Summer fishing continues to be HOT!! A few weather days and the boys are back at it again… Great groups and great fishing are the best combination!!! Our Boat Builder’s Tournament Team had to change plans at the last minute which has suddenly opened us up several days this week – Give us a call if anyone is interested… an awesome opportunity to slide in on some great fishing!!!
Summer is rolling into July with our classic mid summer menu of anything goes! The TUNA are still around… the DOLPHIN (MAHI MAHI) are here… the BILLFISH (BLUE MARLIN and SAILS with a handful of WHITE MARLIN) are making their entrance as well plus yummy TILES and MORE!!! Every day is different and always tons of fun!! A few days off for weather (pop up Tropical Storm… only on the OBX lol!) and an awesome day of beach and boat fun with Family and Friends to pause for a minute to celebrate and appreciate those around us and the country we live in 🙂 Happy 4th everybody!! We have some scattered days still open in July… give us a shout if you have a day in mind and LET’S GO FISHING!!!
Spring has been busy and tons of fun! A huge thank you to all our Spring Turkey hunters!! (Sorry for the lack of pics… the boss has them all 🙂 The first wave of crops are in the ground in prep for Duck Season and the Fistful got a quickie spring spruce up in prep for Fishing Season!! Our first trip is in the books and the boys found the Mahi to kick of the Summer… Pretty work guys!! We had June 11 open up if anyone is interested and we have several days available starting June 29 – Trips have been filling fast so please give us a shout if you are ready to get on the schedule. Time to Go Fishing!!!!!
A huge Thank You to all of our charters this season… you guys/gals/and youngsters ROCK!! What an awesome summer with tons of fantastic folks… thank you all!! We wrapped up the last few days with yummy Mahi and now this is the time of year the FISTFUL gets a rest as we turn our attention to the birds. Busy building, bushing, scouting, and prepping for our winter gang. We will be back in the ocean mid-May… looking forward to seeing everyone in the Spring!!
It’s that time of year yet again…. Let’s go fishing!!! Turkey season was phenomenal – thank you so much everybody!!! The first 10 days of this year have been full of fun, fish, fishing touches on the boat update, silly weather, and awesome groups! Thank you to everyone that helped us kick off this fishing season with a blast! TUNA, DOLPHIN, COBIA, WAHOO, and a few BILLFISH already!! Give us a call to get on the books… things are wide open and tons of fun on the Outer Banks and trips are booking fast!! Time to fish!!!
We have had one of the busiest and most fun winters! Exhausting but crazy rewarding, super fun, non-stop and never a dull moment 🙂 A huge thank you to all our hunters… you guys are family to us and we cannot tell you enough how much we appreciate and love you!! We miss everyone already 🙁 We kicked off the season out west and then got down to business back home with waterfowl, upland game hunts, winter boat maintenance and continuing construction on the new lodge (completely restored 1850 farmhouse…almost 3 years of work and finally getting to the end!). Our lodge is scheduled to be up and running for turkey season and we are really excited to stop building and start enjoying it! Upland Game Preserve Season continues until the end of March and we have had a blast starting up this new adventure! We had a soft opening last season and with private hunts this year we are well on our way – we still have some availability this year of anyone is interested in getting some shooting in before it’s back to the water… Fishing will start rolling next month with inland Rockfish and we start chasing Turkeys in April… then… COBIA season!! We are starting to fill days in May and June for the Fistful so please give us a call if you have days you want to save… it won’t be long before the winter is gone and sunny warm fishing days return!! Give us a shout!!
As we roll on through August we have had a variety of fun this past week – Our kick off was the Alice Kelly tournament – always a blast and what a great cause! The marina was buzzing all week with the Pirate’s Cove Big Game Tournament – Congratulations to all the teams!! We had Nearshore trips for Spanish and Blues – Tons of fun for the kids! And our Offshore trips were spent chasing down the Dolphin and Tiles… YUM! Thank you so much to everyone!! We have a few spots open in the next few weeks before we change gears and start chasing ducks… Give us a call to get in on all the fun!!
Posted by Karl Helmkamp on Friday, August 10, 2018
Beautiful Weather and awesome Dolphin (Mahi Mahi) fishing were the theme for this past week! Fishing has been phenomenal and when the weather is wonderful it’s hard to ask for anything more. Thank you so much to everybody! G… hope that arm has recovered!! Gordon – always a pleasure and KY fam – thank you for making the drive!! (you may not have fit on the plane with all that anyway!!). CW… never a dull moment and always a trip… looking forward to next time! A couple of stowaways and a sweet dockside visit rounded off the week plus a great Father’s Day back to the basics – what else would you do on your day off!?? Fish fry coming soon!! Thank you again to all our groups!!
These things never make it on video! Every once in a while you get lucky haha – From our facebook page…. offshore fishing with Karl and Casey – never a dull moment….
“My man covered every hole but 1 and he found it..In the box out the box.. “
My man covered every hole but 1 and he found it..In the box out the box.. Casey
Posted by Karl Helmkamp on Wednesday, May 30, 2018
It has been an incredible start to our 2018 season… the COBIA are thick, the RED DRUM are around, the dolphin (MAHI MAHI) have started to show and the TILES are hungry!! Thank you so much to all our trips this week… you guys are awesome!!! Congratulations to 7 year old B for his first (several) COBIA!!! Way to go kiddo!!! It’s time to fish!!!
