Fishing

Flounder and Mahi

Its HOT summertime, a great time to be offshore and not sweltering in the heat on land.  Fish get hot too, the flounder that come spawn inshore during the spring are now rolling to the deep water in the ocean.  Below the thermocline (about 20-40ft...

Offshore Flounder time and a tournament win!

Our friends over at www.seahawksports.com  hold a flounder tournament every year on July 4th weekend.  The proceeds go to a local family in need.  Its a great cause and for the last few years it is timed right with the start of oceanside flounder fishing.  This year...

Spearfishing off Chincoteague, with flounder, Spades and a Mako release

June 25th   [embed]https://youtu.be/M7XJ_YoT8JE[/embed]   We ran off Chincoteague to the artificial reef.  This time of year the flounder start to congregate in the deeper cooler waters of the ocean.  They like to hold around structure and the Blackfish bank reef is a known hotspot to find these fish....

Chesapeake Bay Red and black drum fishing near Watts island.

Coastalkillers.com is fishing near Pocomoke and Tangier sounds in the Chesapeake Bay.  Early May these fish show up in the upper reaches of Virginia and lower Maryland.  We setup in the shallows using half peeler crabs.  Our buddy boat was killing them and we couldn't...

Trophy striped bass and black drum in the Virginia surf

May 9th 2015.  Got on the beach at 6 am, headed home before 8am with a 4 man limit of trophy striped bass and black drum.  Amazing spring fishing on the Virginia barrier islands near Chincoteague in the FOG.  Even released a few rock under...

Rock and Drum from the surf

May 6th 2015   It is trophy rockfish season in Virginia from May 1st -15th.  During this time they raise the limit to 36" for the length of a striped bass to be a keeper.  This is when they run in the surf though, so you have...

Surf fishing in Virginia

Gearing up to head to the surf today.  picked up 4 dozen peelers from the bayside last night.  The peelers have only started showing up in the last 2 days or so.  One of my favorite fishing seasons is the early surf bite in May.  Virginia...

Stellar surf fishing in Virginia

Last year about this same time there was a giant slug of rockfish coming up the coast.  We got these fished timed down just right, 1 hour past low water they would move into the surf.  This was one afternoon after work and it was...

Gulp! shrimp chase cam

This is some video following a gulp! shrimp jigging in the turtle grass in Mexico.  I took the top of a 2 piece rod, tied some 6lb floro to the end then tied the jig head on.  Following the Gulp! with the GoPro while snorkeling...

Surf fishing the Virginia barrier islands

Here is how to cut up a peeler crab in 30 seconds.  Get yourself a pair of bait scissors, it make it a lot easier. Afterwards we bait up and fish for rockfish in the surf.  This is the spring run of rock which happens along...

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