Fishing Report Dec 20th 2013

Friday Dec 20th is looking to be kind of comfortable with mostly sunny skies, high around 62 degrees and S winds 10 – 15 mph.  Sunset is expected at 4:53 pm and sunrise tomorrow will be at 7:09 am.
First tide is a low at 2:36 am followed by a high at 8:48 am
Second tide is low at 3:23 pm with the high at 9:16 pm

The weather for the whole weekend looks good so if you want, you can think of it as an early Christmas present and enjoy it.

Here is what I know, there are stripers being caught in the Chesapeake Bay – I’ve heard of schools of fish working bait concentrations in the mouth of the bay – there are also fish being found around the pilings of the bay bridge.  I have heard of schoolie stripers caught around our bridges in the sounds but none yet in the ocean.

The water temps on the northern beaches are running between 48 – 52 degrees (depending on the weather) but when you get around Avon the temps bump up to 60 – 64 degrees.  That is a significant rise for less than an hour drive away.  Buxton beaches down to Cape Hatteras are still producing decent numbers of slot-size puppy drum and some speckled trout with flounder and sea mullet mixed in.  If you really want to chase trout, go to the “hot ditch” in Virginia (check out 2 local bro’s in the ditch at “Into the fog” at www.a-teamfishing.com ).

I believe there are fish in the surf on the northern beaches but there just aren’t many people fishing.

TAKE A KID FISHING!!!            Coolbreeze out