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Day one:
Finally was able to escape for a fishing trip, and to what better place then the Outer Banks. Arrived Friday afternoon in time to check in, get all the tackle ready and hit the beach right behind the motel. We fished the outgoing through the incoming till about 2:30am and caught a couple of undersized speckled trout and a bunch of small black drum. Today, we drove down to Oregon Inlet to check out the new inlet that has formed.
The power of a storm to completely change an area like that is amazing. The new inlet is fairly deep and I can only imagine it growing larger. I don't know if we will ever be able to drive all the way down to the original Oregon Inlet. On the plus side, it opened the area formally known as the "pond" and enlarged it, it looks very fishy. I am going to launch the kayak into it tomorrow on the sound side of things during incoming.
We set up about a 1/4 mile north of the new inlet on the beach in an area with lots of rough and dirty water. It looked very drummy! Fished fishbites bloodworm and crab flavor, shrimp, cut mullet and then fresh cut spot and other fish. The days catch was very mixed! We caught several small flounder, speckled trout, sea mullet, spot, lots of pompano, lots of small black drum, a couple of blues, and I got the first puppy drum of the trip!
We went home with a cooler of fish, and I caught the fish I target when I come here, so I am a happy camper. Good start to the trip, the new neoprene waders are working nice and the waterproof iphone case is working well. I will post a review on that soon. Here until Wednesday!
Finally was able to escape for a fishing trip, and to what better place then the Outer Banks. Arrived Friday afternoon in time to check in, get all the tackle ready and hit the beach right behind the motel. We fished the outgoing through the incoming till about 2:30am and caught a couple of undersized speckled trout and a bunch of small black drum. Today, we drove down to Oregon Inlet to check out the new inlet that has formed.
The power of a storm to completely change an area like that is amazing. The new inlet is fairly deep and I can only imagine it growing larger. I don't know if we will ever be able to drive all the way down to the original Oregon Inlet. On the plus side, it opened the area formally known as the "pond" and enlarged it, it looks very fishy. I am going to launch the kayak into it tomorrow on the sound side of things during incoming. We set up about a 1/4 mile north of the new inlet on the beach in an area with lots of rough and dirty water. It looked very drummy! Fished fishbites bloodworm and crab flavor, shrimp, cut mullet and then fresh cut spot and other fish. The days catch was very mixed! We caught several small flounder, speckled trout, sea mullet, spot, lots of pompano, lots of small black drum, a couple of blues, and I got the first puppy drum of the trip!
We went home with a cooler of fish, and I caught the fish I target when I come here, so I am a happy camper. Good start to the trip, the new neoprene waders are working nice and the waterproof iphone case is working well. I will post a review on that soon. Here until Wednesday!
We had dwindling returns from the surf and hit many good holes and troughs. The first day/night that I posted the report on turned out to be the most fruitfull! Friday it was 83 and sunny, so I dragged my feet leaving. Checked out the brand new Jenette's Pier. That place is a perfect example of how a pier SHOULD be built! It is amazingly nice. I am going to kayak the next trip a bunch more since I have scouted out the area. I also caught more fish only half trying in the yak for an hour or two then I did the previous two days on shore oddly.
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