Great Summertime Fishing Season Continues

Ocean Pearl Charters

Just when you thought spanish mackerel fishing couldn’t get any better, along come reports of 30 to 35 inch whoppers! There has to be a new state record swimming around out there! Drone or Clark spoons pulled behind a planer or an in-line sinker will do the trick. Watch for breaking fish under birds ,work tidelines and shoal edges.

Cobia action is still very good and should continue through the summer. Live eels and live croaker are the best baits now. Try chumming in areas where fish are know to hang out. Look for them near ocean and bay buoys and along the CBBT.

Knot Wish’n Charters

Big schools of red drum are still popping up. If you can’t find fish to sight cast try anchoring and chumming near shoals.

Spadefish are around structure and fall for pieces of clam. Once they are spotted chumming can draw them off the structure and keep them near the boat.

Ocean Pearl Charters

Good reports of flounder are coming from the CBBT area, the Cell and all the artificial reefs.

The Virginia Beach Fishing Pier is reporting spanish, blues, flounders and small roundheads.

Boats deep dropping on shallow ocean wreck are catching flounder and Sea bass. Deeper wrecks are holding sea bass and tilefish.

Offshore bluewater anglers are catching yellowfin tuna, big eye tuna, dolphin, wahoo and swordfish.

OBX, NC

112 pound wahoo caught on the Point Runner!

Surf fishing is a little slow, a few croaker, spanish and bluefish were reported on Hatteras Island and pompano, croaker and spanish and a few trout on the northern beaches.

The pier reports are, Avalon, slow. Nags Head, mullet, bluefish and spot. Jennette’s, black sea bass, pinfish and spot. Outer Banks, spot, croaker, sea mullet and gray trout. Sound side on the the Little Bridge on the Nags Head/Manteo causeway, trout and spot.

Inshore Boats reported spanish, bluefish and ribbonfish. Inlet boats caught ribbonfish, spanish, trout and bluefish.

Offshore boats are catching yellowfin, blackfin, dolphin, wahoo and a few billfish.