Friday June 6, 2008
Went fishing with my 4 year old. Fishing off Masonboro Island jigging for Spanish. We saw fish breaking but could not get hooked up. The boy ended up catching a 16" Blacktip Shark and a nice 10" Seabass. Helping him fish did not leave me much time to do anything until he fell asleep. I anchored up and fished for some bottom dwellers and caught some more Seabass and Croakers but no Flounder.
Saturday June 7, 2008
The forecast was for 2-3' seas and winds around 10kts. Allen and I were ready for some calm seas and some Kings. We were loaded with an assortment of livebaits and some dead ones as well. Is 15-20kts. SW around 10kts? I guess so. We pounded our way to the Schoolhouse and was accompanied by 20-30 other boats. I hate fishing around all those people. So we jigged a few baits and headed to the 12 fathom ledge. We put out baits and started trolling the ledge. After about 45mins to an hour with no takers we moved inshore 3miles to some livebottom and dropped the anchor. We caught one 17" Grunt and some short Beeliners and a lot of bottom. I destroyed a perfectly good #13 Hooker as I tried to reanchor one time. We decided to keep moving inshore to lessen our ride back to the house in the afternoon.
The radio talk was the Kings were biting okay at the Wr4 but we had already committed our move inshore and we were to far inside to turn and run 8 more miles offshore. After hitting some more ledges and rocks we had only boated one 4' shark on a large mullet. Eight hours is a long time with only one take down trolling. We moved inshore and were now at the Dredge Wreck fishing around four dive boats anchored around the wrecks. This place must have been run over all day because there wasn't anything biting at all. So we decided to start making the run to the house and we would hit the 5mile boxcars on the way home. We jigged one Croaker and one Lizardfish on the ledge just inshore of the buoy. Time to go to the house. As we approached the Sea buoy a nice King skies about 4' in the air. Wow, maybe we should have stayed here all day.
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224
