during the spring spawning season.

Q: When will the striped bass stocking program in the Central/ Southern river systems be reevaluated?

A: The most recent North Carolina Estuarine Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan was adopted by the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission in 2013. A review of the plan is scheduled to begin in 2018. Future striped bass management strategies in the Tar/Pamlico, Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, including the striped bass stocking program, will be a critical issue during the review process.

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The survey is a follow up to a previously conducted data collection in 2009. It seeks information on the economic characteristics of coastal recreational anglers’ fishing trips, as well as social and demographic characteristics. The information gathered in the survey will be used in fishery management plans and in developing economic impact models to help fisheries managers make informed decisions.

Anglers, who receive the survey through random selection, will be asked a variety of questions such as what species they commonly target, average fishing trip expenditures, demographic information such as education, age and household income, and their opinions on fisheries management and user conflicts.

Individual responses to questions will be kept strictly confidential. Results from the study will be aggregated to present an overall view of the economic status of the recreational fishery and published in a report that will be made available to the public.

For the survey results to truly represent those who fish in North Carolina waters, it is very important that anglers participate and answer as many questions as possible. By completing the survey, anglers help ensure that fisheries managers receive the best possible information.

The survey is being funded by the Marine Resources Fund, which seeks to manage, enhance and protect the marine resources of North Carolina based on sound science and strategies.

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rout fishing opportunities provided by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission have substantial economic effects on North Carolina’s economy, according to a recent study conducted by Responsive Management and Southwick Associates.

Nearly 149,000 trout anglers fished approximately 1.6 million days in 2014, and the effects these trout anglers had on North Carolina’s economy totaled an estimated $383 million, according to the study, “Mountain Trout Fishing: Economic Impacts on and Contributions to North Carolina’s Economy.” The study also found that money spent on trout fishing in 2014 supported approximately 3,593 jobs.

In addition to answering questions pertaining to expenditures and numbers of days fished, survey respondents answered questions related to their opinions of access to Public Mountain Trout Waters and their satisfaction with trout fishing in North Carolina. Overall, 76 percent of anglers surveyed were satisfied with their trout fishing experience.

Other survey findings included: • Hatchery Supported Trout Waters were the most frequently fished waters (710,665 days), followed by Delayed Harvest Trout Waters (390,085 days) and Wild Trout Waters (276,804 days).

• The estimated economic effects of specific classifications were $141,273,525 for Hatchery Supported Trout Waters; $108,355,161 for Delayed Harvest Trout Waters; and $60,765,562 for Wild Trout Waters.

The Commission funded the study with money from the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration program.

To download a copy of the full report, visit the Commission’s trout fishing page and click on “Mountain Trout Fishing: Economic Impacts on and Contributions to North Carolina’s Economy.”

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The walkway will be above the waterline but below the main deck of the Battleship. It will allow visitors to see the ship’s entire hull for the first time.

The walkway will include five bump-out areas to honor each of the five branches of the military – Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. The Merchant Marines will be honored by flying their flag on the quarterdeck.

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SUMMERTIME, MY FAVORITE TIME BOATS, FISH & PIZZA

First up BOATS!! It is summer and hope everyone had an awesome fourth. What a great time for Tideline Boats to begin building their new flagship model, the 360 Offshore. This will be the “Dream Machine” for offshore fishing and if you want the boat you have always dreamed about, you should talk to Tideline today and custom order yours. This beast will be powered with twin 350hp four strokes with a WOT of over 60mph. Jim Baugh Outdoors will be producing a special behind the scenes manufacturing film showing how the awesome boat is built. For more details just visit the Tidelineboats.com website. More to come…

Next up FISHING!! Yes it is that time. During June around the rise of the micro strawberry moon also hailed the beginning of cobia season, and so far it has been a lot to talk about. Cobia have been boated everyday but certainly a lot more seen than boated. As the summer moves forward look for these numbers to increase. The Eastern Shore has been hot on the brown suits and the red drum bite at night has been off the chain! During July, the spade bite will be on fire at the Cell, except fish in the 8 to 10 pound range.

Take plenty of rigs, they are certainly easy enough to loose in that structure.

For the bottom bouncing fans (which I am one of) look for large croaker in the channel deep around the HRBT and the MM Bridge. Always fish the tide and cut squid is still my fav. Our all-time fav for cooking these tasty treats up is a basic Cajun seasoning, fried until golden brown. Delicious.

After your day on the water and getting to much sun on the beach, get your shower and a cool one then check out our Jim Baugh Outdoors Channel at www.youtube.com/jimbaugh100. And be sure to visit our new Tideline Boats Playlist. Also for the latest updates on the new 36 check out their web site at www.tidelineboats.com or call them at 252-230-8566.

JIM BAUGH’S RECIPE OF THE MONTH

NEAPOLITAN PIZZA - WOOD FIRED July is our Neapolitan Pizza month and boy is there nothing better. Here I will cover the basics and refer you to our galley blog for more details at http:// jimsgalley.blogspot.com/2010/10/jims-neo-ny-style-pizza-with-kaf-sir.html You will need an oven that will be able to heat to temperatures from 800 to 1000 degrees. Fortunately now there are several pizza ovens on the market for outdoor use that do the trick and they are not very expensive. There is also the DIY solutions and what I use is a modified pizza kettle. Basically I added and baking steel and two stones. I like the pizza kettle because I can use wood. My preference is a mix of cherry wood and brick charcoal.

What you want to be able to achieve is a higher temperature on top (dome900+ degrees), the lower floor or stone ( 700+ degrees). These pies will bake anywhere from 60 seconds to 2 minutes.

Dough: I use 00 flour, a must for these high temps. Also I use a sourdough culture, but you can use commercial yeast. Make a LEAN dough, meaning only flour, water, and salt. I do around a 70% hydration. That is it. Mix accordingly and cold bulk ferment for three days in the fridge. On bake day, take out in the morning, divi the dough into balls, and let rise until bake time.

Sauce: Simple. Use San Marzano’s, canned and hand crush them. Add some sea salt, fresh basil, and you are done.

