HOHOHO HAaaaaaPPY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from me to you. Have a safe Holiday Season.
Capt. Danny Wrenn

Cape Fear Cold Snap Striped Bass

Glenn with a nice one

one of Jesse's

USS North Carolina Battleship in Christmas Glory

Cape Fear Memorial Sunset

Slot Red Drum for the effort

Some Cape Fear Striped Bass were willing to play for a while yesterday.  The trip started around 1 o'clock and within the first 30mins Glenn had a nice one.  After casting on several different spots we decided to give trolling a chance and Jesse got one.  We went back over the spot and Brian (not pictured) got one.  We threw down the trolling motor and ended up with 6 Striped Bass and one Red Drum for the day.  If the fishing on Wrightsville Beach slows down the best bet is to hit the Cape Fear River.  You never know what is waiting.  And that cold snap turned them on for sure.  Saw lots of bait and fish busting the surface in places as the sun was setting.  Call me and let's go fishing. 

Capt. Danny Wrenn

96Charter Co.

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224

Winter Has Hit Wrightsville Beach

Winter is offically here in my book.  Christmas tree is up and the ocean water temp is below 60 degs.  I have watched the ocean temperature, at Wrightsville Beach,  fall over the last 3 days and I don't like it.  This usally means it is cold outside.  And it has been cold over the last three days mid 40's during the day and mid 20's overnight.  O, but the good things about winter are the boat ramps aren't as crowded and Striped Bass seem to love the first few cold snaps.  The redfish school up in the surf and speckled trout ball up for the winter.  Sea Bass stack up thick and the Groupers are close to the beach.  Get out there if ya dare.

Capt.Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

wrightsville beach trout

J and I got a few small ones this week on some Haw River grubs and some DOA shrimp under a poppin' cork.  There have been some good catches reported out of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach.   I fished up river the Brunswick River but got skunked on Monday.  There have been a few guys Striper fishing but the bite was slow this week according to the reports I got.  There have also been good report from down river about some red drum.  I also heard there have been some fish caught up around Topsail.  Get out before the netters get them.

Capt. Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co.
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

Wrightsville Beach FIshing Report: get out when ya can

Here's the report:
Trout, trout and more trout.  Live shrimp and mullet are hard to beat.  Shrimp can be had a Motts Seafood and Island Tackle and Hardware @ $6/dozen.  Sparkle grubs and a variety of Mirrorlures are also a good way to roll.  The trout are stacking up in their usual place from Topsail to Southport.  There are some red drum cruising the surf but you got to be willing the beaches to find the schools.  Several nice pompano and mullet catches have been rumored on Carolina Beach.  There are also some nice flounder stacking up in the surf.  I have caught three to four keeper fish each time I have walked the beach in the last couple of weeks.  Throwing mostly white or smoke jerk baits jig heads.  I have not hit the trout to much surfing.  Surf fishing is all I have done in the last couple of weeks due to some nice surf we have had after a 3week lull with lake like conditions.

Capt. Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co.
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

Cubscout Weekend



The boy with a 14.5" takes the weekends biggest fish contest amoung Cubscouts. Good job son. 



had to after all the kids were done

I got another one, sorry boys.

Cubscout Weekend of camping and fishing and Halloween at Camp Tuscarora, N.C.

This was the first time bass fishing with plastic worms in a long time. These little fellas couldn't resist.

Wrightswille Beach fishing this week was slow for me since I was in the water surfing more than anything else. After a two week lull in surfing, due to flat conditions, I had to go get wet. More fishing this week. Stay Tuned.

Capt. Danny Wrenn

96Chater Co.

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224



Cape Fear Striper Tournament

I just got the word this week that the Cape Fear Striper Invitational will be held January 14-15, 2011.

This is a great tournament helping support Fisheries Restoration in the Cape Fear River Basin put on by the Cape Fear River Watch. For those interested you can find out more at http://cfrw.us/stripertourney.html.

They have not yet updated the website but it will get you in contact with the right people.  You can also contact me for more info.  I will update the info as it comes to me. 

