Middle Peninsula
After several unsuccessful skirmishes with big cobia, plus a few undersized catch and releases, Capt. Dick Whitehill aboard the Miss Karen landed a nice 42-inch cobia at Windmill Bar. The Captain was using live eels. Capt. Whitehill notes that there are still loads of croakers to be caught – coolers full, actually.
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Chincoteague
Capt. Bob’s reports: Kaiden Walker, age 4, from Herndon, VA, caught his first ever flounder – 17″keeper and he caught it on minnows at Little Beach.
Warren Meadows and Roger Northcraft fished Blackfish Banks, several times this week. They fished 60-65′ of water, using minnows and squid and caught flounder, black sea bass and, get this, a COD!! Roger stated he brought up the biggest sea bass he had ever seen, in the 29 – 30″ range, but he released her since she was pregnant. Hats off to you,
Joe Wantz out of PA caught successive limits of nice flounder in back to back fishing trips
Peninsula Saltwater Report
By Dr. Ken Neill, III
Capt. Jorj Head fished the VBAC Cobia Classic this past weekend and won. His 63.5 pound fish was caught while chumming and was almost as heavy as the 2nd and 3rd place fish combined.
Limits of flounder are being caught at the CBBT with some being doormats. Flounder are also being caught in the Back River Reef area, 36A, Hampton Bar, in the York River, inside the seaside inlets of the Eastern Shore, and some have begun to show at the Cell area.
Some big red drum continue to be caught in the evenings on the shoals at the mouth of the bay and by sight casters at the mouth of the bay and along the oceanfront. Cobia fishing is excellent. Sight fishing is very good when the conditions allow.
Spanish mackerel are being caught along the oceanfront and inside the lower bay on up to the Cell area. Spadefish can be found over many wrecks and at the Chesapeake Light Tower and the CBBT. Big sheepshead are at the CBBT and over some of the inshore wrecks. Tarpon have arrived at the Eastern Shore and some big king mackerel are being caught along the oceanfront.
Amberjack are thick at the southern towers. Bottom fishing for tilefish is good. Gaffer dolphin catches are good. Some very large wahoo have been caught. Yellowfin tuna and the occasional bigeye tuna continue to bite, which is good for the VBTT that is going on this week. Good numbers of white marlin are being caught – the best blue marlin fishing that we have seen in years.
Nags Head
TW’s Bait And Tackle Reports on July 2:
Surf Fishing: Yesterday was a sea mullet day on our beaches. Abby McDonald caught her share from the north beach near Sanderling. There were some nice size fish. The water is still quite murky so it should be another sea mullet day. The wind is SW at 11 and the water temp is 63 degrees.
Sound Fishing: The Little Bridge on the Nags Head/Manteo causeway reported small trout and bottom fish
Pier Fishing: Avalon had mullet. Nags Head Pier produced small bluefish and spot. Jennette’s Pier anglers decked some nice sea mullet and the Outer Banks Pier had a few sea mullet.
Near shore boats are bringing in nice catches of Spanish and blues. There were amberjack, gray trout, croaker, spot and sea mullet. Inshore anglers had a really good day, catching plenty of red drum, cobia, blues and Spanish.
Offshore Boats reported scattered Mahi-Mahi, some Wahoo, good numbers of Yellowfin and a citation Big-eye. One of the fleet Captains from Pirates Cove had a grand slam catching a White Marlin, Blue Marlin and a Spearfish. There were a good number of Blue Marlin releases.
Hatteras Surf
Tuesday Fishing Report from Red Drum: Ramp 43 had some Spanish early this morning. Puppy drum were beached on Ramp 38, 43, and behind the Motels. Ramp 38 had sea mullet and croakers. Avon had sea mullet, croakers and bluefish. Have a
On Wednesday, there were puppy drum caught at 43 and 49 in the morning and evening, all caught on sand fleas and cut bait. A handful of Spanish were caught at 43 this evening when the water cleaned up. Sea mullet and croakers were landed up on ramp 38.
Hatteras Offshore
Capt. Dave Wilson fished on 6-30 with this report. Today was slick calm and the blackfins bit. My group showed no interest in looking for a marlin but seemed excited about catching blackfin tuna. We caught a pile of them and a handful of dolphin to boot!
On 6-29, I found out late in the day that there were a few dolphin caught in the shallows, but we were in the deep water and had some action. Russell caught a 150-pound blue marlin that put on a great show and we hooked another one on a TLD that parted our 30# line. We had one other mystery bite and landed a couple of dolphin. There were several sails and whites caught as well.
