Yearly Archives: 2013

Drum Invasion

Drum everywhere!  Puppy drum are everywhere in the sound and the surf.  The big drum are just outside the second bar up and down the whole beach.   Our news feeds are flooded with photos of monster drum! What an awesome way to kick off to the fall season.  If you haven’t caught one of these things, now is the time.   Which was the case for my good buddy Graham.  He wanted to get his first drum and I gave him the call to come down and give it a shot.  He drove down Saturday morning from Raleigh.  He arrived mid day so we took out the boat and caught some specks to kick off the day. As night fell we headed north to go for the drum.    We missed a few runs, caught a few biters, pulled the hook a couple times,  just having a rough start.  Finally Graham locks in and lands a big ol fatty, his first big drum.   Mission Accomplished!

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Had Brent, Tara, and Jesee out this morning for a half day full of fishing.  We started early with very little light leaving the ramp. . . just the way I like it.   We arrived at the first destination and I couldn’t believe the amount of boats that were there.  Haven’t seen any there all summer and the fishing was way better then. Oh well, I guess the word gets out at some point.  So we pick around there for a minute and catch a few fish.  Then we made a move to a spot away from the crowd.  Managed a nice pup on topwater along with a keeper striper on top too. Fun stuff.  Picked up a few keeper trout and lost our keeper flounder at the boat.  We will get that guy  next time.  Thanks for Fishing with me Brent and crew, I enjoyed the great company.

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Visit from Pops

My Pops came down to visit my brother and I to spend some quality time.  Of course, that meant fishing.  We headed out around 0700 and fished for a couple hours in our backyards.  The wind is still howling but we found some sheltered spots and some fish.  We caught keeper trout, pups, a striper, and the biggest spot I’ve ever seen.  Finished up fishing around 0930 and stuffed our faces with Jolly Rogers breakfast. Great times! Check out the triple header 3 species

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Kayaking out of the wind *video*

My brother and I linked up with Kitty Hawk Surf Company and Hobie Kayaks to help spread the stoke on these awesome kayaks.   I will never use a paddle again, that is for sure!  My buddy Chory and I headed out to a spot a little south to try to get out of the all this NE wind.  The creeks are small here so it can only get but so bad.   Well, it was still pretty windy but the Hobie made it super easy to navigate around and still fish while manuevering the kayak in the wind.   We managed to catch plenty of small trout, a flounder, a sea mullet, a grey trout, a white perch, and a couple solid slot pups.  Fun times!  I threw together a little vid for you guys, check it out!

Big drum from the beach . . . . kinda

Some people say that my method of catching these fish is up for debate.  However, it works. . . really good. . . Since I can only throw a heaver about 40 yards, I decided the better option was to simply leave my rod on the beach, put it in free spool, set the bait in my kayak, paddle it out a couple hundred yards and drop it off the side.   The extra distance can make a huge difference.  Ken and I headed up to give it a go last night with the super calm conditions.  We had consistant action with runs about every 20 minutes.  We missed alot of fish but we also caught a handful.  It may not be the traditional way to catch these things, but it sure does work.

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