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View attachment 157764Few Spanish off the sand this morning.
You back at oki?
View attachment 157764Few Spanish off the sand this morning.
Live mullet.Artificial bait?
Live mullet.
Put one of my best friends on his first old drum tonight. 42” fish.View attachment 157977
Experienced my first real bluefish blitz on ocracoke today, 6 man limit of chopper blues. Before the blitz we caught about 15 keeper pompano. Awesome first afternoon
Fun evening at the same spot. Grey and overcast with a little breeze. Felt great. Wife landed her first flounder (little dink) but she was stoked . Until I told her to grab it and get the hook out. But she did it. We then proceeded to catch 8 more in quick succession. Anywhere from 12-15”. Size limit is 17.5. We caught ‘em on Carolina rigs with live bait and Carolina rigs with cut bait. We caught em on dropper rigs with live and/or cut bait. We caught em on flounder rigs with the buck tail, beads, and little spoons. As we were leaving we seen some Spanish mackerel so I guess that’s on the short list. Have yet to catch or see anyone else catch a drum yet. Caught a whopper of a hickory shad with several dozen pogies in the cast net. Fun day. Weather depending, going crabbing tomorrow with one of my more seasoned crabbing buddies.Today was interesting for sure. Damn tide chart I looked at was way wrong. I wanted to be there at the peak low tide so I could fish 30’ of water at the end of that shoal. But we were there already so hell with it. Used shrimp to catch spot and got a buncha pogies with the cast net. Had some crab as well. Wasn’t trying to catch anything but a redfish. Ended up with an undersized flounder on a live pogie , I lost a nice speck right at the shoreline(damn them head shakes) on cut spot, and the Mexicans that showed up and fished with us caught a nice bluefish on pogie. . One could argue if there’s reds there then those others would be too. But I hadn’t thought about it and everyone I’ve talked to there only wants rockfish. So it was a neat day. As the sun started going down and all the walkable shoreline was getting submerged I looked at a different tide chart and it was spot on lol. Gonna make adjustments and go back soon.
Edit: also caught a 18” needlefish that hit the pogie so hard that it ended up hooking itself 5” below its mouth in its belly
Glad you didn’t tell her to lip it like a bass . Y’all been having a good time this year fishing and crabbing.Fun evening at the same spot. Grey and overcast with a little breeze. Felt great. Wife landed her first flounder (little dink) but she was stoked . Until I told her to grab it and get the hook out. But she did it. We then proceeded to catch 8 more in quick succession. Anywhere from 12-15”. Size limit is 17.5. We caught ‘em on Carolina rigs with live bait and Carolina rigs with cut bait. We caught em on dropper rigs with live and/or cut bait. We caught em on flounder rigs with the buck tail, beads, and little spoons. As we were leaving we seen some Spanish mackerel so I guess that’s on the short list. Have yet to catch or see anyone else catch a drum yet. Caught a whopper of a hickory shad with several dozen pogies in the cast net. Fun day. Weather depending, going crabbing tomorrow with one of my more seasoned crabbing buddies.
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I considered it lol. Yeah man we’ve been trying to get it in as much as possible. This upcoming year won’t be as leisurely so we figured strike while the iron is hotGlad you didn’t tell her to lip it like a bass . Y’all been having a good time this year fishing and crabbing.
I told somebody to do that before and they looked at me like I was crazy and asked don’t they had teeth. I tried . I’m ready for a report where the wife hooks a red drum mid 20” or bigger. She will love that fight. Hope you catch one tooI considered it lol. Yeah man we’ve been trying to get it in as much as possible. This upcoming year won’t be as leisurely so we figured strike while the iron is hot
Thanks man that shoal is so interesting. Sometimes all the bites will be on one side. Sometimes they’ll be on both(like today). Once the weather cools off the rockfish should start piling up in there. I gotta get my buddy out there with the boat where it drops off deep. Either way it’s a good time and if there’s 2 other people fishing there that’s a busy dayI told somebody to do that before and they looked at me like I was crazy and asked don’t they had teeth. I tried . I’m ready for a report where the wife hooks a red drum mid 20” or bigger. She will love that fight. Hope you catch one too
I’m out of here on Wednesdayhow long you on Ocracoke for this trip?
I’m out of here on Wednesday
Sent ya a text Wild Fire Fighter!
We will be there all next week! @Redneck Rocker Dude hope y’all get into the drum!
@TH80 we got er done today on my buddy’s jon boat on a creek I hadn’t been to. Caugh t2.5 dozen keepers or so and threw back another dozen, 5 sooks, a small flounder (in the trap) and a couple terrapins View attachment 158350
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Thanks buddy! Weather was overcast with 5-10 winds. Perfect. Only 2 boats we saw all afternoon was one sailboat and one catamaran. Definitely an overlooked honey hole kinda spotGood job!
Thanks buddy! Weather was overcast with 5-10 winds. Perfect. Only 2 boats we saw all afternoon was one sailboat and one catamaran. Definitely an overlooked honey hole kinda spot
Already got em in the steam pot. Generously coated. JO, cerveza, white and apple cider vinegar, and waterYou better have that JO ready then