Cheese: Use fresh Motz, I make my own but as long as you use a soft high moisture motz you will be good to go.

Prep everything in advance then start your fire. My grill\oven takes about 40 minutes to get up to 900+ degrees. Quickly make the pie on the peel. Use very little sauce and sparingly on the motz cheese. With Neapolitan Pizza, less is more. Once the temp is right, use a pizza peel to launch the pie. Once you bake your pie (usually under 2 min) remove and drizzle a little olive oil on the pie. Now you are ready to serve. Have some fresh parm and or Romano to sprinkle on the slices at the table.

That is basically it. You can check out our galley blog for more details or google recipes on you tube. This truly is a great experience and something that really makes a summer party. I usually will also do seafood versions of this by simply using a cream sauce and fresh crabmeat and scallops for the toppings.

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CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE TUNNEL TIDES

Virginia, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

July 2017

N 36° 58.0' / W 76° 06.8' Date

Day

Sunrise

Sunset

Moonrise

Moonset

Phase

1

Sa

2:52a

High Tide 2.4

3:34p

High Tide 2.6

9:08a

Low Tide 0.2

9:55p

Low Tide 0.4

5:49a

8:28p

1:48p

1:11a

1st

2

Su

3:50a

2.2

4:30p

2.6

9:59a

0.3

10:53p

0.4

5:49a

8:28p

2:45p

1:43a

3

Mo

4:48a

2.2

5:23p

2.7

10:48a

0.3

11:46p

0.4

5:50a

8:28p

3:41p

2:14a

4

Tu

5:42a

2.1

6:11p

2.7

11:35a

0.3

5:50a

8:27p

4:35p

2:47a

5

We

6:31a

2.1

6:55p

2.8

12:34a

0.3

12:19p

0.3

5:51a

8:27p

5:29p

3:23a

6

Th

7:16a

2.2

7:36p

2.8

1:17a

0.3

1:01p

0.2

5:51a

8:27p

6:22p

4:01a

7

Fr

7:57a

2.3

8:15p

2.9

1:56a

0.2

1:42p

0.2

5:52a

8:27p

7:13p

4:43a

8

Sa

8:37a

2.3

8:52p

2.9

2:33a

0.2

2:22p

0.2

5:52a

8:26p

8:02p

5:29a

9

Su

9:16a

2.4

9:29p

2.9

3:09a

0.1

3:02p

0.2

5:53a

8:26p

8:47p

6:19a

10

Mo

9:54a

2.4

10:06p

2.9

3:44a

0.1

3:41p

0.2

5:54a

8:26p

9:29p

7:13a

11

Tu

10:31a

2.5

10:42p

2.8

4:20a

0.1

4:22p

0.2

5:54a

8:25p

10:07p

8:09a

12

We

11:10a

2.5

11:21p

2.8

4:57a

0.1

5:04p

0.2

5:55a

8:25p

10:44p

9:07a

13

Th

11:50a

2.5

5:36a

0.1

5:50p

0.3

5:56a

8:25p

11:18p

10:06a

14

Fr

12:02a

2.7

12:35p

2.6

6:19a

0.1

6:41p

0.3

5:56a

8:24p

11:52p

11:07a

15

Sa

12:47a

2.6

1:23p

2.7

7:05a

0.1

7:36p

0.3

5:57a

8:24p

16

Su

1:37a

2.5

2:17p

2.8

7:56a

0.1

8:37p

0.3

5:58a

8:23p

12:26a

1:12p

17

Mo

2:33a

2.5

3:17p

2.9

8:51a

0.0

9:42p

0.2

5:58a

8:23p

1:01a

2:17p

18

Tu

3:35a

2.4

4:20p

3.0

9:51a

0.0

10:48p

0.2

5:59a

8:22p

1:40a

3:24p

19

We

4:42a

2.4

5:24p

3.2

10:52a -0.1

11:51p

0.0

6:00a

8:21p

2:23a

4:32p

20

Th

5:49a

2.5

6:27p

3.3

11:53a -0.2

6:00a

8:21p

3:12a

5:40p

21

Fr

6:54a

2.6

7:26p

3.4

12:52a -0.1

12:52p -0.3

6:01a

8:20p

4:07a

6:44p

22

Sa

7:54a

2.7

8:22p

3.5

1:48a -0.2

1:50p -0.3

6:02a

8:19p

5:09a

7:43p

23

Su

8:50a

2.8

9:15p

3.5

2:42a -0.3

2:46p -0.3

6:03a

8:19p

6:15a

8:35p

24

Mo

9:44a

2.9

10:06p

3.4

3:33a -0.3

3:41p -0.3

6:04a

8:18p

7:22a

9:21p

25

Tu

10:35a

3.0

10:55p

3.2

4:23a -0.3

4:35p -0.2

6:04a

8:17p

8:29a

10:01p

26

We

11:24a

2.9

11:43p

3.0

5:11a -0.2

5:29p

0.0

6:05a

8:16p

9:34a

10:37p

27

Th

12:13p

2.9

5:58a -0.1

6:23p

0.1

6:06a

8:15p

10:37a

11:11p

28

Fr

12:30a

2.8

1:03p

2.8

6:45a

0.1

7:18p

0.3

6:07a

8:15p

11:37a

11:43p

29

Sa

1:18a

2.6

1:53p

2.7

7:33a

0.2

8:15p

0.4

6:07a

8:14p

12:35p

30

Su

2:08a

2.4

2:46p

2.7

8:21a

0.3

9:14p

0.5

6:08a

8:13p

1:32p

12:15a

31

Mo

3:01a

2.2

3:41p

2.7

9:11a

0.4

10:13p

0.6

6:09a

8:12p

2:28p

12:48a

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Virginia, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Lynnhaven Inlet, Virginia Pilots Dock

