Reel Adventure Fishing Reports

Wrightsville Beach Report 6-10-10 Fishing is Great!

Reel Adventure — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:37:37 +0000

Hello everyone. It looks like my weekly reports have now turned into monthly reports! This fishing season has been very busy for us and I apologize for the lack of reports. I hope you enjoy this one, it is packed full of pics and even a cool video!

Before we get into the report….I would like to invite you facebook users to become friends on facebook. We are doing lots of live, up to the minute updates on the boat via the apple Iphone. It has been a great way to stay in touch and see whats going on, both on the boat and behind the scenes. Just click here! http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1033147691

Inshore: The redfish have been by far the top producers this year. The action has been pretty steady and the fish are usually in the upper slot and good fighters. The flounder are now biting well. A 18lb 3 oz was caught last week in the waterway near CB inlet (not by me). But it goes to show the big ones are there, but you gotta have your line in the water to possibly get one!

Nearshore: Spanish Mackerel and bluefish have been biting well trolling and sight casting. King mackerel are also biting well nearshore. We caught a 17 lb king a half mille off the beach yesterday on a 10 lb trout rod while chumming and light lining over some near shore structure. The shrimp boat shark fishing is getting underway. The shrimp boats are starting to show up and in turn bring some awesome shark action!

Offshore: The King mackerel, mahi, and amberjack are all biting well. A few sailfish are also being caught.

Here is a awesome video of some recent topwater amberjack action! We tease them away from the wreck and then catch a big one. Be sure to watch for all the fish in the water fighting over the topwater popper! This is one of my favorite species to target!

http://www.vimeo.com/12303943 (approx 5 mins long)

I hope everyone is having a great summer! If you come down to the beach give us a call to get in on the action!

Tight lines!

Capt. Matt Wirt

Reel Adventure Charters www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570 Wilmington, NC

Here is Mark with his first Bluefish and I think first fish ever! Below is what his father caught using his bluefish!

Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters 5/3/10 Report

Reel Adventure — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:16:07 +0000

Hello everyone! The spring fishing has been on fire. The Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters have been great and this has been a awesome season and it should only get better. Our amberjack fishing is right around the corner and we are ready to pull on these hard fighting fish. This is prime top water and fly fishing for 30 – 70 lb amberjacks that will put you and your gear to the test.

Inshore our flounder and red fishing has been great. They are biting artificals and pretty much anything that moves.

Offshore the blues are on fire, the spanish are moving in and should take over. The kings are still pretty far out but they should be close very soon as the water temp is rapidy rising.

Now is the time to book your summer trips!

Capt. Matt Wirt

910-540-0570

Reel Adventure Charters

Enjoy the pics!

Reel Adventure Charters 3-28-10 report

Reel Adventure — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:48:34 +0000

Hello everyone. We are glad to be home and the fishing has been great! The Bald Head Island fishing and the Wrightsville Beach fishing is going great right now when the weather allows. There are some pretty nice schools of redfish in both areas, and they are eager to bite anything that moves. Our water temp was 63 degrees yesterday and that is great for this time of year especially when the winter was so cold. It looks like the season will be on schedule if it stays warm. Give us a call to set up your trips this year. We are already starting to book up pretty good. I look foward to seeing a bunch of old friends and making some new ones this season! Here are this weeks pics and videos….Enjoy!

Capt. Matt Wirt * 910-540-0570 * http://www.reel-adventure.com/ * Wilmington, NC

Reel Adventure Charters 3-12-10 Report with Video.

Reel Adventure — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:26:03 +0000

Hello everyone and sorry for the lack of reports this winter. As all of you know we have had a tough, cold winter and the fishing has suffered as a result. I am tired of complaining about the weather so I wont bore you with it here. It looks like it is back to the 70’s and 80’s here in Florida and the fishing should be back to normal until our return to Wilmington on March 20th. We have had a few good days in between the cold and were able to stick a few fish. I hope you enjoy the pics and video.

