Carolina Beach: Another day Offshore fishing for the Pelagics.
Left Carolina Beach Inlet at 7:00 a.m. heading about 15 miles out. Forecast was 2-4 feet with NW 10-15 knots. For once, I can say they defiantly got this one right. The good news is it was supposed to switch to the W less than 10 knots and it did. Trolled live bait around some areas that had been productive all week, nothing. Decided to move off another 5 miles to fish a rock and had a hit on the downrigger. It ended up being a miss so we kept on trolling and had another hit on the downrigger. This time we landed it and it was an 8 lb king. Maybe the day was going to pick up for us. I decided to move to another place and when we got there we had a couple of misses before we hooked up with a Mahi Mahi. This was a beautiful fish, defiantly a “gaffer”. As I was trying to get other lines out the way, the fish came close to gaffing range and then took off again, jumped and threw the hooks. We also had a small Cobia messing with the short bait but would never take it. It was a slow day but atleast we had some action, from what I heard on the radio everyone was having about the same luck. It must have been the cold front that came through the night before.
