Bluefish that is!
Justin and I woke up at 4 a.m. on Saturday to head down to Ocean Crest Pier. Yes, we live so close to Kure Beach Pier but they aren’t open for king mackerel yet… I find that odd as well. We got to Ocean Crest and the parking lot was filled! I’ve never seen so many people there at 6 a.m. It turns out there was a king mackerel tournament scheduled for the day and unfortunately Justin couldn’t fish because it was all booked.
He was quite an unhappy boy…
I suggested Sunset Beach Pier…a pier close to the South Carolina border that definitely doesn’t receive the credit it deserves. Real nice people, clean bathrooms and most importantly there’s fish!
Anyhow we get there and within 10 minutes Justin caught a bluefish on my brand new combo. Wonderful, he catches the first fish on my first saltwater 
setup. But no worries because within 15 minutes of jerking a Gotcha Plug around, I had already lost my first blue:) But that’s okay because I knew I was doing something right and there were fish out there.
Long story short, I landed four bluefish, lost at least 5 and had two bite my lure off. Justin caught many blues and his first two spanish mackerel. To make that even better…he caught them both at the same time! We kept three blues and both spanish for dinner; see picture above:) No kings, but it was a great day of fishing.
Sunset Beach is a great area. The beaches are very wide and the dunes are still intact for the most part. I recommend spending a day there. Just beware that the only bridge to Sunset Beach is a pontoon bridge that opens every day on the hour (between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. during the summer) for pleasure boats.
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1 Al Baird // May 5, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Now that is what I am talking about. Spanish and Blues doesn’t get any better than that. Did you know that in the 1970’s the Sunset Pier was picked up and put back into the water? I think they did it because of oreintation of the island and the litoral drift wants to keep adding sand to the island on the ocean side. That is why you walk so far out over the sand before you hit water. - Al
2 admin // May 5, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Ya that area definitely has some wide beaches compared to Kure Beach and Carolina Beach. I really really like that pier. I think people forget it’s even there. It was a beautiful day and there weren’t that many people fishing. But boy, nicest people I’ve ever met at a pier.
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