July 2017

N 36° 54.4' / W 76° 05.4' Date

Day

Sunrise

Sunset

Moonrise

Moonset

Phase

1

Sa

3:32a

High Tide 2.1

4:14p

High Tide 2.3

9:46a

Low Tide 0.2

10:33p

Low Tide 0.4

5:49a

8:28p

1:48p

1:11a

1st

2

Su

4:30a

1.9

5:10p

2.3

10:37a

0.3

11:31p

0.4

5:49a

8:28p

2:45p

1:43a

3

Mo

5:28a

1.9

6:03p

2.4

11:26a

0.3

5:50a

8:28p

3:41p

2:14a

4

Tu

6:22a

1.9

6:51p

2.4

12:24a

0.4

12:13p

0.3

5:50a

8:27p

4:35p

2:47a

5

We

7:11a

1.9

7:35p

2.5

1:12a

0.3

12:57p

0.3

5:51a

8:27p

5:29p

3:23a

6

Th

7:56a

1.9

8:16p

2.5

1:55a

0.3

1:39p

0.2

5:51a

8:27p

6:22p

4:01a

7

Fr

8:37a

2.0

8:55p

2.5

2:34a

0.2

2:20p

0.2

5:52a

8:27p

7:13p

4:43a

8

Sa

9:17a

2.0

9:32p

2.5

3:11a

0.2

3:00p

0.2

5:52a

8:26p

8:02p

5:29a

9

Su

9:56a

2.1

10:09p

2.5

3:47a

0.1

3:40p

0.2

5:53a

8:26p

8:47p

6:19a

10

Mo

10:34a

2.1

10:46p

2.5

4:22a

0.1

4:19p

0.2

5:54a

8:26p

9:29p

7:13a

11

Tu

11:11a

2.2

11:22p

2.5

4:58a

0.1

5:00p

0.2

5:54a

8:25p

10:07p

8:09a

12

We

11:50a

2.2

5:35a

0.1

5:42p

0.2

5:55a

8:25p

10:44p

9:07a

13

Th

12:01a

2.5

12:30p

2.2

6:14a

0.1

6:28p

0.3

5:56a

8:25p

11:18p

10:06a

14

Fr

12:42a

2.4

1:15p

2.3

6:57a

0.1

7:19p

0.3

5:56a

8:24p

11:52p

11:07a

15

Sa

1:27a

2.3

2:03p

2.4

7:43a

0.1

8:14p

0.3

5:57a

8:24p

16

Su

2:17a

2.2

2:57p

2.5

8:34a

0.1

9:15p

0.3

5:58a

8:23p

12:26a

1:12p

17

Mo

3:13a

2.2

3:57p

2.5

9:29a

0.0

10:20p

0.2

5:58a

8:23p

1:01a

2:17p

18

Tu

4:15a

2.1

5:00p

2.6

10:29a

0.0

11:26p

0.2

5:59a

8:22p

1:40a

3:24p

19

We

5:22a

2.1

6:04p

2.8

11:30a -0.1

6:00a

8:21p

2:23a

4:32p

20

Th

6:29a

2.2

7:07p

2.9

12:29a

21

Fr

7:34a

2.3

8:06p

22

Sa

8:34a

2.4

23

Su

9:30a

24

Mo

25 26 27

Full

12:08p

0.0

12:31p -0.2

6:00a

8:21p

3:12a

5:40p

3.0

1:30a -0.1

1:30p -0.3

6:01a

8:20p

4:07a

6:44p

9:02p

3.1

2:26a -0.2

2:28p -0.3

6:02a

8:19p

5:09a

7:43p

2.5

9:55p

3.1

3:20a -0.3

3:24p -0.3

6:03a

8:19p

6:15a

8:35p

10:24a

2.5

10:46p

3.0

4:11a -0.3

4:19p -0.3

6:04a

8:18p

7:22a

9:21p

Tu

11:15a

2.6

11:35p

2.8

5:01a -0.3

5:13p -0.2

6:04a

8:17p

8:29a

10:01p

We

12:04p

2.5

5:49a -0.2

6:07p

0.0

6:05a

8:16p

9:34a

10:37p

Th

12:23a

2.6

12:53p

2.5

6:36a -0.1

7:01p

0.1

6:06a

8:15p

10:37a

11:11p

28

Fr

1:10a

2.5

1:43p

2.5

7:23a

0.1

7:56p

0.3

6:07a

8:15p

11:37a

11:43p

29

Sa

1:58a

2.3

2:33p

2.4

8:11a

0.2

8:53p

0.4

6:07a

8:14p

12:35p

30

Su

2:48a

2.1

3:26p

2.4

8:59a

0.3

9:52p

0.5

6:08a

8:13p

1:32p

12:15a

31

Mo

3:41a

1.9

4:21p

2.4

9:49a

0.4

10:51p

0.7

6:09a

8:12p

2:28p

12:48a

3rd

New

1st

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OREGON INLET TIDES

July 2017

N 35° 47.7' / W 75° 32.9'

