What’s biting? Offshore winter bottom fishing in NC

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@flemingmattox2128 11 ай бұрын

Love the vid, but I am concerned about wiggling around the boat, especially to deploy and retrieve the anchor from the bow without a PFD. Things can happen, 55 degree water is super cold and even though it is calm . . . accidents happen and I want you both to live as old as I am. Ok, enough from your grandfather. As an alternative, before you go out (aka, at the dock) put a line on the front cleat of your boat that comes back to your cockpit. Bring the anchor and anchor line to the back/cockpit of your boat. When you get to your fishing spot, deploy the anchor from the back of the boat and tie it to the line on the cleat in front, so you are still anchored by the bow, not the side or stern (make sure you have enough anchor line so there is anchor line accessible from the back of the boat once you anchor up.) Fish like crazy. When you are done, grab the anchor line you still have in the back of the boat and pull it to you, pulling the cleated line to you as well. Undo your knot, attach your buoy and away you go. You never have to go to the bow of your boat and significantly lesson the chance of falling off. Yes, I have a fear of falling overboard and drowning. I wear the inflatable PFDs as required by my wife.

@TopsailFishing 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! She has an inflatable PFD on, you can see the red pull tab from her camera as she’s on the bow. Whenever the water is that cold, our inflatables are on when we are maneuvering the boat. They also have personal locator beacons attached to them, as well, but having grown up in the mid west and scuba diving there in 50 degree waters, we’re very familiar with cold shock. We have a survival kit on board, too, that has the emergency blankets. We take safety seriously, as all of our gear has backups or redundancy built into it, and people at the dock knowing what time we should return.

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

The comment disappeared I was replying to, but yes, that’s an Avet SX 5.3 gen 1. Thanks for watching!

@ericcorse Жыл бұрын

A good day fishing especially when the ocean is that flat. Good info about the auto releaser, had no idea. You said at the first spot there were battleships around you unless I misunderstood.

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! SeaQualizer I believe it’s called. Handy release tool and no need to vent the fish. You heard correct, we had a couple military ships, not sure which class, but very large, looking like they were doing sea trials/maneuvers out there. They kept about 5-10 miles between them and we’re doing all sorts of maneuvers in Onslow Bay. Norfolk isn’t too far north, and I believe they do sea trials up and down the coast since we have military bases nearby.

@ericcorse Жыл бұрын

@@TopsailFishing Pretty cool seeing our navy doing what it does.

@brilliantfishingnc Жыл бұрын

Those sea bass are fun to catch!

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

Sure are! Taste great, too!

@samajier2566 Жыл бұрын

I like the video

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it.

@FastEddie203 Жыл бұрын

Turned out to be a nice day on the water, what size boat were you in? Thx for the video

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! We’re in a Scout Abaco 242.

@DavidHernandez-vu9vb Жыл бұрын

What kind of fishing rod is that, if you dont mind me asking?

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

Which rod are you referring to? The one Hannah is using or myself?

@DavidHernandez-vu9vb Жыл бұрын

@@TopsailFishing The one that you are using.

@TopsailFishing Жыл бұрын

@@DavidHernandez-vu9vb that jigging rod is a Temple Reef Elevate 2.0. During the video it had the Avet SX 5.3 on there, but now has the Accurate BV 300 SPJ on it.

@DavidHernandez-vu9vb Жыл бұрын

@@TopsailFishing thank you sir!