Capt. Marty's Outer Banks Fishing Report & Stories
Oct 26, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
Welcome to a brand new week! We're about to wrap up October and it hasn't been the greatest that's for sure. Still blowing, not a whole lot of action but I'll tell you what I do know from the weekend…
Marty BrillHost
So we still have no fishing, nobody even silly enough to try to get across the bar.
But as we move into November, we still should have king mackerel and blackfin tuna and wahoo and hatteras.
But I've been telling you that ever since the wind started blowing, what was it, 10 days ago? So...
It's the nature of the beast this time of year, although we're getting more than our fair share right now.
An old captain in the fleet, Captain Lee Perry, used to always say that when you had a summer full of hot, sticky, southwesterly winds, which are the dominant wind in the summertime, he'd say when you have a summer full of southwesters, they were all going to come back as northeasters in the fall.
So it must have been a summer full of southwesters because I think they're all coming back as northeasters now.
The people that love to do it, which are fall tourism industry built around big bluefish and red drum, can't get to Hatteras to do it.
So there are folks fishing north of Oregon Inlet, but it's just not as good as it is down on Cape Point.
So we still have no fishing, nobody even silly enough to try to get across the bar.
But as we move into November, we still should have king mackerel and blackfin tuna and wahoo and hatteras.
But I've been telling you that ever since the wind started blowing, what was it, 10 days ago? So...
It's the nature of the beast this time of year, although we're getting more than our fair share right now.
An old captain in the fleet, Captain Lee Perry, used to always say that when you had a summer full of hot, sticky, southwesterly winds, which are the dominant wind in the summertime, he'd say when you have a summer full of southwesters, they were all going to come back as northeasters in the fall.
So it must have been a summer full of southwesters because I think they're all coming back as northeasters now.
The people that love to do it, which are fall tourism industry built around big bluefish and red drum, can't get to Hatteras to do it.
So there are folks fishing north of Oregon Inlet, but it's just not as good as it is down on Cape Point.
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