Annual Fishing Trip A Success

June 18, 2009

The Crew & the haul

For a number of years now a group of us have been chartering a fishing trip on the Risky Business out of Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. This past Friday we went out and once again Jamie put us on some fish. Years past we’ve gone after tile fish, a pretty tasty fish, but this year no one has had much success on them so we went for trigger fish.

Trigger Fish

I’d never caught a trigger fish before but they were a lot of fun on light tackle and in a little bit shallower water then the tiles. We caught about 85 trigger fish and a whole mess of sea bass with about 30 of them being keepers. When the fishing slowed on them they set up the trolling gear and we went after dolphin having a number of strikes but landing two.

oops not this type of dolphin but we saw a number of the mammal dolphins playing alongside the boat.

The day started and ended a bit on the choppy side getting out of port in the morning the waves seemed a bit choppy for this land lover. The return trip in the late afternoon saw us racing a line of storms that was coming in and I’ll admit I was happy to sit on the porch of the fishing center and watch Mother Nature’s fury. I may love to watch the deadliest catch but I certainly don’t want to even remotely live it.

What a great day and a mess of fish. The trigger fish were as tasty as promised, the dolphin was out of this world good and the sea bass was awesome. Jamie and Andy did a great job of taking care of us and putting us on some fish. As I’ve said before there is nothing Risky about chartering this boat other then you might have to good of a time and want to do it again real soon.
Risky Business has full day and half day charters still available this summer so check them out.