It has been a while since my last post, a broken computer and a new schedule has kept from posting as much as I would like. Oh yeah and two tropical storms/hurricanes (Cristobal and Hanna) produced some nice swell and I did some surfing, about twenty days in September. Now I got a new speedy computer that does not turn off every five minutes and the skies are blue and the wind is to my back.
The fishing has been good despite my lack of it the last month. The month of August, The assault on sharks and drum continued. Allen and I landed another 20-30 blacktips night fishing with the occasional night with a 30-32" drum thrown in the mix. We made one trip down on down to the shoals of Bald Head and managed to land some nice Blacktips and saw some Tarpon rolling but could not get them to bite.
The beginning of September was some what slower fishing wise as after a twenty year haidas I tried my hand at surfing again and that bug bites your hard. Especially when you start out swell produce from a passing storm Cristobal threw some nice waves at us for about 10 days and the water was packed. I did managed to squeeze in a day or two in between Cristobal and Hanna and was surprised by a few nice trout on topwater while targeting drum at the end of some high tides.The end of last month we watched Ike pass into the Gulf but his push through the Caribbean sent us some more waves and then a little surprise Low, tropical depression or Nor'easter popped up off the Coast last week and gave us some more nice waves.
With all this surfing I have seen some huge schools of bait in the water and many LARGE holes appear in those schools. Makes me a little nervous, all the shark fishing and all, sitting out in water as a school of menhaden or mullet passes by that is bigger than my house. Anyway, there have been some nice Spanish and Kings seen skying. The weekend I did not see as many free jumping near the surf, maybe because after that low pressure blow in two days before the New Moon really got the water dirty right along the beach.
Thanks for Looking and Let's go Fishing,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224
