6-17-06 - Offshore out of New River Inlet

[tarheelborn66]

I loaded up my 210CC and a friend of mine and I went to Sneads Ferry this weekend to go fishing. We met up with another friend who still lives in the Onslow County area. We headed out of New River Inlet about 6:30am on Saturday morning and went to "E" buoy to jig for some bait. Tried for about 30 minutes or so but there just wasn't anything at the buoy. I had 2 packs of frozen Ballyhoo and a box of cigar minnows that I thawed overnight so we decided to head on out. We reached the 35-38 mile point and drop our lines in about 8:10am.

I laid a nice spread out consisting of 5 lines. 2 were short (on deep planers), 2 medium and 1 shotgun out about 75 yards. The 2 short rigs were skirts only, the 2 medium were skirts with ballyhoo and the shotgun was a naked ballyhoo. By 8:15 we had our first dolphin in the boat. Over the next 3 hours we landed 7 more dolphin and 4 Kings. Throughout the morning, I realized they were hitting the meat and on the surface. So, we pulled the planers in and fished all of our on the surface. We played with skirt colors, etc. But they liked them all! No real preference in the colors. However we got most of our hits on naked ballyhoo rigs.

The bite slowed down around 11:30 and we decided to head to our second point in our route. We got there about 12:00 and ate lunch while drifting. About 12:30 we started trolling again and over the next 2 hours we caught 4 more dolphin and 1 more King. We actually quit fishing because we ran out of bait. We had pulled all of our lines in except the shotgun which had a washed out cigar minnow. I was rolling up my rig and that last line in the water started screaming. I grabbed it and set the hook. Got him up to the boat and I asked Doug if he was going to gaff it or what as Stan was driving. He said, “Yeah, I’ll be there in a minute. I’m kind of busy.” (He was rolling up a rig) I guess we had caught too many fish for him because he wasn’t excited about an 18-20 pound King. Anyway, Stan, Doug and I all had a great laugh about it.

Saturday was an epic day.


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[NCangler]

Now I'm getting real antzy to go fishing! Great day on the water Tarheel!

[ILLOGICAL GGC]

last saturday 240 rock and west rock were on fire with peanut dolphin and 10-20 lb kings.

where was i--- 15miles the wrong way---hutton wreck and jerry's reef!!!!! 1 king and 1 spaniard. had 2 cobia swim around the boat for 20 minutes and i threw everything in the boat at them 'cept the pinfish we left in the fishtrap at the dock---go figure--shish. good to get the boat back on the water though saw several 210cc in the icw between goose creek campground creek and bogue inlet
berto

[Genelie]

NICE fish......even though I too live in a warm climate, I wish we had the warm water as you guys do. I need to travel at least 200 miles into mexico to get to that warm water. and the PRirrrrrrrrrty fish

[tarheelborn66]

Randy, if you ever want to partner up on a fishing trip, let me know. I live in Raleigh and I head to Sneads Ferry - Topsail area about 2-3 times a month. I have a buddy who has a couple of places down there and I stay there. We could head out on my boat or on your boat or even take them both out and attack the fish with 2 boats. I have some great numbers stored in my GPS unit. Growing up on the coast of NC really allowed me to spend a lot of time on the water and find somegreat fishing spots.

Kevin

[NCangler]

Hey Kevin. I'd love to go fishing with you some time. Maybe we can coordinate a date on the calendar via PM. Thanks for asking!