Fishing report...

[Rumble Fish aka Poppy]

Fished the OBX last week from Wednesday ‘til this morning...looking for Stripers... Found them, along w/ some Puppy Drum, Spec's and Blue Fish...

Tried from Corrolla down to Hatteras Inlet...

Winds, nasty weather and dirty and/or seaweed filled water did not help things...

Fresh bait iffy...water temps mostly around 54/55 degrees...

Stripers – 17 total to 42"(none under 34")...most on the north beaches (ramp 34 and north) on bunker...however, picked up a few throwing lures at night at the north end of Pea Island and at Corrolla and Coquina beaches during the day...

Spec's – handful behind the hotels in Buxton...small jigs...nothing large.

Blue Fish – a couple at Cape Point, 7# - 9#...

Puppy Drum – a couple at Ramp 55...

Small Sharks and Skates - I cannot count that high!

Of course I missed the epic Striper bite at HI Saturday night...first hand reports were that some 150+ fish landed w/ some to 46"...

Same story as last year—the OBX is huge, just too much beach to cover...spent (wasted) a lot of time driving from the northern OBX beaches down to HI... Stripers could be anywhere!!!

Poppy

[derf]

sounds like you had a great trip , yup you sure covered a lot of beach .....ain't it great !!!
derf & deb

[kip]

poppy,

good to hear form you, and glad that you caught some fish. what you said is both the benefit and bane of fishing the OBX, with a lot of beach to cover, but it also is great that you are not forced to fishing elbow to elbow all of the time.
took my step-son fishing for his first real surf adventure and he caught a 41" up at the south beach at OI. will be headed to HI to throw some metal at them during the holidays with the other 2 step-sons who now want to get in on the action.
hope you have a terrific holiday season, and sorry that i missed you on your trip down.