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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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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? Capt. Michael Okruhlik is the inventor of Controlled Descent Lures and the owner of www.MyCoastOutdoors.com.
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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. David Maney is considered to be one of the most published experts in the general field of sunglasses. He has appeared in Southern Living Magazine, USA Today and U.S. World Report and even appeared on Oprah. Fowler’s has been in business for 118 years and has sold over 250,000 pairs of sunglasses. For more information on Fowler’s and David Maney, visit www.fowlerssunglasses.com or call 888-340-9021.
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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.
WWW.COSTADELMAR.COM RIO RAY SEASIDE Rio Ray Optics is the best new brand and most comfortable polarized sunglasses on the market. 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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S RE VIEW2017 REVO GUIDE S AND GUIDE II Back in 1985, Revo became a global performance eyewear brand known as the leader in polarized lens technology. Their glasses were first created utilizing lens technology developed by NASA as solar protection for satellites. Today, Revo continues to build on its rich tradition of technology and innovation by offering the clearest and most advanced high-contrast polarized sunglass available. 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. The Guide S blends all-terrain functionality with a sleek fit. They are equipped with fast-flow vents and Motion-Fit technology for optimal comfort in any condition or environment.
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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. Call 305-852-8989 or visit the website for more information or to receive a free catalog.
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Sunglasses are a necessity, but they’re also a burden. There is an ever-present possibility to lose or damage this expensive piece equipment. And you can forget about storing a conventional pair in a case in your pocket. They’re just too bulky. 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. Popticals are engineered in the U.S.A and handcrafted in Italy. See the Popticals website for a wide range of styles designed for any outdoor pursuit.
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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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Get The Blues 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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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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Wrightsville Beach July is a good month for fishing around Wrightsville Beach but
with the warm season we’ve already had this year you may need to fish a little differently this July. Go earlier or later in the day to find that cooler water. Small changes can make for a better day of fishing (and catching)! Redfish in July...well you can catch them but with the water really warming up you need to change the way you fish a little. If you want to target reds in shallow waters, you really need to go early in the morning or late afternoon when the water is a bit cooler. Topwater lures like MirrOlure Top Pups are my choice in the shallows. During the middle parts of the day, try to fish a little deeper with jigs and grubs; the reds like a little deeper water when the sun gets high in the sky. I really like Berkley Gulp baits because you can’t beat their great scent and redfish love ‘em! Berkley’s three-inch shrimp is my go-to redfish lure during the hot summer months. I like them in Molting, Sugar Spice Glow and White colors. I rig my Gulp baits on 1/16-, 1/8- and 1/4-ounce jig heads in colors red, gray and brown with 30or 40-pound Berkley Pro Spec fluorocarbon leader material. The flounder fishing is in full swing about everywhere by July and everybody loves to catch flounder, right? In July you can find flounders around most inlets, in creeks, main channels (ICW) and just off the beach. Using smaller live baits like mud minnows, finger mullets and little menhaden should do the trick to put dinner in the boat for you. I rig these live baits on Carolina rigs, with #1 and 1/0 L42 Eagle Claw hooks; a 40-pound mono leader will work fine for flounder fishing. Casting and slowly retrieving this rig, drifting or anchoring with this rig are all good ways to catch flounder with a Carolina rig. You can also go the artificial route (which I prefer) as well to catch
flounder. Try a Berkley Gulp five- or six- inch jerkshad in colors Pearl White or Chart Pepper Neon. I rig the jerkshad on 3/8- to 1/2-ounce jig heads. Remember it is always a good idea to have a good landing net for flounder fishing. Try an EGO floating net and never worry about losing your net or a big flounder again! I really start to keep my eye out for the silver king (tarpon). These big silver fish are making their way up from Florida. The long trip has made them hungry and hungry fish are easier to catch...most of the time! I look for tarpon around local inlets, shoals and hard bottoms close to shore. Live or fresh dead baits like menhaden or mullet on the bottom are the best bet for getting a bite out of these beasts. I prefer Trokar AP circle hooks in sizes 8/0 to 9/0 and my leader material is always Berkley Pro Spec 60-or 80-pound fluorocarbon, because tarpon have great eyesight! Tarpon are around Wrightsville Beach from mid-June to mid-September most years. If you hook in to one of these tarpon hold on tight...they fight very hard! I also enjoy shark fishing later in the summer and by July the bigger sharks really start to show up. Sharks on light tackle are always a good pull and, boy, the kids love to catch them! I drift live and fresh dead bluefish, Spanish mackerel, mullet or menhaden in 30- to 45feet of water just offshore. I rig these baits with a 7/0 circle hook with one foot of 90-pound wire and six to eight feet of eighty pound mono leader. You can free-line the bait or put a small egg sinker on to keep the bait close to the bottom. You’ll know when you get a bite! Most sharks will be in the ten- to 100-pound range. Tackle run down: PENN Battle II & Slammer III reels in 2500, 3000, 3500 sizes for the redfish and flounder. For tarpon or sharks, PENN Spinfisher 6500 & 7500 and PENN 20 Fathom casting reels. Rods are PENN Battalion 6’6” & 7’ medium and med/heavy for the redfish and flounder. Rods for tarpon and sharks: PENN Rampage or Carnage Jigging series. Line Spiderwire Ultra-cast in 10- and 15-pound and Berkley Pro Spec Chrome mono in 30- and 40-pound for the tarpon or sharks. I hope you have a great Fourth of July and thanks for reading Coastal Angler Magazine. Stay cool out there!
