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All in all it was a great day of inshore fishing with Mark and Mark - we had fun and we went home with a check in our pocket! Austin and Tripp - we are looking forward to next year's event!

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Speckled Trout Spring Bite is Unbelievable - 04/19/08
Four Months and 19 days into 2008 we finally had a weekend where it was not raining or blowing the shortening out of the biscuits! I am supposed to be in Charleston, SC right now attending a wedding with my wife, BUT who could pass up a weekend like this with the weather as pretty as it was and the spring speckled trout bite right in our back yard. Capt. Kyle Hughes and I set out Friday morning to test our skills for the upcoming inshore tournament season. Just as Sig and Edgar Hansen of the FV Northwestern (Deadliest Catch) do each season for good luck, our first cast we lit our corks on fire and cast them out hoping that is brings us good luck like it does for those guys. Within minutes we had a double header on - Capt. Kyle bailed over a 5.3lb trout and I had one right at the 4.0lb mark. Not bad for our official first run of the season. We did not find another trout for the remainder of the day, but we did manage to land 6 or so 18" redfish.

NOW FOR THE BIG STORY! I headed back out Saturday morning by myself to prove that I could top Capt. Kyle's 5.3 pounder that was now leading the OIFC Fishing Rodeo. I managed to work though 4 - 5 small trout at the Sunset Beach Bridge before I decided to head off to the land of the giant specks. With in minutes of getting my anchor set I was hooked into one "smoker trout" - she would pull line and I would loose line - I would gain line and she take more back. This went on for five plus minutes before I ever saw the fish, but let me tell you when I did see the fish my heart about dropped out the bottom of the boat. I was finally able to net her over the side and when I heard the thud on the deck I knew it was a nice fish. I called Capt. Kyle and told him I had one that may go six plus pounds. I ran to the Ocean Isle Fishing Center and to my surprise the fish weighed more then I thought. 7.95 lbs!! Now that is a speckled trout. I was able to release her healthy and alive, hopefully I will be able to find her or her mother at Tripp and Austin's 1st Annual Backwater Battle April 25 - 26, 2008 at Holden Beach Marina next weekend.

Spring time "monster trout" fishing is now on for the next few weeks! Don't waste anytime grab your pole and go get one!

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Early 2008 Report - 2/24/08
Yes, I am alive. These dark cold days have kept me at bay, but I have been out and about on the warmer days catching trout, reds and killing a few ducks. Here is a quick recap. Over New Year's Eve I was down at Edisto Beach, SC where I had an opportunity to fish in a saltwater pond. Even in all this cold weather there were still pogies to be found in the warm waters of this pond. Flounder was the catch of the day with my largest one being right at 4.5 pounds. In between Edisto Beach, SC and Ocean Isle Beach, NC I managed to do little fishing with my fellow comrade William Southard where we managed to catch a few reds and trout in the Isle of Palms / Bulls Bay waters. After making my way on North back to Ocean Isle Beach I teamed up with Capt. Mark Dickson of Shallow Minded Inshore Charters from Myrtle Beach, SC and Mark Staci of Ocean Isle Beach. Together we fished the shallow waters around Calabash and Little River where we managed to catch 12+ rat spottails in just a matter of an hour or so. As I continued my travels on northward, Capt. Kyle Hughes and I teamed up aboard the Bone Crusher and steamed up to Sneeds Ferry. We expected to load the boat as good as the reports have been from that way, but after a full day of casting artificial we were able to hook into 6 trout (2 - 3.5 lbs) and one flounder. That is the first flounder I have ever scene in February. My final stop was a duck hunting trip over on Ocracoke Island with 3 of my best friends. We hunted three days and killed Widgeon, Pintails, and a few divers. See the photo below of the double header pintail shooting I was able to pull off.

Looking forward to the weather warming and getting back to my daily routine of fishing!

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Speckled Trout Bite is ON!! - 12/9/07
After yesterday's bite, I had to head out back out for another day of it. Today I caught over 20 trout and 6 redfish from Lockwood to the Shallotte River area. The largest trout was 4.8 lbs and I had a handful of upper 3 lb fish. The bite was a little slow to get started, but from 9:30 - 10:30am is was one. There for a while every drift produced a bite.

