Wind and waves once again kept the offshore boats tied to the dock.  It's COLD.

It's snowing in Hatteras but not sticking.  Air temperature is 34 and it's blowing 30 so needless to say no boats went offshore fishing today.  Weather looks pretty bad all week hopefully it breaks over the weekend so we can go looking for those blackfins.

No offshore fishing going on today here in Hatteras.  There was some wind first thing in the morning but quickly died out inshore and turned out to be an absolute beautiful winter day.  The Commercial fleet had plenty of Dog Sharks and a few sea mullets.  

Wind and leftover swell kept everyone at the dock again today.  Tomorrow looks like the only pretty day for a while.   The water still looks good and I'm sure the Blackfin Tuna will still be there when we get back out there.  Phone calls are steadily coming for summer fishing trips.  If you have a specific days you want to fish better call soon before they will be booked.  

The buoy was reporting 21 feet at 9 secs this morning which is not very condusive for fishing.  Any time the wave height is more than double the average period you probably don't want to be there.  Needless to say everyone stayed tied to the dock today and watched the wind and rain.   The good news is the Diamond Shoals Buoy as of right now is still working even after the pounding it took last night.   The wind is suppose to fall out late tomorrow and be beautiful on Monday.  

There was some decent Blackfin Tuna fishing offshore again today even though it was fairly rough and getting rougher all the time.  The good news is the diamond shoals buiy report is back up and working.  The bad news is after this blow it will probably go out again.  It's suppose to blow 40-50 tonight from the Southeast.  Should make for some interesting conditions offshore.  Hopefully the buoys holds on and we can see a report for the entire storm.  They are predicting some pretty big swell overnight. Click here to see just how rough it's getting.  Wind just picked up to 25-30kts the swell is only 5 feet right now but that won't last long I'm sure.  Hopefully this won't change the water up too much cause the fishing seems to be pretty good if you can get offshore.   

There was some pretty dense fog this morning that kept most everyone at the dock til in burned off mid morning.  A couple boats waited for the fog to lift and eventually made it offshore.  They had good catches of Blackfin Tunas again with some big amberjacs as well.  The picture is of two of Blackfins that were definitely LOST.  They were caught today by a commercial boat about 2 miles off the beach.   Pretty rare to catch these that close much less to do it in January.  There was also a showing of Cobias today for the commercial fllet as well.  If this keeps up we will be catching Marlins in March.

Beautiful day again today on the island.  Slick calm with temps in the mid to upper 60's.  While we didn't have a charter a couple other boats did and had great Blackfin Tuna fishing.  Plenty of action all day with not too many sharks.  Too bad we can get these coniditions on the weekend.  The forecast doesn't look so good as of right now but hopefully that will change between now and saturday.

Strong SW winds offshore kept all the offshore boats tied to the dock today.  There were some boats fishing in the sound and had decent catches of puppy drum and speckled trout.  The air temp was in the mid 60s today so the sound water warmed up with the air and the drum and trout started biting.  The Pamlico Sound is pretty shallow for the most part and the water temp especially inside the reef is predominantly air temperature driven.  This can be a good or bad thing depending on the time of year.  This time of year when we get a warm day the water can warm up 10-15 degrees in 24 hrs which will get the fish moving and starting to bite again.  The problem is when we get the 30 degree weather the water cools down just as fast and shuts the fishing completely off.  Lets hope for some more days like today so the water stays warm and we can have an early spring.

Wind and left over swell kept everyone at the dock again today.  Looks like some more wind tomorrow offshore but from the SouthWest which should push even warmer water in.  As you can see from the water shot this afternoon there is plenty of warm water around almost too much.  Should be plenty of Blackfins on the rocks if we can just get a break in the weather.  We have a couple trips coming up this weekend and the forecasts looks pretty good right now but I'm sure that will change soon.  There were a couple more Bluefins caught down off Morehead today looks like that body of fish might hang out down there for the winter.  They are catching them in colder water than what we have up here which is really bizarre.   There is a biomass of bait down there so I guess the Tunas don't really care what the temp is as long as the food is there.