Wrightsville Beach Fishing Report

Greetings from the Cape Fear Coast,

Friday May 23, 2008:

I was fishing with my good friend Capt. Travis Dant of Flat Out Flying and his brother Chuck. We started out fishing near Masons Inlet casting for Spanish with no success. There were a few of other guides out in the area and we did see one boat pick up a small one trolling a hand line. After about 20 mins casting and not seeing any breaking fish we made a move to Rich's Inlet. Same story here and after 30 mins we decided to run offshore to AR 362. We arrived and started jigging some structure and I picked up a 22 1/2" gag on a Gotcha Plug bouncing it off the bottom. We picked up an assortment of small fish and decided to move off a bit and hit some livebottom.

Drifting the livebottom Chuck and I continued to drop the Gotcha Plugs and Travis was dropping some metal jigs, we picked up some nice grunts aka Grey Snapper. The smallest one was about 10" and the biggest about 18", nice sized for grunts. After about 30mins we moved AR366.

We moved around and pulled around some plugs for about 45mins and did not locate any good baitor fish marks and decided to move off to AR368 thinking that AJ's would probably be stacked up like AR386. We arrived and hit the buoy throwing a Yozuri Magpopper. After the first drift we pulled off the school of AJ's and on the second drift Chuck struck the first blow.

Rip'em up and Let some go,

Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224

Wrightsville Beach Fishing Report

Greeting from Wrightsville Beach



Fished today from AR 376 to AR 386. We started the morning at 376 and fishing was slow, we hit a few sharks around the wrecks and just south of where the buoy used to be. We slowy moved offshore and found one area holding some bait, our first drop we hit a 19" gag and we thought we were on them but after that one grouper, we only hit beeliners and bait fish. Moved offshore to 386 and found nothing but A.J.'s. They were thick but would not bite. We were pulling the entire school of jacks (50+ fish) off the wrecks but they would only sniff our livebaits. Trying to get one on fly, I threw a hookless popper in hopes to fire them up and it was engulfed several times but they still did not want the fly. After an hour of messing about with the AJ's the wind began to howl and pump the seas. It was time to go and with a 325 deg heading and SW wind we were going to get wet. Wet we got.

If kings are on the agenda best pull some frozen baits, plugs or spoons to cover some ground until you find some fish. If a hard tug is want you want then venture a bit offshore and hit some wrecks and fire up on some AJ's.

Rip'em up and Let's some go,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

Fishermans Post Inshore Challenge

Greetings from the Cape Fear Coast:

To insure a positive experience in work, sports, boating and fishing tournaments preparation is the most critical part. A large amount of preparation does not always insure success but practice and hard work help you deal with situations as they arise. This is when you should get a chance to have multiple scenarios to encounter the situation you are in at the time. Now you can use this to help for develop a strategy when Plan A gets smashed or just does not pan out.

As you may have figured out the tournament did not go well at all. I did a poor job of preparing for the event and fished an area that I had been to in over a year. There were a lot of "I'm gonnas" but they never got done. I did not pre-fish the area in question, I did not secure bait the few days before the tourney, I did not prepare gear and otherwise prepare for the event properly, Things of this nature often ensure poor performances in most cases, unless a horseshoe happens to fall from the sky. That does not happen very often, though.

Moving during tournaments is a necessary event but when and where are always in your mind and the best success I have had is not to make crazy long runs to areas unknown. Don't move for the sake of moving. The mindset during an event, no matter what it is, changes from your preparation time but you must work hard to succeed.

I think Allen Iverson said best, "We talking about Practice? We talking about Practice! Practice? Practice!"

We did catch a 3-4 foot Bonnetthead Shark (new species for the boat).

Rip'em and Practice,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224