Category: Nearshore Fishing

Oak Island Fishing Charters had a half day today and with the winds blowing hard we decided to run on the East Beach of Bald Head Island to look for calm water with fish.

Oak Island Fishing Charters picked up a group from Bald Head Island this morning to go on a shark hunt.  We started off trying to catch some fresh bait which was a task by its self.  After we caught bait we started Shark fishing and in no time there was two put in the boat.  With the morning being a success already we all decided to go home on a high note because we felt lucky to catch them so fast.

Oak Island Fishing Charters had 2 half day trips today chasing down the Blacktip Sharks.  The morning trip was a success catching 40-60 lb blacktips along with some Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish.  The afternoon trip caught the big sharks 125-150lbs and that’s about as big as the Blacktip gets (we do see bigger).  Anyway everybody went home happy and that’s what its all about.  Grouper I hope you sleep good tonight cause we are coming for ya in the morning.  This is not the best picture so go to the CONTACT page and click on the FACEBOOK button and check out the short video.

Oak Island Fishing Charters has been running some 1/2 days for the last several days looking for Sharks.   After all the wind we had the 1st trip out was slow but we saw plenty of action by the way of Big Sharks fining or jumping out of the water but was not able to bring any to the boat.   Today we had 2 1/2 day trips even though we did not have high hopes when we left the dock things were a lot better once we put the lines in the water.  The afternoon trip was awesome with a nice shark on every 30 seconds till they said “this is to much like work” so we called it a early trip due to fatigue.  We will be at it all weekend and back to smoking the grouper on Sunday.

Oak Island Fishing Charters went looking for a Nearshore King Mackerel today with a Grandmother/Grandson combo.  We heard there was no bait of Bald Head Island so we ran down Oak Island till we found bait.  Yaupon Reef is were we found the action Big Spanish Mackerel and 18-20lb Kings.  Now thats the way to spend the afternoon East wind and all.  Once again I think an East wind is a fishermans excuss because we have caught plenty of fish on an East wind.  Fact is either they are biting or their not.

Oak Island Fishing Charters had a short trip today for a few hours catching Bluefish.  We were fishing between Oak Island and Bald Head Island NC with the hard SW winds this was the only comfortable spot to fish and the rising tide going with the wind was a big plus.  We started catching fish right off the bat then the tide went slack and so did the fish but we still had a good time.  All the kids did great so now they are ready to venture out in the ocean next time and catch some sharks.