Thanks for this weekscreport Ken! Cobia fishing took off like a shot this year. Hopefully, it will continue through the summer. There is an awful lot of recreational and commercial pressure being put on these fish but for right now, the cobia population is looking good. Anglers sight-fishing and those chumming are both having success with multiple citation-sized fish caught this past week. Fish weighing in the mid-80s have been brought to the scale. The big red drum bite continues to be very strong on the shoals at the mouth of the bay. With all of the boats cruising around looking for cobia, there will be plenty of big reds caught sight-fishing throughout the summer. Right now, if your target is a big red, go fish live blue crabs somewhere on Nautilus or 9-Foot Shoals. Puppy drum are being caught inside the inlets and up on any are flats that have some eel grass. The black drum bite in the Cabbage Patch area has pretty much ended. Look for big blacks to show around the islands of the CBBT. Big sheepshead are in residence at the CBBT. Anglers fishing for them are having a big by-catch of tautog. The tog season is closed so release any that you catch. Spadefish are being caught by hook-and-line and shot by spearfishermen. Like in the previous several years, the spades have been small. Flounder fishing is slowly picking up at areas like the CBBT, 36A, Dead Man’s Hill and the Hump. The best bite is still inside the seaside inlets of the Eastern Shore. Spanish mackerel are due to arrive along the oceanfront anytime now. Croaker fishing is good in the rivers. Offshore, the dolphin bite is very good out of Hatteras where a 73-pound bull was weighed in this week. Boats running out of Oregon Inlet are coming back with good catches of dolphin, yellowfin tuna and some impressive bigeye tuna. Boats running offshore out of Virginia are going down south to get in on that bite or fishing outside the Norfolk and Washington Canyons where there are some yellowfin tuna or they are bottom fishing for tilefish and other bottom fish while they wait for the tuna bite to come a little closer. The Flounder Bowl will be here before you know it. The early registration period ends June 14. After that, entry increases to $200 per boat. Registration is limited to the first 120 boats. Over half of the available spots are taken. Visit: flounderbowl .
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:36:20 +0000
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