Topsail Beach

  The fishing here on Topsail the last few weeks has had a great variety of fish! We have still been consistently catching spanish and king mackerel, as well as LOTS of BIG SHARKS. Captain John has been on the sharks real good with another large bull shark caught last week as well as black [...]

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Amberjack caught while fishing with Captain John

Brian with a sunrise king

Whew, another week of SUPER fishing has gone down here on Topsail! The king mackerel bite is really great, good size averaging 8-15lbs, and plenty of them! We have had consistent sucess using Bluewater Candy dead bait rigs and Pirate Plugs with cigar minnows on [...]

 The bite is red hot right now! We have been fishing almost daily this month, I only count 4 missed days due to weather in June til right now (tomorrow  July 6th is a blow-out).  Our customers have had plenty of hard fighting kings, jumping mahi mahi, amberjacks, cobia, spanish mackerel, and Captain John released the [...]

 The fishing down here has been as hot as the weather! Summer has hit the beach and the fishing is really strong. The last week has seen both Captain Jim and Captain John putting some impressive catches on the docks in both quantity and quality.
  Both mine and Captain John’s trips have been liberally spiced [...]

Boy have we been hearing the sounds we love to hear on the PLAN 9, screaming reels and excited customers. The weather has finally been cooperating and the fish have been chewing the bottom out of the boat.
  On the 1/2 day trips we are finding consistent action with spanish mackerel, king mackerel, chopper bluefish [...]

  Did not do a report last week, was only able to sneak in Sunday last week, and Saturday this week, the weather has been relentless! When we are getting out though the fishing has been excellent, probably due to the decreased pressure with the weather.
  Sunday the 10th we fished out of New River inlet [...]

  We finally hit a great stretch of weather and some very cooperative fish to boot!
  Saturday and Sunday had some VERY consistent fishing with a bunch of tasty and hard fighting fish caught. Both days were chock full of lite tackle bonito and spanish mackerel action. Saturday I had the Smiths on board, they [...]

I had some clients from Delaware that worked at trying to get out all week but the fans would not shut off! They were heading out of town on Saturday and with a little luck we were able to get them out with the window we had. Steve, Casey, Marie and Sidney met me at [...]