One fish, two fish…
…bluefish, bluefish. Sometimes one, sometimes two at a time on my tandem trout rig.
Started out this morning in the same slough as yesterday. Real nice surf conditions, but the weather quickly deteriorated with showers and an increasing N/NE wind that approached a gale by later morning. The slough was slow, with just a couple hits and a 14″ flounder to show for upwards of two hours of daybreak fishing. Since the tide/current were in free-fall, I decided to check out Ocracoke Inlet and started getting sharp strikes on every cast into the oceanside rip. Eventually this evolved into a full out fish (or two) on every cast bluefish bite, complete with birds working at times. The fish were small with many in the 8-10″ range, but I scraped out a near-limit of 12-14-inch fish before taking a break from which I couldn’t motivate my soggy ass to return. Nice fishing given the conditions!