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Surf city/ Topsail Island The fishing has been very good around Topsail Island so far this summer and the action won’t slow down this month. We are seeing more and more shrimp, menhaden, and mullet arriving with each tide. The inshore bite has been good for redfish, flounder, black drum, and a speckled trout. Just off the beach there is an excellent bite of spanish, kings, bluefish, and false albacore while trolling. Further out the bottom fishing has been outstanding, along with king mackerel and amberjacks.
water is dirty after heavy rains. Let the scent travel down current to where the fish are holding and wait for them to find it. I prefer to use circle hooks for both live and cut bait fishing. Spanish mackerel fishing will continue to provide great action for boaters trolling around area inlets and along the beaches. #1 planers fished with #0 and #00 gold or pink Clarkspoons will account for the best action while trolling. Surface feeding fish will take 1/2-ounce Jigfish and smaller Diamond jigs cast into the schools. Free lining live four- to six-inch menhaden around nearshore structure will connect with some of the largest Spanish in the area. Fish over five pounds are not uncommon, so use tackle heavy enough to handle the job. King mackerel will also take the same baits used for targeting Spanish. I like to use two-hook stinger rigs with #5 single strand wire to target mackerel. Flounder fishing around nearshore structure during the month of July can produce some of the largest fish of the season. Live finger mullet and menhaden in the three- to five-inch range fished on a oneounce Carolina rig is the best way to target these fish. They will also take a two-ounce white Spro jig tipped with scented shrimp or paddle tail soft plastics. Be sure and support your local tackle shops and charter captains, they are your ticket to a great day on the water. Give us a call at South End Anglers for advice on inshore and nearshore fishing or to book a charter. Follow South End Anglers on Facebook at www.facebook. com/southendangersnc/ and Instagram at southendanglersnc. FORECAST BY: Capt. Chadwick Crawford South End Anglers 540.460.3432 capt.chadwickcrawford@gmail.com • www.southendanglers.com
above: A three-man limit of redfish landed in the Topsail Island marsh while fishing with Capt. Chadwick of South End Anglers.
Redfish are patrolling grass shorelines, docks, and oyster bars in search of shrimp, crab, and baitfish. They are crushing topwater plugs fished early and late in the day, especially during higher tide periods. MirrOlure Poppa Mullet and Top Pups are getting the job done on the surface. Popping corks fished with a Z-Man EZ Shrimp have been producing good numbers of fish throughout the day. Let the amount of chop on the water determine how aggressively to work the cork, calm conditions require less aggressive presentations, while on windy days the fish respond better to a larger “pop”. Live mullet and menhaden on Carolina rigs are getting great results while fishing around waterway docks and oyster bars. Cut bait is extremely effective in situations where there is a lot of current or the
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Atlantic Beach - Inshore & Nearshore Hard to believe we’re already mid-way through summer! When the fish are biting the time sure does fly…it won’t be long and we will be talking about the fall speckled trout. Probably the most reliable bite has been Spanish mackerel. It’s not often this time of the year that you can’t go out and catch plenty. You will find the best action early in the morning along the inlets and along the beaches; then again late in the day they will start feeding heavy again. Not saying you can’t catch them during the day, but the bite will slow down and you’ll have to fish deeper. Trolling Clarkspoons and the new local BowedUp Spoons have been working great. We have been having the best luck trolling the spoons with # 1 planers and two- to three-ounce trolling weights. If you’re above: Brian Hudson, with four of the largest from a whole cooler full, caught casting a Glass Spanish fishing you Minnow Jig. always want to have a bird rig out, because it stays on top and can be very effective when the fish are up feeding. If you aren’t into trolling, we have been killing the fish by casting jigs on light action rods. The new Glass Minnow jig we have in the shop has to be one of the best lures we have ever used for them. It’s also that time of the year where the larger Spanish will be hanging round our reefs like AR 315, 320, and 285. Anglers can then fish with live bait (which has been hard to find,) but it’s getting very close to the time when we will be stocking live finger mullet in the shop. The larger fish will also hit dead cigar minnows fished slowly on a dead bait rig. It’s the time of the year when we start to see the king mackerel tournaments fire up. The kings have been moving in, but we haven’t weighed any huge fish yet. However we are seeing plenty of snake kings around our artificial reefs. Anglers are catching them on live baits or dead cigar minnows slow-trolled on dead bait rigs and Pirate Plugs. Shark fishing has been crazy just along our beaches! Fishing in the area the shrimp boats have been working seems to be the best. Also, they have started to move inside the Beaufort Inlet, so a good area is anywhere as you get out of the channel and start to get around some of the shoals. Sharks are robably one of the easiest fish to catch and are one of the largest you can catch inshore, but often get overlooked. If you would like to learn more about the shark charters we offer from the shop, just give us a above: Wayne Justice, with a speckled trout call. Dead shad and that weighed six pounds, caught fishing the jumbo mullet fished marsh on a Rapala Skitter Walk. 4 wilmington/Morehead city