A few new things for Reel Adventure that hopefully will be pretty awesome for both me and my customers this year. We are now equipped with a underwater HD camera and so far the videos have been incredible. This will take our videos to the next level and I cant wait to use it during shark season! Lowrance was gracious enough to send me a brand new HDS 10 chart plotter / sounder combo. The mapping is superb and I cant wait to see all the wrecks etc. in 3d. We have also stepped up our camera equipment to include a 70-300 vr telephoto lens for the SLR camera. Now we can pick out some awesome pics further away and these are available to the customers free of charge if they would like any. Check out the awesome Osprey pics!

We are looking forward to returning back to Wilmington and are now accepting bookings for our Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters , Topsail Island Fishing Charters and Carolina Beach Fishing Charters.

Please click here to view our underwater test video demo. It about 4 minutes mong with some neat footage. Watch for the crazy pelican!

Give us a call to book your 2010 fishing trip!

Capt. Matt Wirt

Reel Adventure Charters, www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570

Pine Island Fishing Report 1-21-2010

Reel Adventure — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:53:16 +0000

Hello everyone! I hope everyone made it through the brutal cold snap we had. It has finally gotten back to normal temps here in Florida and our Pine island fishing is getting back to normal. Lots of our fish had a tough time during the cold snap, but alot of them made it. Check out the awesome snook pics in our canal below. We even caught a few LARGE snook.

Offshore is doing well with the Goliath Grouper. The AJ’s, sharks and cobia should be back very soon with the rising water temps.

During the cold weather I shot some new fly tying vidoes. Click here to check them out: http://saltwaterflytying.blogspot.com/

The Scientific Anglers 8wt 9′ 2 piece NEW rods sold out quick. I sold 21 that I was able to get. I have 4 left, just email or call to get the remaining few that I have not gotten checks for… so here is your last chance to jump in and get one or two. First ones to get a check to me gets them. Can ship if needed! They are only $45 each and shipping is $15 if needed.

We are getting pretty full with charters but still have plenty of good dates left, if you want to come down to Florida for some great fishing just give me a call.

Here are this weeks pics enjoy!

16 pound snook

released

Brett with a 11 pounder

Lots of these around! Tough to get them to eat though!

Working the pot holes for trout, caught about 15 yesterday.

Goliath bite is still going strong, here is a small 100 pounder.

Here is a small 50 pound Gloiath, you are actually happier the smaller they are!

Here are some awesome pics we got of snook getting warm in our canal during the cold snap.

Decent snook with lots of catfish.

There were about 30 snook in this one spot with many over 10 pounds.

Capt. Matt Wirt

Reel Adventure Charters www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570 Pine Island FL. until March 20

Pine Island Fishing Report 1-2-10

Reel Adventure — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:50:15 +0000

Happy new years to everyone! I just wanted to post up a quick report because the Pine Island fishing has been on fire when the wind works in our favor. I have gotten LOT’S of questions on the Goliath Grouper trips. The first one is YES they are always there! No you cant keep them, they are federally protected! We may or may not catch a keeper sized grouper and there is a good possibility you will get a cobia or an amberjack. But please be aware we are Goliath Grouper fishing, smaller bottom fish are generally not hanging around where the Goliath’s are….for good reason!

Inshore has been picky. Lots of temp changes on the flats. The fish are there but it has not been a easy bite. Some days we wear them out the next they wont even take a live shrimp much less a fly. This should settle down after the fronts blow by.

On a side note those that purchased a fly rod from me on the fly rod deal need to make sure you get your checks out to me ASAP. I am waiting on a check from 5 people. I also still have 2 rods left for sale.

Starting with off shore pics..

Rod abuse!

This one was bigger than me. I estimate it @ 250 lbs. This one and the big one from last report are hard to estimate. I saw on youtube where other capts. estimate the same size fish around 400 lbs. I just know its big! I also will have a youtube video up soon. I have the footage, just need to edit it out.

Shannon with a nice keeper sized grouper.

Just a little short!

I need a bigger stick. This was a 40 to 80lb rod I made. I am making an unlimited class rod this week. I can only imagine the size of the grouper that broke it. I have the rod breaking on video.

Inshore…..

Becks with a nice spanish. We caught over 100 fish on a 3/4 day trip. Note the wall of birds behind her, they are on busting fish.

