probably gonna try to find a trout on saturday

1/2/2009 12:02:33 AM

anyone headed to the coast to try for a blue fin? I hear they are near ocean isle. I wish I could go, but we would be really pushing our gear

1/2/2009 1:08:22 AM

rolling out at 4:30 am

1/3/2009 12:41:10 AM

Somehow I knew NeuseRvrRat started this thread.

1/3/2009 1:30:19 AM

1/3/2009 1:30:41 AM

two 15" flounder on saturday. saw a few trout, few more flounder, and one rockfish caught. trout fishing has slacked off everywhere it seems.

1/4/2009 6:44:55 PM

First Trip of 2009....Disaster!

Had some time off so I head to Nags Head to do some striper fishing. Went out a little late w/ the forecast calling for 10 kts, 2-3's and the Duck Buoy was saying <10kts. We clear the inlet and its more like 20-25kts, 5-6. We slowly trudge up the coast and find birds and tons of marks. There is no way to troll effectively w/ the tide going one way and the waves coming the other. We find marks and jig on them...nothing but dogfish and lots of them. Weather clears a little bit and we run up to Duck, more dogfish. We call it a day.

On the way in, we run through the cut and boom, we run hard aground at about 30 knots. Both motors fly up and send shit flying all over the cockpit. The stern is dug but there is enough water behind to motor out and we are a foot of the edge. No way in hell I was getting in that water. Well the impact throws off one of the hydraulic motor lifts so no the boat is back in the shop.

I leave this morning and my dad does to...half way through the trip his truck blows up. Luckily it was about 30 minutes from home so he had a friend come tow the boat and he limped home.

1/4/2009 8:53:52 PM

^geez. Are you religious at all?

1/4/2009 9:08:42 PM

damn. that sucks.

1/4/2009 9:09:42 PM

what kinda truck was your dad driving?

1/4/2009 9:23:21 PM

2500HD

1/4/2009 9:28:26 PM

that's some nc state shit.

1/4/2009 9:30:18 PM

Quote :

"2500HD"

vague much?

1/4/2009 9:31:31 PM

I don't do ice fishing

so I probably won't be going out anywhere until......march or april

1/4/2009 9:34:27 PM

^^Diesel

1/4/2009 9:35:05 PM

damn, what year and how many miles? weight on the boat/trailer?

1/4/2009 9:38:41 PM

Its an 05 w/ 115k. Boat, motor, trailer, is around 7500-8500lbs maybe more. Its really never been a problem. Hopefully we sell the boat this year and get something that can't be towed.

1/4/2009 9:49:19 PM

you know what exactly broke yet?

1/4/2009 9:49:59 PM

Nope. He said he was towing and the ABS warning light came on and then the speedometer kept jumping everywhere, the battery was leaking and then tranny started heating up.

[Edited on January 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM. Reason : and the truck wouldn't go over 50]

[Edited on January 4, 2009 at 9:57 PM. Reason : gfg]

1/4/2009 9:55:39 PM

That is pretty disastrous, but at least you got home safely. Good luck getting back in the saddle.

1/5/2009 9:05:12 AM

the shad need to hurry. hopefully i will slay them on spring break like usual.

my box of darts and spoons got left in the boat and all the darts rusted. spoons were fine though. most of the darts i had left after last year were the kind i don't even use anymore though.

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM. Reason : d]

1/6/2009 12:57:29 PM

Quote :

"We find marks and jig on them."

Marks?

1/6/2009 1:05:18 PM

the sonar marks fish

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM. Reason : well, you see something suspended in the water column and you know it's a fish]

1/6/2009 1:05:53 PM

"marking" schools of fish on sonar = marks

1/6/2009 1:06:25 PM

feb. 28 it is gonna be on. i am the shadmaster.

1/12/2009 6:55:55 PM

went bluefin fishing last monday and got skunked. better to spend time on the water than cooped up in garner.

1/12/2009 7:20:04 PM

Truck is fixed, should be fishing again after inauguration is over. I think we are also putting the boat up for sale.