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on a shark rig while chumming will get you some action. The speckled rrout and redfish bites have been pretty good; I have to say they are better than we have seen in the last few years. We’ve been doing a lot of trout citations over the last month; most of the trout action has been right at first light. The bite has only been lasting an hour or so, then it shuts down. Fishing topwaters seems to be the ticket. We have seen some caught later in the day by anglers fishing live minnows and shrimp on Carolina rigs in the deeper holes of the marsh areas. If things stay this way, we will be looking at a great fall bite. We also have been seeing quite a few redfish in the marsh, more than we have seen in the last few years. Most of the fish have been 18- to 23-inch range, but we have been seeing some nicer upper slots also in the mix. Core Creek, Haystacks, Bogue Sound all have been holding both specks and reds. Sheepshead fishing this season has been very up and down. June was pretty slow compared to last year’s bite, but now we are starting to see some nice fish show up and some good numbers to catch. The Atlantic Beach bridge, Beaufort bridge, Harker’s Island and the Port Wall are always good places to find fish. The shallower water along the ICW around docks is always a good place to try...really anywhere there’s some kind of structure, there could be fish. Live sea urchins and live fiddler crabs have been the best choices for bait. Of above: Matthew Glass, with a sheepshead course, we have both in- that weighed 8.16-pounds, caught at the Port Wall on a live sea urchin. stock at the shop. Remember, if you like to fish for sheepshead, we have our Sheepshead Challenge going on right now through the end of September. You can sign up at the shop or by phone. Anglers are still catching some good flounder in the area.Drift fishing behind Shackleford Banks and along the ICW has been producing fish on live mud minnows. Also, some anglers who have been targeting flounder in the marsh areas have been having good luck; fishing the deeper holes seems to be the best place to target. You can count on the docks on the ICW to hold the flat fish this time of the year. On the ocean side, the usual spots are still holding fish around AR315 and AR285. Try these for some good action. Jigging two-ounce Spro Bucktails tipped with four-inch Berkley Gulp White Shrimp and live minnows are the ticket when fishing the reefs. There are still plenty of amberjacks to be caught at the nearshore reefs. AR330 on this side and just about any of the reefs on the east side are holding plenty of amberjacks to play with. Dead menhaden or live bait on the bottom will let you know pretty fast if there’re any fish home who want to play. Amberjack is one fish you can always count on to give you a pull this time of the year! Don’t forget, we do weekly reports on our website along with daily action updates on our Facebook page, so you can stay up to date on what’s going on. To save you time when you hit the water, check them out! FORECAST BY: Capt. Matt Lamb Chasin’ Tails Bait & Tackle Chasin’ Tails Charters Atlantic Beach, N.C. 252-240-FISH www.chasintailsoutdoors.com Capt. Matt Lamb
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We are into summer mode with better fishing being found in waterways and near sound waters. The water temperatures continue to rise so the fish will be grazing in deeper and cooler water. The trout can be found around deep water structure and marsh points. The drum will be cruising the marsh lines looking crabs washing from shore - target tight to the shore if you want to connect. The flounder will be staged in sandy bottoms and bays along the shoreline waiting for their meal to come by...work an area thourughly before you leave...they gotta see and want your bait. My baits of choice are the DOA soft plastic shrimp and CAL baits. Fish 2 3/4-inch and three-inch shrimp, naked, jigged on the bottom or under a rattle float as in the Deadly Combo. The jerk shad and shad tail
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July will always be a hot month to fish. Not only will the weather be hot but the fishing can be just as hot as well! By now the bass have moved from their shallow haunts out to the deeper water for the summer...or have they? For a typical day of fishing during July, I normally start shallow and try to catch some fish that have moved up to feed before they go back down deep. Please remember, not all bass will go and stay deep. There will always be resident fish that will stay in the shallows all year. I will use a variety of top water baits since I’m there early and the hot sun hasn’t started baking yet. I like to throw a lot of Lucky Craft top water lures like the G-Splash in a frog color. This is a popping bait so I retrieve it in a cadence of two pops and stop and then one pop and stop. Just hang on when they strike it, and believe me, they will engulf this bait! I also like throwing Strike King Swinging Sugar Buzz bait. Two things that make this buzz bait so special is that the hook and skirt swings freely right behind the head. This feature will also help to cut down on losing fish because it will reduce the leverage a bass would have on any other buzz bait. This bait allows me to cover a lot of area in a short time. I like to throw this bait on 17- to 20-pound Sufix Monofilament line. You can use a heavier line because this bait is going fast, so it will be a reaction bite. If I am fishing a lot of grass or lily pads, I like to throw a Deep Creek Lures Frog. I use a 4/0 Daiichi hook and throw this bait on Sufix 828 Braid so I won’t have any stretch when they explode on this frog. Frogging can be super fun. Just don’t try to set the hook when you see the blow up...wait to feel it on or you will jerk it from the fish’s mouth! I usually give myself a time limit until 9 am to fish shallow during the summer months. I then head out to the deep water for the rest of the day. But, I will always keep my Lew’s rod with a Lucky Craft G-Splash or a Lucky Craft Gun Fish on the deck of my Bass Cat. The reason is I am always looking for schooling fish and when they chase shad to the top, I will cast one of these baits to them. Bass love to crash topwater baits when they are feeding on shad. Sometimes you will