CAPE HATTERAS TIDES Low Tide

Low Tide

Sunrise

Sunset

Moonrise

Moonset

Phase

Sa

2:27a

High Tide 1.0

3:35p

High Tide 1.0

9:39a

Low Tide 0.1

10:00p

0.3

5:50a

8:22p

1:46p

1:09a

1st

2

Su

3:28a

0.9

4:33p

1.0

10:29a

0.1

11:01p

0.3

5:50a

8:22p

2:42p

1:41a

3

Mo

4:27a

0.9

5:25p

1.0

11:15a

0.1

11:58p

0.3

5:51a

8:22p

3:37p

2:13a

4

Tu

5:22a

0.8

6:11p

1.0

12:00p

0.0

5:51a

8:22p

4:31p

2:47a

5

We

6:11a

0.8

6:53p

1.1

12:51a

0.2

12:40p

0.0

5:52a

8:22p

5:25p

3:22a

6

Th

6:56a

0.8

7:31p

1.1

1:39a

0.2

1:18p

0.0

5:52a

8:21p

6:17p

4:01a

7

Fr

7:37a

0.8

8:06p

1.1

2:24a

0.2

1:52p

0.0

5:53a

8:21p

7:08p

4:44a

8

Sa

8:14a

0.8

8:38p

1.1

3:06a

0.1

2:24p

0.1

5:53a

8:21p

7:56p

5:30a

9

Su

8:49a

0.8

9:09p

1.2

3:47a

0.1

2:54p

0.1

5:54a

8:21p

8:42p

6:20a

10

Mo

9:23a

0.8

9:41p

1.2

4:26a

0.1

3:26p

0.1

5:55a

8:20p

9:24p

7:13a

11

Tu

10:00a

0.8

10:16p

1.2

5:04a

0.1

4:01p

0.1

5:55a

8:20p

10:03p

8:09a

12

We

10:39a

0.9

10:55p

1.2

5:41a

0.1

4:41p

0.1

5:56a

8:20p

10:40p

9:06a

13

Th

11:23a

0.9

11:37p

1.2

6:17a

0.1

5:27p

0.2

5:56a

8:19p

11:15p

10:05a

14

Fr

12:11p

1.0

6:53a

0.2

6:18p

0.2

5:57a

8:19p

11:49p

11:05a

15

Sa

12:24a

1.2

1:05p

1.0

7:32a

0.2

7:16p

0.3

5:58a

8:18p

16

Su

1:15a

1.2

2:05p

1.1

8:17a

0.2

8:24p

0.3

5:58a

8:18p

12:24a

1:09p

17

Mo

2:12a

1.1

3:09p

1.2

9:07a

0.2

9:42p

0.3

5:59a

8:17p

1:00a

2:13p

18

Tu

3:15a

1.1

4:15p

1.3

10:02a

0.2

11:06p

0.3

6:00a

8:17p

1:39a

3:20p

19

We

4:21a

1.1

5:18p

1.4

11:02a

0.1

6:00a

8:16p

2:23a

4:28p

20

Th

5:27a

1.1

6:17p

1.5

12:19a

0.3

12:03p

0.1

6:01a

8:15p

3:12a

5:35p

21

Fr

6:29a

1.1

7:12p

1.5

1:24a

0.3

1:03p

0.1

6:02a

8:15p

4:08a

6:39p

22

Sa

7:27a

1.2

8:04p

1.5

2:22a

0.2

2:01p

0.1

6:03a

8:14p

5:09a

7:38p

23

Su

8:21a

1.2

8:54p

1.5

3:16a

0.2

2:57p

0.1

6:03a

8:13p

6:15a

8:30p

24

Mo

9:14a

1.2

9:43p

1.5

4:08a

0.1

3:52p

0.1

6:04a

8:13p

7:22a

9:16p

25

Tu

10:06a

1.2

10:31p

1.4

4:57a

0.1

4:45p

0.1

6:05a

8:12p

8:29a

9:57p

26

We

10:59a

1.2

11:18p

1.3

5:46a

0.1

5:38p

0.2

6:06a

8:11p

9:33a

10:34p

27

Th

11:53a

1.1

6:34a

0.1

6:31p

0.2

6:06a

8:10p

10:35a

11:08p

28

Fr

12:07a

1.2

12:49p

1.1

7:22a

0.2

7:25p

0.3

6:07a

8:10p

11:35a

11:41p

29

Sa

12:57a

1.1

1:49p

1.1

8:11a

0.2

8:21p

0.3

6:08a

8:09p

12:32p

30

Su

1:51a

1.0

2:52p

1.0

8:59a

0.2

9:20p

0.4

6:09a

8:08p

1:28p

12:14a

31

Mo

2:51a

1.0

3:52p

1.0

9:48a

0.2

10:20p

0.4

6:09a

8:07p

2:23p

12:47a

Low Tide

Full

12:06p 3rd

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July 2017

N 35° 14' / W 75° 31'

High Tide

Day

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North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, Cape Hatteras High Tide

