Fishing Report 10-7

All right, so a couple things.

The offshore fleet was blown out completely yesterday, Hatteras and Oregon Inlet, and I would imagine in Ocracoke as well.

But I will say this.

Back in the day, when I was fishing at Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, one summer, we went 74 straight days in a row, fishing with Nevin Weskett on the Sundancer.

You talk about tired.

And when those first fall blow days finally did come...

Man, oh man, was I ever happy to see that and have a little break.

And it's the same way now, especially right here on the doorstep of the deer and duck hunting seasons.

You know, everybody is out in the woods and doing the fall stuff.

maybe working in their fall garden.

It's some of the best times as a working waterman is the fall of the year, especially when you've been really busy all summer long and you've been running a lot of trips.

It's nice to have a little time to do some stuff with your family.

A lot of these guys will also guide duck hunting parties as we get more into the winter.

So now is a little chance for them to catch their breath.

take the kids out deer hunting, maybe go out and do a little drum fishing in the sound, and that's just the way it is.

So we have nothing to report offshore, but we had some pups and some puppy drum and bluefish the last few days in Hatteras for the near shore and the inshore boats, and then yesterday the boats fishing inshore or near shore at Oregon Island had a little bit of a mix.

They had some blues, they had some drum, Looked like mostly puppy drum.

Saw a couple of big flounder that were caught and I assume released.

So that's what's going on there.

Both organella and hatteras have had a great run on the tuna, black fins and yellow fin tuna.

I mean, we're really going into prime tuna season.

And it's going to pick right back up when we get through this little bit of weather.

Of course, we've got a storm brewing down in the Gulf.

We'll probably get some rain, some wind out of that a little bit by the time it gets to us.

Hopefully, it won't be too bad.