even get a double because they will try to take the bait from the other bass! Heading to the deeper waters, I rely solely on my Lowrance Electronics to locate the bass. I will drive over different areas just looking before I stop to fish. So be sure to watch your electronics for baitfish and bass. I will bring out the big Lew’s rods for the deep fish. I’ll throw a Carolina rig on a Lew’s Mach 1 combo with 14-pound Sufix Fluorocarbon or monofilament line with about a three-foot leader with a 1/2-ounce or one-ounce weight to make the bait drag the bottom. When you get a bite on a Carolina rig, you will want to side sweep it to get a good hook set. When it comes to cranking big crank baits, I will throw them on ten-pound Sufix Fluorocarbon line to help get it down deeper. Once I have them located on my Lowrance depth finder, I will make long casts, trying to cover as much area as I can to get them to bite. I like throwing Lucky Craft LC 6 5XD DRS crank baits and Strike King 6XD Crank Baits. I can get both of these baits down to 20-feet+ depths where some big ones are just waiting for a meal to come swimming by them. When you get a strike on this bait, be ready because they will smoke these crank baits when they hit. If I really want to feel everything down there and work the bait slow, than I will tie on an “A Spell” football jig with a Strike King Rage Craw trailer. I will normally do two things to my plastics; put CB’s Hawg Sauce formula on them to make sure the fish hold on a little longer and also put Spike-It dye either in chartreuse or orange on the end of the baits. 6 wilmington/Morehead city
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Summer time tips: Don’t leave home without plenty of ice for you and your fish in the live well and be sure to bring plenty of water and sports drinks to hydrate your body. Leave the sodas at home! If you really want to keep a drink cold for you on your boat, I highly recommend the Pelican Tumbler. I couldn’t believe how it kept ice the entire day, even out in the blazing July sun. Pelican has made an awesome product that will keep ice and drinks cold throughout your fishing day! Perhaps most important, please use your sunscreen all day! Protect yourself from skin cancer now. Take it from someone who has already had it, because I have the stiches to prove it! See you on the water! above: Hal Abshire with a nice July bass.
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Onslow Bay Artificial Reef Assn Announces July 12 Southern Flounder Stock Enhancement Workshop
The NC Wildlife Resources Commisssion has achieved tremendous stock enhancement sucess with striped bass and white shad, along with many other fresh water species produced for stocking in large numbers. With the global technology of growing southern flounder fingerlings born here in North Carolina, why would this not work here as it does in Texas? The public is invited to come out to the New Hanover County Public Library on Wednesday, July 12 at 9:30 am to hear what the experts have to say regarding the potential for (large scale) southern flounder stock enhancement using hatchery-raised flounder. Dr. Harry Daniels (NCSU), Scott Bathsavage (NCDMF),Dr. Robert Vega (Texas A&M and Texas Parks and Recreation and consultant to California White Sea Bass Stock Enhancement above: A research associate at UNCW shows above: Stock enhacement and nearshore/ Program) and the late Dr. John Miller inshore artificial reefing go hand-in-hand. a prime female brood stock specimen taken (NCSU) were some of the keynote OBARA will keep pushing forward with both from the recent Flat Bottom Girls Flounder speakers at the last Southern Flounder of these programs, with the goal of restoring Tournament in which live flounder are donated Stock Enhancement Workshop held in southern flounder. for the stock enhancement project. Wilmington. Three of these speakers are among the foremost authorities on potential southern flounder stock enhancement in the country. Onslow Bay Artificial Reef Association will continue this effort at the upcoming July 12 workshop in Wilmington.
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well, but fishing the baseball-sized or larger pinfish, a good-sized grass grunt or sailor’s choice will eliminate almost all of the trash bites, and get only the grouper bites, and the largest of the sea bass. These are the sea bass I’m looking for… one with a mouth large enough to go around a grass grunt is the one that is dinner worthy! One thing I would suggest is not using too much lead on the sabiki rod. Three ounces is too much unless you want nothing but grass grunts and sailor’s choice off the bottom. I prefer to let it fall slowly through the water column in order to catch the suspended cigs and sardines. Most of the time , you will not see them on the surface, but they will be suspended off the bottom. This is when it’s helpful to let the sabiki fall slowly (one strip at a time) with a one- or one and a 1/2-ounce weight, while keeping in touch with it. If you just let it go in “free fall” with a oneounce weight, you could have a severely tangled-up sabiki from just a few good-sized cigs, and especially sardines. A “full house” of good-sized sardines can really pull pretty hard and tangle a sabiki pretty badly if you don’t keep a little tension on it as it falls. Wherever you anchor this time of year, be sure to keep the light line out with a live (or dead) cigar or sardine on it. There is no telling what may be around (even nearshore) through the entire month of July. Don’t have that “deer in the headlights” look on your face when you see a sailfish roll up by the boat, and for dang sure don’t start above: When it happens, it happens fast. yelling and stomping This is a five-man limit in under an hour! your feet, trying to get a bait ready for deployment, as this will put them in high gear swimming away. Remain calm…and get a live one out if at all possible. Yes, they have been caught on frozen cigs, but a big fat live one is the ticket. So… Don’t leave the dock without the sabiki! All the best fishing, and please take the kids.
