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Fishing Report:   captain mike 910-619-8509 topsail beach trout fishing has been prime since september 6th . the water is now to the right temp for the schools of fish to join together and feed. on the north side of topsail beach there are large schools of 15-18 in fish as to where the south side of the island seems to hold the big boys.the last of the fall and the begining of the rise are the prime time for these fish.another thing to look for is the clear water creeks,there not liking the muddy ones.tt-21 s ,gulp shrimp,swimbaits,crankbaits need to be in your tackle boxes!!



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Fishing Report:   well the weather broke at last!with high and muddy water i thought it was going to be a tough day.we started in topsail with a good bit with 9 trout in the 3-4 lb range,then proceeded to riches inlet where the water was the worst. we had a few trout but the flounder were on fire!! after a hour or so there we hit masons on the rising tide.the fist stop , bamm!the trout were there,the water was clear and moving good.all the fish caught were on a clear swim bait on the bottom.
http://www.coronadazecharters.com
910-619-8509


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Fishing Report:   the trout around wrightsville beach and topsail beach have been on fire! friday we had a major front come in and while it slowed the bite down a bit, the big fish still were hungry.the water was a bit stained and around 67 degrees, which i think is perfect for the big ones. the tt-21 is still my lure of choice and from what i can see will remain that way till the water hits the 50`,....captain mike hoffman http://www.coronadazecharters.com



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Fishing Report:   9/12/2009
Today we were priveledged to be fishing with Martin Shaw and his son, Mark from Greenville, NC. Martin and Mark have been with us many times over the past several years and have been in dire need of a good weather day offshore! Well today was the day that we were fortunate to have this accommodation and Capt. Butch, myself, and the crew made our way to the Amberjack hole and once again the Pogeys seemed to do the trick.
Mark and Martin both fought and landed a couple Amberjacks and then we decided to move on off in search of some bottomfish. At first things seemed bleak due to the fact that all of our good bottom fishing holes were "dry" but at least the current wasn't screaming for the first time this year! Capt. Butch continued to push further and further offshore checking locations the whole way and finally once we neared the Gulf Stream and reached 100+ feet of water the bottom began to mark up with an abundance of bottomfish.
The first lightline deployed proved deadly for a teenager King Mackerel and then we started dropping Pogeys and Cigar Minnows and cut bait to the bottom and the Gray, Vermillion, and Silver Snapper began to role in alongside a few Black Sea Bass and 4 decent sized Grouper! Several times the Amberjacks reappeared under the boat and then we had a school of 40-50 pound Barracuda's come around the boat.
Capt. Butch hooked a couple of the 'Cuda's but with their teeth they were both lost in the battle and lived


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Fishing Report:   Had a bottom fishing trip today with some old friends from Fayetteville, NC. William and Wendell Owens, Herb Campbell, Benn McDonald, Albert Craig, and Tony Cameron joined Capt. Butch and myself in a quest for tamed currents and prospective bottom fish.
We started out on a search once again due to the fact that the bottom fish were trying to prove their illusiveness that they have seemingly mastered this year. After checking several of our good #'s and dodging the heavy rains that were encroaching (not to mention a large and beautiful waterspout) Capt. Butch made his way onto a new set of rocks that proved to have some nice Vermillion Snapper and Gray Snappers.
I quickly deployed a lightline with a dead cigar minnow and soon after we had a decent Mahi-Mahi on --I'm not delusional, the dolphin are still here in August, scattered but here!!! The light-line produced 4 Mahi in all today and a nice 25lb King Mackerel and a couple of other strong runs that I assume were Kings that pulled the hook.
All the while Capt. Butch was deploying live baits to the Amberjacks feeding under the boat and in-turn the crew were able to land a couple nice AJ's as well! We fished hard today for the fish that we were able to pull off the bottom, and even used as much as 32oz of lead to get the baits to the bottom!
With the strong currents, 6+ knots, and the reports of African Pompano, King Mackerel, and Mahi... trolling may be the best option until the currents


