Crystal Coast of North Carolina

[ScottP]

sandfly pointed you in the right direction. Hit the false albacore run right and you'll never be the same; standing up in the bow, watching albies crash balls of bay anchovies, bait flying everywhere, birds diving, laying a cast in that turmoil, feeling the thump of a strike and then watching the line and backing disappear in a tunny melt - nothing else even comes close.

Harker's Island is the center of a lot of the fishing but you can get there from your base. 1st weekend in November, Tom Earnhart hosts (at least he used to; think it's still happening) a pig roast at his house in Harker's that is definitely worth going to.

Regards,
Scott

[bobbyg]

Thanks all. We'll get it worked out.

[shorthaul]

This is the first year that we didnt go---but there is time left (ive gone as late as thanksgiving) Clousers tied on 3 extraheavy hooks--10 wt rods--look up snotflies when they are sipping--Gummy minnows work if you get them with brownish backs--we always stayed at the Inlet Inn and ate at the Grocery in Beaufort. We fished with Capt Dean Lamont just over the causeway to Atlantic Beach