From NH to OBX

[HarryG]

Greetings from NH. I am new to this forum but have slept around with a few others. My girlfriend has been asking me if we could move somewhere new because her store has multiple locations she could transfer to and I always said no because most locations were land locked. Then she said a store would be opening in Nag's Head and asked what I thought. I almost crapped myself and said yes. So she put in a transfer request and got it. I will be moving to the OBX in Sept/Oct (not the best time for a surf caster to leave nh but oh well). I am so excited to have a year round season and more species of fish to catch. I fish 5-7 days a week during striper season up here and I am excited and anxious to learn what the OBX has to offer. I will be visiting the area during the 3rd week of August and would like to sneak a couple casts in but we are suppose to be house or apartment hunting.

[beachtoad]

Oct is an awesome time to be in OBX. Drum are usually running pretty good along with alot of other species. We god down for 2 wks every Oct. Wish my wife could transfer down there... Good luck. You might miss some of the tax breaks in NH. lol

[HarryG]

New England is so expensive I won't miss much but the enviroment and maybe the snowboarding. My rent for a poopy 1 bed apt could get me a mortgage on a decent place down there.

[kinnakeettom]

now is the time to buy a home down here, rents are not that cheap, 1-1.5k
Cost of living is 10.8 higher here than the rest of the country. Traffic in the summer well be prepared for the damnest driving I have ever seen this side of rome. A great place to live but when you do make the move, be prepared to lose everything, due to storms, the H-word, as we are long overdue for a bad one. Research is the key and check things out thoroughly before you jump. wages with the housing slump are in the toilet, 10-14 tops ph for trades, have friends on hatteras that work 3-4 jobs to make ends meet.
that is why I work overseas, to afford living here.
good luck, remember to look before you leap.

[HarryG]

My girl has gaurenteed work. I dunno what I am gonna do. I want to try and find a way to work fishing some way. I am a construction project manager with intense AutoCAD experience so it is never hard for me to find work. Does anyone know a good real estate agent they could set us up with. Thanx for all the advice, I'm 25 plenty of time to fix mistakes so I am just taking it on as an adventure.

[beachtoad]

Look up Jeff Ross. he owns the boat Obession outa Oregon Inlet. great guy and awesome fisherman. His wife is a realestate agent. Ruthanne. She has a link on his website. Good luck with the move. Pm if you need more info on Jeff.

[HarryG]

Thank you very much. I've been counting the days, I got even more excited when someone posted a pic of a huge cobia. Now if someone would just offer me a fishing job I'd be golden.

A side question, what are the major species primarily fished for from shore? Do the snook come in strong?

[HarryG]

beachtoad, I am too new to the forum to pm. but i spoke with mrs. ross tonight she was very kind, thank you for the referral. she wanted to know who was referring her.

[beachtoad]

We have fished with Jeff in Mexico. Glen n Amy in New York. She should remember us if not Jeff would. Hope she can steer you in the right direction. Maybe we hook up and do some fishing in Oct. we are heading down for 2 wks starting round the 11 we should be down.

[Tall Paul]

HarryG, as to your side note, No we are a little to far north to get many snook here. Depending on the time of year, The major species you can target from shore are Spotted sea trout (specks) red drum, bluefish, cobia, flounder, pompano, sea mullet (whiting, kingfish, ect.) spanish mackeral, striped bass. Sharks (multi-species). There is something to fish for year round, you just never know what might be lurking just beyond the waves.

[HarryG]

Follow up question can fish for cobia on plugs with any success?

[Tall Paul]

Haven't ever heard of anybody catching a cobia with a plug from the surf, but you never know. Mostly bait fishing on a fish finder rig. Now from a boat, running the tide lines or bouys they catch a fair amount of cobia sight casting to them, buck tails and big poppers. With the exception of trout and mackeral, it seems to me that it is more bait fishing than plugging. Who knows maybe you will start a trend.

[HarryG]

Bait fishing isn't really for me, the closest I get is the occasional slinging of live eels. I am looking foward to applying some new england techniques down there. Do you guys spend much time in the sound or is it primarily beach fishing? I appreaciate all the feed back.

beachtoad I would love to meet up and do some fishing we will have to stay in touch.

[beachtoad]

hows Hamton beach these days? keep intouch.

[Tall Paul]

Yes there is some good fishing in the sounds, Small schoolie stripers over by the manns harbor bridge, Speckled trout in davis channel and green island slough. Most of the sounds are pretty shallow till you get a ways out. Further down the OBX (about 40-45 miles) there is good wade fishing around canadain hole, you just have to look out for the cazy wind surfers. There are other places, depends on how far you want to travel and how much work you want to do to get there.
A word of warning, If there are 100 guys fishing 8 N bait for drum or stripers and you start plugging in between them, it could get really ugly .