Good morning. Here’s your Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Thursday, February 2, 2012.
This video was shot just south of the Avalon Pier at the 5th St. beach access in Kill Devil Hills at 9:00 AM.
Happy Ground Hog Day! Unfortunately, Mr. Phil saw his shadow this morning, so more winter on the way. But with a winter of sun and 60 degree temps, who can complain?!
Overcast and some showers to start today, but hopefully we’ll see the sun by the afternoon. 60 degrees and a light offshore breeze out of the southwest. Temps will cool to the low 50′s for the weekend, and the sun should stick around.
No surf to report. The ocean is flat. Swell will pick up tomorrow, but that’s only because the wind is going to switch to the northeast and kick up some wind swell. Could have some knee high longboard waves over the weekend, but nothing substantial.
OBX fishing is slow, but a couple ok reports. Good reports of tuna offshore. And in the not great but we’ll take what we can get category, word is there was a big school of speckled trout just north of the VA/OBX border yesterday. Fingers crossed that we see a good bite of something soon.
When Surf Fishing for Redfish “puppy Drum” off the North Carolina Beach’s make sure your gear is good to go. Watch my friend as he runs up the beach. The Redfish just stripped his gear out of his real! He ended up loosing the fish. I guess one out of two landed isn’t bad.
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This season I decided to use light tackle on the surf for striped bass and after a lot of research I chose the Dobyns DX783 SF rod,,,,,I had “so much fun” using this rod on the surf and I also used this rod in the Delta and in the San Francisco Bay and will post more videos in the near future so “SUBSCRIBE NOW”…
All of my videos were shot with my GoPro HD Hero Helmet Camera…
On this video some of my friends and I catch a bunch of striped bass on the surf,,,I personally caught three striped bass on this day “but” ended up releasing one so that I could keep fishing and the two that I ended up keeping I ended up giving them away to my friends on the beach that did not end up catching one on that day!!!,,,All that I needed was the videos and some pictures!!!,,,,To be fare the two fish that I kept that day each went to a different friend,,,,This was an “AWESOME” day of fishing…
The accident scene was about a mile from where I found Barney swimming. Our guess is that he was so freaked out and traumatized that he just wanted to get as far away from there as possible. And when he ran out of land, he took to the water. Another credible hypothesis is that he swam towards the kayak because the Chens are avid kayakers, and actually have two yellow ones.
Whatever the case, I feel lucky that I was there fishing, because there was no place for him to go and I don’t know if he could have made it much farther. He’s banged up, but mostly fine. Our hearts go out to the Chen family, who lost their mother.
UPDATE 2: Many people have asked what they can do in light of this terrible tragedy. I have been in touch with the Chen family. They suggested (and I wholeheartedly second) that you make a donation to Mothers Against Drunk Driving in the name of “Donna and Barney Chen” to help prevent this from happening again. Here’s the link:
http://www.madd.org/donate/
NOTES:
* Yes, Barney is back with his family. I imagine they need him pretty bad right now. Dr. Chen reports that after the accident, Barney was suffering from what he thinks is something akin to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He was uncharacteristically lethargic, and they have even had to carry him outside. He seems to be pulling out of it a bit though.
* Why is there a camera running? I usually keep a camera running when I fish, in case I catch the big one. It does happen, occasionally (see other videos in my profile if you are interested)
* The kayak is a Hobie Adventure. It is a kayak made specifically for fishing. When turned down, the side floats allow me to stand up and fish.
* My brother got my mom some shamwows a couple years back as a gag gift. As corny as they are, they actually are pretty nice for fishing
This Tarpon was caught fishing in Southeast Florida during the 2011 Mullet Run. We used cut mullet for bait and kayaked out the bait approximately 100yds.
Bait Used — Mullet
Hooks — 6/0 Mustad Beak Bait Hooks
Leader — 3′ of #9 AFW Single Strand Wire & 5′ of 200lb monofilament
Swivels — 200lb Barrel
Reel — Fin-Nor OS9500
Line — 65lb Power Pro
Rod — 13′ Breakaway HDX Surf Rod
Good morning. Here’s your Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Thursday, February 2, 2012.
When Surf Fishing for Redfish “puppy Drum” off the North Carolina Beach’s make sure your gear is good to go. Watch my friend as he runs up the beach. The Redfish just stripped his gear out of his real! He ended up loosing the fish. I guess one out of two landed isn’t bad.
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Hello everybody,,,
UPDATE: the mystery is solved. However, it’s very sad and unfortunate:
wind loud in clips so i muted them down and had some fun
Roosterfish action on the surf
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This is a Video of me Reeling in a Big Barracuda while Surf Fishing in Florida.