Date

Date

Day

Sunrise

Sunset

Moonrise

Moonset

Phase

1

Sa

1:55a

2.9

2:45p

3.0

8:18a

0.1

8:56p

0.5

5:52a

8:21p

1:46p

1:10a

1st

2

Su

2:52a

2.7

3:43p

3.0

9:09a

0.1

9:59p

0.7

5:52a

8:21p

2:42p

1:42a

3

Mo

3:48a

2.5

4:35p

3.1

9:57a

0.2

10:57p

0.5

5:53a

8:21p

3:36p

2:14a

4

Tu

4:41a

2.4

5:23p

3.2

10:43a

0.2

11:48p

0.5

5:53a

8:21p

4:31p

2:48a

5

We

5:29a

2.4

6:06p

3.3

11:27a

0.2

5:54a

8:20p

5:24p

3:24a

6

Th

6:15a

2.4

6:47p

3.4

12:34a

0.4

12:08p

0.1

5:54a

8:20p

6:17p

4:03a

7

Fr

6:57a

2.4

7:25p

3.5

1:16a

0.3

12:48p

0.1

5:55a

8:20p

7:07p

4:45a

8

Sa

7:37a

2.5

8:02p

3.6

1:55a

0.2

1:27p

0.1

5:55a

8:20p

7:56p

5:31a

9

Su

8:17a

2.5

8:39p

3.6

2:33a

0.2

2:06p

0.1

5:56a

8:20p

8:41p

6:21a

10

Mo

8:56a

2.6

9:15p

3.6

3:09a

0.1

2:44p

0.1

5:56a

8:19p

9:23p

7:15a

11

Tu

9:35a

2.6

9:52p

3.5

3:45a

0.1

3:24p

0.1

5:57a

8:19p

10:03p

8:10a

12

We

10:15a

2.6

10:30p

3.4

4:21a

0.1

4:06p

0.2

5:58a

8:18p

10:40p

9:07a

13

Th

10:57a

2.7

11:11p

3.3

4:58a

0.1

4:51p

0.2

5:58a

8:18p

11:15p

10:06a

14

Fr

11:43a

2.8

11:55p

3.2

5:37a

0.1

5:41p

0.3

5:59a

8:18p

11:49p

11:06a

15

Sa

12:34p

2.9

6:19a

0.0

6:37p

0.3

6:00a

8:17p

16

Su

12:45a

3.0

1:31p

3.1

7:06a

0.0

7:40p

0.4

6:00a

8:17p

12:24a

1:09p

17

Mo

1:40a

2.9

2:31p

3.3

7:58a -0.1

8:47p

0.3

6:01a

8:16p

1:01a

2:13p

18

Tu

2:40a

2.8

3:33p

3.5

8:54a -0.2

9:56p

0.2

6:02a

8:16p

1:40a

3:20p

19

We

3:44a

2.8

4:35p

3.8

9:53a -0.3

11:02p

0.1

6:02a

8:15p

2:24a

4:27p

20

Th

4:48a

2.8

5:34p

4.0

10:52a -0.4

6:03a

8:15p

3:14a

5:34p

21

Fr

5:49a

2.9

6:30p

4.2

12:03a -0.1

11:51a -0.5

6:04a

8:14p

4:09a

6:38p

22

Sa

6:48a

3.0

7:25p

4.3

1:00a -0.3

12:48p -0.7

6:04a

8:13p

5:11a

7:37p

23

Su

7:44a

3.1

8:17p

4.3

1:53a -0.4

1:44p -0.7

6:05a

8:13p

6:17a

8:30p

24

Mo

8:39a

3.2

9:07p

4.2

2:44a -0.4

2:38p -0.7

6:06a

8:12p

7:24a

9:16p

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12:06p

25

Tu

9:32a

3.3

9:57p

4.0

3:33a -0.4

3:32p -0.4

6:06a

8:11p

8:30a

9:57p

26

We

10:25a

3.2

10:46p

3.7

4:21a -0.4

4:26p -0.2

6:07a

8:10p

9:34a

10:34p

27

Th

11:17a

3.2

11:35p

3.4

5:09a -0.2

5:20p

0.0

6:08a

8:10p

10:36a

11:09p

28

Fr

12:11p

3.1

5:56a -0.1

6:17p

0.3

6:09a

8:09p

11:35a

11:42p

29

Sa

12:24a

3.1

1:06p

3.1

6:44a

0.1

7:16p

0.5

6:09a

8:08p

12:32p

30

Su

1:16a

2.8

2:03p

3.0

7:32a

0.2

8:18p

0.7

6:10a

8:07p

1:28p

12:14a

31

Mo

2:10a

2.6

3:01p

3.0

8:22a

0.3

9:22p

0.8

6:11a

8:06p

2:23p

12:48a

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New

1st

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fternoon thunderstorms and escalating heat are typical for this time of the year, but in general the weather is mostly fishable.

Cobia is always a top player in the local summer-time fishing line-up. Anglers are grateful for yet another season after emerging through another harsh barrage of cobia regulations. A good summer with limits of respectable fish will make it worth the hassle.

Cobia are easy to come by this month as they are easily spotted cruising in lower Chesapeake Bay waters. Most cobia will range around 30 to 45-pounds, with scattered 60 to 70-pounders in the mix. Chummers will also make their mark as their slicks of menhaden entice good numbers of decent fish into their spreads. But, the word on the dock is that some very large and toothy sharks are also responding to these chum slicks in bay waters this year. A Recreational Cobia Permit is required this year, and all cobia catches and cobia fishing activity must be reported. These permits can be obtained via the VMRC website at mrc.virginia.gov, or at any local MRC Licensing Agent. The official cobia season spans from June 1st to September 15th this year.

Red drum will spread out into bay waters as they leave the Eastern Shore shoals, providing top water casting opportunities as they school around the mouth of the bay, especially near the Baltimore Channel. Sporadic jack crevelle sightings and hook-ups are also common around the mouth of the bay this time of year.

The flounder action in the Chesapeake Bay can be productive in July, with both jigs and live bait effective. Anglers working their offerings around the four islands of the Bay Bridge-Tunnel can find flatfish averaging around 20 to 22-inches on most decent days this month. Anglers drifting with strip baits and minnows can also find good numbers of fish near the Hampton Bar and Thimble Shoal Channel.

Both Lynnhaven and Rudee Inlets are always good locations to try in July.

Along the span of the Bay Bridge-Tunnel, sheepshead anglers will find success using fiddler crabs or clams as bait, with many fish weighing in at over 10-pounds. Aggressive triggerfish will also take offerings in the same areas.

Spadefish are out on force this year, with a nicer class of fish pushing to around

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8-pounds available around the islands and pilings of the Bay Bridge-Tunnel, at the Chesapeake Light Tower, the Tower Reef, and several inshore wrecks.

Inshore wrecks are also harboring some nice seabass, triggerfish and flounder.

Spanish mackerel are very active along the coastlines from Cape Henry to Sandbridge, available for trollers pulling small spoons. A few king mackerel sightings are common this time of year, but the action will improve later in the season.

Croaker are always a favorite this time of year, with good catches reported from most everywhere from the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel to Cape Henry. The hardhead bite out of Oyster will develop mid-month. Some nice fish also come from Rudee and Lynnhaven. Puppy drum and speckled trout are also still possibilities in the shallows and inlets.

Virginia tarpon will tempt only hard-core anglers to the back waters of Oyster, where sightings and hook-ups are common this time of year. If you go, be prepared to also tangle with exhausting big Southern rays and big mean bull sharks in the hot sun, all while battling the infamous Eastern Shore biting flies.

Deep dropping is still a good choice in July, with quality blueline tilefish, golden tilefish, black bellied rosefish, and nice grouper on the menu. Jumbo black seabass are also available mixed in with the tilefish. Amberjack are circling offshore wrecks and at the Southern Towers, but most anglers are not interested in batting these powerful wreck donkeys.

The offshore bite is often good this month, with most action likely centered around chasing the popular yellowfin tuna. Some yellowfin can range to around 50 to 70-pounds, with even larger bigeye tuna on the loose. Mahi should be a crowd-pleaser for most of the summer, and wahoo action will also improve over the next few months. For billfish anglers, scattered white marlin are around this month, but this action improves in August and September.