There is no way I’d go offshore without at least one box of cigar minnows and/or squid, but, by the same token, there are times when you can truly ring the “dinner bell” with a live bait when all else fails. Granted, frozen cigar minnows have caught more gags, scamp and red grouper than all the other baits combined. FACT…that was then, this is now. Another fact is, grouper are not as thick as they once were, and maybe now there is not the “competition factor” for them. It used to be the first few baits to the bottom on any given anchor would produce the American reds and the biggest grouper because of the aggressive nature of these fish. Now, they are more leader- and hardware-shy, and a lot more selective. This is why the ultimate offerings now are live baits on really clean tackle. Live pinfish from the marina or a live grass grunt jigged up from an offshore ledge are as good as it gets for a gag, and live cigs and sardines are simply irresistible for scamps. Notice I didn’t include red grouper in this list as selective feeders. They can be caught on almost anything, but a live bait is a dead ringer for them…pinfish or grass grunts work great. A pinfish trap works great for the marina around a fish cleaning station, but don’t waste your time with little ones. You want a pinfish about the size of a baseball or larger. Another way to get numbers of pinfish is to go to any given dock and start throwing small pieces of bait of small amounts of cat food in the same spot over and over in roughly 10 second intervals. This will create the “feeding frenzy” atmosphere, and get them in one place ready for the next small portion of chum to hit the water. After just a few minutes of this, you can throw the cast net one time and get the vast majority of them. This is the “bird-in-hand” theory, but I also like to jig up whatever is out there on the sabiki. Keep your eye peeled as you are running out for the tell-tell sign of a school of cigs and /or sardines on the surface and get at least one sabiki working on them, because a live cigar minnow on a Decoy Jig is just too much to deny for any kind of grouper. Live cigs and sardines are the ultimate baits, but they are also extremely vulnerable to any kind of bites out there. Any sea bass, grunt or pinky will destroy the largest one in the live 8 wilmington/Morehead city
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southport-ocean isle Flounder! They are perhaps the most sought-after fish on the backwater fishing scene, and one of the fish I like to target most, are here in our waters off the coast of southeastern North Carolina as we progress into the month of July. Fishing has been intense all the month of June with the area experiencing a healthy transition of the bait from offshore to nearshore, and most of the targeted species of fish are following. The backwater will be on above: Holly Foster and Phil Hale hold up a string of fire for the flounder they caught while fishing with Capt. Chris month of July Foster recently. and going into August with great catches of flounder, red drum (puppy drum sized) and speckled trout. All can be harvested utilizing a Carolina rig where you can manipulate the size of your egg sinker based on the current and depth of water you’re fishing at that time. Bait it with a live mullet minnow, mud minnow, or peanut pogy. For a more visual bite, fish using a setup with a live shrimp under a Betts Billy Bay Click Clacker rig. On the nearshore, you will find the Spanish mackerel and sharks to be the main quarry, and when the weather, water clarity and winds will cooperate, the Spanish mackerel bite should be good. Clarkspoons have been the go-to lure for decades when it comes to putting Spanish mackerel on the boat and they remain our main lure of choice when targeting these toothy fish. Rigged behind a #1 and/or #2 planer with approximately 25 feet of fluorocarbon leader and trolled around the nearshore artificial reefs and near the major inlets should put some nice fish in your cooler. Another way to enjoy a good fight and potentially hook into a NC citation-sized Spanish mackerel is to light line a live pogy off the back of your boat on some of the nearshore reefs while flounder fishing; many times, a large Spanish mackerel or king mackerel will take that bait! The bait has been on the beaches and should continue to be there over the next few months. Follow the birds, find the bait, and the fish shouldn’t above: Jason Robinson of China Grove holds a be far behind! nice mahi-mahi he caught while fishing aboard the King mackYEAH RIGHT II with Capts. Butch and Chris Foster. erel are fre10 wilmington/Morehead city
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quenting our waters from the 35-mile range all the way to the beach in July and many anglers will find themselves trolling a spread of live pogies or dead cigar minnows in search of the “reel screamer!” When trolling dead cigar minnows, perhaps one of the best lures to utilize is the Pirate Plug by South Chatham Tackle, it really makes a dead bait “become alive” with a distinct action that a king mackerel simply can’t stand! Further offshore, the black sea bass, vermillion and silver snappers, grouper, triggerfish…all the bottom fish catching has been and should continue to be on FIRE! Cut squid and dead cigar above: Mark Pisano of Holly minnows on circle hooks fished Springs holds up two large black on the bottom rocks and ledges sea bass caught offshore aboard should provide for a day of the YEAH RIGHT II with Capts. Butch catching some of the best tast- and Chris Foster. ing fish in the ocean. While fishing the bottom we always try to run a light line as well with a dead cigar minnow, and often times this leads to putting a king mackerel or two, along with the occasional mahi, jack
above: Janet Pray of Germany and Lauren Pray of Georgia enjoyed catching Spanish mackerel sometimes two at a time while fishing with Capt. Butch Foster aboard the YEAH RIGHT II.
