A Fishing We Will Go

This was a week of both stormy days and sunny days.  The storm that rolled through one evening had all the boats, even in the protected harbor rocking.  This was a quick video a grabbed from out of the window of Southern Style.  The worst of the wind was already over by the time we had secured the boat and I grabbed the camera.  I really wanted to see if it would come out on the blog.

Rocking in the Harbor

The storm clearing out

After the storm

We had the chance to take a sunset dinghy ride one night

I also continue to do some kayaking.  I get a kick out of looking at all the shells the hermit crabs and other marsh critters have found for their houses.  Can you spot the Scotch Bonnet among the shells?

Here was a crab trying to steal a shell from another crab

Here is my trusty kayak after a big paddle

Friday July 17th the weather was perfect for off-shore fishing.  Keith and I got up at "0 dark 30" and headed out.  It was a beautiful morning, but just breaking daylight as we left the harbor.

Ocracoke light as we came out of the harbor Friday morning

Fishing rods are ready to go.  The crescent moon can just be seen over the top of the rod.

We caught two blackfin tuna.  The fishing was slow for everyone out there.  The water is getting too warm, and the fishing is not as good as in the spring and fall.  The charter fishing boats went to bottom fishing after they did not catch anything in the morning.  We stuck it out and bagged the two tuna.  Keith and I were the only boat from Ocracoke to catch anything while trolling.  If you check out our "SPOT" locator (located on the right-hand side of the blog page) you can see exactly where we were trolling off-shore.

One of our two tuna ready to be cleaned.