Category Archives: Fishing Charter

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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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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Mid Day Doldrums

I fished with my friend, musician, and darn good angler Ed Tupper.  We fished mid day, during a blue bird sunny day.  This is not typically when I like to fish.  We made the best of it and found some trout.  I also managed to catch the worlds smallest flounder.  We couldn’t pass up the nice weather and an opportunity to slide out for a couple hours.  Here is a shot of the dinky flounder, and a pic of Ed after a good morning of trout fishing about a month ago (we didn’t take any photos of his trout during this session so I stole an old shot.)

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Proud Daddy

I took my 3 year old daughter out about a week ago on one of those sunny beautiful afternoons.   It was her first time on the boat and she loved it! I got her a barbie fishing pole for her birthday, and she was having a great time practicing her cast with the toy fish.  I managed to hook a pretty decent trout, and of course I had to hand off the rod.  She fought it all the way in, and even held it with the boga grip.  Here is Hazel with her first trout!

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