Fishing Trip - May 29, 2006

The weather was suppose to be great today, both the skies and seas were suppose to be fair. In fact the NOAA forecast called for 2 foot seas with only 5-10 knot winds. The skies were very sunny but they missed the call on the seas. There was 3-4 footers with an occasional 5 footer mixed in. at times, the swells were coming from two directions because of the of the overnight wind shift. The wind was closer to 15 knots most of the morning. There was lots of chop on top of the swells. Don't get me wrong, it was managable in my 19' CC but it was not the fair seas and pleasant ride we had expected.

We changed our plan and instead of heading for AR 366 & 368, we headed for Dallas Rocks, a much closer destination (5 miles out). We trolled for two hours managing one King Mackerel in the boat then we decided to head for Masonboro bouy and fish the south side of the jetty. We found a calmer ocean partially protected from the swells (only one direction of swells) and calmer winds. We caught some spanish there before heading for John's creek to bottom fish. Nothing there so we headed for Carolina Beach inlet and rode the ICW back north. We finished the day flounder and Drum fishing near Nixon Channel.

Not a lot of fish today but we manged a few and had a great time.