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Our Offshore fleet came back with buckets of Dolphin both Gaffers and Bailers, some Yellowfin Tuna, and a scattered Wahoo. We had a few Blue Marlin, as well as White Marlin,and Sailfish releases as well today! The Nearshore boats came back with Tilefish, King Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel, and Bluefish. Our Inshore boats came back with Drum, Grey Trout, Trout, and Puppy Drum. Our Headboat the Miss Oregon Inlet caught Sea Mullet, Pinfish and Pig Fish

A real seasonal turn aroung in offshore fishing seems to have taken place over the past two days. Blackfin tunas and marlin have given way to yellowfin tunas, dolphin and scattered wahoo.Enough marlin remain to liven things up from time to time particularly blue marlin. An interesting incident involving a blue marlin occured on the Osprey today. Captin Paul Lester's notice was drawn by his mate of a bonita airborn by at least 10 feet followed shortly by another spectacular bonita jump. Soon a blue marlin was hooked that broke off.One offshore boat caught 10 yellowfin tunas and released a bluemalin. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish, spanish mackerel, false albacore and hound fish. Open boats caught grey trout, flounders, cobia and tailor bluefish. Miss Oregon Inlet caught sea mullet, grey trout and tailor bluefish.

We had 9 boats travel to the Gulfstream today and they came back with good numbers in the Blackfin Tuna, as well as good Yellowfin Tuna, nice sized Gaffer Dolphin and a Wahoo. We had a few Billfish citiations issued for a couplw White Marlin and a Sailfish. Nearshore they had a Great day with reports of lots of Amberjacks, False Albacore,as well as Bluefish, Spanish Mackerel, and a 20# King Mackerel. Inshore they brought back Speckeled trout, Grey Trout, Bluefish, Flounder, as well as Cobia and a Red Drum.

A quiet day offshore, beautiful weather, good water conditions, not enough boats to locate fish. A sailfish, blackfin tuna and tilefish made up the catch. Inshore excellent wreck fisihng lots of big three, four and five pound triggerfish, black sea bass, tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. One of the spanish mackerels weighed three pounds. The odd fish in the picture is a ling cod. Open boats had very good speckled trout fishing. Dependent on the tide there were five pound flounders caught good grey trout fishing, triggerfish and sea bass. There were also some tailor bluefish caught in the afternoon with speckled trout and grey trout.

.....MOTHER NATURE PREVAILED...... One Boat took the chance and brought back a GREAT CATCH of Flounder, Sheepshead, Spanish Mackerel, Grey Trout and Puffers.

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Offshore marlin and sailfish were caught and released including a grand slam with one blue marlin, three white marlin and five sailfish. Several good blackfin tuna catches and two yellowfin tunas. One of the grand slam's blackfins weighed 23 pounds. There was not room to include the whole grand slam's catch in one photo so the slam and blackfins are on separate photos. Dave Pusateri from Mt. Morris,Pa. caught one white marlin and two sailfish, Chad Wendell from Pennsylvania caught a bluemarlin and 1 sailfish, James Wendell from Holbrook, Pa. caught 1 white marlin and a sailfish Bill Moats from Wind Ridge caught one white marlin and 1 sailfish. Many of the tuna catches included either white marlin or sailfish.All the billfish were released. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. An allday inshore trip caught an amberjack in addition to tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. One open boat on an allday trip caught some beautiful spreckled trout, released puppy drum and caught tailor bluefish.The speckled trout catchers were John Diel from Quakertown, Pa. and Lee Diel from Milton, Pa. Another open boat caught flounders and tailor bluefish. Recently there has been very good flounder fishing when the tide has been right. Miss Oregon Inlet caught sea mullet, pigfish, pinfish and puffers.

Today our offshore fleet landed a mixed bag of fish. There were lots of catch and release white marlin and there was also a 300 lb. blue marlin released. We also had yellowfin and blackfin tuna, one blackfin was 23 pounds. Bonita and wahoo also added to the mix.

Our Offshore fleet came back wtih good catches of Dolphin as well as catches of Yellowfin Tuna and Blackfin Tuna. Our Nearshore boats came back with Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish. Our Inshore boats came back with Trigger Fish, Flounder, Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish. Our Headboat the Miss Oregon Inlet came back with Pin Fish, Puffer Fish, Sea Mullet and Trout.

Several offshore boats went after marlin. A grand slam consisting of a blue marlin, a white marlin and a sailfish.The blue marlin was fought on a shimano TLD 20 (a light reel for such a large fish) it was estimated to weigh around 500 pounds. A 484 pound blue marlin was brought in and weighed. This has become a rare occurance since the vast majority survive and are released alive. It fought a good fight having been brought near the boat four times each time except the last it found enough spunk and energy to make a run for it ripping off line as it went. It was an exciting episode for the party evan though it did all it's fighting from below the surface.It came up dead after two hours. During the same trip 5 white marlin were caught and released. The white marlins took to the air several times giving the party's cam corder and still cameras lots of photo ops. Two offshore boats loaded up on blackfin tuna with a few yellowfin tunas. Inshore boats caught limits of tailor bluefish. One inshore boat on an allday bottom fishing trip caught sea bass, triggerfish and spanish mackerel. One open boat caught some nice flounders and grey trout. The grey trout were thick. AS soon as bait hit the bottom a fish was on. They stopped using live bait, went artificial and still caught fish. The party that caught the blue marlin were Dale Heatwols, Mark, Dwain, and Willis along with Jonathan Burkholder and David Miller all from Harrisonburg. The grand slam anglers were Josh Baldwin, Darren Terry, Michael Terry, Alex Terry and Franky Cordrey all from Aulander, NC.

We had 12 Boats Offshore today and they came back with Great numbers in the White Marlin, a scattered Blue Marlin and Lots of Dolphin.Our Nearshore boats came back with Blue Fish and Spanish Mackerel.

Offshore white marlin were plentiful. Great white marlin fishing will continue on into October unless a storm inspires them to move South. It seems sometimes that the fish can sence that a storm is coming,that it is time for them to gather and move on. It can happen overnight. Until that happens it is an oportunity to get in some great billfishing. Cripp Hogg from Mechanicsville,Va. expressed it when he said white marlin was what his groupe came for.The boat he was on caught and released 10. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel.The spanish mackerel were nice size. Open boats caught triggerfish, tailor bluefish and flounders. Becky Schurzky from Bridgewater, NJ caught a 6 pound flounder. Miss Oregon Inlet caught a wide variety of fish.

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OFF SHORE FLEET: Another GREAT Day for Citations - "Catch & Release" Bill Fish and some Dolphin

NEAR SHORE FLEET: Wild "BLUE" Yonder (all Blues)

INSHORE FLEET: Speckeled & Grey Trout, Puppy Drum, Sea Bass, & Blues

HEAD BOAT: Grey Trout, Pig Fish, Puffers, & Pin Fish

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Too much northeast wind kept all but one offshore boat and one inshore boat in port. The offshore boat went primarily for billfish. It caught and released 14 white marlin and a bluemarlin. The inshore boat caught 40 tailor bluefish, seatrout and seamullet.This year's billfish season is a good one. The inshore boat's catch makes fall inshore fishing look very promising..

Today was another great day of fishing here at Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. We only had five offshore boats go out today but they certainly had lots of action with 32 catch and release white marlin and scattered sailfish releases. There were also dolphin, blackfin tuna and wahoo brought in.