Fishing Report 8/17/2014 Part 2

Nice Florida sunset. For the past several nights, as I've done errands in the evenings, I would shine a headlamp beam over the water and the mullet would explode - much in the same way the Asian Carp go nuts on the TV shows. I figured fish that eat mullet would be swimming around in the mix also, but no matter what I pitched - surface poppers that look like mullet, popping corks with DOA shrimp, flies, rocks and cuss words - I got nothing. Well - I broke out Marlon's cast net and I caught what was swimming around. Mullet - several, and some twice as big as this guy, and a Needlefish. I felt like I had cheated in a way - but that feeling didn't last long.

Fishing Report 8/13/2014

So after watching the crew casting poppers into the surf (and one kayak angler flyfishing), I broke out my equipment to try and get a fish to play tug-o-war. No joy on the spinning gear with a popping cork/shrimp lure or a mullet popper. No joy with the Cabela's CGR 7'6" 7/8 lined with Orvis Redfish 8wt (although a needlefish keeps biting the heck out of my electric chicken colored shallow clouser minnow - just can't get it to bite near the hook). I did get the paddleboard wet to do some recon on the bathymetry and to see if there were any holes where the fish could be lying. The water was brown and I couldn't see 6" into it. But it does drop off pretty quickly (so better to fish off the board rather than wade - oh - did I mention the stingray I saw). I think tomorrow we are going to Legoland, so the next fishing report will be on Friday.

Fishing Report 7/24/2014

Thursday we were really nuked from the drive from Virginia Beach. We stayed in the camper most of the day until the afternoon cool off. We had a map of MCAS Cherry Point (where we are staying), and I started reading about the fishing spots. There are a couple that provide access to a tidal river that drains into the Neuse River (saltwater). We saw tons of jumping fish - which I am pretty sure are mullet - but I couldn't get a bite with the DOA Shrimp and rattle cork I had rigged up to the St Croix/Shimano spinning gear. Oh well - I'm still skunked (but at least the scenery is pretty).