Wrightsville Beach, NC

[Kevin's Post]Happy Halloween! Today we got up at 4am in order to make the 83 mile passage outside from Beaufort to Wrightsville Beach. There's only a few places we can go out on the ocean and still get back inside before sunset with the days being so short and this was one of them. There was virtually no wind so we ran one engine the whole way. In the afternoon the wind piped up out of the south to 10 knots so we could at least raise the main and get another half knot on top of the engine. We trolled a line most of the afternoon. I tried a few different lures, starting with my smaller lures and working my way up to my biggest lure changing it out every two hours. I finally caught a fish on my largest lure. Briefly. It escaped before I could reel it in. It was so small that I'm not even sure when I caught it. Usually the reel make noise when there is a fish on it, but this one just bent the rod slightly. It somehow managed to wiggle off the hook as I was reeling it in, but it is just as well, I don't think the fish was much bigger than the lure. I think I need to get a 3' lure so I can catch a 3' fish. Anyway, we made it to Wrightsville Beach about an hour before sunset and are anchored with about 50 other boats just below the bridge.

The picture was taken at the Norfolk maritime museum and I have been saving it for Halloween. Don't ask me why the maritime museum had an exhibit on bones.

Where we are:
Location=Wrightsville Beach, NC
Lat=34 12.380 N
Lon=77 48.043 W