Fishing Report 08/21/2014

Well, it’s been a crazy week around the shop, as we had another crewmember “Scarlett Evan Lamb” come into our family Tuesday afternoon. So, this week's report is going to be short and to the point because I haven't had much sleep. If you need more details feel free to call the shop or look back at last week's report as there's not much change.

Last weekend, we had some great weather along with some good fishing that we haven’t seen over the last few weekends. We weighed fish in from the backwaters all the way out to the blue waters. Plus, from what we're seeing right now it looks like this weekend it's going to be the same. The forecast is calling for a good North Wind coming in on Sunday, which should really fire up some things. Both Friday and Saturday's winds are going to be light 5-10mph. We are going into the time of the year when I like to think overall, it's the best time to fish over the next few months.

As far as Inshore – this week and last weekend we saw good Flounder action on the reefs and around the marsh areas on the inside along with some caught around the Port Wall area.

Sheepshead action is good with some big ones coming to the scales along with some coolers full. Live Sea Urchins and Live Fiddler Crabs both are the bait of choice. We still have both in stock and will keep them until this fall when it gets too cold for the bait.

Spanish action is good in the Inlet and out in the Shipping Channel plus along the beaches. Anglers are still catching the bigger ones out around AR315 on Live Finger Mullet and yes, we still have them in stock.

The Redfish bite is still good in all of the marsh areas with good action on Topwaters and Popping Corks.

The Old Drum fishing is getting pretty good in the Neuse. I know last weekend there were some caught during the day on the Popping Cork Rigs. What we've seen the best bite is at night with some boats catching up to 15 fish a night. Fresh Mullet is working the best along with Dead Menhaden. We're getting another load of fresh mullet in this week for the Old Drum fishing and it works great from the Surf Zone being a great “Shark Bait”.

There's some good Speckled Trout action as we saw a good limit of fish brought by the shop that was caught around the Haystacks. To catch them, it seems you need to be out there early in the morning to get on the bite but that all will change in just a few short weeks when the action will really start to heat up going into fall.

Offshore fishing – was very good last weekend with good numbers of Wahoo showing up along with some Dolphin being caught. The good Wahoo bite has already fired up and will get better and better as it cools down. We weighed quite a few last weekend over the 50lbs mark. We've stocked up this week with Bluewater Candy Rig Jags, Sea Witches, Jag-Hoo’s and the Wahoo Chains all rigged on wire ready to fish. We have plenty of nice sized Medium Bait Master and Bionic Ballyhoo in-stock perfect for Wahoo season.

We also are seeing some great bottom fishing with Grouper, Snappers, Sea Bass, Trigger Fish, Cobia and we've even seen a few African Pompano. Most of the action has been out past the 30-mile range in the Big Rock area. Friday and Saturday looks good again this weekend for some offshore action with winds forecasted to be 5 to 10 with 2 to 3ft seas.

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