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Captains Zach and Steele headed about 8 miles out with the Kitts, Jimmy, Theresa, Ben and Brian, who are from all over the map...Va., Fla., and Calif.
Using frozen cigar minnows, the group had a great day of spanish and king fishing.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
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"Marie Irby's Sail" | OIFC World Cat / Carolina Cat | 07/27/10
On July 23rd we reported on Marie Irby, Ann Smithey, as well as Jack and Hayden Smithey fishing aboard our Cat boat with Captains Chris Dawson and Jeff Williamson. In this report, Marie hooked up with a sail at Christina's ledge. Ann promised a picture, and here it is.
Remember, we are only days away from the Cape Fear Sailfish Classic. Be prepared, shop the OIFC for all your sail fishing needs.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
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"Tyler Woods Black Drum" | OIFC 1- 36' | 07/27/10
Check out Tyler Woods' black drum he weighed at the OIFC Sunday. Tyler, of Maxton, N.C. was on his 1st fishing trip. We hope Tyler catches the saltwater fishing bug and continues to enjoy our great sport.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
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"Shore Fishing" | OIFC 1- 36' | 07/27/10
Joe Bunch of Wheeling W. Va caught and released this flounder and some reds today while fishing from the shore of the ICW below the Ocean Isle Bridge. Joe was using ultra light tackle with 4 lb test and the blue and silver spoon shown in the pictures below.
The reds were caught at high tide and the flounder was caught about 2 hrs later using the same spoon cast into the grass.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
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"Channel 19" | OIFC 1- 36' | 07/27/10
Just a note. Because of bleed over from other radio traffic, the OIFC and OIFC Charter Boats will now be monitoring Channel 19. The charter boats will be scanning all channels. Thanks
-Capt. Rickey Beck
"Really!!" | OIFC World Cat / Carolina Cat | 07/26/10
I mean REALLY. What do you believe? Yesterday the near shore forecast looked like we were going to be blown away. Check it now...doesn't even look like the same forecast. What do you do? Where is weatherman Rube when you need him?
Call in sick...let go fishing!!
-Capt. Rickey Beck
""The Jerry Slam"" | OIFC World Cat / Carolina Cat | 07/26/10
I hope you were fishing today...The full moon brought on a nice bite...The water has cleared up and the wind was calm this morning. We put it to the trout this morning on artificials and then moved on to catch some flounder. The flounder cooperated pretty well today. A few redfish also came in the mix. I failed to land any trout myself today, but my buddy Jerry caught five or six. Jerry also landed several flounder and a few redfish completing the inshore slam. See ya on the water!
-Capt. Jacob Frick
"In Shore King?" | OIFC World Cat / Carolina Cat | 07/26/10
A king caught in shore? Nope, a 30 lb king caught in 90 ft. of water on an in shore spinning combo. Bill Creveling (Winchester, Va. & OIB) was fishing on one boat, while his friends Jeff Young and Hanley Ervin were fishing Jeff's 23 ft. Grady White using jigged up bait. Jeff and Hanley were messing around, casting bait with an in shore combo. That's when the unexpected happened. A 30 lb king bit on the combo. 2+ hours and 2 men with sore shoulders later, they had landed the big king.
This may sound a little fishy, but I know Bill fairly well and though it's a good fish story, it's a true story. Thanks for letting us in on the action.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
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"Mechanical Bull" | OIFC 1- 36' | 07/25/10
The N.C. Sheriff's Association is having their annual meeting at Sea Trail this week. Captain Jeff Beck and Captain David Hooks took some of the members for a little fishing today. Jeff is an Investigator with the Brunswick Co. Sheriff's Office, and David is a friend of Jeff's who runs the 31 ft Contender, The Black Pearl. Jeff said David asked if anyone had ever ridden a mechanical bull..then proceeded to ask if anyone had ever ridden a mechanical bull with a fire hose in their face? Because that's what it is what it was going to feel like as they clear the Shallotte Inlet. The winds were a brisk 17+ out of the SSW. The "posse" trolled about 8 miles out and actually caught some spanish and sharks before they had fished enough and returned to the smoother waters of the ICW. Still, a bumpy day on the ocean is better than a landlocked day anywhere. I hope we can get some boats out this week and I'll have some more great catches to report on like last week.
That was a funny line Captain Hooks used, I don't care who you are.
-Capt. Rickey Beck
"Seafood Market Stocked!" | OIFC 1- 36' | 07/24/10
Capt. Rickey has been hard at it on the fishing report scene so today I will give him a slight reprieve and give you my story/report from a trip offshore yesterday. I left the dock yesterday morning around 7am with a green yet eager crew with a mission of stocking the Fishmongers seafood market here at the fishing center with a fresh catch. The weather has kept us on the dock for the past week so it was time to toughen up and go get em'. The plan was to jig up bait and start heading offshore to the deep water where hopefully we would find cleaner water and hungry fish. The swell was aggravating but we took our time (at 30knots), jigged up a few baits, and made it to our first stop in 95 feet. Grouper and Black Sea Bass are highly desirable table fare and best sellers at Fishmongers so that was the objective. Whatever else got in our way would be ok too. As soon as I pulled the throttles back we were greeted by herd of hungry amberjack. While in my opinion AJ's are great eat (if you know the areas to avoid) they are not typically a species we offer at Fishmongers so I was content to watch them circle the boat. However, what I thought was my inexperienced crew surprised me and quickly sprang into action and before I knew it both Alex and Jack were doubled over hanging onto 40lb freight trains. While I rigged up for the target species over the next 20 minutes my crew had already busted into full sweats and did some population control on the AJ's. For the rest of the day it was much of the same. That is somebody always had a bent rod. Jack and Alex pounded on the large knothead sea bass, and pink snappers and I tangled with those pesky grouper. I was very encouraged with the grouper fishing as at almost every stop I made the grouper were present. To me this means the large population has moved in off the break in 200' to the bottom structure in 90 to 110'. In addition to hitting the grouper fairly hard, I had a surprise visit from a monster Genuine Red Snapper. These are great eating fish but fishery regulations has it that they are not to be harvested at this time. I did battle with the snapper, took a few pics, and then as tears rolled down my cheek I released her overboard. Overall we had a fun day of bottom fishing and accomplished the objective of bringing in the fresh catch to Fishmongers. If anyone is down our way and is after truly fresh and local seafood come see us at Fishmongers located downstairs at OIFC. We have fresh shrimp straight off the boat, bay scallops, hand picked lump crab meat, and of course whatever is biting a hook and line that day.
-Capt. Barrett McMullan
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