A Hot Weather Fishing Report; Wrightsville Beach, NC Area.
You know me lets start off with one I enjoy to fish for the Cobia! There has been a good quantity of Cobia all around this period, I have noticed one particular nearly every day Ive been searching for them and there are some huge ones close to. My clients set four (keepers) Cobia in the boat this last week and I got to catch 1 myself this previous week also. The two large Cobia in the previous week was a 66.5 pounder and my 52.4 pound, the really awesome part of my Cobia is I caught it on a medium action rod and a Penn Battle 3000 spinning reel with fifth-teen pound Spiderwire braid. What a fight I did not ever feel I was heading to get that Cobia in, after a thirty moment fight I place the warmth on the fish and acquired it to the boat!
I look this time of year for Cobia close to inlets, shoals and bait schools around shore/offshore reefs and ledges are also a great location to glimpse as well. With the drinking water becoming so apparent it has been less complicated to see individuals brown logs in the water. We are throwing large jigs, swim baits and are living bait to the Cobia. Colour really does not look to matter, brighter the much better Blue H2o Candy helps make some really good Cobia jigs, check them out at our local tackle shops! When Im not sight casting for them, we are fishing about inlets, shoals and close to shore synthetic reefs. I float fish, bottom fish and kite fish in these areas with dwell menhaden, blues and mullet as bait. Of course often I do chum, but the Sharks and Rays can occasionally drive you crazy it you chum a lot!
Casting and trolling for Spanish mackerel has been really very good recently. Im viewing Spanish and Blues all up & down the beaches in fifth-teen to forty-5 foot of drinking water as effectively as about all the regional inlets. There has been a couple of really good Spanish in the three to 6 pound ranger caught around the region too. Spanish mackerel have really great eye sight and to the catch the larger ones you truly need to check out a fluorocarbon leader, you would be astonished how this can make a distinction occasionally!
Ive had the greatest luck with deeper spoons on quantity 1 planners, yes Im viewing a handful of on the top line but the best has been deeper. Clark-spoons in measurements 00 and are performing the trick in shades silver, gold and pink flash. The Spanish hitting the top baits are hitting Blue Water Candys Spanish Daisy chains in colors pink, blue and silver the excellent point about this rig is you can pull it off lighter tackle outfits. When the Spanish are jumping Im casting spoons in sizes one to three inches long with a quickly retrieve and retaining my rod tip lower to the drinking water to preserve the spoon just below the surface area.
With this nice scorching air around the Flounder are finally showing up in far better figures, there is even now a good deal of more compact ones inshore, but the larger ones are exhibiting every day! Most of the Flounder fishing Im performing is just off the seaside and close to the inlets, with the new fifth-teen inch rule you just have got to choose by means of them to get the keepers. Ive caught Flounder on each live and artificial baits recently, what I have noticed is a lot more figures on reside bait, but much more keepers on synthetic baits. Mud minnows on light Carolina rigs with #one particular L42 Eagle Claw hooks are catching the figures of Flounder, Berkley Gulp Jerkshads in 5 & 6 inch sizes are getting the most keeper Flounder. Suggestion of the day: In most instances larger bait will catch you greater Flounder, but you will catch significantly less amounts of Flounder by heading with larger bait.
Redfishing for me has slowed a bit, but the even bigger fish are starting to present up close to the inlets and close to shore are living/difficult bottoms. I have had no actual very good figures nevertheless, just some spread out fish here and there while we are Cobia fishing. Greater scented grubs like six and 7 inch Jerkshads are a great bet for catching ocean Reds on artificial baits, reside mullets or menhaden are excellent on the reside bait side of issues.
Fishing Gear I use:
Reels Penn Fierce and Battle spinning in dimensions 2000, 3000 & 4000 dimensions. Cobia Fishing reels: Penn Battle 5000, 6000 & 7000, Penn 320LD. Line: Spiderwire Ultra-cast and Berkley Fireline braid in 8, 10 and 15 pound. Cobia Line: 30 pound Berkley Large Video game Mono. Rods: Fenwick HMG GS 70M-MF, Unpleasant stick lites 66 and 7 Med & Med-Major. Cobia Rods: Unsightly Stik Tiger Lite Jigging sequence in fifty-a hundred class spinning and casting. Leader substance: Cobia Berkley Massive Video game mono & Fluorocarbon in eighty to a single hundred pound. Stren Fluorocarbon leader material in Tannic and Gunsmoke tints tannic for river and stained waters, gunsmoke for distinct h2o applications.
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Capt. Jot Owens
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