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The Rock Pile, is probably the most famous fishing spot off Hatteras and South of The Point. A ridge of rocky structure in 180 feet of water that runs from the Southwest to the Northeast is frequently the area that many fish are caught. Billfish ar

The skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis, is a medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae. It is otherwise known as the aku, arctic bonito, mushmouth, oceanic bonito, striped tuna, or victor fish. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) in length. It

Last weekend I fished with Brian Mock out of Oregon Inlet on his 36' Contender named Mutiny. As we ran out the inlet, he dropped all 3 hammers and we made it out to South of Tuna Hole in about an hour. We barely had lines in the water when we got o

Chuck Many of Annandale won last weekend’s Hi-Mar Striper Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years on his Tyman from Highlands. Capt. Bryan Pieros of Lebanon and Matt Calabria from Hazlet joined Many as they chunked bunker in the

 On Friday (9/23/2016) we rode on Country Girl out of Pirate's Cove Marina in Manteo for Drew's bachelor party. We caught Yellowfin, Blackfin. Skipjack. and False Albacore Tuna. We caught and released 8 or 9 sharks and lost many tu

On Saturday, we went towards Monitor Buoy and 230 Rocks. We tried high speed trolling without success. We found a nice temperature change and started setting out the lines. We got the shotgun, longs, and had just set out the shorts, when the blue a

Marathon Hump is also known as Marathon Hump West. Drops to over 1200 feet on the east side. 

We fished 3 days last week (Thursday – Saturday) out of Hatteras. For 3 excellent days of weather we will be paying for it this week. On Thursday we started a tad north of Rock Pile and ended the day around Monitor Buoy with 4 Wahoo in

This is a deep drop from 984' to over 3000' in less than 2000' of distance.

Stripped Bass and thier hybrids can be taken by using big alive shad or skipjack as live bait. Giant jig heads and with white/pearl colored shad shaped bodys also work well. The bigger the bait the bigger the stripper. These tailwaters are full of fi

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 80%  Numbers at a glance: Marlin 52% Sharks 39% Tuna 7% Dorado 5% Other 9%  Striped marlin lit-up released by Chic McSherry aboard Tiburon MARLIN: We are sooooo happy to finally have some sta

Fished with a new friend out of Atlantic Beach yesterday. We started the day close to NE Big Rock and started picking off Gaffers and Wahoo, with most bites on a naked ballyhoo (dink baits). The bite stayed stead till about 10:30 AM, then died for

On Thursday (9/22/2016) we started the day North of Monitor Buoy. I had got all the lines in the water and had just set out the first teaser when a Sail started swiping at the teaser. Starboard short goes off, almost immediately Port long goes off,

Dolphin are biting good on our sportfishing charters this week out of Ft Lauderdale. The weather has been very windy this week.  It’s kept a lot of the small boats home and even some of the big boats.  We’v

We fished Sunday and Monday off Hatteras, North Carolina. We caught 9 Mahi mahi, a Skipjack tuna, and an Amberjack. Water temp for the Mahi and Tuna was between 72 - 74 degrees. All were caught between 220 - 250' water close to 230 Rocks We lo

Spring break has been in full swing here the past couple weeks and we've had a ton of boats fishing! We are in the Spring Time fishery now which means there's a wide variety of fish not always a ton of each but you need to be ready for every

We've had some great weather the past ten days here in Islamorada. It's been a little warm so make sure you bring plenty of water to drink. The mahi bite was great in the middle of the month with all the boats getting in on the action but it

Photo by Gord Roberts on the panga Porpy with Noe.  See below for what he expeienced. Offshore (average) surface water temperature - Includes from the 5-6 mile mark at the 100 fathom line on out to about 50 miles with the 1 000 fathom line bein

We've had some super calm weather the past week here fishing in Islamorada in September. The week before was rough with strong winds but it looks like it's going to be super nice the rest of this week. The strongest bite of fish we have had

We had less boats go out this week than last and fishing was hit or miss depending on the day. Yellowfin tuna was our top catch this week with 67% of Pisces boats bringing in tuna in the 15-30 pound range. Fishing remained on the Pacific side over a