Dr. Julie Ball IGFA Representative,Virginia Beach For more information, go to www.drjball.com

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Both Brant and Dad watched me as I reeled in my first Dolphin in which would be the first of many that day. I would later learn that day that Swordfish was also the same boat my Dad went on for his first offshore trip that his Dad took him on after he had graduated from college. I learned that the Swordfish was once the Marlin Fever when Dad fished on her in 1989. Talk about a small world.

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[1] Ryan Gregory with his first keeper cobia this year chumming off of Bluefish Rock - Nice work!

[2] Chris Richards from Culpeper, VA caught this puppy drum at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head!

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You hear it all the time, “Shop Local” and it is something I believe we can all do to help our local economy. This is really an excellent practice when shopping for a new kayak and the gear that goes along with it. There are many great deals to be had online or in your local box stores, but after the purchase you’re on your own. Customer service and the sales staff you deal with in those types of shopping experiences more than likely don’t even user the product they are selling, with a few exceptions.

One of the greatest benefits of buying your gear at a local specialty shop is the knowledgable staff. The are well versed in the specific products they sell because they are active in the sport and have used these products. That’s not to say they have paddled every kayak, used every paddle and worn every life jacket, but they more than likely have used enough of the products and have a good understanding of them to help the consumer make an educated purchase. In my experience in the industry, I have participated in many “clinics” put on by manufacturers to introduce new products to staff. Brand reps spend hours and sometimes days training dealers on features and benefits of their products. You simply won’t find this type of expertise from the chain stores or from the voice over the phone taking your credit card info.

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ust about everyone I know who fly fishes has thought about tying their own flies. Usually, they begin to think about tying their own flies after a particularly expensive fly fishing session where they decorated trees along their favorite stream with some of their more expensive flies or managed to break a number of flies off on underwater snags. It seems an unwritten rule, the more expensive the fly the higher in the tree or the more securely it will be snagged.

How do you get started fly tying? First, contact your local fly club or the Trout Unlimited club, as most clubs offer fly tying classes periodically though out the year. Many fly shops offer these classes as well and if you are near an Orvis shop, they offer classes all year long.

Many beginners make the mistake of buying a large number of tools along with a large amount of materials like fur and feathers.

The basic tools needed are a vise, a bobbin, scissors, and a dubbing needle. You will also need some head cement and fly tying thread.

I recommend selecting your favorite fly patterns and searching online for the menu of materials needed to tie specific flies.

If you are not able to find a fly tying class, there are step-by-step videos online showing how to tie almost any fly. Simply follow these instructions and don’t worry if your initial attempts don’t look like the professionally tied flies you see in your favorite fly shop. With practice you will get better.

With practice, fly tying is easy and enjoyable. Do try to tie as often as you can, even if only for 30 minutes or so every day. Also, try to keep to just a single pattern until you can tie it to your satisfaction before attempting another pattern.

Be sure to select patterns you actually fish as the objective is to tie flies that will find their way to the end of your leader and hopefully into the mouth of a fish!

If you come across a new fly that interests you be sure to purchase two of them and then look the pattern online for pictures of how to tie the fly.

If you only find a menu for the fly and no step-by-step pictures, take one of the two flies you purchased and reverse engineer the fly. By this I mean take the fly and slowly “untie” it with a razor taking off the materials that are tied to make the fly. Be sure to use your cell phone and take a picture of each item you remove from the fly. When you have removed all of the materials, simply put them back on the hook in reverse order from the way you removed them. When you are finished your creation should look like the fly you purchased but did not cut apart. To tie another just refer to the menu and collect all the materials listed that will be needed to tie the fly.

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Hot weather and hot water makes fishing in the middle of the day well…not so hot. Get out early or fish late to enjoy seeing an uptick in fishing activity. Mackerel and blues will bite early then seem to just slow down to a pick after 8am. Trolling spoons or casting stingsilvers seem to be the primary way to catch these guys. Look for bait slicks up in the grass flats and that will point you to redfish or puppy drum - same fish just different name. Generally, we call ‘em puppy drum for 16-28 inch fish around here but bigger ones 28-50” we call drum.

If you are wading or drifting around grass flats, look for the showering of small baitfish and shrimp. These could put you into contact with a beautiful speckled trout. A lot of folks like to surf fish this time of year while the kids build a sandcastle. Grab a light surf rod, some fresh shrimp, bloodworms, sandfleas, and or mullet. You may encounter many different types of species like seamullet, flounder, pompano, puppy drum, and croaker just to name a few. You would be amazed at how tossing a piece of mullet will get you one fish and a little sandflea on a gold hook in the wash will get you something entirely different. Stop by one of our many local owner operated tackle shops that are a wealth of information and gear and get rigged up! Enjoy these beautiful outdoors!

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he first time I heard the term ‘shallow-water blackout’ my family had already been freediving and spearfishing for 24 years. My 19-year-old son Robert had taken a course and began describing this phenomenon of how a freediver could blackout while breath-hold diving. I waved my hand dismissively. “That happens to people who don’t know what they are doing,” I said. “We’re experienced.”

Three months later, I got schooled in just how wrong I was.

April 19, 2008 dawned with beautiful calm seas and clear skies—a spearfisherman’s dream. It was Robert’s 20th birthday, and he wanted to celebrate it by diving with his 16-year-old brother, David, and three other friends: Carson, 20; Nicky, 16; and Richard, 15, who were not experienced freedivers. The boys left early in the morning to freedive together, and we planned to join them in the afternoon with friends and family who were coming out with us on our larger boat.

After a successful dive of 50 feet, the boys decided to do a deeper dive. They put the anchor out in 92 feet of water, and Robert headed down first with David behind him. At the bottom, they both grabbed some sand before heading back up. Robert was 15 feet from the surface when he looked down at his brother and saw David motionless 30 feet below him. Robert swam down and grabbed his unconscious brother around the chest before heading for the surface. That’s the last thing Robert remembers.

