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The striper fishing in Weldon has remained steady with 20-40 fish half day trips being the norm.  Occasionally we will beat that mark when the artificial bite really fires off.  We’ve been catching plenty of fish on fly jigs and ̷

To our utter amazement the infamous Ralph Nelson who now resides in Raleigh but is originally from Enfield had never caught a striper from the Roanoke River. Ralph regaled us about some past partying adventures and the heyday of the … Continue

Looking ahead to the winter I want everyone to be aware of our amazing winter striper fishery on the lower Roanoke River and western Albemarle Sound. While every day is not necessarily red hot we do have triple digit days … Continue reading 

A likely new world record striped bass was boated this morning in Connecticut. Caught on a live eel at Southwest Reef by Al Stromski it weighed 81.6 pounds at Shoreline Bait &Tackle in Westport. I checked with Fred Golofaro editor of the Long Is

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I had a great time yesterday with Gary and his crew. We caught around 25-30 and kept a nice limit of 8 fish. I just received this message from him: “Good evening capt.! Hope you had a heck of … Continue reading → The post March Str

Friday and Saturday bring more wind 20-25 mph not good. Both days are canceled Sunday 23rd is still open maybe the 30th. Had A good crew yesterday we started out kinda slow only boating one 29 pound fish in the morning by mid day they starting chewi

Check out these great pics from Kyle.  He can take a great photo.  We encountered a bear swimming across the river and he was able to get a few close ups.  He also was able to capture a bald eagle … Continue reading → The

Well Ed Andy and Steve you shouldn’t have given up so fast last night. Scott Conte new kid on the block came into Surfland and got outfitted for a new rod and reel and on the advise of the Kelly’s went out and hit the oceanfront. At about

Fished with Dave and Trish last night. The fishing was less than stellar but we caught two small stripers. It was Trish's first ever striper. Regardless of size it is always worth celebrating first ever bass.

It just can’t get much better……………period!  I had 2 old Roanoke River veterans on the boat with me today…….Capt. Tom Hughes with High Water Mark Adventures and Capt. Karl “Red Duck” Hel

Today I guided a Lake Lanier Striped Bass Trip The fishing started out slow but by 9am the Striped Bass action was ON FIRE! Gainesville Marina Seemed to be the hot location. Find the bait and the fish are close by.  There are millions of ba

We will be running open boat and regular 6 person striper charter trips on the custom Carolina Hooked Up II starting April 15th. We are also running a special early season open boat price of $150.00 per person for this coming weekend (April 12 13 14)

Billy Ben and Vince all hometown Tarboro boys enjoyed some spectacular striper fishing today on the Pamlico River.  The morning topwater bite brought some real brutes and then we moved to a different area and clobbered them.  I bet we R

We are still having some good fishing.  Didn’t get out there Monday with the rain but today produced about 35 of these.  I found them late so we probably could have put a few more numbers in the boat if … Continue reading →

The great bite continues.  We had one slow trip the next morning after some really heavy rains and tornados causing the river to rise a little and become muddy.  We still caught 25-30 and the boys went home with 4 … Continue reading

Slow is the best way to describe the striper fishing this past Sunday. We fished to the north up the bay and did have a few decent runoffs that probably were stripers but that was about it for the trip. We did get fresh bunker so having quality bait

June has finally hit and summer fishing fun is here. Fluke are cooperating very well in the back bays while stripers are patrolling the surf and inlet areas. Offshore tuna and sharks will be on the menu this week as … Continue reading →

We started out our day eagerly heading to where I caught my fish the day before and hoping they’d still be there.  Acting like fish do they moved and we were struggling trying to find them again.  After a few … Continue reading

Fishing for Stripers  08/10/13 High Tide 2:34 pm – South of the G3 Can – 10 / 12 mph W SW wind – Sunny Angler Tom Dunphy  & Captain Dave Miele We have fished together for many years Tom & I over twenty and this was