The weather this whole summer has been horrible and this past week was no different with plenty of wind and rain with a scattered thunderstorm mixed in.  The good news is the weather looks to be finally straightening out and we have some good conditions on the way.  The fishing has been good when boats can get offshore.  Plenty of Dolphin and Marlins around.  There have been a few wahoo showing up as well.  Now is the time to book your trip.  We still have plenty of days available in July and August.  Give us a call or email and we will get you out of the office and on the pristine waters of the Gulf Stream catching you that fish of a lifetime.  252-996-0549 freddy@foxwatersports.com

Two half days today. Not much going on around the inlet.  The water is still super dirty from all the rain and wind we had at the beginning of the week.  I decided to go a little further offshore to look around for some better water.  We found some scattered grass and flyers in about 80ft of water.  There were a few Dolphins around and we were able to scrap out a few for each group. We did have a few king mackerel bites but weren't able to hang on to any.  Plenty of Atlantic Sharp Nose Sharks on the bad bottom to pull on as well.  It was a great day to be in the ocean with near perfect weather conditions.  Happy 4th of July!

A little too choppy in the inlet for my group this mourning so we decided to stay in the sound.  Plenty of skates, big rays, pin fish, croakers, and a few sea mullets.  Unfortunately no cobia bites for us though.  The boats that did make it offshore had good dolphin fishing with a few wahoo and marlins mixed in.  Weather should straighten out tomorrow and the rest of the week.

Yesterday the Marlin fishing was about as good as it gets with multiple grand slams caughtand lots and lots of fish seen.  Today however wasn’t so go for us.   although conditions looked perfect to see some we never raised any.  We did however end up catching some nice gaffer dolphins while we searched for some marlins.  A few boats did have some decent action on billfish but nothing like what went on yesterday.   It looks like the fish are here to stay for the summer though.   We have plenty of open days available so give us a call or email to get in on some of this great fishing.  252-996-0549  freddy@foxwatersports.com

 

It was a little wet and rough today but we managed to scrap out a decent catch.  We caught 2 nice 40# yellowfin tunas a nice gaffer dolphin along with Joe's first White Marlin.  We had one other Marlin encounter crashing a long rigger but never came tight.  We didn't get a good enough look at it to tell if it was a small blue one or another white.   We decided to call it a day a little early which turned out to be a great choice cause just after we backed into the slip the wind really breezed up.   It was good to see a few Yellowfins around though hopefully they will stick around awhile.  

We fished the Big Rock this year and things didn't work out as good as we hoped for us but I couldn't be happier for Capt Buddy Hooper and the crew of the Hatteras Fever II.  If anyone deserves to win that tournament it's him.  We caught a 250# Blue one, raise another to a teaser but couldn't get him to eat and pulled off a white marlin.  The fishing was red hot the last day but we weren't lucky enough to hang on to anything.  We used up all our luck the week before the tournament catching 2 fish that would have been big enough to weigh.