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Fishing Report:   7-19-09 With the winds finally deciding to calm down and the seas deciding to smooth out we were back at it again today in search of King Mackerel and "something that pulls hard." Fishing with Steve Norris of Fayetteville, NC along with Dana Vorholt of Charlotte, NC and Nikki, Kim, and Jerry Vorholt of Charleston, WV was to say the least exciting and a lot of fun.
First stop it appeared as if the bait had moved on but after a 30 minute search Capt. Butch found the bait that he had been looking for and the downrigger reel started screaming as line began to be peeled off at a high rate of speed. By noon we had pulled off 14 King Mackerel and decided to try to find an Amberjack or two.
Capt. Butch went offshore a few more miles and after jigging up some live bait the crew soon found themselves hooked up with a 25lb Amberjack. We got another AJ in the boat and missed one more.
The fish are biting and it almost feels like fall in the air in the middle of July with these mid 80 temps and a nice breeze. Let's go fishing!
Fish on! Capt's. Butch and Chris Foster
www.yeahrightcharters.com
910 845-2004



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Fishing Report:   Hello Folks, I hope everybody is enjoying the summer so far. Fishing for the most part has been very good this year for me and my charters. We are starting to see more people on the water, in the last couple of weeks. Which I guess is a good thing, “tip”: if you want to beat the crowds; go earlier! To the fishing report!

We’ve had some good Speckled trout, Redfish and Flounder fishing lately south of Wrightsville beach. The trout are hitting grubs and shrimp pattern lures. The grubs that are working well are Saltwater assassin sea shad pattern. In colors chicken on a chain, pumpkinseed chart tail and morning gory; we are rigging them with 1/8 oz red & black jig heads. Live shrimp are also working well for the trout and flounder. Light float rigs when we are using the live shrimp. It you would rather use artificial, you can use a SWA rattling Kwik-cork and a shrimp pattern lure under it.

The Redfish are hitting top water plugs and spinner baits. The best top water plugs we are using is the Rapala skitter walk, size 4-3/8” in colors hot chartreuse, red/white and black/gold/orange. Spinner baits we are throwing; SWA Red daddy and the Mac daddy. These spinner baits are some of the best on the market they hold up well and they swim great too.

Some Sheephead and black drum are biting around docks and bulkheads. There has been a few very nice black drum caught lately, some fish over twenty pounds reported “that’s a good


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Fishing Report:   6/14/09 We headed to the stream today in search of dolphin and wahoo and tuna. We were rewarded with a fairly decent dolphin bite the hot color was blue and white.There was scatterd grass but you just have to work through it to get the bite.We boated a nice catch of dolphin and a tuna to top it off. We could not get the wahoo bite today but thats the way it usally goes. We came back in at about 3:00 and hit some areas 40 miles off and loaded the cooler full of 2-3 lb beeliners and grey snappers.Great day on the water sorry for the date on camera did not set the date before shot. Capt. Garrett


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Fishing Report:   6-6-09

The seas were in a big 5 to 6 foot swell this morning and by the evening, the NE winds had her pretty nasty in a 5 to 6+ foot chop with white water everywhere.

But the "Yeah Right II" handled it with no reservations, just ask Richaed Batson, Vince and son Jonathan Mounts, David Shields from Thomasville,NC along with Steve Hauser from Trinity ,NC and James O Wall III, from Greensboro,NC.

We started off SW of the Tower where we found the current screaming, but again Capt Chris and I put the plan together that we have used many times in the past and it wasn't long until the guys couldn't keep the fish off their hooks.

By mid morning we had filled a 150 quart cooler with some big Black Bass, Triggerfish, Grey Snappers, Silver Snappers, Vermillion Snappers, Sharks, Almaco Jacks and had the opportunity at several Grouper but today they won the battle.

One of the guys brought his long time favorite bottom fish rod even after I warned him that we fish for big bottom fish. First bite of the day for him was a grouper that snapped it into like a toothpick. I really hated to see that happen especially after I was told that he had caught bottom fish with the rod for 30 years.

