Down East Guide Service can connect you with duck hunting guides in North Carolina
Down East Guide Service can connect you with duck hunting guides in North Carolina
Cast and Blast trips.
Duck blind rentals.
1907 Paulette Road Morehead City, NC 28557
252-671-3474 info@DownEastGuideService.com
Down East Guide Service can connect you with duck hunting guides in North Carolina
Cast and Blast trips.
Duck blind rentals.
Anna & George,
I cannot overstate my positive experience this past weekend
fishing with Downeast Guide Service in Oriental. I have fished with
almost all your guides over the years, and Capt Cailyn was absolutely
remarkable. He works hard, is incredibly personable and helped me and my
son have a fantastic day on the sound.
We started off slow, not sighting a fish for the first 4+
hours on a flat, calm day (which normally don’t produce many drum). I was
beginning to wonder if we’d be shut out. Then just after 630PM, the
dinner bell went off, signaled by the front reel screaming as line peeled
off. For the next 90 minutes, we had our fill of 40-50+ inch old drum
bending over rod after rod. Our final two two strikes came as we tried to
bring in the lines for the day only to get hit on the retrieve. The
second to last fight was the best I’ve ever seen from a drum before we headed
back to Oriental in the dark. I’ve been drum fishing with you for years
but this one will be hard to top!
Thanks to Downeast, Capt Cailyn and all the people of
Oriental for a phenomenal weekend.
Jeffrey & Dylan Clark
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I guess it is consistent tarpon fishing for 15 of the best NC tarpon boats fishing/looking for nearly 10 hours and NO ONE saw a fish. Two days before there were at least a dozen tarpon hooked by a handful of boats and expectations were high for this tournament.
We had even invited a tarpon scientist to come take samples of our plentiful fish. At the end of the day, we apologized for the sorry fishing, but as Lucas replied, that's just tarpon fishing anywhere in the world.
Some days they just don't do it. But that's what makes them so special and why we are so mad at them.
For me, it was a pleasure to fish with two legends, Capt. Rick Caton and Mr. Tarpon himself, Phillip Ambler, aka Ms. Sharon.
I drove 14 hours down to the coast to hire Capt. Matt Deaton to take me and Capt. Allen Heath tarpon fishing on my old boat! Capt. Allen beat me to the rod and caught his first tarpon but did hand me off the next bite, a big Neuse River bull shark.
Pics to follow,
Got some great guides with open dates if you ever wanted to try and catch a NC silver king.
Drum dates are getting slim, better call soon.
I’ve been
paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over my career to take people out under
miserable conditions which I would not choose to go out into myself, but I’ve
never paid so much money to go out in that misery! I can think of a couple of those trips you financed!.
Still had a great time.
Friday it
started raining and never stopped. I was
in full body condom and the rain gear outlasted my 3 cigarette lighters but at
the end I was soaking wet from head to toe, but not so wet that it poured out
of my boots. It rained sideways for much
of the day with the 30 knot winds. When
the wind would lay down it was just because the rain drops were so big and so
furious that the wind could not blow.
At those times I believe that it was actually raining upside down.
Late in
the day, between one of the squalls associated with the storm that had all the ingredients
except a name, I hooked a fish on bait, it shook his head, came to the top and
everyone said shark, they saw a fin……I did too, but it could have been the tail
of a BIG cobia. If it was a cobia,
tournament winner for sure. Everything
just went slack and I was sure that the shark had cut the line, but the hook
came back without a scratch on the leader.
They still say shark, I say we lost the tournament winning cobia. We’ll never know.
I really did have a blast and most of the top fish were caught near us, so we were in the zone. Whether we had our chance or a big shark, I'll never know. Many thanks to Breakwater Inn, Oden's Dock and Cameron Whittaker's expertise for keeping us safe and keeping us fishing under extreme conditions.
Meanwhile at Cape Lookout, consistent cobia catches, despite tough conditions, indicate that there are a lot of fish still on the way up the coast.
If you ever make it to Cape Hatteras, give us a ring and we'll get you connected with a true waterman.
I know, I know, I have not been posting much here, but I have been trying to keep the fishing reports updated at www.draginflycostarica.com
Roanoke is firing off in case you were wondering, rise in water and the sunshine today has them going the right directions, stacking up in catchable numbers on jig and fly. Going to be a really, really good week.