Their friends on the boat suddenly noticed my sons’ bodies drifting face down in the current some 30 yards away. Carson dived off the boat and swam out to them with Nicky right behind him. They turned the boys over. My sons’ faces were blue with swollen purple lips and open staring eyes. The color of their eyes had faded. They were not breathing and were bleeding from the mouth. Their three traumatized friends— engulfed in a nightmare—worked together to bring them onboard and start CPR. And then I got the call.

“Hello?”

“There’s been an accident.”

“Which one?” I asked as fear enveloped me.

“Both.”

I clung to the table. My heart felt like it was going to explode. I took deep breaths trying to ease the pain in my chest, but it didn’t work. I started praying, with Carson’s girlfriend, that my sons would be spared.

My husband Walter and I met the helicopter at the hospital. The boys’ arterial blood gases (oxygen levels) were so low—32 and 54 per-

cent—the ER doctor did not believe the report and had it verbally repeated five times.

The pulmonologist told us our sons’ lungs presented as drowning victims. Yet, after three days in ICU, Robert and David were sent home to finish healing. It was a miracle.

Soon after the accident, concerned freedive experts contacted me and encouraged me to use my story to make a difference. I felt a strong desire to respond, and so two months after the accident, I founded DiveWise to further freedive safety education.

Tracking fatality reports is vital in understanding how accidents happen and how we can prevent them. Divers Alert Network (DAN) maintains an online Breath-hold Incident Database, so divers can report fatal and non-fatal blackout events easily and anonymously. This can be accessed at DiveWise.org.

Through much effort and single-minded dedication, Terry Maas has given a gift to freedivers everywhere with his ingenious device, the Freediver Recovery Vest (FRV).

This unit is designed, through the diver’s preset depth and time setting, to deliver a blackout victim to the surface face up. You can read more about it at oceanicss.com. My sons now wear the FRV when they freedive and spearfish.

There are other ways freedivers can mitigate the risk in this sport: 1. Dive with an evenly matched partner and conform to the level of the least capable diver.

2. Weight yourself correctly by being positively buoyant at the surface after a full exhalation.

3. Do not hyperventilate to excess.

4. Dive one up/one down maintaining constant visual contact.

5. When conditions allow, each diver should have a dive flag; if a boat is involved a dive flag should be conspicuously displayed.

6. Maintain close, direct supervision of a freediver for no less than 30 seconds after they surface, even if they have signaled “OK.” 7. Make your minimum surface interval twice the duration of your dive time.

8. Do not take every dive to its limit; maintain a reserve.

9. Review, practice, and discuss how to recognize and handle blackouts and near blackouts.

Never before has more effort from more groups created a greater combined potential for saving lives in the sport of freediving and spearfishing. We are hopeful this will correspond to a lower fatality rate.

DiveWise isn’t my organization. It’s yours. We are here to serve the freedive community. Please help by donating online at our website DiveWise.org, a 501 c(3) nonprofit organization, or by offering your suggestions on how we can better help the freedive community. We offer a big “thank you” to the organizations and individuals who have given generously these past nine years in support of our work. We couldn’t have done it without you.

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he St. Lawrence is a majestic river that combines a world-famous historic seaway with breathtaking scenery. Countless islands speckle the St. Lawrence, coining the area’s moniker as the 1000 Islands Region. The area’s beauty must be witnessed first-hand to be truly appreciated.

Most important for anglers, this deep-water channel that connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean creates countless fishing opportunities.

The 1000 Islands Region of Upstate New York offers world-class fishing for huge and plentiful northern pike and tasty walleye, and for as long as anyone can remember it’s been the musky capital of North America. But it’s the St. Lawrence’s bass fishing that will take center stage this summer, with the Bassmaster Elite Series coming to the 1000 Islands Region for the third time in five years.

This fishery has always offered tremendous bass fishing, with countless shoals and sunken ships that create textbook structure for smallmouth bass, and myriad bays and weedy backwaters that offer phenomenal largemouth opportunities. A full day of bent rods on 2- and 3-pound smallmouth has always been the norm. In the last decade, an invasive baitfish species, the goby, has populated this and other Great Lakes. Their spread has been like steroids for the smallmouth population. The goby’s desired habitat aligns perfectly with the smallie’s dinner table. Evidence of this is the pot-bellied New York record 8-lb., 4-oz. smallmouth landed last August. This trophy smallmouth fishing has lured the highest level of tournament bass fishing to small, yet quaint Waddington, N.Y. from July 20-23.

Bassmaster recently polled its professionals and found that the St. Lawrence ranks among their favorite destinations. Five fish bags over 20 pounds are expected. The Angler Magazine field expert and Bassmaster Justin Walts predicts about 75 percent of the professionals will target smallmouths. In smallmouth waters, pros often ensure a five-fish bag of 2- to 3-pound smallies before seeking out bigger largemouth.

On the St. Lawrence, the dynamic changes because of the possibility of scoring huge smallmouth. Walts, who fishes the St. Lawrence often, favors drop-shotting deeper shoals in 25 to 50 feet of water with watermelon, shad or perch colored V-tailed shad or casting crankbaits and swimbaits on shoals 25 feet or shallower. Flipping weeds or tossing frogs in back bays is the ticket to score largemouth.

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ummer is here! What better time to learn to spearfish? Many people have gotten into it because they were already “divers” and wanted to try another activity while underwater—as happened to me. A few fishermen, who weren’t yet divers, have asked me where to begin if they wanted to learn.

My first piece of advice to anyone is to be sure you are comfortable underwater, whether scuba diving or freediving.

One must be so comfortable underwater that it becomes second nature. If scuba diving, achieving proper buoyancy should happen without even thinking about it. If freediving, it’s best to have many dives under your belt before picking up a speargun. Fortunately, there are many dive agencies and dive shops that offer scuba certification and freediving instruction. Beyond that, I recommend at least one year’s worth of experience diving under different conditions before attempting to spearfish. It is a very good sign if you are so calm and collected in the water that fish which are normally “spooky” will let you swim near them instead of running from your presence (such as mutton snappers and black groupers). This is the sign of an experienced diver and will help you to properly hunt fish.