1/12/2009 8:10:15 PM

iop1

1/12/2009 8:20:51 PM

think I'm going through saltwater withdrawal

1/12/2009 8:22:00 PM

i know that feeling


anybody near goldsboro over spring break? i will show you the most excellent place to catch shad off the bank in wayne county.

1/12/2009 8:33:52 PM

anybody ever fished anywhere around Daytona Beach? I have to be down there for Speedweeks here in a few short weeks and am thinking about pulling my boat down there. Anybody been out on the ocean there? Last time I was down there it looked really slick.

1/13/2009 12:00:08 PM

i wanna bass fish in that infield pond down there during a race. that'd be like two of my favorite things at once.

1/13/2009 6:41:56 PM

I dunno if there are fish in the infield lake at Daytona. I'm sure there are, but I dont know how often people fish in it. I have been fishing for peacock bass in the infield lake at Homestead. They stock that one and its in the driver/owner motorcoach lot. Ryan Newman has a fishing tourney down there every year.

1/14/2009 8:28:18 AM

seems like i've seen people fishing in the daytona one on tv, but maybe i'm thinking of homestead

[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 12:08 PM. Reason : google says yes: http://www.thatsracin.com/fanspace/story/10832.html]

1/14/2009 12:04:20 PM

january and february are so worthless

1/27/2009 7:30:01 AM

Well, looks like I won't get in another Striper trip this season Luckily, the budget is fine this year so I can seek out some tuna jigging combos

2/2/2009 8:32:12 PM

Quote :

"january and february are so worthless"

2/2/2009 8:49:18 PM

don't worry, with the beginning of march comes the shad run and the fisherman's new year

2/3/2009 7:23:15 AM

was down in carteret county this weekend. scored a seatrout in gayle's creek, right under the bridge. it was cold as shit outside.

I miss summer.

And my tarpon gear needs some exercise

2/3/2009 7:52:41 AM

Anyone watch Hooked on Bass last night on Nat Geo? New show that follows people who are obsessed with landing trophy bass. As soon as I heard about it, I knew they were going to profile Dixon Lake in N. San Diego (sure enough) and I even remembered the dude's name that they profiled. I fished there probably 50 times a year and grew up 3 miles from there.

He fished Dixon for over 150 days in a row (!) for at least 10 hours a day (Feb-Jun), 3 years in a row looking to land a record fish, one he had already caught.

2/3/2009 8:20:37 AM

How'd you guys do striper fishing this year Restricted? Yall fish mostly in OI still?

2/3/2009 8:45:48 AM

I only got one trip in for Stripers. Just couldn't make it happen w/ weather and schedules. The Stripers have been all over. For a couple of weeks they never came farther south than Ocean City, MD. I just talked to some friends who spent two days out of Virginia Beach without a nibble. Oh well, thats how it goes sometimes.

2/3/2009 9:37:10 AM

we lit up rock in the alligator most of the fall up to now


^^^ is that the lake where you can only rent boats with electric motors?

[Edited on February 3, 2009 at 11:23 AM. Reason : s]

2/3/2009 11:22:10 AM

Headed down to Morehead City Thursday. Kayak fishing no doubt, maybe some boat time depending on availability.

Hopefully I'll sell my Costas on the way down.

Anybody have any inshore success around Carteret County lately?

2/8/2009 12:25:01 PM

2/9/2009 12:59:32 PM

thought about going when I was in wilmington this past weekend but I couldn't get motivated. Just laid around the house and slept pretty much all weekend.

2/9/2009 1:01:16 PM

not much going on right now anyway

2/9/2009 1:12:57 PM

hell ya!

2/9/2009 4:15:54 PM

All this nice weather has really got me jonesing for a trip to Nags Head.

2/9/2009 5:16:31 PM

Quote :

"^^^ is that the lake where you can only rent boats with electric motors?"

Yep, it's only 72 damn acres and has produced three top 25 bass. World Record bass was caught there but foul-hooked so it didn't count.

[Edited on February 9, 2009 at 5:27 PM. Reason : s]

2/9/2009 5:25:45 PM