Topsail Beach

 I always have enjoyed October partly because my birthday falls in the month as well as my favorite holiday, Halloween. I really love it because some of the best fishing of the year is had in October!   We have seen a great end of the spanish run with many solid 2-5lb fish caught. The [...]

Now is the time to fish at Topsail! Fall is here, the weather is cooling the water is cooling, the fishing is red hot! All the species are here, the spanish mackerel are big and fat and biting real well, the kings are consistent on both live and dead bait, we had fish to 30lbs [...]

  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 [...]

Check out the article about Captain Jim Sabella from the Star New

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]