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We had one boat go offshore today... landing 5 yellowfin tuna and 4 dolphin. Nearshore had a few blues, spanish mackeral. Inshore center console boats had great speckeled trout fishing. If your in the area please come down and watch them bring in the catches of the day, 3:30- 5:00pm.

There were very good catches of good size yellowfin tuna offshore and some good dolphin catches. The dolphin were average for size with some nice big gaffers included. Some blackfin tunas showing up.Three sailfish and a white marlin were caught and released. There were a lot of small yellowfin tunas released.Inshore boats had good bottom fishing for triggerfish, black sea bass and bluefish. Two open boats caught a variety of sharks mostly atlantic sharp noses. One open boat caught sea bass and triggerfish. One of the sea bass was a citation weighing 6 pounds. Miss Oregon Inlet caught triggerfish,flounders and sea mullet.

In Shore and Near Shore Fleets report a mixed bag of Spanish Mackerel, Sea Bass, Trigger Fish and Amberjacks. Somethin' yummy for the dinner table.

The Off Shore Fleet reports good catches of YELLOWFIN TUNA and Mahi Mahi (Dolphin) andCITATIONS GALORE!!!

The Ken Fortin party from Virginia Beach, Virginia hit a jack pot of fishin' fun with 3 WHITE MARLIN catch & release.

Michael Bryant conquered a 92 inch, 225 lb. Dusky Shark, which was released.

Samuel Fromille of Fallston, Maryland and Mark Huntley of Bel Air, Maryland caught and released a really nice SAILFISH

A 40 lb WAHOO was reeled in by Michael Fink of Boiling Spring, PA

Let's Hear One For The Girls, Andrea Gordon of Quinton, Virginia, a WHITE MARLIN (catch & release)

We had a mixed bag of fishing today! Our Offshore boys came back in with limits of Yellowfin Tuna and Dolphin, also a few Wahoo and White Marlin as well as a Blue Marlin. Our Nearshore and Inshore boys came back with good Speckled Trout fishing as well as a 35 pound Cobia.

Offhore it was lots of dolphin and scattered yellowfin tuna. Three sailfish and a bluemarlin were caught and released. Several wahoos were caught including one that weighed 44 pounds. One boat had 14 yelowfin tunas and 2 dolphin. Another had a limit of dolphin and a cobia. Inshore boats had good bottom fishing catching black sea bass, trigger fish and tailor bluefish. One boat got into those 10 pound bluefish that are around in both the ocean and the sound. Open boats had excellent speckled trout fishing. Madison Philips from Salem, Va. got a citation for his bluemarlin release, Ronald Broek from Mt. Olive, NC got a citation for his sailfish release, Avery Wyrick from Sophig, NC, and Rich Brown from Virgina Beach, Va. got a citations for their sailfish releases.

A good mixture of yellowfin tuna and lots of dolphins including gaffer size by the offshore boats. Inshore boats caught good quantities of tailor bluefish, black sea bass and triggerfish. open boats had good speckled trout fishing. One went on an allday trip caught tailor bluefish a cobia, a couple of dolphins and released sharks.

One of those days in which tuna were very active on the surface but were disinclined to bite. In some cases birds added a complication by going after the baits. Water condtions were affected by a recent storm. It was pointed out by a mate that last year tuna fishng got very good around the beginning of July and continued through September. It looks like this yeasr could be a repeat of last year tuna wise with both yellowfins and blackfins. Two white marlin and a sailfish were caught and released. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. Two inshore boats caught trigger fish, black sea bass, two cobias and a dolphin bottom fishing on an all day trip. Open boats depending on where they fished had a good day on speckled tout or cobias. The open boats tended to have all day trips enabling them to further their range and options. Two white marlin and a sailfish were caught and released.

In Shore - Flounder, Blues, Triggers, Speckled Trout, Sea Bass, COBIA

Near Shore - Tile, Blues, Spanish Mac, Amberjack, Sea Bass

Off Shore - LIMITS of Dolphin, COBIA, Tile, Grouper, Yellowfin Tuna

CITATION Catch & Release White Marlin by Richard Gavin of Severna, Maryland (06/19/12)

Our Head Boat, MISS OREGON INLET, reports croakers and flounders

Offshore catches were evanly devided between dolphin and yellowfin tuna. 5 white marlin and a blue marlin were caught and released. A nice size wahoo was caught. Inshore boats had a good day on tailor bluefish. One boat bottom fished and caught a 5 lb. sheeps head, sea mullet and spots. Miss Oregon Inlet caught blowfish and pigfish.

Today there was too much wind. The offshore charters did not fish. Several inshore boats did some fishing in the sound and caught speckled trout. Nearshore charters had good bluefish action. Miss oregon Inlet fishing in the sound caught sea mullet and assorted other fish. Shai Qweck age 8 caught a nice sheepshead fishing on Miss Oregon Inlet aided by his freind Ben Shulman about the same age and his father Jake Qweck all from DC. They had a delightful trip I could tell.

Henry ( Hank) Palmer sent us this picture of a Blue Marlin tail walking taken on May 22 this year as reported in the regular fishing report dated 5-22-12. This date represents Mr. Palmer's grandson Joseph Wolodkevich's 15th.birthday. This fishing trip was a birthday present from his grandfather. It was also Joseph's first deep sea fishing trip. Mr.Palmer said they had a wonderful time. May Joseph and his grandfather get to enjoy many more such events together including fishing trips like this..

We received a few photos taken of a bigeye tuna coming aboard and having it's picture taken on the dock.

Lots of beautiful yellowfin tuna caught today at the Gulf Stream. Citations included Babe Outtrim from South Dakota with a white marlion release, Frank Lecrone with a bigeye tuna weighing 184 pounds, Debra McComes with a 196 pound bigeye and James Eckenrode with a 174 pound bigeye. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and some good size spanish mackerel. An all day inshore trip included some bottom fishing where they had a good catch of trigger fish to add to the blues and spanish they caught trolling. Three open boats scored well on speckled trout, another caught a couple of cobias, one large the other a little less than average for this fish that can be very big and a some false albacore. Miss Oregon Inlet caught croakers, spots and sea mullet. The sea mullet actually a northern king fish are excellent eating.