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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.

The Billfishing has been phenomenal this past week! Today alone we had 26 Offshore boats go out and came back with a collected tally of over 200 Billfish released, they also had limits of Dolphin as well as a couple scattered Blackfin Tuna and some Yellowfin Tuna. Our Nearshore boats came back in with Sheepshead and Bluefish. Our Inshore boats came back with Bluefish and Sea Bass

Offshore boats mostly took advantage of the spectacular billfishing that is going on right now. This is the time that billfish usually showup. This year is a little better than average. It is hard to believe that anyplace in the world could be better for white marlin than right here right now. Charter boats and private boats together caught and relesed more than three hundred billfish today. Inshore boats caught nice size tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. They also caught false albacore. The false albacore are fast and active lots of sport. Open boats caught tailor bluefish, grey trout, flounders and sea mullet. A cobia was caught. I did not see a weight on the cobia, it looked like around 30 pounds to me. There were some nice speckled trout caught and a puppy drum. Grey trout seem to be making a come back. they were important and numerous for many years and then droped in numbers drastically. Miss Oregon Inlet caught flounders, sea mullet and sea bass.

Wind kept all but a couple of offshore boats in port. One of the offshore boats that did fish caught and released two sailfish and a white marlin. They landed a 52 pound yellowfin tuna and some dolphin. The other offshore boat caught and released five white marlin and some dolphin. Arline Cotie and Andy Hurst both from Wake Forest got citations for the sailfish they caught and released. Timothy Zurliene from Chapel Hill got a citation for the white marlin he caught and released.

Our Offshore fleet had a real good day of fishing with three boats comming in with Grand Slams! For those of you that do not know a Grand Slam is 1 Blue Marlin, 1 White Marlin and 1 Sailfish. They also caught Wahoo, some good numbers in Dolphin, as well as some Blackfin and Yellowfin Tuna.

Offshore boats varied widely in what they caught. Several boats concentrated on billfish and did very well catching and releasing blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish. School size dolhin were caught in good quantity.Several boats had both billfish, dolphin and tuna. As a sign of what is coming soon good size yellowfin tunas are replacing blackfins. Inshore boats caught spanish mackerel, tailor bluefish and bonitas. Some open boats caught speckled trout others caught grey trout and tailor bluefish. One boat on an allday trip caught triggerfish, sea bass, flounders and a 44 pound cobia. Miss Oregon Inlet caught a variety of fish including lots of sea bass.

Our Offshore fleet came back in with flags a flying! lots of White Marlin, Blue Marlin and Sailfish releases! They also came back with good numbers on the Blackfin Tuna, as well as Yellowfin Tuna, Wahoo, and Dolphin.

Fishing was great for most of whatever was being fished for.Inshore limits were achieved for speckled trout and tailor bluefish along with nice catches of sea mullet croakers and flounders. Offshore those that went after billfish all were highly successful there were two double grand slams and so were those that fished for tuna, Wahoo were scattered. Miss Oregon Inlet caught flounders, sea mullet, grey trout, croakers and puffers. This is really an exciting time to be fishing. Bring along your cameras and camcorders. Check out the other half of this report we could not squeeze everything into one.

This has been a very good day for marlin fishing and other species as well. Lots of blue marlin,white marlin and sailfish were caught and released.There were two boats that caught two grand slams each. Lots of tuna mostly blackfins but some yellowfins were caught also, and there were some very nice wahoos. A single report would have left out too much so we made two reports one for each general group of fish.

Today at Oregon Inlet we had the first day of the Ocean City Light Tackle Tournament. There were 36 White Marlin releases, 4 Blue Marlin and 1 Sail release. The remaing off shore fleet caught an abundance of Black Fin Tuna; with a 27 lb. citation Black Fin Tuna and some Yellow Fin Tuna.Our near shore boats caught Blues, Albacore Tuna and some Spanish Mackeral. The in-shore fleet caught Specaled Trout, Flounder and some Gray Trout. Quite a day for bills and Tuna.

Some offshore boats were warming up for the Ocean City light tackle club billfish tournament being held starting tomorrow at Oregon Inlet this year. In years past this tournament has been held where ever good billfishing was expected. This has been as far away as Mexico. Today the total for billfish caught and released by Oregon Inlet Fishing Center's charter boats was over 100. Two grand Slams were recorded. One boat caught and released 10 white marlin another 11. Some of the offshore boats went after tuna and wahoo. Three boats caught 6 wahoos each along with blackfin tunas. Yellowfin tunas were scattered one weighed 50 pounds. One of the wahoos weighed 46 pounds. Inshore boats caught tailor bluefish and spanish mackerel. The pictured young lady's name is Emma Pahls. She and her companions who fished inshore came from Mannassas, Virginia. Open boats had very good speckled trout fishing. There were some flounders caught one boat had two good size flounders but most were a little under the size limit and were released. A 35 pound cobia was caught. It fought like a much larger fish. It took 20 minutes to land.