Subject: Emerald Isle, both ends, North Carolina

Submitted by David T (ip 69.134.226.26)

• Fished on 5/20/2007

  Water Temperature: .
  Water Clarity: Poor
  Seas: Moderate
  Weather: Sunny, 50 to 83 degrees F. Winds 10-20 mph.
  Fishing_for: Flounder, blue, & FUN!
  Boat: .
  captain: .
  

  Report:
  Surf fishermen here. We started at the Bogue Inlet end of Emerald Isle at 0900 hrs, first the shallows, then the inlet. Got a 6" spot, a 6" blue, and a 40" wingspan skate, all tossed back. A neighbor got a just-legal 15.5 inch flounder. At 1330 hrs, moved to Ft. Fisher, walked past the jetty (with a swell beach pull-cart, makes it so much easier!). There, the surf was good and wooley, as you'd expect. Got a 6" spot and a 6" blue, tossed back. A neighbor got what appeared (from a distance) to be a 3-foot blue? And it was said that someone else got a 19" flounder, but I didn't see it, so don't believe it. About 9 dolphins were patrolling back and forth to the right of the jetty (right were we were) and scared some fish right out of the water, one a flying fish, about 20 inches long, that flew almost right into me as I waded in the shallows, then it dove in, then jumped right back up and flew back out. Was a cool wildlife show. We used fresh shrimp and cut squid tubes, mostly on flounder rigs, got the skate on a shorty hopkins red devil spoon. David T & Brother Steve

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