Capt Danny Wrenn

96 Charter Co.

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224

surf'n it

  Ran out to the hit the Wrightsville Beach surf for an hour or so today and ended up with 4 "keeperish" sized flounder.  Caught'em all on Strike King http://www.strikeking.com/ 3x ZULU and jig.  I love those 3x baits almost impossible for Blues and Lizard Fish to get through'em.  Equally it is almost impossible to rig these things.  But once you got it on the jig fish have a hard time getting them off.  I seem to be on a flounder roll of late, not complaining.  Saw some nice Spanish busting just behind the breakers and some nice large busting schools a bit further off the beach. There were several boats working these schools.  Beautiful day at Wrightsville Beach.  Only 11 more days before it FREE PARKING. 

Capt. Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co.
Wilmington N.C.
910.619.2224

kayaking

Monday 10/18/10
hit the waterway down in Masonboro area and got this 19" Flounder.  Got the Flounder on a Saltwater Assassin Jerk Shad.  Got the Flounder on a Saltwater Assassin Jerk Shad.  Jay and I saw tons of bait but could not find the Reds or Trout.  As I paddled up on one flat I had two nice blow outs but never got a look at the fish.   
             
                                                                   Capt. Danny Wrenn
                                                                      96 Charter Co.
                                                                    Wilmington, N.C.
                                                                      910.619.2224

Odd Couple

odd pair

24" red

21" flounder

Longtime fishing buddy, Capt. Travis Dant of Flat Out Flying, and I hit some offshore rocks and reefs briefly Wednesday looking for some grouper but only found sharks and this nice flounder.  We ran back inshore and hit a few Red Drum before we had to call it a day.  We were using some big 6-8" mullet on circle hook rigs.  I also hit the sound on Thursday and found couple of short flounder.  I was jig fishing with some of my favorite Haw River curly tail grubs along some oyster banks in Lee's Cut.  The bait had moved back in and is all over the beach.  I hit the Cape Fear River once this week looking for some Red Drum and Speckled Trout and found tons of Gars.  We did manage to get a small Striped Bass trolling a bank near Downtown Wilmington.  All that freshwater has pushed the bait and the fish waaaaayyyy down river.  I'll be hitting it again next week to see if we can find'em somewhere.

Later,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Co.
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

RIVERTIME! YEEHAW!!

I got a phone call today that the Castle St. Ramp was open.  I called my buddy Jay and we decided to take the boys fishing after school.  The idea was to see if anything was going on in the river and check out the water.  We set out some trolling rigs and began the search. As we cruised the shoreline I spotted some activity closer to the bank and picked the casting rod and four shots later wham a slammer strike and I handed the rod off to the boy and we landed a nice 28" bass.  Several minutes later Jay hit a nice one but the transfer off to his son resulted in a lost fish.  We fished this area for a while with out any more strikes.  We continued the troll about two minutes later wham!  My boy got to the rod first and landed a nice 22" fish.  We continued to troll and ended up with two more fish and casted for a while before we had to go and the boy got a tagged fish. 

No Reds or Speckled Trout but who's complaining.

Capt Danny Wrenn

96 Charter Co

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224

Change In The Weather



Saturday Sunrise
 

My buddy Ed called me Friday and asked if would like to join him and his kids fishing Saturday. We went and gathered some mullet Friday evening and were ready for the sunrise.  Concerned about all the recent weather (more on that below) and fishing conditions I still said yeah and brought my son along.  We hit a few prime docks and a few creeks and some more docks and got lots of pinfish and small gags and some massive lizard fish on the quick made double drop rigs (aka chicken rigs).  Great fishing time for the kids with plenty of pinfish action but no game fish were to be found.   

 

Wow! What a week.  It all started last Monday with 10" of rain and over the next four days a grand total of 22.5" in Wilmington and surrounding areas.  Tropical storm rains and wind from the Caribbean dumped it on us for four out of the five days this past week.  Big surf and howling winds churned the up the ocean and created and sandy brown color to the surf zone and 22+ inches of rain made Wrightsville Beach Sound look much like the Cape Fear River.  As the tropical event pasted the surfing was great most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Head to Overhead surf but the fish activity along the surf zone disappeared.  There had been Spanish and Albacore cruising the surf zone and reports of some nice schools of Red Drum being spotted along all the barrier islands.  To make matters worse a Canadian High Pressure system dropped in behind the Low and now mornings are in the 50's and highs in the upper 60's.  Beach water temperature fell from 80 to 77 degrees Saturday morning and now Monday the 4th of October beach water temp  is 75 degrees.  Now we just have to wait and let the fish get back into the groove of Fall. 

Capt. Danny Wrenn 

96Charter Co.

