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I just got back from my pilgrimage to the outer banks. We stayed in Duck this year and the surf fishing was slow slow slow....
The first day we pulled gulp swimming mullets thru the troughs in the surf and caught 3 short flounder and had a couple larger ones pull free. Great we thought it was going to be a great trip.
Wrong
We could not put anything on the beach the rest of the trip with the exception of a dozen or so small croakers. The fishing reports from up and down the coast had pics of lots of citation whiting (King Fish, Sea Mullets, etc...). We could not get a single one to the beach. We tried bloods and sand fleas with no luck. The beach in front of our rental looked great. There was a nice trough running parallel to the beach and a break cutting thru the outer bars. I hit the surf at 6:00 am the first three days for the blues but they never showed either.
We spent a couple hours on Tuesday at jennette's pier. That is a nice pier but a little pricey at 12 bucks a head. I yanked a gotcha for around two hours with the only excitement being a small king mack chasing it for a few feet and 3 Spanish macs that played tag with the lure without touching the hooks.
Bait was everywhere around us both at the pier and the surf. Just nothing moving around under it. Very strange.
I only got the kayak out once while down there due to laziness. We went to Oregon Inlet on Thursday to fish the sloughs behind the coastguard station. Our luck was much better there with a mixed bag of under sized spec's, Redfish and flounder.
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On Friday i made a trip to little bridge to try my luck and managed 3 under sized spec's and a larger fish the managed to pull my not so good knot. Typical after the weeks fishing.
The other part of the vacation was perfect. lots of good food, Friends and plenty of booze.
The first day we pulled gulp swimming mullets thru the troughs in the surf and caught 3 short flounder and had a couple larger ones pull free. Great we thought it was going to be a great trip.
Wrong
We could not put anything on the beach the rest of the trip with the exception of a dozen or so small croakers. The fishing reports from up and down the coast had pics of lots of citation whiting (King Fish, Sea Mullets, etc...). We could not get a single one to the beach. We tried bloods and sand fleas with no luck. The beach in front of our rental looked great. There was a nice trough running parallel to the beach and a break cutting thru the outer bars. I hit the surf at 6:00 am the first three days for the blues but they never showed either.
We spent a couple hours on Tuesday at jennette's pier. That is a nice pier but a little pricey at 12 bucks a head. I yanked a gotcha for around two hours with the only excitement being a small king mack chasing it for a few feet and 3 Spanish macs that played tag with the lure without touching the hooks.
Bait was everywhere around us both at the pier and the surf. Just nothing moving around under it. Very strange.
I only got the kayak out once while down there due to laziness. We went to Oregon Inlet on Thursday to fish the sloughs behind the coastguard station. Our luck was much better there with a mixed bag of under sized spec's, Redfish and flounder.
Video Recap
On Friday i made a trip to little bridge to try my luck and managed 3 under sized spec's and a larger fish the managed to pull my not so good knot. Typical after the weeks fishing.
The other part of the vacation was perfect. lots of good food, Friends and plenty of booze.
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