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Under Like Thunder - 12/8/07
I back - I'm alive. The month of November is my favorite time of year to be outdoors and darn if I'm not hit with a wedding anniversary, my twin's birthday, my wife's birtday and Thanksgiving all in a thirty day period. Not much time for fish and hunting I hate to say. It is now December and I'm back on the fishing circuit. Could not be a better time to be on the water - Capt. Brian Aycock and I headed out this morning for a day of speckled trout fishing. With fishing being so good lately we decided to do a little prospecting. We dock hopped all up and down the ICW with live shrimp that Brian had caught early this week. By the end of the day we captured over 20 speckled trout, redfish, and black drum. See the photos below of the three largest specks we caught. They weighed 5.8, 4.2 and 3.9 - we culled through quite a few 3+ pounders. All in all it was a great day on the water!

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Lafitte, LA Fishing Report - 10/7/07
Before I start to tell this story - I will go ahead and acknowledge that there is no way that you will believe it, but that is ok. Remember Louisiana is the "Sportsman Paradise". I booked a speckled trout - red fish full day charter with Griffin Fishing Charters and climbed aboard with Capt. Keith. We made a 10 minute run to Lake Salvador. As we made our way down the bank of the lake Capt. Keith had me looking for birds working bait. Within minutes of looking for birds we found them working on mullet and shrimp on the lee side of Lake. We eased our way up to the shallows and fished between a grass flat and cypress tree line. Within minutes the bite was on - we fishing artificials and top water the entire morning. From 7:00am until 12:00pm we were 4 for 7 on reds and we caught over 200 speckled trout. This was what I was referring to earlier. I don't expect you to beleive me no way you see it. That is ok because I would have never believed it until I actually experienced it. There was never more then a 2-3 minute lull in action. If I went more then three cast without a bite I thought the fishing was getting bad. My boat was not the only one who deck loaded the drum and speckles.

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Myrtle Beach Fishing Report - Red Drum Alert - Red Drum Alert - 10/7/07
I started off fishing Friday morning at the Little River Jetties. I was looking into getting in on some of the sheepshead action that has been going on down that way. I had the right bait and was anchored just like I wanted to be, but had no luck. I know they are there I just have to figure it out. After 30 minutes of doing this, I switched off and drifted the inlet for redfish, but all I got were cutoffs from bluefish. Boy the bluefish are thick!! I did manage to catch one nice flounder around Tubbs Inlet. See the photo below of Beck Rogers holding the fish up!

Saturday morning came and the wind was still blowing East - Northeast. I started off fishing in the Shallotte Inlet area and managed to catch one puppy drum. I hung around here for a while until the tide was dead low. Did not seem like too much was going on. I headed out of the Shallotte Inlet and punched in the Jim Caudle reef. Here I managed to catch a few flounders and grey trout. Right on top of the structure the "mother-in-laws" (toad fish) were thick. Seems as if the fish were holding on the upwind side of the structure. I came back into the Little River Jetties around 1:30, the wind shifted to a more East - Southeast direction, and drifted the incoming tide for drum. No luck - the blues were so thick I could not get a bait down. I ran off to the Calabash River, where I managed to catch a few small speckled trout. 13 - 15 inches.

Sunday I had planned not to go fishing and to work around the house. Well, this all changed when Capt. Larry Spainhour called at 2:45pm with a RED DRUM alert. He reported that he had caught two reds back to back and another boat was hooked up. I looked at my wife and simply stated - I have to go to the jetties and I will return in two hours. I had the throttle to the pins all the way down to the jetties. Upon arriving, I looked over at Larry and he was hooked up. I knew this report was dead on. I made a drift and BAM two rods doubled over. I managed to get one to the boat - the other got away. This bite was red hot from the time I arrived at 3:15 until about 4:15 or so. I hauled a total of five over the gunnels during this time period and Capt. Larry ended up with 8 reds with the largest going right at 43 inches. Now, that is a big fish. Hopefully, this bite will continue for the next week or two. This bite ocurrs each year around this time of the year. It happened a little later this year, I believe because the water temp has been much higher compared to last year until recently.

