Fly and Light Tackle Adventures: Topsail, Bald Head, Carolina Beach, and Southport

                                                                                   The calendar may list the beginning of the Vernal Equinox (Spring) as March 21st in the Northern Hemisphere, but you can't convince me it's here until we get our first Tailing Redfish of the year. After a late afternoon scouting trip yesterday that resulted in atleast 25 tailing redfish sightings in the first 30 minutes, including 2 fish so engrossed in rooting Fiddler Crabs as tails waved high above the surface, that they ran right into the bow of the boat, I hit the marsh today with my main man Darin of Long Bay Custom Boat Works. With the approach of a big cold front looming, we figured the pre-frontal weather conditions would have them on the feed big time. We saw atleast 15 tails in the short time we were out, despite a 15 knot East wind, and the fact that we only fished one small marsh pan about 3 acres in size. The fish were really lazy this evening preferring to tail for short periods before laying up on the shallow grass, making them hard to track. Darin stuck with it and connected with a nice little "rat" red toward the top of the big Full Moon tide. If the idea of sight fishing, and I mean actually watching each individual fish for sometimes what seems an eternity prior to making a cast, doesn't get you heart pumping then, you just have no heart! We have dates left for early evening tailing redfish trips now through early October, and am trips as soon as the early Spring Tides arrive in May in addition to our regular flats trips. Give me a call or shoot me an email, and we'll start planning your Cape Fear adventure!