But like I told him, nothing last forever!! We decided to move since the lite line wasn't producing anything where we were at. I made a run to where I thought we could catch some King Mackeral and


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Fishing Report:   5-28-09

Today started out as a regular day of fishing in the Gulfstream, but, that's where it all ended, just after it started.

The first thing started when I was at the mouth of the river and I remembered I had left the camera in the truck. OK, I'll just take the pictures when we get in, right, well Yeah Right, you'll see what I mean as this unfolds.

We were fishing today with brothers, Bill Argenbright from Harleyville,SC Sherman Argenbright from Roanoke, VA, and Will Argenbright from Sneeds Ferry,NC.

We had a very nice calm ride to the Blackjack hole where we deployed the lines and almost immediately we had a "Green Machine" destroyed by what looked to be a big Wahoo. I mean literally destroyed, cut up by sharp teeth and broke in half.

I'll sacrifice a "Green Machine" anytime for a hit like that was. Only problem, we can only speculate what it was, it pulled the hooks before we could see it!!!

Shortly after that, the starboard outrigger clip snapped and the fight was hard into a 35 pound bull dolphin. After that we hooked up a smaller cow and a barracuda.

Little did we know we were about to spend the rest of our fishing time mostly on one fish. (remember the forgotten camera)

It was sight you see on "National Geographic" or "Fishing Costa Rica" . We put the lines back out and the water on the far rigger bait turned white, and the


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Fishing Report:   5-18-09

What can I say but yes, I have been a little slack lately with the reports. But, I can't take all the blame, the weather (winds) has had a hand in it as well, a lot of cancellations going on this year due to rough conditions. I won't go if I don't feel it's 100% safe and I hope you can respect that.

However, we did get to go offshore on a bottom fishing trip on the 16th with Andy Edger, Bill Edger, Drew Edger, Kirk Rankin, Bart Rankin, and Brian Hall from Saint Marys, Maryland.

We caught a lot of fish, however, the new size limits that were imposed last year made a pile of them undersized. Plus, If Drew Edger would have had time to instruct the rest of the guys on how to catch fish we would have had a lot more.

Drew was the youngest one in the crowd, and obviously the best fisherman. It was his first time offshore and he showed everyone how it was done with catching Mahi-Mahi, king Mackeral, and most of the keeper bottom fish.

The Black Bass that were big enough were very respectable and were some of the biggest we have caught all year. We also had some nice Grey Snappers, Triggerfish, Silver Snappers, and the "lite line" produced some nice Mahi-Mahi and a King Mackeral.

It's been tough getting out this year with the windy weather, but when you can go, the fish are there. You may have to do like we did today and keep moving to find feeding fish. We


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Fishing Report:   Hi Folks,
Fishing has been good to excellent WHEN THE WIND HASN'T BLOWN. There have been few of those calm days, but hopefully that will change and we can get into a good rhythm.
Now here's my report:
Inshore: Water temps have risen to around 70 and the spring weed is just about gone. Live baits are showing up. All this means it's time for the reds and flounder to turn on and that is what is happening inshore right now. Best bait is live menhaden fished on a carolina rig.
Near Shore: Near shore fishing has been pretty much on fire when the wind is reasonable; We have had very good catches of spanish, bonito and even some spring kings. Most of the fish are being caught on planers and clarkspoons.
Offshore: The king mackerel bite continues to be strong in the 18-25 mile areas. Live bait, cigar minnows, ballyhoo...all are working well.
Gulfstream: When the boats have gotten out, I have received reports of good catches of wahoo and mahi, along with some blackfin tuna.
Upcoming: The first "In the Water" Rod-Man Fishing School is all set for the first weekend in June and we are looking forward to this big event. We will be doing it again next year, so if you missed out this year, contact me and I will get you on the list for next year. Speaking of June, it is one of our biggest fishing months with almost every specie active. Make plans early to join us for a fantastic fishing trip.
Until next time......
LET'S GO


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