Just found myself with a week off starting Jan 2 and thought I would drive down to Cape hatteras area after stripers and maybe tuna. I'd like to do some surf fishing and maybe get in on a few charters. Never been there before and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance and see you at the bash RedEd
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I usually go down to the outerbanks for a couple weeks every year in the summer time and stay in the town of duck. If you're looking for a good charter boat i would suggest the poacher. His website is www.poachersportfishing.com He posts reports and pictures every day.I've fished with a bunch of captians down there and he is the best. The promblem is he's very popular and you may have a hard time geting a trip with him on such short notice. For the trips i book with him i book 6 months in advance and cant even get the day i want or even a trip because hes a lot of times booked solid every day for months especially at this time of the year with the striper run and all. He runs oot of oregon inlet. If you cant get a trip with him im sure devin can suggest a couple of other boats. I hope this helps. Chris
I usually go down to the outerbanks for a couple weeks every year in the summer time and stay in the town of duck. If you're looking for a good charter boat i would suggest the poacher. His website is www.poachersportfishing.com He posts reports and pictures every day.I've fished with a bunch of captians down there and he is the best. The promblem is he's very popular and you may have a hard time geting a trip with him on such short notice. For the trips i book with him i book 6 months in advance and cant even get the day i want or even a trip because hes a lot of times booked solid every day for months especially at this time of the year with the striper run and all. He runs oot of oregon inlet. If you cant get a trip with him im sure devin can suggest a couple of other boats. I hope this helps. Chris
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Im glad i could help. I dont know the exact adress of a website but im sure if you plug in oregon inlet fishing center on a search engine you could find this site. The site contains every single charter boat that runs outta of oregon inlet. Oh yeah with surf fishing in the outer banks for bass its either hit or miss. Its never consistent you just gotta put your time in and be in the right place at the right time. Let me know how you do down there. Tight lines Chris
Im glad i could help. I dont know the exact adress of a website but im sure if you plug in oregon inlet fishing center on a search engine you could find this site. The site contains every single charter boat that runs outta of oregon inlet. Oh yeah with surf fishing in the outer banks for bass its either hit or miss. Its never consistent you just gotta put your time in and be in the right place at the right time. Let me know how you do down there. Tight lines Chris
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you will have a great time i'm sure! i spent some time there surfcasting last year and had a great trip. just stuffed myself with fish every night!
anyway, on the way down to duck stop by the red drum tackle shop.
http://www.reddrumtackle.com/
those guys really helped me out with tackle lures, rigs and advice thhat all worked, and gave me directions (3 times, its tougher to find than it seems) to the jetty by the lighthouse and cape point. i was not there in the winter, but i hear the bluefin action is something really special and i think they get a nice bluefish run around now. good luck and tight lines!
anyway, on the way down to duck stop by the red drum tackle shop.
http://www.reddrumtackle.com/
those guys really helped me out with tackle lures, rigs and advice thhat all worked, and gave me directions (3 times, its tougher to find than it seems) to the jetty by the lighthouse and cape point. i was not there in the winter, but i hear the bluefin action is something really special and i think they get a nice bluefish run around now. good luck and tight lines!
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I go there every year for a week in late August, we stay on Duck - there are a few blues hanging around and other small odds and ends that can be taken from the shore. As a joke, while we were hanging out on the beach drinking beers one night, I tossed a whole bluefish and 3 feet of steel leader w/ a menhaden rig (two hooks) 20 feet into the surf.
I stuck the pole in the holder and went back to my curls. 5 minutes later that 10 ft pole was double over and the line was peeling off. I picked up the pole and started running parrallel to the beach in an attempt to put some line back on the reel. Nearly spooled I tried slowing down the spool w/ my hand and the line snapped.. I paused for a moment, stupified at what had happened.
30 minutes later we had a 60 lb setup, aircraft cable shark leaders, and another bluefish in the water. With a conventional reel, I couldn't cast the bait/leader/weight and instead we could only throw the setup by hand into the surf; the bait wasn't in more than 4 ft of water. It was starting to rain a bit, but three of us stayed, hoping for a real shot at whatever had totally overpowered the 25 lb equipment.
The clicker on the reel went off! I ripped the rod out of the spike and tightened the drag; I tugged hard twice and the hooks held. Line was peeling off, but at a resonable pace and pleanty was left; after 10 minutes I began to get it in and my arms were destroyed, I handed the reel off to my brother. By walking backwards slowly and then forwards while reeling in, he was able to take line. He swapped the rod off to a friend of mine. Five minutes later the line was cut.. It appeared that the leader had gotten tangled up in the mono and wore through it during the fight. We tried it again our last night there with large mullet instead of a bluefish and were unsuccessfull.
