HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FROM THE CAPTAIN STEVES CREW. PICTURED ABOVE IS BRAD CARTER FROM CHINCOTEAGUE SHOWING HIS SPIRIT.

7:00am this morning, Chris, Tammy Jeremy Degrange and Jack Fish from Fredericl, MD had their best day of the year catching over 100 croaker 1 trout and 1 seabass on a drift from Daisey's Dockside to Capt. Bobs in 2 hours. The fish were hitting everything and most of the time they were doubles on. The croaker ranged from 12 to 22 inches. Steve Knaub of Boothwind, PA had 3 keeper flounder 16.5 to 18 and had 40 croakers. Rick reported on his surf fishing excursion this morning, he said there were a lot of spot and croaker but that was about it. Late after noon to tonight there were some kingfish and croaker picked up off the surf and even 2 keeper flounder. The Offshore bite went good again we weighed in some nice fish.
Pictured below is Lee Schwocko from NJ had a 90 pound bluefin tuna

Here is Josh Bundick and Shane Whealton with a good catch of spadefish using clams.

Michael Post with his first tuna he has ever caught on a bally with blue/white it was 96 lbs 4 lb shy of a citation.

Inshore fishing with Dave Seaman on Bucktails Charter Fishing morning charter they hooked a lot of croaker, kingfish, flounder, and a huge sting ray according to Michael White and crew. In this picture is his fiance and one of the flounder they caught.
The weather was excellent, the people were great and the fishing was awesome. They e-mailed and said they would recommend Captain Dave Seaman for any future trips. Raymond Bowser had a a 16.5 flounder and 2 nice king fish last night off the surf. Rick said the fishing was real slow out there this morning. Few spot, croaker and the usual culprits - skate and rays. king fish and blues took the morning off. It was a busy day here at the shop a lot of people are coming for the licenses and buying minnows and of course firework with the fourth coming people are stockpiling on them. The croaker have shown up and shown up in large numbers. Today most of them were caught in front of Curtis Merritt Harbor and the deeper Chincoteague Channel Daiseys Dockside to Capt. Bobs, they hit fishbites the best Capt. Dave Seaman said they were inhaling them, shrimp was their second favorite bait and then squid. Tonight the surf fishing went pretty well. Capt. Wayne Lewis on the %5Burl%3Dhttp://www.chincoteague.com/wonderfull%5DWONDERFULONE%5B/url%5D had over 70 croakers on his afternoon trip they did manage 1 flounder but it was too small. Jason Brown and Kai Gomes were impressed that Capt. Wayne baited and unhooked their fish and can not wait to go fishing again. The action was nonstop and everyone had a good time here are 2 anglers that went on the trip pictured below.

Outlaw 3 had a yellowfin 40 inches and bluefin 35 inches and 3 dolphin the biggest being 15 pounds. Yellowfin and 3 dolphin were caught east of the Lumpy Bottom and the bluefin at the Parking Lot.

The citation bluefin was 100 pounds on the dot caught by Dave Kavanah chunking on Go Your Own Way at the 30 fathom line. They also had 2 dolphin and a 45 pound yellowfin tuna.

Capt. Fred Gilman on %5Burl%3Dhttp://www.chincoteague.com/reeltime/%5DREEL TIME%5B/url%5Dalso cleaned up today with 7 bluefin the kept one, had a dolphing, 1 bluefish, and even one wahoo the first one I've heard of this year. The party is pictured below with their catch.

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Bright and sunny day and the fishing went well off the surf. Everyone on the surf this morning caught fish there were kingfish, spot, a couple of trout, and some smaller blues that were caught on finger mullet and mullet rigs. I got a chance to break away from the shop for an hour and had 4 kingfish missed a few while teaching my fiance's brother how to surffish it was a good time. John Rogers had a 35 pound and one 95 pound bluefin fishing on Daybreak fishing around the Lumpy Bottom. They had a 150 pound bull shark caught on bluefish. Jerry Zickefoose from Prince Frederick, MD. Went 8 miles off and had 2 sharks about 4 foot long using chunks of bunker and bunker chum. Everyone said it was a great day to be on the water, the seas were flat. John Heppler from Harrisburg, Pa had a good day with 4 keepers fishing at Queen Sound on top and bottom rigs.
from our surf reporter:
Was a good morning. Surf and wind were moderate. I got 8 kingfish in a couple hours, all on fishbites. Also caught quite a few small croaker and a spot. A group of 5 PA men w/7 rods out next to me got some king and what looked like 2 blues. Others along the beach seemed to be catching fish as well.-Rick