or African pompano in the boat during our fishing day. Offshore the fishing is always good; during July, it should be great! Summer months along the southeastern NC beaches can allow for a great time with many attractions, great food, and simply a good place to get away. Why not entertain the idea of going fishing while visiting? July is one of the best months of the year to find yourself hooked into a catch of a lifetime, or going to catch some amazing table-fare! We look forward to seeing you on the water! FORECAST BY: Capt. Chris Foster Yeah Right Charters www.yeahrightcharters.com boat: 336-239-5429 • office: 910-845-2004
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Hard to believe that July is upon us already! June fishing was great and the red drum, flounder, speckled trout, Spanish and king mackrel just got better as the month went on. Fishing on the inside and nearshore will be firing off and all sorts of fish will be biting. Tarpon will be passing the coast and stopping at the inlets along the way, moving in each day to feed and hang out. Croakers, mullets and spots are great choices for tarpon baits. A good stiff rod loaded with 40-pound line and some 80-pound fluorocarbon leader will do the job for you. I like a good 8/0 circle hook and remember not to try to set the hook and to point the rod to the tarpon when it jumps. Sailfish will push to the beach and at times can be found near the sea buoys of the inlets. The same rod you use for the tarpon will work here but troll with “split bill” and skipping ballyhoo is my choice here. I like 6/0 or 7/0 thin wire circles or 7/0 Mustad keel-weighted hooks for them. With circles, use a light drag and point the rod at the fish and slowly lift the rod for the best hook set. On the inside, I feel like a broken record here. Drum are on the flats and around the docks. Flounder are biting on porgies and finger mullet. On the rising tide, they will move to marsh edges, and on the fall, look for then at the creek mouths as they will wait for the bait to fall out. Speckled trout are still hitting on topwater. I find them over shell bottoms with current and bait, the same places where I find flounder and red drum. Red drum will start their hot summer pattern where you will find them in the shallows in the morning, but around mid-day, they will have gone looking for some deeper, cooler water. Popping corks with live bait are the easiest way to catch them, but they will still hit a topwater or a gold spoon any time of the day if you are looking to cover water quickly. Croakers and pigfish abound now and make for great kid’s trips. I like a very light rod, split shot and a gold hook with a small piece of cut squid for bait. Low tides, last couple hours of the fall and first couple of the rise for me are the best. I target oyster rocks, with narrow channels. Find a dock with an oyster rock and a deep channel and you should find black drum in the mix. A 100+ fish in a half day will keep your kids busy and will provide you and them with a ton of fun and some good table fare. As always, stay safe out there and watch for the other guys as more than likely, they are not looking out for you!
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Fly Fishing from Our Kayaks
2017
I had a chance this past weekend to take out a few friends fly fishing from our kayaks. We could not have asked for a better day. It was just after a cold front that came through the area. The storms ended the day before and we hit the boat ramp with blue skies...no humidity and almost no wind. We launched out just as the tide started to fall, to insure that we could get to and have plenty of time to work all the flats that I wanted to for redfish. We did find a few reds but there were two or three fish moving together and pretty spooky. We finally decided to try getting out of the kayaks to wade the flats, casting to where we saw birds working bait in the water. Since there were four of us I decided if we all were to fish a different fly pattern, a catch or two by any one or two of us would dial us all in to what they wanted and we then would all fish that same fly. My choice in flies were Clouser minnows, a spoon fly and two different shrimp- colored flies. After a few hours of switching flies and wading a few other flats with no luck we decided to change a few things. Since my friends for from as far away as Seattle and New Jersey I really wanted to get them on some fish. So I knew of another location close to us. It has the deepest channel in the area. With the tide falling fast and the flats starting to drain my thought was. If there are any fish back here they are going to need to move off the flats or be left high and dry. We loaded up in the kayaks for a short paddle to the deeper channel, slid the kayaks up onto a sand bar and made our way out into the water. We were lined up like ducks in a row, false casting. I noticed some breaks in the surface of the water on the other side of the channel. Well, actually I think we all noticed it, as we all started casting as far as we could. Almost immediately, I heard “fish on.” By the way the rod tip was bouncing around, I knew it was a trout. And for the next hour it was all trout. Nothing huge but we all had a great time bending our fly rods on some late spring trout. After about a hour the bite turned off. We had lost a lot of water and it was time to start paddling back so we did not have to drag our kayaks over every sand bar we came across. We did stop at a few other spots on the way back to the ramp in hopes left: John holding a trout caught on we would find a red hanging out a fly rod with a Clouser Minnow at in a deeper hole, but we had no Fort Fisher. luck. At the end of the day it was smart to change our tactics and attack the water in a different manner. It paid off with trout and a good time was had by all. At the end of the day, I think that is what we are all after...good fishing with good friends!