I'm pretty sure it was one of those massive rays.. I saw someone catch one of those off the kitty hawk pier - about 5 feet across. It still could've been a drum or shark, but it seemed to really go with the waves, like it had lots of surface area.
Anyway though.. try a whole bluefish in the surf if you get the chance. I can't wait 'till next august when I get to try it again.
Jon
I stuck the pole in the holder and went back to my curls. 5 minutes later that 10 ft pole was double over and the line was peeling off. I picked up the pole and started running parrallel to the beach in an attempt to put some line back on the reel. Nearly spooled I tried slowing down the spool w/ my hand and the line snapped.. I paused for a moment, stupified at what had happened.
30 minutes later we had a 60 lb setup, aircraft cable shark leaders, and another bluefish in the water. With a conventional reel, I couldn't cast the bait/leader/weight and instead we could only throw the setup by hand into the surf; the bait wasn't in more than 4 ft of water. It was starting to rain a bit, but three of us stayed, hoping for a real shot at whatever had totally overpowered the 25 lb equipment.
The clicker on the reel went off! I ripped the rod out of the spike and tightened the drag; I tugged hard twice and the hooks held. Line was peeling off, but at a resonable pace and pleanty was left; after 10 minutes I began to get it in and my arms were destroyed, I handed the reel off to my brother. By walking backwards slowly and then forwards while reeling in, he was able to take line. He swapped the rod off to a friend of mine. Five minutes later the line was cut.. It appeared that the leader had gotten tangled up in the mono and wore through it during the fight. We tried it again our last night there with large mullet instead of a bluefish and were unsuccessfull.
I'm pretty sure it was one of those massive rays.. I saw someone catch one of those off the kitty hawk pier - about 5 feet across. It still could've been a drum or shark, but it seemed to really go with the waves, like it had lots of surface area.
Anyway though.. try a whole bluefish in the surf if you get the chance. I can't wait 'till next august when I get to try it again.
Jon
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leaky rivet: i spent a couple weeks there last year in late summer surfcasting and that sounds like a ray, all right. i saw some big ones while i was there. sometimes they come in in such numbers that the water 3 feet from shore is swarming with fintips. cobia and blacktip sharks follow the rays as they stir up the bottom, too. i was there in late summer when i saw all this. i remember watching guys with big rays on the beach, and they did the same thing you did. face away from the water, lean on the rod and walk up the beach away from the water, then turn and reel as you walk back to the waterline, then turn away from the water and do it again.
most serious surfcasters there cut the line if they are sure it's a ray. they consider them a waste of time and energy. the guys i saw fighting them were unsure if they had a cobia or drum. once they saw the shark or felt the ray all flat and dead weight they cut the line.
leaky rivet: i spent a couple weeks there last year in late summer surfcasting and that sounds like a ray, all right. i saw some big ones while i was there. sometimes they come in in such numbers that the water 3 feet from shore is swarming with fintips. cobia and blacktip sharks follow the rays as they stir up the bottom, too. i was there in late summer when i saw all this. i remember watching guys with big rays on the beach, and they did the same thing you did. face away from the water, lean on the rod and walk up the beach away from the water, then turn and reel as you walk back to the waterline, then turn away from the water and do it again.
most serious surfcasters there cut the line if they are sure it's a ray. they consider them a waste of time and energy. the guys i saw fighting them were unsure if they had a cobia or drum. once they saw the shark or felt the ray all flat and dead weight they cut the line.
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Yah, probably was a ray, but it's really a unique experience being able to fight something like that on the beach. Once I get one or two in I'll probably quit. It was funny, the exact location where we hooked onto those things was where I swam the day before.. sorta worries me when I'm swimming - would be ironic if I got bit or stung.
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Yah, probably was a ray, but it's really a unique experience being able to fight something like that on the beach. Once I get one or two in I'll probably quit. It was funny, the exact location where we hooked onto those things was where I swam the day before.. sorta worries me when I'm swimming - would be ironic if I got bit or stung.
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leakyrivet-dont get me wrong, just cuz locals think so little of a 60lb ray or 4ft shark doesn't mean i wouldn't loooove to hook into something that big. as for swimming, at cape point some drum fishing locals were letting their 2-3 yr old son wade and play in the waters edge. thats what made me notice all the fins!! i was in shock. i thought the kid would be eaten at any moment, reminded me of that scene in jaws (2 was it?) with the toddlers playing in the sand and a huge white in the background. i was really nervous myself swimming at any of the beaches there with all the rays and sharks clearly visible in the surf from any dock or pier.
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