Beaufort/Cape Lookout May 13

Out little Spanish friends are in but with out birds they are hard to find and nothing was on the surface. I put on 8 and 10 ounce weights and picked up about a dozen small blues and spanish trolling oo clark spoons along the beach in about 17 feet of water. Wind picked up big time around 2pm and a pod of fat albies tore up my spread so I came in. I know a lot of guys love catching these things but I think they are a pain in the *** as you cant eat them but they do fight hard..It was blowing a solid 25 when I hit the inlet and with quartering 5 ft seas it was a slow choppy ride and I broke off my seat and fell on my ***. I stopped for a flounder sandwich and a frosty and some guys in a big sport fishie tied up next to me with 6 guys on board. The mate told me that half of them had been throwing up and they they only got 3 decent dolphin and some snake kings and one big wahoo. Both dive shops cancelled out also because of the wind. I did not go out today and it was blowing all day and tomorrow is more wind and rain and monday is the same. Hopefully I can get out tuesday..Frank

[Stinky_Hooker]

Sounds good! What size do spainish average around there?

13 to 19 inches or so, not much to them. Sometimes you can get them 3 to 5 lbs but mine usually are on the small side but they are very tasty....I always run one larger spoon down very deep as sometimes kings are under them. Frank

[Blue_Runner]

Hey Frank, I was down and probably within seein distance from you on the 10th. 4 guys in a baby blue center console with no top. We fished morning from 8 - 11 and evening from 5 - 7 and never left the inlet. What were you fishing in?

A white 83 v20 with a red bimini top and a big chesapeake bay retriever..Sometimes I run the shore line, or AR 315. I usually stay either to the right or left of the inlet and sometimes I troll in the turning basin..I saw some guys in a 26ft blue Mako center console with twin mercs.. frank

[Blue_Runner]

I saw a V-20 trolling right next to us that had a blue bimini similar to Willy's. Looked like it had a 150 yamaha 2 stroke like my boat. I waved and he obliged. I was thinking, "you know, I probably have chatted with that fellow online at some point."