Saltwater catch thread - 2023
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HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Flounder "season" coming....let's see them. I get 7 days.....8 if I wanna suffer all night at work.
TH80
Eight Pointer
I have 11 days I can fish but where I go Friday is looking too sporty for me. I’m sure there will be a few more bad weather days
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Always are this time of year. Would make much more sense to do the "season" in October
TH80
Eight Pointer
Either way I’m still going to go and have a good time. If I can’t fish the grill still going to be fired up with something good on it
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Same, headed to my buddy's house on Ocean isle next Thursday. If the tide and weather cooperate we should get our "limit" every night
YanceyGreenhorn
Still Not a Moderator
Fortunately a big pecker and being extremely humble has overshadowed the uglyReally nice fish !
But, you sure ain't getting no better looking !
Hunting Nut
Old Mossy Horns
YanceyGreenhorn
Still Not a Moderator
Maybe I’ll text my wife tomorrow at work and ask her opinion and post the screen shots. I’d say there’s a 99% chance she will reply back with “what the hell is wrong w you and why are you texting me this while I’m at work”Rumour has it that ain't a viable reason.
Infamous1
Eight Pointer
I tell my buddies that my great attitude and big ole dick has got me where I am today!!
DADOGG14
Eight Pointer
Caught a few
JJWise
Twelve Pointer
Went trolling today looking for nearshore mahi. Trolled from about 70ft of water outside Beaufort inlet to 115ish. Caught and released a few albies, and found a school of blackfins that wouldn’t eat anything. No mahi or water over 80° to be found though. Thinking it might be time to push out to the Gulf Stream to find them again.
YanceyGreenhorn
Still Not a Moderator
Nice!!! Catching my first speck was the highlight of the year. Totally different from the mountain freshwater trout im used to(flavor wise). Similar head shakes tho
Sportsman
Old Mossy Horns
Is that a 65 qt cooler and a 27" trout, a 35 qt cooler and a 21" trout?
DADOGG14
Eight Pointer
I think you know the answer to that, don’t own a 35 qt.Is that a 65 qt cooler and a 27" trout, a 35 qt cooler and a 21" trout?
TH80
Eight Pointer
Where’s all the flounder pics? With the boat ramp parking lots full and a 1 fish limit I know some of y’all caught some.
Rubline
Twelve Pointer
Google Bogue Inlet pier and check out the pics of flounder everybody is catching.
Some of our catches from Oak Island.
Sportsman
Old Mossy Horns
Good stuff there. Nothing like seeing little ones catching fish!!!
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
Spanish in the surf?
Yes, Spanish was from surf. A first for me. I believe it was on cut bait and not a whole mullet.
HotSoup
Old Mossy Horns
That's how I've caught them there
Redneck Rocker Dude
Old Mossy Horns
Late post, went to NRI on the surf Monday afternoon for a couple hours. Couldn't hardly net finger mullet for all the ballyhoo. 1 big blue and 1 big take down that eventually turned out to be a 5' shark that broke off in the breakers. With the amount of bait in the surf, the bull drum bite should be on fire behind this storm. My dad is going to Ocracoke Sunday.
agsnchunt
Old Mossy Horns
My son walked in to my office on Friday after school and said, “isn’t it flounder season?”
After I said yes he just turned and left. Two minutes later he was going down the driveway.
15 minutes later he runs up to the door and says, “got one”.
LOL
The boy can fish.
TH80
Eight Pointer
He should have went back down the driveway and got one for you too lol. We fished the first 3 days and had a little boy about 7 with us. He caught the first one Saturday on his second cast. Smallest one kept but he won’t letting us throw it back. He caught me pretty good too one time. Wind blew his line in front of me and he had too much slack. I let my line sit in the water so he could get his in and didn’t notice his line went over my reel and and the same time I saw he felt tension o. His line and set the hook. What a mess
. When I finally got him untangled I felt one on my line and set set the hook. 18” and thanked him. He aggravated his daddy but I had fun fishing with himdarenative
Twelve Pointer
I had a pretty cool experience yesterday. I threw the kayak in the water behind the house before dark and was fishing a small zara puppy just about right on the shoreline. I'd made it about 500 yards and had a 2 or 3 lb flounder air out with the spook in his mouth. He didnt get the hook, but it was a pretty dang rare sight to see.
Redneck Rocker Dude
Old Mossy Horns
Piers up and down the coast are HAMMERING the bull drum in front of the storm… as many as 80+ overslot fish being reported on sone
hawglips
Old Mossy Horns
YanceyGreenhorn
Still Not a Moderator
Man! I haven’t minimal saltwater exposure, but I told @Woods and water the other day that watching a flounder hit topwater to crush a popping cork last year was pretty high on my list of cool stuff I’ve seen on the water.