When ready to begin, it’s important to have the right equipment— and I’m not just talking about a speargun. Get advice from a reputable dive shop that specializes in spearfishing. They will guide you toward the right wetsuit, mask, knife, gloves and speargun. Dive shops are familiar with local conditions and will give good advice.

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Here are a few more tips: 1. Always remember that safety comes first. Don’t do anything that is risky or beyond your comfort zone.

2. Learn what size and species to target in order to maintain quality and selectivity.

Keep it honorable and ethical. Consider setting even higher standards than the law allows.

3. Spend more time observing in the beginning. Watch the more experienced hunters; you can learn a lot just by watching them.

4. Consider starting with a polespear instead of a speargun in order to refine your stalking skills, as this requires that you get closer. This is especially good for young divers.

5. Enjoy the experience, keep it fun and consider being a mentor to someone else as you improve.

Sheri is a world-record holder, host of Speargun Hunter and producer of “The Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo” in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Follow “Sheri Daye” and “The Blue Wild” on Facebook and Instagram.

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t’s summertime, and shallow-water fishing for reds is kicking off this month. It will last through mid October on the Atlantic Coast, and to mid February along the Gulf Coast. Before you “see” your first tailing redfish, you really feel like everyone is just making this up. You see nothing during an eight hour shallow-water expedition, and others come back speaking of tails “… like a used car lot, flags everywhere,” as Capt. Chuck Uzzle of Orange, Texas would say.

But why aren’t you seeing this?

There are several factors involved in seeing tailing redfish, redfish swimming in shallow water; they are not easy to see. If you are fishing shallow seagrass, marsh or even flooded spartina marsh in areas where redfish roam and you’re doing it during a season when shrimp are abundant in those areas, then there are tailing redfish there. Let’s take a look at what you should be looking for with your eyes.

Both Capt. Steve Soule of Galveston, Texas and Chuck McKinney of Portland, Texas say you should be looking for the horizontal line of the redfish’s back. Everything in the marsh and on seagrass flats tends to be either vertical or irregular shaped. Grass is vertical, potholes are irregular, even oyster reef edges are irregular. See a redfish cruising the flats, and the first thing you will notice is the horizontal line of it’s back.

A good pair of Costa 580g lenses is what you want for this. The only difference between a cruiser and a tailer is that the tailer is probably nose down into the mud and a little bit of his tail is sticking out of the water.

You’ll probably only see a little dark triangle at the end of the horizontal line of the redfish’s back. You typically won’t see the big blue tail and black dot rising out of the water waving at you like a little red flag back and forth. So begin to look for the horizontal line, the small triangle, and the glow of coppery orange. This should help you to see what’s been in front of you all along.

Let’s talk about something else here that’s also a problem for most people. These environments are very grassy, and throwing an open-throated jig head during summer low tides is asking for trouble.

Might as well go ahead and throw the lunch salad on a hook, because that’s all that fish is going to see. You have to throw something weedless that you can cast accurately, no matter the wind, something that can get the fish’s attention with action or accuracy, and sinks naturally so they can’t pass up such an easy meal. The troutsupport.com lure solves many of the frustrations sight casters have to put up with. Both reds and speckled trout love it. It casts far and accurately, walks the dog, wobbles like a big slow spoon, but is buoyant enough to sink slowly right in the fish’s face.

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By Darrell Primrose, Ballyhood Lures

“M

atch the hatch” is an old adage fishermen have used for ages.

It comes from freshwater fly fishing, in which anglers seek to match, with an artificial fly, the insect life hatching off the water to fool feeding trout.

The same concept applies across the fishing world. Offshore, this can mean taking the time to examine the stomach contents of the first fish you catch to see what it was feeding on. Cut that fish open and check the length and size of the current forage as well as its color.

Then use that information to choose your lures accordingly.

I get to talk to anglers worldwide on a daily basis.

I ask them all, “What colors are most prevalent?” What I’ve learned from them goes into our Ballyhood trolling lures, and the best color combinations change from location to location.

On the West Coast, where anchovies, sardines, mackerel and squid

are the most prolific forage species, the most popular trolling lure colors are used in our Mexican flag, which is green/yellow/red/white. Black/ purple is another color scheme proven to produce in a trolling spread.

Squid turn purple, and that could be a reason it is such a successful color.

Zuchini is also a very popular color used on the West Coast. It’s a green/ orange/yellow lure.

Now, taking a look at the northeast—in the Atlantic off New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey—they catch more tuna than most places in the world. Their top must-use colors are solid green, green/yellow and black/purple.

In Florida, the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands, the No. 1 color is light blue. Colors known as Bally Blue and Flying Fish Blue are quite productive. I’ll assume you caught the baitfish reference in those color names.

Pink/white and black/red also see a lot of time in the water, but anglers in these southern waters very rarely use anything green. Their water is very clear, which I think has something to do with it.

In the Northeast, as on the West Coast of the U.S., the water is fairly dark. When you start to get farther south in the Pacific around Cabo San Lucas and down to Cancun, the colors used tend to lean toward the same choices as those used in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. The southern Pacific has the same type of clear water as they enjoy off south Florida.

I can tell you the most overlooked color on the southern West Coast is pink or pink/white, at the same time pink/white is the No. 1 color for albacore off Oregon and Washington. Another guideline to color choices is to use dark colors on dark days and bright colors on bright days.

Now some of this information has to do with matching the hatch, some of it is based on water clarity, but all off it is gathered from onthe-water experience and reflects what produces fish the best. Color is an absolutely critical factor in choosing which lures to include in a spread.

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n mid June, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced that private recreational anglers would be allowed an additional 39 days to harvest red snapper in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

This allowance, the result of negotiations between the five Gulf states and the DOC, comes on the heels of the shortest recreational red snapper season in history. Private recreational anglers were originally allowed just three days of snapper fishing in federal waters June 1-3.

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Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have indicated there might be additional fishing days in state waters this fall depending on the harvest estimates from the summer season.

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ishing is about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right gear.

One bit of gear nearly every angler uses yet may take for granted are sunglasses.

But when it comes to fishing sunglasses, what separates a good pair from a great pair?

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