All fish were tagged and released!
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Team Bone Crusher places 3rd in the Southport Wildlife Bait and Tackle Shop Flounder Tournament - 09/29/07
A flounder tournament was held at the Southport Wildlife Bait and Tackle shop benefitting Brandon Mathews this past weekend. I decided to team up with Capt. Ricky Bishop and give it a run for my money. We pre-fished the Cape Fear on Friday from the Southport Waterfront to Snows Cut and did not get a single flounder bite. We thought about it a while and decided to head down to the Little River Jetties, the flounder fishing around Southport has been a little slow overall. The wind was going to blow 25+ out of the northeast and this would provide us some shelter out of the winds. We fished most of the day around the jetties and ended up catching six flounder and one 40 inch red drum. We were fishing with both pogies and 5-6 inch mullets. Ricky and I made a few stops on the way back to Southport, but most of our flounder holes were dried up. Team Bone Crusher weighed a 5.54 lb flounder that put us in 3rd place out of 43 boats. We did not quite win it like we did the previous weekend, but I will take 3rd place any day!!

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Team Bone Crushes takes 1st Place in the inshore division of the North Carolina's Deep Water / Shallow Water Fishing Rodeo - 09/23/07
I decided late last week that I was going to fish The North Carolina's Deep Water / Shallow Water Fishing Rodeo held out of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center. The weather has been a little back and forth for the past week or so from strong NE winds to a Tropical Storm looming over us. Either way long as there were no lighting bolts flying around I was going to fish. I was planning on fishing by myself until I received a call from Capt. Kyle Hughes - he was available to fish on Wednesday and that was the day of my birthday - I could thing of any thing better to be doing then fishing an inshore fishing tournament.

Day 1 - Wednesday, September 19th - Kyle and I decided that we would focus on different species over the two day period. Day 1 we were going to focus on catching trout and redfish and on Day 2 we would focus on the flounder. We caught a few and I mean a few shrimp in the Eastern Channel and mullet on Wednesday morning. We fishing all the trout spots >> Sunset Beach Bridge, Little River Jetties, etc.. We manage to come up with a little ole 1.55lb trout - not much of a trout, but it was a trout. It was not long until we ran out of shrimp so we shifted out focus to red fishing! We stopped and fished a few spots along the ICW and managed to come across a redfish in the 4-5 lb range. Good fish, but we knew we needed a larger one. We headed off to the Shallotte Inlet were we managed to catch a 2.20 lbs flounder. At this point we were pretty excited, we had all three species and they were all alive. (Keeping your fish alive in this tournament is critical - you receive an additional 1 lb for each species that is released alive.) We had a little more time on our hands so we made one more stop to attempt to upsize our spottail. This last stop turned out to be quite fruitful. We landed a drum at 4:45pm that was 26 7/8 inches - this fish was at the top of the slot and went right at 9.15 lbs. We ran to the weigh in and day one we were leading the tournament by just over 3 pounds.

Day 2 - Saturday, September 22nd - Today Capt. Kyle's father, Nathaniel Hughes, joined the team and we made the decision to fish for a larger trout early in the morning and they work on upsizing our flounder. Believe it or not, we did not get a single trout bite the entire day. This was a little disappointing, but it just doesn't feel right trout fishing in 90 degree weather. We decided after an hour or so that we needed to head on flounder fishing. Within 5 minutes of arriving out our flound hole I screamed out, "GRAB THE NET" - this flatty rolled beside the boat and we scooped him directly into the live well. He weighed 7.00 lbs. We knew at this point there was probably no way we would upsize this flounder so we set back out speckled trout fishing. We fished and worked for a trout bite and just could not mustard one up. Nathaniel insisted that we head back out the flounder grounds and do a little meat fishing being that the bite was good. (He was looking to stock his freezer for future fish fry!!) Not only did we catch that 7 pounder earlier, we caught 5 other flounder in the 2 - 3 lb range. It was not 10 minutes until Nathaniel felt the unique thump that big flounder makes when he inhales a minnow. He let him eat and we he came tight the fish did not budge. It was the longest flounder battle I have ever scene - 5 minutes later he came with a 8.4 lb flounder. Yes, believe it or not my 7 pounder just got trumped by this 8.4 lb fish. With these really nice flounder and the drum we caught back on Wednesday I felt good about things. We headed back down to the Ocean Isle Fishing Center and waited for the scales to open at 4pm. We weighed our fish and ended up with a 22.10 lbs - remember this included the 3 live release pounds. Actual weight was 19.10 - not a bad 3 fish aggregate weight. We blew the field away by 7+ pounds, 2nd place was 15.80 lbs!

