Late Reports 7/22-7/25 Oregon Inlet

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Sorry for the lateness, Roper NC only has dial-up service, it's just too painful.

7/22: AR140 + Charlie Tower
8:30 am netted some bunker just north of the inlet.

Ran up the beach looking for a cobia, saw lots of bait and a group of rays but no cobes.

At about Whalebone we head east to the AR and anchored up over the tanker. Started a slick, put one livey on a balloon back in the slick and one on a 3-way on bottom. Also, had some small bottom rigs and bucktails with squid. Caught a few triggers and a spadefish. 2.5 hours and nothing up the slick but spades and nothing on the live baits except the bottom one getting eaten alive by triggers.

Had some new folks aboard so I wanted to get them a good pull. Went to the tower and dropped a live one on a 3-way, it came tight after 30 sec. and was hung on the tower. Next pass I dropped back, 10 sec bump bump hooked up, towed him off the tower and passed the rod off to Melissa she worked on him for 10-15min. and passed to Chris who took another 15-20 min to land him. (picture attached). Every drop we were bit in 15sec. It continued like that for 2 hours. Landed 3-4, lost 5-6 on the tower and missed 3. All realesed, the picture is the largest, the others were all around 20 lbs.

7/25 Inlet and Charlie Tower

Chris summed it up pretty good in "Schooled by a Reef Donkey"

NE wind had the beach too blown out to find the bait very well. So, we trolled up some blues and headed out to the tower. Well, as seems to be the case whenever I fish with Chris; this was one of those "you should have been here yesterday" trips. Tried some jigging and missed a couple fish, also got cut off. Then tried live bluefish and prepared Chris to Get Ready, nothing. 4 drifts, finally Chris gets a take and the story ensues.

8 drifts later and that was the only Jack bite we got. Saw a few big cudas follow the baits in, but even they were not being very aggressive. Wind from the east fished bite the least? Chris?

***Oh, and that little girl in the picture held on for 10 minutes longer then Chris

We'll get one of these days.
Seth
BW28