Archive for April, 2011
Blues and Sea Mullet
Fishing should be excellent this coming week. Water temperatures are in the lower 60’s throughout the entire northern banks. Small front with slight chance of rain is moving into the area on Tuesday. This should make fishing improve over the next couple of days.
No report from the surf, but all piers are reporting sea mullet, dogfish, and small blues on “Gotacha” lures” and blood worms.
Blues are hitting anything that moves. Color does not matter. Lighter colors work best in cloudy water. Clarity changes quickly, so bring a variety of colors.
Sea mullet and dogfish are hitting the worms using bottom rigs.
We been waiting a long time – Go get’em.
Tightlines.
Sunscreen – Not What You Think
The huge billboard shows an innocent little girl’s butt cheeks being exposed by a rude dog for the entire world to see. The letters on the sign reads, “Don’t be a pale face,” “Use Coppertone.” Back then we were all mesmerized by the message. Pale is bad, the sun is good but only with Coppertone!
As a child, the lesson to “stay protected” came from my parents. It seems they were always interrupting our games to smear gooier sunscreen lotion on our exposed skin. Little did we know at the time how this would influence us later in life?
Being an avid outdoors person, I have spent many countless hours in the sun over my lifetime. Whether its fishing, boating or just working in the yard, I have always remembered that lesson to use some type of protection when outdoors.
My latest stop at the drug store for a sun protection product left me confused and frustrated. With so many to select from, I could not determine which provided the best protection. So after a little research, I found an interesting web site that thoroughly discusses various sunscreens.
http://www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen/
Be sure to review each tab. And don’t be ashamed to find out that your popular brand has no protection at all. I know I found mine did a poor job protecting me. Going forward, I will be more careful to the brands of sunscreens I use.
Will you?
Three Piers are Now Open
On Thursday 14 April marked a spring milestone on the Outer Banks. The Outer Banks Fishing pier opened for the season. The Avalon Pier began the process on 02 April, followed by the Nags Head Pier on 12 April and now Thursday’s opening of Outer Banks pier. So now there are “three commercial piers open for business”.
One mainstay – the Old Kitty Hawk Pier – Hilton Gardens Hotel stays open year round.
WOW. What a change from just several days ago. Water temps jumped from the upper 40’s to 57 degrees on 15 April.
Pier access fees have increased slightly but still a bargain. Especially for those who have travel maneuvering the surf beaches. These piers can supply you everything you need to make you day fun!
Reports of sea mullet, small croaker, dogfish and plenty of skates on the northern banks typically knock the cobwebs out of the hardened angler.
Drum are showing up on Hatteras and other southern beaches.
Remember – no speckled trout fishing. The NCDMF closed this fishery due the major cold snap earlier this year. Watch for more news here but it appears 15 June is still the re-start of this fishery.
Tightlines.
First OBX Fishing Pier is now Opened
Well, its been a long winter and finally we can look the light at the end of the tunnel. Avalon Fishing Pier is open. The pier offically opened on Saturday, 2 April to beautiful day.
Several bottom fish were caught including some small croaker and dogfish. The water temperature is still fluctuating between 48 and 50 degrees.
Once we have a consistent warming trend, the fish will not be too far behind.
I’m ready!!
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