Team Bone Crusher took 1st place overall, 1st place TWT Flounder, and 1st place TWT Redfish. - See the official report from the Ocean Isle Fishing Center Website (scroll down the report "CCA Rodeo Final results update 9/23/07" report)

Be on the lookout for next week's fishing report. I will be heading up to Southport, NC to fish an inshore flounder tournament. Hopefully, I can transfer some of my mojo to that tournament!!
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Charleston Fishing Report - 09/15/07
Well my boat was in the shop over the weekend and I had a wedding party I had to attend down in Charleston, South Carolina. I called up two up my buddies from down that way, William Southard and Hamiliton Harrelson and lined up a fishing trip with them for Saturday morning. We meet Saturday morning at 7:00 AM and headed out of Shem Creek. The tide was rising and we had hurry to catch bait before it got too high. Within 30 minutes we had all the nice finger mullet the tanks could hold. With the bait catching mission behind us, we set out to fish a spot up the Wando that has been producing nice catches of redfish and trout. We arrive at the fishing spot right at 8:00 AM and no sooner we put a line in the water the pole bent. Within the first 20 minutes we landed 3 spottail and a trout. As the tide continued to rise the bite slowed a little. All in all we had 4 spottail, 3 trout, 2 flounder, 1 bluefish, and a small group!! All fish were tagged and released so be on the lookout for these fish.
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Myrtle Beach Fishing Report - 09/08/07
I made it to the boat around 8:15am this morning and the tide was still a little high. I had pinned a few mullets from my fishing trip on Friday and had a few baits to get started. I dropped my lines in along the docks of the ICW around Ocean Isle Beach and within the first 30 minutes I landed three redfish and one nice flounder. I waited for the tide to drop out a little and stopped over in the Eastern Channel to catch a few shrimp before I headed down to the Little River Jetties. I made a few drifts looking for the large reds, but none were home. I pulled over on the rocks just on the Eastern side and managed to catch two nice flounder. I looked over the rocks and to my surprise the ocean looked really nice giving that we have a tropical disturbance 300 miles SouthEast of Wilmington. I managed to make my way to the near-shore reefs and wrecks and caught 3 more flounder. The bite was never really hot offshore, so I headed back to the jetties to make a few more drifts were I picked up a few speckled trout. I had a real good morning, but once the tide turned and started rising I really did not catch many fish. Seems like the bite was better on the falling tide. FYI - surface water temp 80.2 degrees and mullet thick all over the jetties.

Be on the lookout - I released all my fish today alive and in great shape with a tag in their back!!
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Little River Fishing Report - 09/03/07
Woke up this morning to E-NE winds. I did not feel too confident, but I struck out anyway. Besides the wind direction it was an awesome day to be on the water. I once again caught all the nice mullett and shrimp I needed at the Eastern Channel at Ocean Isle Beach. By 8:30am I was down at the Little River Jetties working on a drum bite. There were two spottails caught while I was there, but my number was never pulled. After drifting the jetties for about an hour I headed off to the creeks around the Calabash Cross Roads, here I managed to catch a handful of speckled trout and a few small drum. There were not the largest fish, but just the fact of seeing my pole bend gets me excited. I was able to get a tag in the small spottail.
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Ocean Isle Beach Fishing Report - 09/01/07
Well, I'm back from my two week Pamlico Sound drum expidition and I working at getting tuned back into to my local fishing grounds. I slipped out the house this morning at 6am and headed down to the Little River Jetties in pursuit of our local redfish. I caugh nice mullett at the Eastern Channel in Ocean Isle Beach and was at the rocks by 7:15am. I made multiple drifts on the inside, fished the tips of both jetties, and even floated a shrimp for a trout..... NOTHING! It was time to make a move and so I moved off to fish for flounder at the nearby reefs. My first minnow to the bottom I hooked a nice 4.5lb flounder, and over the next 1 hour period I caught right at 10 flounder. I kept five of the larger flatties for my dinner table. I bet you one thing - it is a long weekend and with the weather permitting I will be back at it tomorrow and Monday!
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Cedar Island Red Drum Fishing - 08/25/07
I apologize for not posting a fishing report for the past two weeks, but I have been on the hunt for BIG PAMLICO SOUND RED FISH! Check out the pictures below. Clay Morphis and I stopped on the way up to Cedar Island at the Harkers Island boat ramp to catch menhaden. After loading our cooler with fresh pogies and a few small flounder mullet we set out on a inshore fishing mission before we headed up to Cedar Island for the night time drum bite. We stopped over at a rock groin along Harkers Island and within 10 minutes I caught an inshore slam. Flounder, Speckled Trout, and Red Drum. I was excited, this is not even what I came for and lucked up catching some nice inshore fish. Later that afternoon we arrived at the Cedar Island Ferry, we had a room at the Driftwood Inn and Restaurant. We headed out of the boat ramp around 6pm and ran to a location 3-4 miles West. We dropped anchor and setup a nice chum slick - it was not long before the bite was on. We caught redfish from the 25 - 40lb range. We had quite a few bites and lost quite a few fish. I have a lot to learn, but it will not be long until I have this fishery figured out. It is definitely a trip you have to take if you love big RED FISHING!!

