Monthly Archives: May 2013

Tropical Storm Lockjaw

Tommy and I headed out into Kitty Hawk Bay this evening in what felt like the first tropical storm of the season.  That didn’t stop us from giving it a shot.  We ran across the bay in hopes of getting out of the wind to one of my favorite little points. Tommy and I pulled off our first bites.  We didn’t get any more hits for a while, but with the wind blowing so hard, there wasn’t many other options.  We ended up trying one more spot where Tommy pulled out a nice puppy drum. After posing for a quick picture, back in the water it went.  I got skunked, but we scored an epic sunset.

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Good Morning Kayak

Fished Kitty Hawk Bay from my kayak for an hour this morning. Wind was relatively light out of the SW. First bite was a trout around 20”. Beautiful fish full of eggs. Anchored up and caught a bunch more keepers in the same zone. Just as the bite seemed to be slowing down I got crushed. The fish peeled drag and really got my adrenaline pumping. Had to be a drum. End up being one of the nicer pups I’ve caught this spring. Drum can really put up a fight, especially on light tackle. All fish were released. Another enjoyable morning on the water.

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6th Annual Bayliss Triple Crown

I got a text from my buddy Marc asking me if I wanted to fish in this annual invitational tournament, I couldn’t reply fast enough.   We met up at 0515 to dump the boat in the water.  We were fishing from a 24′ Sportsman Bay which I have to say is one bad boat!  The fishing wasn’t red hot for us but we drove around and picked em off here and there.  We ended the day (noon) with about 15 trout with 12 of them being keepers.  We attended the weigh-in, and after a blessing from the legendary Omie Tillett, we all sunk our teeth into some delicious soft shell crabs straight off the docks. It was a pleasure to fish with these guys and I hope we can all get out there again soon.  Thanks again Marc at www.RockOnCharters.com for the invite.  He is great Capt to call if you are looking to run inshore charters here on the Outer Banks!

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Still Kickin’

We slipped out for an hour while we had a break in the weather. . . We have had the most erratic and unpredictable weather lately.  The wind was howling all day but it decided to drop out and give us a little window to go find dinner.  We managed two bites, a trout and a flounder.  The time spent from the water to the oven was about 1 hour for these fish.  Doesn’t get much fresher then that!

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One more cast *video*

Matt and I both had a busy day ahead of us today. . . So we figured, no better way then to start it off on the right foot.  We fished from 0530 until about 10am and we caught them the whole time.  We just couldn’t stop fishing because we were having so much fun!  We brought along the video camera to grab some clips, and I threw together a little edit. As you can see, we love to catch and release these fish, and we typcially just keep the ones that we think will have a low chance of survival. Enjoy!

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