Super User everythingthatswims Posted July 12, 2015 Super User Posted July 12, 2015 The annual family trip to the Outer Banks was this week, which means non stop fishing for my brothers and I. The fishing was tough and it took us a while to find a decent bite, but we found some fish to catch. The main target species for us were sheepshead, they are an absolute blast to fish for and are great eating. We caught a total of 21 sheepshead, with one of the being a 22" 6.2lb stud that my little brother caught. As usual when fishing for sheepshead, there was plenty of heartbreak when fish would run around pilings and cut us off, or spit the hook. We also caught a few small tautog, 6 of them I think, while sheepshead fishing. Near the house where we stayed, a few people had underwater dock lights in the sound, and every night there were hundreds of baby 8-12" stripers that would school up and eat glass minnows in the lights, so we fished for them a little bit and it was loads of fun! One night we had a few larger fish start feeding in a light, and they turned out to be seatrout. They were very picky and you had to make a perfect presentation with a weightless live glass minnow to get them to eat, even then they would sometimes swim right up to the bait and refuse it! The only other fish that we specifically fished for and had success in doing so were these huge gar-looking things called houndfish. They would swim around in schools ranging anywhere from 5 fish to 100 fish, and a live mullet or strip of cut bait was rarely turned down if you got it in front of them. They aren't the best fighters but on light tackle they would make a few short runs and jump a bunch. 5 trout we caught fishing a dock light, the biggest two were 17 and 18" A good mess of sheepshead My little brother with his 22" 6.2lb giant A couple of sheepshead I caught An 18" striper that my brother caught while sheepshead fishing, the wad of bandaging on his finger should be a testament to why you don't use a brand new filet knife to trim a tag end of a knot on a boat while running on plane in choppy seas. Here is a big houndfish, over 40" 5 Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted July 12, 2015 Super User Posted July 12, 2015 Great Trip ~ ! And Sheepshead fishing can be addicting . . . Nice Job A-Jay 1 Quote
Super User Darren. Posted July 12, 2015 Super User Posted July 12, 2015 Fantastic stuff, man! We'll be at OBX in August for a short family trip. Not sure we'll get much fishing in, though. Quote
Super User flyfisher Posted July 12, 2015 Super User Posted July 12, 2015 you did better than I did when i was there a few weeks ago but i was mostly surf fishing and only went inshore fishing one day. Looks like next year i need to focus more on the inshore variety Quote
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