Fishing Report - Dec 16, 2006

Fishing inshore has been excellent this week. The specks are still hanging around the inlets up near the marsh grass and on colder nights moving into the nearby deep holes and channels. The water temps are in the mid 50's so you need to slow down your retrieve. I caught fish this week on Gulp! shrimp in several colors and on mirrolures - the MR808 is working best. Some of my buddies are using live shrimp under a popping cork and doing well.

Today as a buddy and I were fishing for specks near New Topsail Inlet, we had a great view of the ocean. It was almost flat as a lake with very little wind. After a while we could stand it no longer. We pulled up anchor and headed out of the inlet. With no real plan in mind, we rode out to a couple of reefs and ledges nearby. Pretty soon we were on top of a huge pile of black sea bass. I love to eat BSB and so does my buddy, so we decided to meat fish for a while.

We caught over 40 fish, keeping two limits (15 each). Most where in the 12-15 inch range. We were using sting silvers on our trout rods. What a blast and only three miles off the coast.



Someone had the bright idea to have a contest for the biggest and samllest fish of the day. The picture below will probably give you a clue as to which I won :)



Tight lines to all!