Early surprise

I just got a call from Capt. Gary Dubiel, who is one of the guides we will be booking this year.

He has been rubbing in the fantastic trout and sight casting for puppy drum that he has been having out of Oriental for the past week.

Today he ran across a school of the big drum chasing mullet. Without any big rods on the boat, he managed to beat a 40 pounder down on a 8 pound test trout rod.

Couple of days with Capt. Ray

I'm going to get a bottom fishing lesson with Capt. Ray tomorrow. In his flounder gigging travels last night he gigged 12 flounder, including a 9 and 7 pounder. He was a little dissapointed in his efforts, but that sounds pretty good to me, what about you? I can smell that 9 pounder stuffed with crabmeat and covered with potatoes and onions.

bottom fishes

We continued to bust the little kings and pick at the cobia, meanwhile, Capt. Ray has been burning the candle at both ends and harrassing the bottom fish of all variety.

On Sunday and Monday he busted the grouper, snapper and sea bass, also catching a few dolphin.

He found enough time to slip out on the gigging boat each night and stabbed a limit of flounder, including this 29 incher.

Capt. Ray's adventures

Capt. Ray busted the bottom fish this weekend, the deepwater variety and the flatties. He's been burning the candle at both ends. Grouper catching during the day and stabbing flounder at night. Capt. Gary Dubiel has been sight casting huge schools of puppy drum in the sound. THE BITE IS ON.

Thank you Joe Shute

Thanks to Joe Shute we started off with a bang live baiting king mackeral until we ran out of bait. Also saw 4 cobia on the way in, we managed to hook two of them, but the big one got a way.......

tower power

Saw 5, caught 3. The little guy on the right was just under sized and was released. The ones on the left were fileted, then released. 65 pounds was the big one. Katherine did a great job on the spinning rod.

A sight casting day

Pretty cool fishing, sight casting big bluefish in shallow water on topwater and light tackle.

The pictures don't do it justice. It would've been awesome on the fly.

Here they come......

We ran into a little better table fare on the way home with this 33 pounder.
Who's more hard headed, a cobia that won't bite or the fishing guide who won't give up? Glad we didn't give up.

A, B, C's

Albacore, Amberjacks and Bluefish over the past couple of days.

Today the menhaden showed up on the beach with the Cobia. Looks like the first wave is here. For the first day there was a lot of life out there, plenty of bait, turtles and several cobia, including this 60 pounder.

Need 2 for ARG, getting booked up, cobia

NEED 2 people for duck hunting in Argentina July 5-10, don't let the price get in the way. This is a trip of a lifetime and if you ever wanted to go, this is an oportunity of a lifetime. Recent cancellations have put me in a spot and it's time to play "Let's Make A Deal".

Things are getting VERY booked up for tarpon/drum in July, August, September. I am working with several great guides and will try to find a good guide for you, but if you have special request, sign up NOW.

We have 3 openings for Silver King Lodge Oct. 4-9. This is an awesome trip. We just got back and four of us caught 26 tarpon in 2 days. Congratulations to Larry Owen who caught 31 by himself in 4 days.

On the Pacific Side of Costa Rica for 2008, the "Fly" boats are almost completely booked. Reservations have to be made NOW if you want one of these boats.

Today was the first day out after cobia and it pretty much sucked. I'll be looking for warmer water tomorrow. This past blow cooled things off and put the bite into reverse, but it's going to fire off soon. Current openings during the peak of the bite are: May 22, 27, 30, June 1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 16 plus several more through the end of June.

For more information on any of these trips, contact Anna or myself at 252-671-3474 or info@pamlicoguide.com

Lucky Larry catches 31 tarpon in 4 days....

.....quick post from the airport in San Jose. Awesome trip. Room for two people in October.

Meanwhile, on the Roanoke, Capt. Greg caught 97 stripers this morning/yesterday afternoon.

I'll be back on the water this week, chasing the cobias.

tarpon, tarpon, tarpon

I snuck off to Silver King for a few days and it's pretty awesome. Tarpon on bait balls this afternoon. Lucky Larry caught 10 out of 13 this afternoon!!!!! Between the two boats, we were 16 for 24 today.

Coming back in October, we may have 2-4 spots left.

more pics

American Shad

pics....

The catch, filet and release season has ended.

Another tough day on the Roanoke...but we managed to beat down about 50 fish, including a 30 incher that I managed to get a picture of...to be posted later.

The fish are simply not here, not like they should be.

Many of the push of fish that arrived prior to the full moon, spawned on that moon and bolted out of here. We caught one female who was completly spawned out and several males who had dropped most of their load. After spawning, the females will probably leave, the males will stick around as long as the water levels are up and there are mommas to breed.

For the past week, it has been tough, but we have had very successful days. It's been dirty fishing, targetting small schools of activly feeding fish, sometimes chumming and mostly fishing with bait. At times, we have had them going good enough to catch on the fly, artificials and topwater.

Most of the time we would start out alone, then the double and triple headers would draw a crowd and the bite would die.......after we got ours.

I still believe that the bulk of fish has yet to arrive.

spectacular today

things are really shaping up, couple of big fish, but I sure do miss my herring. Wish they could have given us 5.

Houdini fish

I'm not sure if that's how you spell it, but they sure pulled one on me this morning. They bunched up late this afternoon and we got ours, but wow, what a tough morning.

100 +

we got 'em today and a big fish that ate a snake, 32 inches and about 15 pounds

Roanoke, Silver King and Argentina

Fast falling water apparantly turned things off a bit the last two days, but we weren't on the river to share the misery. I'll give a quick report this afternoon or tomorrow and we get back on the water. Hopefully also some pics, I brought the camera this trip.

For Silver King Lodge Oct. 4-9, we are very close to being full, finalizing the last openings now.

For Argentina duck hunting July 5-10, recent cancellations have put me in a bit of a "pickle". If you ever wanted to go, you need to call me now.

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