Her husband Randall hooked up. I have video where we were catching bluefish on a bare jig head! What a great day with great customers! Thanks again guys!

This is one of the many bait balls the fish were working that day.

My boat was covered with these!

These are a few they kept for dinner. The biggest spanish went 22 inches.

The fish were going nuts that day!

air time!

Jason with a nice bluefish on the TFO 7 wt.

Shredding the gurgler!

I hope everone has a great 2010 and if you want to come down to Florida for a winter fishing trip just give us a call!

Capt. Matt Wirt

910-540-0570

http://www.reel-adventure.com/PineIslandFishingCharters.htm

Pine Island FL untill March 20.

250 Pound + Goliath Grouper, Cobia, Amberjacks, Sharks and more

Reel Adventure — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:22:22 +0000

Hello everyone! The Pine Island Fishing has been awesome. We have had lots of inshore action and LOT’S of offshore action latley. I wanted to share some pics of our last offshore trip where we ended up with some HUGE goliath grouper, HUGE sharks, lots of amberjacks and cudas. It was a blast! I will let the pics speak for themselves. If anyone wants to come pull on some of the grouper. I will GUARANTEE you hook up with a few of them. It is up to YOU to get them up. More about this after the pics!

First we catch one of these for bait, yes this is the bait! Then we cut 5 pound chunks off of it.

The bait does not last long, if it even makes it to the bottom. This is 36 pounds of max drag, 200 lb test. You will only try this once standing up (trust me on this) you will learn quick to leave it in the rod holder and crank from there!

If your lucky and you dont get broke off you will come up with a big boy! We got broke off 5 times before we found one we could manage! This one was bigger then me and I am 210 lbs. Estimated it @ 250 lbs, probably much bigger.

Released unharmed!

Here is one estimated at 50 lbs.

Sent the whole thing down asking for trouble and I got it.

This shark went 200 lbs estimated and it inhaled the cuda before it went out of visual range. I saw it eat it, I tried to bring it up and this shark ate it boat side. After 15 minutes we got the shark to the boat again and released. We got 3 sharks and all of them were around this size.

My buddy Shannon went after the Amberjacks and Cobia on live pinfish. He got this 20 lb cobia on a trout rod. We caught around 10 amberjacks as well. The amberjacks had me puzzled because they did not go to the bottom and break you off like I am used to. I realized a few minutes later they cant! They will get eaten!

So back to the GUARANTEE. If anyone wants to come down and battle the biggest grouper of your life I will guarantee you get hooked up multiple times. Bring your baddest rod and reel or use mine. We are running these trips out of a 24 Ranger bay boat in the calm gulf of mexico waters 14-20 miles from land. Price is $600 for 3 anglers (includes captain, mate and everything else except your fishing license wich we can easily get when you get here).

Capt. Matt Wirt

www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570

Pine Island Florida untill March 20

Pine Island FL Fishing Report 12-9-09

Reel Adventure — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:30:44 +0000

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving. We have made the move to Florida for the winter and the Pine Island fishing has been insane! Lots of spanish, blues, ladyfish, and trout are on the flats, and near the passes in huge schools busting the surface. Cast your fly (small white clousers or gurglers) into the frenzy and you could come out with any of the 4 species! 60 fish half days have been the norm and just to add a little spice to it, about every 30 minutes or so a 3-5 shark usually shows up to try to take your catch! Thats a big shark for 2 feet or less of water!

The redfish and snook are working the mangroves and we have been doing well on them with fly. I got a nice snook and messed up a NICE redfish bite big time the other day. I sighted the fish, made the cast saw the red chase it and open its mouth and I set the hook and evidently pulled it right out! I made a perfect follow up cast, but I think the redfish was frustrated as I was. He just followed the second cast a bit then went on about his way! The merkin crab fly pattern has been the fly of choice so far.

The snook light fishing at night has been good. The fish are always there. Some nights they bite, some nights they dont. I hope to check out a spot soon that holds tarpon, BIG jacks, and BIG snook very soon. That might be tomorrows plan.

