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North Carolina Fishing Report
July 3 & 4, 2008
Happy Fourth of July:
July 3, 2008:
Today I was invited to go wreck fishing with my friend Chuck Laughridge on some local wrecks where the fly fishing for Amberjack, Cobia, Kingfish, Spanish Mackerel, along with sharks has been good foo the past several weeks. I arrived at Chuck's dock on Harkers Island at 5:30 AM and we were underway at 5:35. After a one hour trip in Chuck's super fast Pathfinder bay boat we arrived at what is locally called the "D" wreck. I was fishing a 10 weight TFO TiCr fly rod with my Mako #9550 fly reel, and a RIO T-11 30 foot shooting head and a 5 inch deciever (White and Chartreuse on a 3/0 owner hook while using 20 pound fluero carbon class tippet. Chuck was using a Mako Reel with a Streamer express (400 GR?) fly line on an 11 weight rod.
We both had Amberjacks follow our flies up to the surface several times, and then I got a big one to eat my fly about 20 foot deep in the cristal clear 78 degree water. I cleared the line to the reel as that big AJ headed back toward the wreck, I dialed the drag up to 12 pounds and slowed that fish just as it reached the wreck and cut me off. After about a half hour we headed out to the Atlas Tanker wreck, about 20 minutes further out, and foung lots of fish on this structure.
The "Atlas" wreck looked like a giant fish bowl, we had several 4 to 5 foot barracuda hanging around our boat, lots of cobia (up to 50 pounds) swimming around and lots of Kingfish, Spanish Mackerel, and Amberjacks were plentiful. The water was clear and calm,(80 degrees) and these fish were very leader shy, (hard to get to eat a fly) however we watched aboat with live bait with bent rods for several hours. I hooked several AJ's which broke me off in the wreck, and then I hookes a big Spanish which I wound to the boat just before one of those big cudas ate it.
Chuck with fly caught AJ
Chuck had several good bites, and finally got the skunk out of the boat by landing this nice 30 pound plus AJ which he then released. I got one more big AJ which ate my fly on the surface however I broke this fish off in the wreck.
We headed in to another wreck where Tommy Bennett and his son Thomas were teasing AJ's with live bait, and a popper plug with no hooks, and then catching them using a large popper fly. Those fish were exploding on the surface bait and Tommy did catch one fish which was over 40 pounds. Watching those fish chasing those live teasers was awesome, I am sure that some of that is in my future. Chuck and I left the Bennets catching fish and we were back at the dock by 2:00 PM. What a great day on the water, Thanks Chuck!
AJ ready for release
July 4th, 2008:
This morning I woke up at 4:30 and decided to walk down to the end of my street to look at the beach and see if there was any action. It was dead calm on the Neuse where it runs into the sound and there was bait jumping everyplace along the beach. I walked back home andgot my 7 weight fly rod with half a dozen white clouser flies and headed back to give it a try. By sunrise I had released 3 flounder (11 to 15 inches), one small sea trout, and another fish about 12 inches long (Croaker I think). As the sun came up the wind began to blow and the bite was over, I was home by 7:00 AM.
I want to wish you all a happy Independance Day, enjoy your holliday! I am really happy to be back in Eastern North Carolina, more fishing reports to follow!
Regards:
Jake
Captain Jake Jordan
Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures
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223 Lemonwood Drive (Freight)
Havelock NC 28532
252-444-3308 Home/Office
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www.jakejordan.com
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