Wilmington, N.C.

910.619.2224

      

early run

Got an early start this morning,
Up at 4:30 to get to my buddy Jay's house @ 5:30 so we could meet Capt.Travis (Flat Out Flying Charters) at 6:00 in Carolina Beach.  The plan was to hit some new areas in search of Red Drum.  Long story short, we saw some fish as we trolled over their heads.  There was a lot of water flooding the grass, just not a lot of fish schooled up.  After going a long way back in the creek I had scored one short flounder and one keeper flounder. A different tide and a different moon may have proved a different tale.  We moved on to hit some oyster rock and lose some more grubs to pinners and bluefish.  We did see several Sheepshead cruising along the oyster bars (another time).  We moved along.  Tried another creek line and finally Travis scored a small drum and I got another keeper Flounder.  The tide was falling out hard and clock ticking for Jay and I it was time to go. 

Capt. Danny Wrenn
96Charter Co.

910.619.2224  

late summer firing up

Greeting from the Cape Fear Coast

It's firing up.  Jay and I hit the Wrightsville Beach sound and found some keepers.
Two drum, a small gag, some legal flounder and a nice citation size trout.  5.6 #'s.

See ya Next Time,
Capt Danny Wrenn
910.619.2224



25 incher







yeah!





5.6 lbs. citation



RIVER TIME

Greetings from the Cape Fear Coast

I have been hitting the Cape Fear and Carolina Beach areas over the last few weeks.  The Flounder been pretty solid most of the fish have been caught soaking small pogies along various grass points and rock structure.  We did catch one on a 3 1/2 Yozuri Crystal minnow the other day.  The average flatty has been around 3lbs.  The drum bite has been hit or miss up river and a little better down river. 

Yesterday, I was fishing with two guys from Durham and we started out up river hitting some shark infested points and grasslands looking for some Flounder.  We had two scaled mullet and a big V bite mark on one mullet at the second anchor drop and about 5-10 shark bites, little fellas.  At the third anchor spot, we finally got a nice 19" Cape Fear Flatty and missed two more but it was taken a while and the shark bite had disappeared.  With a little over hour to go in the trip I had to decide which direction to go, look for trout or drum.  Drum  it was and after a short run in the river.  We pulled up on a grass island and mud flats that looked great with the super flooded high tide. 

We switched to throwing Gulps and jigs and popped three Drum in an hour two 20" and one that top the stick just under 27".  The tide had ready started falling out hard so it was a hazard run off the flat not to ground the boat and really be stuck for a long time since the tide had already started dropping hard.  We made it off the mudflat and back to the dock without any problems and headed to the house. 

If you the time, the Cape Fear River is a good place to be this time of year. 
Booking Fall Trips for Trout, Drum, Flounder and Stripers.

Thanks for Stopping By,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Company
Wilmington, N.C.
910.619.2224

spring time

Greetings from the Cape Fear Coast,
There is a lot of pogies right off the beaches from New River Inlet all the way to the Shoals.  The spainsh and blues are ruling the Wrightsville area beaches right now and a few kings were caught last week off Ocean Crest Pier.  A few nice kings were caught down off the shoals on Friday and Saturday.  Find your favorite rock and let the troll begin.  There have been several Cobia spotted in the 5-10 mile range and we got some AJ's to the boat about 8miles off New River Inlet last week but the really did not want to play.  The real Cobia blast happened off Cape Lookout last week.  Lots of COBIA following the pogies.  There were many fish caught in the 40-50lb range one reporter told me.  The inshore bite has been with drum and trout starting to bite well in the Cape Fear River from Snow's Cut to Southport.  If shad fishing is our thing Lock-n-Dam#1 is still holding some fatty shad and some nice Cat's are just down river. 

Thanks for Stopping by,
Capt. Danny Wrenn
96 Charter Co.
910-619-2224

Winter Fun

Welcome Back,

It's been a while since my last post.  It's cold this morning, around 25, and I have a little time.  The Fall bite was pretty and the Winter Striper bite has been going for a while.  It had slowed down some recently due to really high tides  and some fierce winds.  This has really muddy the waters up and down the Cape Fear and the NE Cape Fear but the fish are still biting.  Enough said I just going to drop some photos in and get back to the River. 

Come join me for some Winter Fun on the Cape Fear.

Capt. Danny Wrenn

96Charter Company

910.619.2224