Wilmington, NC Late August. Any opportunities?

cold, my youngest son lives down there and my other son, giddeon, you met him, used to live there.
i'll give him a call this weekend and get the scoop.
 
my youngest son knows where all the good bars and eats are also.~dt

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cold, my youngest son lives down there and my other son, giddeon, you met him, used to live there.
i'll give him a call this weekend and get the scoop.

my youngest son knows where all the good bars and eats are also.~dt

Thanks, DT!

She's from Wilmington (and here...and LA...) and her older sister works at a local martini bar, so she knows some spots, but new waterholes are always a plus.

SK...so far its about a 50-50 split. She's a beach bum, though, so I'll have all the time in the world to fish thru the day.

Oh that sounds really cool! While I don't know if she (or anyone else) will be up for camping...night fishing might be productive. I've been ocean fishing several times, and never caught a single fish. Lots of blue crabs, plenty of motion sickness & sunburn...and one very large, very unhappy snapping turtle...but never a single fish.

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my son's used to hang out at wrightsville beach. there is a beach down there you can drive on, stay over night and camp out. i'll get the info for that also.

 
 
I'd be interested in that beach info,too.

Flyfish yes, boat/guide, no. I could do the guide thing, but I kind of want to do it myself. I've gotten a lot of good info from guys here, a few friends of friends, and a few Wilmington locals on another site. While I'm not going to jinx myself with any prediction of success, I think I've done just about all I can on my part to learn about the area, the fish, and the tactics. Hopefully that will be enough to eventually get into a fish, even a small one.

I've tried ocean fishing several times, surf, inshore and offshore, and never even once caught anything. I wish I could blame it on bad conditions, but while surf fishing, there were plenty of times when the 3-4 fishing buddies with me each caught a half dozen or so and I got skunked.

Me + Ocean + boat = sunburn, seasickness, skunk. All three times that it's happened. Pretty much turned me off from fishing in any boat or water much larger than a small lake or slow river in a canoe.

Reds, mostly. Spanish if I get in the surf. Possibly some specks around too, if I happen into them. Haven't said much about blues, but I'll be taking down some knottable steel tippet just in case.

Been there, sharpe. Thanks for the link.

KJH, thanks for that. I'd found one other shop online that I was planning to hit up, but I'll check both out now. :)

In your experience...more important to hit the time of day right, or the tide? If time, when? If tide, when? From what I've been hearing, consensus seems to be ignore the time of day, hit the incoming and high tide, which puts me on the flats mid-afternoon. Having read your posts on fishing I'm more familiar with, you seem to have some opinions about things that are unconventional...but sometimes brutally sensible.

Thanks, D-Nymph, that seems to jive with what I've read. It's gonna seem weird heading out to fish at midday in August, but if that's what seems to work, that's what I'll do.

Fish the channel, then as the flat fills up, fish it, is what people seem to be doing.