Weekend Family Fishing

We took Alexis fishing again Saturday afternoon, after a nap, and Sunday. We did a little sheepshead fishing Saturday afternoon and caught a few but the toadfish were more abundant. Alexis loved playing with the toadfish and a couple of baby black sea bass that Rennie caught. Sunday we went back out in search of the reds. We caught about 7 redfish on top. They were a little skittish and we soon found out why. There was a huge 12' bull shark swimming in very shallow water. I've never seen a shark that big. The fishing and the weather this weekend was amazing. The topwater bite is on now and that's the most exciting way to catch these beautiful fish. Watching them stalk the plug and then bust it is incredible!!


Shannon

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fishing with the girls

Rennie, baby Alexis and I went for a quick fishing trip this morning. We went to the river and caught a few nice sized reds on top. There was a huge school of about 100 reds. Alexis loved watching the fish when we got them in the boat. I don't think she knew what was going on. We followed up the reds with a couple of flounder. One was a little guy that we threw back and the the other was a nice 18". We had to cut the trip short so Alexis could come in and take a nap.

Shannon

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Fishing SC

We fished south Thursday and Friday in search for upper slot reds. The first red was 33 inches on a popping cork and soft plastic combo. We saw several reds in our first spot but they were finicky on the low water. We Caught a few more over slots and small slots in a creek. Then we finished up at our original spot where we wacked two upper slots on topwater to end the day. On Friday we fished a different piece of water and stuck a trout, flatty, blue, and pulled a red. Then we hit our a spot and wacked two perfect slots. Fished a handful of other flats and stuck a few more reds of All sizes. Hopefully they will be there on game day next weekend.

May Redfish Action

Hurricane D and I finished in eighth place in the first redfish action tourney in Beaufort, NC. We had a 26 and 24 inch fish to weigh 11 lbs. Not the start we were looking for. We found some good fish earlier in the week but another team beat us to them and sat on them all day. Went back to where we started the day and wacked six fish in short order. Upgraded our smallest fish and landed a heartbreaker over slot that would have put us in the top three.

May fishing

Kept 4 Spanish for the table that got the jigs deep

During the past week the Spanish Mackeral and bluefish have showed up in great numbers. Redfish are starting to show up in all of the normal places but still have not showed up in great numbers on the flats. We have caught reds on soft plastics, gold spoons, and spinner baits this past week. There are still fish holding on deep water structure and around oyster points. We have caught several short flounder, bluefish, croaker, spots, spanish mackeral, and an assortment of bottomfish just outside the inlet. Yesterday we caught over 40 Black sea bass on small jigs and bucktails-most of the fish were 2-5 lbs. Too bad the season is closed until June 1 on them because they are mighty tasty. We saw thousands of spanish mackeral yesterday and caught them or pulled the hooks on them on every cast we made to them. They were crushing smaller maria jigs and the like. Kept 4 for the table and released the rest. If you want to fill the cooler now is the time to book a trip. The action is hot just outside the inlet and the inshore waters are starting to turn on.

Dick with a nice slot caught on a jerkbait

Jon with another slot red

Jon with a nice spoon fed red

Old Drum on a Spinnerbait

46" Beast caught on a spinnerbait

We got this pig on a spinnerbait over the weekend. She measured 46 inches and was caught in 2 feet of water. Way too early to be inshore but we were glad she was. Got a few more slot reds over the past week but overall the fishing was slow with all of the bad weather we had last week. We still managed to cover a lot of water and pick a few fish up on topwater, spoons, spinnerbaits, and soft plastics. The hard southwest winds had the water very low and the fish had pulled way off the banks. The conditions were tough but we had a great weekend with two excellent fisherman. Pictured above is Dr George Brinson winner of six divisions in the 2010 Redbone Series Cape Fear Red Trout Tournament including "Grand Champion Angler." The cobia and bonita are here and I plan on running a few trips this week in pursuit of both.

Tight lines,

Capt Ren

Dr George Brinson with a spoon fed red he picked from a nice school of reds

This red fell for a frog pattern skitterwalk