Surf: Surfcasters continue to encounter both kingfish and spots, or yellow-bellies, at the 8th Street Jetty while fishing both bloodworms and Fishbites. In addition, anglers fishing at first light are finding small blues and weakfish attacking both small bucktails and rubber lures, including Zoom, Bass Assassin and Fin-S baits. Be sure to fish your lures both slow and on the bottom for your best shot at a tiderunner.
Inshore: The inshore trolling remains unseasonably slow, but we hope that the abundance of bait within 10 miles of the beach will explode with speedy pelagic predators one of these days. There are both croakers and weakfish right off the beach for anglers soaking squid and clam baits. HOW DEEP?
Offshore: If you haven't trolled, chunked or jigged at the Lobster Claw this season, you're missing some of the best tuna fishing in North America this year. With exceeding 200 pounds occasionally spooling 50 wide reels, and typical fish in excess of 100#, this is not light tackle fishing, especially when trolling large and horse ballyhoos 300 yards behind the boat. Check with us to see what's been working best this weekend. For those more interested in flying flags, there has been an equally epic white marlin bite in the deep of the Wilmington Canyon that started during the MidAtlantic $500,000 tournament and has not let up! Ask us for tips on catching the elusive "white one."