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Plastic Ocean Project (501c3) hosted the first annual “Fishing 4 Plastic” Tournament sponsored by Blockade Runner Resort. The event was a joint effort bringing fishing charters and community members together for an offshore ocean cleanup. Six charters carried 33 participants to areas where trash tends to accumulate off the coast of Beaufort, NC. A total of 181 pieces of trash were removed in less than seven hours, with the bulk of it being beverage containers, food wrappers, and 37 helium balloons. This event is an excellent educational tool to learn what debris communities need to focus on to reduce the harmful impacts of plastics in the marine environment – helium balloons being a top offender with their long strings that can cause entanglement and the balloons that mimic jelly fish can be accidently ingested by sunfish and sea turtles. This partnership with the community, fishing charters, and Plastic Ocean Project created a fun way for all to help preserve marine life and habitats. On Saturday, June 3 in Beaufort, the teams embarked in the early morning hours in search of a plastic and trash haul that would fetch them some of the exciting prizes up for grabs, like DryCase headphones and DECA 10L bags. Simultaneously on land, there was a Radio Island competitive cleanup as well. While 97.3 Thunder Radio broadcasted live, numerous activities and learning opportunities took place at the NC Maritime Museum. Pine Knolls Shore Aquarium and the Monofilament Recovery & Recycling program shared information on the dangers of plastics in the ocean while kids created art with plastics at the Duke Marine Lab table. PK Clean Technologies used a Coyle, LLC solar panel as an energy source to demonstrate how plastic can turn back into oil. At 2:00 pm the competitive teams ventured back with their “catches.” One team even brought back a complete-intact 80 lbs wooden pallet, a potential navigational hazard. Between the tournament and the Radio Island beach cleanup, the event helped to collect over 300 pounds of garbage from the Beaufort area. The event was a huge success because of the support of the charter captains that gave up a good fishing day to benefit the environment, the financial sponsors, and the Beaufort Maritime Museum that offered up their space. Plastic Ocean Project hopes to turn this into an annual tournament in more communities as a way to get people, who do not fish, to consider chartering a boat to have a good time out on the open water while cleaning up the ocean and hopefully, encourage charters while they are out there to do the same. It is truly the last opportunity to stop the flow of plastic already heading to ocean gyres. To learn more or get involved with Plastic Ocean Project, visit our website at www.plasticoceanproject.org/get-involved.
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catch all you need pretty quickly. Please remember to practice reasonable catch totals, there is no reason to take home more than you honestly need – save some for our kids in the future. Other than mahi you may still run across some blackfin tuna which will readily bite a mini green machine. Blue marlin will show throughout the summer and the white marlin and sailfish will increase in numbers, usually peaking in July. The blue marlin generally live out a little deeper and offer larger baits while the whites and sails are quick to take a properly rigged small naked ballyhoo. July often brings calm sea conditions but will always bring plenty of very hot water. You need to be sure to have sunscreen and protective clothing, a lot of shade is best. You will need a lot of ice for your catch and to help be sure you can keep a lot of cold beverages (not beer) available. Get everything ready, pick your weather and get out there to catch some fish. Plan ahead, be prepared and have fun! FORECAST BY: Capt. Troy Pate 252-917-0445 • capttroypate@aol.com
It’s been a strange spring season; the fish came in at odd times and it never seemed to be as consistent as you would expect normally. The upside was that we had a very good run of marlin with days as epic as any exotic location you could travel to. The Big Rock tournament had a great turnout and we had good fishing during the week – congratulations to the RunOff for their win! Spring is gone, Big Rock is over, now its time to start the hot water fishing of summer. You always look for temp breaks and any other piece of the puzzle to help determine where to fish, however the summer water temps are not going to show you those spots as easily. The hot water had moved in and the fish will begin to spread out. You will need to look for other things such as currents, structure, bait, grass lines or anything else that will begin a food chain. The majority of the larger groups of gaffer size magi have moved on so your primary target will be the schools of bailer size fish, and that said you will want to adjust your tactics accordingly. Don’t overrun the fish! As the water heats up many fish will end up closer to shore so don’t be afraid to start fishing when you start seeing signs of life. Any weed line you come across will have the potential to be holding enough fish to make your day. Mahi and sailfish are both found much closer to the beach than most expect. Put in a couple of lines and run that weed line for a bit to see if they are there, if so you just saved yourself a bunch of gas and time. If not then just move on to the next spot. Once you find the fish then it is very likely they will be there in larger numbers. Have a little cut bait or small chunks of chum to toss in around the weeds and watch for the school to follow the hooked fish right to your boat. Keep at least 1 hooked fish in the water and keep some cut bait for them to eat, then you should be able to pitch to them and above: Brett Lancaster with a blue marlin during the recent Big Rock. 14 wilmington/Morehead city
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New Record Payout of $1,161,450! Run-Off Leads Wire to Wire at Big Rock Tourney