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Ocean Isle Beach Sheepshead Fishing is here! - 08/11/07
Being that it has been 110 degree heat index I had no desire to hop on the water first thing this morning. Instead, I took the opportunity to take care of a few chores around the house that I have been neglecting. Low tide was after lunch so I decided to hop in the boat around noon time. The conditions did not look conducing to flounder fishing, therefore I decided to catch fiddlers and head to the Ocean Isle Beach bridge to try my look sheepshead fishing. At the very moment I got tide off I received a call from Capt. Mark Staci. He had been watching me the entire time and decided he wanted to hop on the Bone Crusher for a little sheepshead fishing along with me. Within approximately 1 hour we boated 4 sheepshead with the largest going right at 2 1/2 - 3 lbs. Boy, we missed a lot of fish. You definitely can not talk, drink a beer, or take you mind off what you are doing. Sheepshead are a very tricky fish to catch. As soon as the bite was over Capt. Staci told me he appreciate using all my bait, tackle, cold beer and instructed me to take him back to the dock so he could go get back in the AC. Boy what a true fishing partner!! I pushed on from here and landed a few red drum around the docks of Ocean Isle Beach.

NOTE: See the tags in the fish below outlined by the red circle. Randy Niebauer put me in contact with the Coastal Conservation Conservation of Louisiana and they provided me with tags that I could use to tag virtually any species I wanted. Be sure to be on the lookout for these tagged fish, at this time I have tagged Flounder, Trout, Red Drum, and Sheepshead. If you catch one be sure to contact the National Marine Fisheries Service at 1-800-567-2182 and provide them with the "L" number located on the tag. Needless to say these instructions along with the phone number are found on the tag. I figured it be very interesting to see how far our local fish migrate up and down the coast / offshore. If you have any questions or would like to receive a tagging kit contact me at CaptBrandon@Icoastalnet.com

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Myrtle Beach Flounder Fishing - 08/04/07
Fishing report is coming soon! I have ran out of time and my wife is giving me the business! See the photos below.

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Shallotte Nearshore Flounder Pounding - 07/28/07
Good afternoon! Had a great morning this morning flounder pounding. I left out this morning around 6:30am with mullet I had caught Friday afternoon. I ran down to Shallotte Inlet and made a drift or two and caught 2 small flounder. I was not happy with my bait so I headed out of the Shallotte Inlet and turned west down Ocean Isle Beach looking for pogies. Within the first quarter mile I found all the menhaden you could imagine. I took a look around and the ocean was flat calm - wanted to head offshore. Having recently purchases a Garmin 498 Chartplotter, I was anxious to put it to work. I ran off to nearshore live bottom and wrecks near Shallotte Inlet. The flounder bit like bulldogs from 8:30am until 10:00am, I caught over a dozen flounder with the smallest going right at 2lb and the largest went 4.85lbs. (just can't seem to find a darn citation size fish this year, but I'm getting close.) See the pics below. I kept 7 of the largest ones, plan on having a fish fry real soon!

