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Wrightsville Beach Fishing Report 11-17 Easy as it gets!!!!

Capt. Matt Wirt — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:11:38 +0000

The Carolina Beach Fishing has been going stong in the lower cape fear river. Double digit trout and red drum days are the norm latley with a few flounder, black drum and sheepshead thrown in for good measure. This is pretty easy fishing and about as good as it gets! With this nice weather it looks like it should hang around for a while longer. Check out the pictures below and give us a call!

Reel Adventure Charters will wind down here in NC soon and we will make the annual winter trek to Pine Island Florida and will guide out of there for the 5th year in a row. If you want to get out of the cold and expierence some great winter fishing at a price that wont break the bank give me a call. Its a full package deal and I will even pick you up from the airport if needed. Click here for lots more info: Pine Island Fishing Charters The main target is speckeled trout, redfish, snook, spanish mack, blues, albies, jacks and lots more!

Capt. Matt Wirt

Reel Adventure Charters 910.540.0570

Wilmington, NC. untill Dec 1

Pine Island, FL. From Dec 1 to March 15 2011

and…..this weeks pics!

Islan Blanca Tarpon Video with Reel Adventure Charters

Capt. Matt Wirt — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:07:42 +0000

Late getting this report out…..Fished 2 days in Isla Blanca Mexico for second year in a row and had another great time. Below is the video, it is pretty good but I would have had alot better footage on the second day if the battery on the HD cam didnt expire.

Here is the video: ISLA BLANCA TARPON FISHING VIDEO Fished 2 days with Capt. Enrique and had a blast. Caught around 20 Tarpon in 2 days. Everything on fly. Windy, as hurricane just passed but, he took us into some crazy places with that panga. We would go (push and pull our way through moving the branches and limbs) through mangrove holes not even big enough to fit the boat for about 1/8 mile and pop out into a small lagoon to get out of the wind. Used alot of tarpon toads and gurglers. Good times!

Locally the Wrightsville Beach Fishing Charters and Carolina Beach Fishing Charters are going great when the wind allows us to get out! Come enjoy the cool weather and our fall fishing!

Capt. Matt Wirt

www.reel-adventure.com

910.540.0570

Carolina Beach Fishing Report, red drum are on fire!!

Capt. Matt Wirt — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:31:49 +0000

Hello everyone. The Carolina Beach fishing report and Wrightsville Beach fishing report has been great. We have had many trips with 20+ red and black drum in a half or 3/4 day. The inshore action is on fire and now is the time to get out there and take advantage of it! Give us a call for a fun filled trip!

A bit of news:

We hope to resume the mobile reports as soon as the update to the app is fixed with Apple. This should be any day.

Also we just returned from Cancun / Isla Blanca Mexico and 2 days of Tarpon fishing. Pics and videos will be up soon!

Here are is a video of this weeks action! Cape Fear Red Drum fishing

Here are this weeks pics!

My customers caught around 20 fish on this 3/4 day trip:

On this full day we did some shrimp boat shark fishing and got 3 nice one, the biggest went about 140 lbs!

Then we went inshore for the rest of the day and caught about 15 red and black drum.

This 1/2 day afternoon trip had redfish on almost every cast! We got around 25 reds this trip.

We had 16 fish on this windy half day trip!

Even Joel caught fish!

Dont miss out on the great fall fishing! Just give us a call!

Capt. Matt Wirt

910.540.0570

Reel Adventure Charters

Wilmington, NC

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

Capt. Matt Wirt — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:52:17 +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!

Reel Adventure 5-4-10 Report. Fishing is Great!!

Capt. Matt Wirt — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:28:34 +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. Lot’s of Cape Fear Redfsh!

Capt. Matt Wirt — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:10:10 +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 3-13-10 report with underwater video!

Capt. Matt Wirt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:51:53 +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, http://www.reel-adventure.com/

910-540-0570

Reel Adventure Charters Florida Report 1-21-10 LOT’s of pics

Capt. Matt Wirt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:07:43 +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

www.reel-adventure.com

910-540-0570

More BIG Grouper, Spanish, Bluefish, etc. 1-3-10 Reel Adventure

Capt. Matt Wirt — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:33:18 +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 Grouper, Cobia and lots more. Reel Adventure

Capt. Matt Wirt — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:44:28 +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