THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 9, 1995 TAG: 9508090403
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
COLUMN: Fishing on the Outer Banks
SOURCE: Damon Tatem
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
Choppy seas and dirty water along the northern beaches supplied the ingredients for good pier fishing on Tuesday.
On Kitty Hawk Pier, spot weighing up to 1/2 pound were taken regularly during the day. Avalon Pier reported fair numbers of spot and some croaker landed.
Spot and croaker were caught fairly steadily on Nags Head Pier. Fishermen on Jennette's decked lots of croaker and spot. On Outer Banks Pier, spot, croaker, some sea mullet and a few speckled trout were taken.
South of Oregon Inlet, Rodanthe Pier reported croaker and a few sea bass landed. Fishing was slow on Avon Pier due to rough seas. Frisco Pier fishermen caught plenty of 12-inch croaker.
Surf fishing from Corolla to Oregon Inlet was a little slow because of strong wave action. Around Oregon Inlet, some bottom fish and a few keeper flounder were landed. Along the beach from Rodanthe to Buxton, fishing was slow because of rough seas. At Cape Point, some bottom fish were taken along the south beach, which is protected from northeast winds.
Charters did not go offshore Monday due to gusty winds and high seas. No boats trolled inshore, but several headboats did fish in the sound. Action was fair with scattered pigfish, croakers and small flounders taken.
Pier fishing should continue steady for bottom fish as long as winds continue out of the northeast and the water remains cloudy.
Water temperature at the Corps of Engineers Pier in Duck was 72.5 degrees Tuesday. by CNB