Article courtesy of The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament Run-Off ran off with a record $1,161,450 prize as it scored a wire- has to be the best (Father’s Day weekend.) My dad came down … and my to-wire victory at the 59th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. brother. It’s pretty amazing.” Run-Off weighed in a 533.8-pound blue marlin caught early on Hanley was nervous as a cat during the final minutes of the Big Monday by angler Matt Hanley of Glen Allen, VA. Hanley’s catch Rock. He knew a boat named Bull Frog had been fighting a hook-up stayed atop the standings the rest of the way. for more than an hour. With 10 minutes left in the competition, Bull Run-Off captain Brian Harrington of Morehead City, and first mate, Frog captain Bob Eakes announced via radio that his crew had reMarty Hiatt, teamed with Hanley to help the angler land his first-ever leased its blue marlin. The cheer that sprang forth from the Run-Off blue marlin. The trio were aboard Run-Off Saturday afternoon at the crowd could be heard two blocks away inside Big Rock headquarters. Morehead City waterfront docks as the final seconds of the competi- “Bull Frog had us on edge a little bit,” Hanley said. “They had it tion ticked away. A boisterous celebration with friends and fans began for about an hour before they released it. There weren’t many words one second after 2 pm.when a Big Rock official confirmed over the spoken in that hour. We all just sat there and looked at the wall.” radio that no boats were hooked up. That meant the tournament had Harrington agreed. officially ended. A clog jam of people and cars parked in no parking “Every time (someone) hooked up, we all did our own personal evalzones near the Run-Off were eventually dispersed by law enforcement uation about who had it hooked,” Harrington said. “The hardest one was officials who totally understood the cause of all the excitement. the Bull Frog.” Hanley’s catch initially won $467,500 Monday because it was the “I just couldn’t be happier. I’m so proud my crew. We’ve had trefirst 500-pounder caught by a team entered in the Level V Fabulous mendous support. I have never ever in my life had anything even close Fisherman’s “Winner Take All” division. Run-Off received an addi- to grasping what that ($1,161,450) would be like. That’s going to take tional $693,950 for finishing first with the largest blue marlin. some time to get used to.” The Run-Off prize tops the previous Big Rock record held by Sea Harrington should consider this: Only one sporting event in the Striker captain Adrian Holler. In 2001, Holler won $942,100 during nation will have a bigger winner’s payday this weekend. After the Big the 43rd Big Rock. That proved to be the biggest payday in sports Rock paid out more than the U.S. Open in 2001, USGA officials inthat week -- topping the $900,000 that Retief Goosen received for creased their tournament’s first-place prize, which is now $2.16 million winning the 101st U.S. Open Golf Tournament played in Tulsa, Okla. – the most lucrative prize in golf. Ironically, Hanley is a U.S. Open golf fan. Rehab won $250,720 for finishing second with a 506-pound blue mar “We went to the U.S. Open down in Southern Pines a couple years lin caught Friday by Ryan Howard of Savannah, S.C. Rehab captain Naago for Father’s Day,” Hanley said, referring to his 10-year-old son, Will, than Shepard of Statesboro teamed Howard and the mates to boat their who was aboard the Run-Off to witness the winning catch. “I think this catch in 75 minutes Weldor’s Ark, captained by Mike Taylor of Swansboro, finished third in the blue marlin standings to win $166,480 for the 484.9-pounder landed Monday by angler John Roberts of Greenville. Weldor’s Arc was bumped out of second by Rehab but avoided any additional slide down the leaderboard when no bigger blue marlins were caught. The 59th Big Rock had a field of 177 boats but most were fished out by the final day. Competitors are only allowed to fish four-of-six days in the competition. Just 53 boats were eligible to fish Saturday and choppy seas limited anglers to 11 releases: one blue marlin, seven white marlins and three sailfish. Bull Frog’s blue marlin release –the one that Run-Off celebrated with 10 minutes remaining in the competition–was worth $48,520 in the daily release division. Anglers tallied 160 billfish releases during the tournament, including 78 blue marlins. Only five blue marlins were brought to the scales for a tournament release rate of 96 percent. Sea Toy, captained by Bull Tolson of Manteo won the release division with 2,525 points. Sea Toy anglers caught and released six blue marlins and one white marlin to win $139,187 in addition to the $48,520 Tuesday WTA release prize. Uno Mas, captained by Tommy Lynsky of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, capured second to win $53,975. Marlin Fever, captained by Cameron Guthrie of Morehead City, finished third to win $53,975. Islander, captained by Bobby Schlegel of Greenville, captured the WTA dolphin division with a 69.1-pounder that was reeled in Tuesday by angler Jess Powell of Nashville. Powell’s catch was worth $137,700 plus a $2,000 daily prize. 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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-
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club members are there because they are sociable and willing to help others. They remember starting out and are often willing to take you out and give advice. Just remember to return the favor by being a good buddy; help pay for the gas, bring snacks and water to share, and help clean the boat. That will hopefully get you invited back. Learning from others who already do it is probably the most valuable step you can take. If you are lucky, you will share many great experiences, have a new AJ Hally and Sheri Daye with dinner. set of lifelong friends, and maybe even find a mentor or two.
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. If you have a spearfishing club in the area, by all means, join! Many
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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. Tobin created TroutSupport.com to help anglers develop their abilities by learning what to look for on the water.
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Choosing Colors
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“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. For information on Ballyhood Top Gun Lures see www.ballyhood. com or call 714-545-0196.
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