If you are intrested in getting in on some warm sunny Florida fishing action just give me a call or click here: Pine Island Fishing Charters

Reel Adventure Charters is also offering gift certificates for Pine Island Florida fishing untill March 18 and for Wrightsville Beach fishing charters (from Topsail to Bald head) anytime after March 22. Just give us a call and we will get it to you before christmas, credit cards accepted!

Also, I made the decision a month ago to join facebook. I didnt think I would mess with it much but it is a neat way to give up to the minute reports (with pics) right from the boat via my Iphone. If you would like to keep in touch with whats going on with me (most of it is fishing related) please send me a friend request @ http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?ref=profile&id=1033147691

And finally, I am glad lots of you got in on the $45 fly rod deal! The Scientific Anglers 8wt 9′ 2 piece NEW rods sold out quick. I sold 16 of the 21 that I was able to get. I have 4 left, just email or call to get the remaining few. Can ship if needed! I believe all that said they wanted one should have a check on the way. If any one doesnt have my address to send the check please email me asap @ mwirt@charter.net

Here are this weeks pics! Enjoy!

Capt. Matt Wirt

910-540-0570

www.reel-adventure.com

Not much left!

17 inch spanish have been the norm

He whines all day untill he gets one!

His one for the day! My happy fishing buddy.

Pine Island Fishing Report 11-11-09

Reel Adventure — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:31:29 +0000

The North Carolina inshore fishing continues to be awesome and we are gearing up right now for our Pine Island fishing charters. We will operate out of Pine Island Florida from Dec 1 untill March 18 this year for the 5th year in a row. So far the response has been great and I look foward to fishing with you over the winter! This is true sightcasting and is perfect for the spinning rod angler or the fly rod angler alike! We have an awesome package deal for Florida, and you can find more info by clicking here: Pine Island Fishing

Before this weeks report, here are a few cool sites you might want to check out.

Reel Adventure has teamed up with Temple Fork Outfitters (TFO). Lots of you know I am a custom rod builder and this is the first time I have ever teamed up with a rod company. I am very picky and TFO makes some awesome products, the company is solid, and their customer service is great. Please check them out @ http://templeforkflyrods.com/ or better yet lets go put a bend in a few of them to see how you really like them!

Please listen to our interview on the radio we did last week @ http://www.saltwatercatch.com/forums/upload/showthread.php?t=1081 and check us out at http://coastalcarolinafishingreport.com/ where we provide the Cape Fear fishing report this week.

This weeks report….The Wrightsville Beach Fishing and Carolina Beach Fishing continues to be great. The water temp is still extremely warm for this time of year. The red drum, trout, flounder, king mackerel, cobia, false albacore and just about everything else is biting well. This will continue untill we get a few cold fronts. After that happens the king mackerel, cobia, and flounder will push offshore and everything else should continue to bite well. What a great end to a great year!

Here’s this weeks pics. Enjoy!

Capt. Matt Wirt

www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570 (Wilmington NC & pine Island FL)

released

Sight casted this little guy on fly.

Cape Fear Inshore Report 10-25-09 Reel Adventure

Reel Adventure — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:37:49 +0000

Hello everyone! The Carolina beach fishing and Wrightsville beach fishing charters is about as hot as it can get right now. The redfish and speckled trout are biting just about everything and we have had lots of sightcasting opportunities. Now is the time to target them on spin tackle or fly rod. The lower tide stages are producing best, and on a 1/2 day we are averaging 4-5 reds and about the same in trout. We had one monster over the slot red that we sight casted too almost spool us then broke us off! Also there are also lots of small undersized reds, wich looks real good for next year!

The response for our Pine Island fishing charters in Florida this winter has been great. It looks like I will se quite a few of you over the winter and I cant wait to share a awesome fishery with you. Click here for more info:

http://www.reel-adventure.com/PineIslandFishingCharters.htm

Untill then we will continue to have fun here on the Cape Fear with the redfish and trout! Come join us!

Steve and I stayed on the fish all day long today. We caught a total of around 7-9 reds and trout on that 1 DOA shrimp!

Capt. Matt Wirt

www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570

Wilmington, NC / Pine Island, Florida 33956