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Brian Aycock lands a doormat - 07/23/07
I caught word this morning via the coconut telegraph that Brian Aycock had landing a doormat flounder. It had me so tore up that there was no way I could work. I left out of the office and met him as he arrived at the Ocean Isle Fishing Center. When he first pulled up he pulled out a flounder that would go about 3lbs, nice fish but I wanted to see a big one. The next fish Brian pulled out of the cooler was the stud I was looking for. We had bets going on the dock from 4.5 lbs to 6.6lbs - Brian placed the fish on the scales and it came in right at 7.30lbs! It was a monster! It appears that the flounder bite is on even though I have yet to find a monster myself. Becky Noble had a 6+ lb fish last week or so, Brian a 7.30, Capt. Kyle with 1003 flounder and Toby Russ with 23 flounders around the nearshore waters of Southport. Ok, I think I'm taking the rest of the week off - this is killing me!

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Team Sauls with a Ocean Isle Slam - 07/21/07
Fishing has been pretty good this past week. I spoke with Capt. Kyle Hughes from the Ocean Isle Fishing Center and he said he had a record day with 21 flounders caught just a few days before! With that good news being reported I headed off with my mom and dad to some of our known "hot spots". I first caught bait early in the Eastern Channel at Ocean Isle Beach. We headed out around 11am just as the tide was peaking out. We made a few stops with no bites and ended up in Tubbs Inlet. As soon as the tide went slack and started falling the bite was on. We caught all three species in one location. We had 6 flounder, 1 speckled trout, and 2 spottail drum. The trout and drum were not the largest, but combined with the flounder we caught it made for a nice day with the family. See the photos below.

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Team Noble Lands a Doormat - 07/15/07
I fished this weekend and did not have much look at all. I started at the Jim Caulde Reef at 8am on Saturday morning and fished every where from the Calabash Cross Roads to Shallotte River. I ended up with 1 trout, 4 flounders and 1 spottail drum. I must say though, that my catch was absolutely nothing to the catch that Becky and Nesbitt Noble had on Sunday afternoon. I would like to say before I go any farther with this story that the fish was caught on bait that was taken out of my bait tank, with permission though!! Becky and Nesbitt had fished from Tubbs Inlet to the Ocean Isle Beach Bridge without a bite. They agreed it was time to pack it up and head home, but not without Becky making one last cast. She casted her live mullet up next to the pilings at the Ocean Isle Beach Bridge and BAM within a few seconds she had a 6.4lb flat fish hooked up. After a battle that lasted a few minutes the fished rolled up and Nesbitt scooped it up in the net. The fish was 24 inches long with a 21 inch girth. They pulled up to my dock with the fish still kicking, it was a monster. See the photos below.

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Ocean Isle Fishing Report - Inshore!! - 07/07/07
Brian Aycock and I struck out this morning in search of redfish and flounders. We started the day off by catching finger mullet and shrimp in the Eastern Channel behind Ocean Isle Beach. We started fishing around 10am just as the tide started to reach the grass. Within approximately one hour we were three for six on spottail. Once the tide rose a little higher we decided to head off flounder fishing in the Shallotte River and Inlet. Right of the get go we caught 2 flounder and then it cooled right back down. We saw pelicans diving on menhaden in Shallotte Inlet and raced over to catch a few, these pogies were large enough to scare off a king mackerel. We threw on the twice and didn't even see any small enough to cull through. We went back to floundering once the tide went slack and started to fall and caught 2 more flounder. Brian caught the largest flounder, approximately 2lbs shown below. Stand by until next week!

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From Bone Crushing to Flounder Pounding!! - 07/06/07
Well, I have been MIA on the fishing reports for the last couple of weeks, but that does not mean that I have not been fishing. I have been sneaking out in the afternoons and still been tugging on the redfish along the ICW. Last week I encounter a few nice drum, one which broke off and I feel back over my console and gave myself a Calcutta 250 bait caster black eye. Yep, it popped off so hard the reel came back and caught me just below the eye. Doesn't get any better then that!! I have been picking a few trout, drum and flounder over the past few days, but I must say from 1:00pm until 2:30pm today the flounder bite was on. The top of the rising tide proved to be the best time back in the Shallotte River entrance. Nice size finger mullet are plentiful in the Eastern Channel on low tide. Pogies can be found between the Ocean Isle Beach Bridge and the Sunset Beach Bridge, but they are scattered. See the photos below I was 7 for 9 today on keeper flounder with the largest going right at 3.5 lbs. Check out the storm photo below - that was last week 6/30/07. I left out of Crab Catchers in Little River with this storm in hot pursuit of me - I never pulled it back until I made it to my boat lift. This storm had unbelievable lighting in it! Just thought you might like to see that shot!