Try Off-Shore Fishing on Your Next OIB Vacation

The kids and I wanted to try something different before school started, so we we opted for a half-day fishing trip on "Follow Me" charters out of Ocean Isle Beach.

Captain Steve and Tom made it a fun trip for us novice fishermen. The "Follow Me" is a 40' boat, and is docked at Sharky's Restaurant on Ocean Isle Beach. We had a bit of weather delay our trip from the typical 6:30 am start for an hour or so. To keep out of the storm once we went out, we stayed close to the beach instead of going the typical 11 miles off-shore for the trip.

As it turned out, we probably had more fun this way. We were catching spanish mackerel-most of which were just over the size limit to keep. But we probably caught about 50 fish, and kept 35 of them. The kids stayed busy for most of the trip reeling them in and letting Tom help us store the fish away.

Most of the trip was spent just off of the Ocean Isle Beach strand, but we also did some fishing off of Sunset Beach as well. At the end, our two sons tried their hand at shark fishing. No luck this trip on that-we lost the bait, but didn't catch anything.

Captain Steve wrapped up the trip by taking us back through the Little River inlet, and up the waterway past the Sunset Beach bridge.

We were told that September is a great time to fish in our area. If you would like to try something different on your next vacation with Sunset Properties, consider a fishing charter with "Follow Me" out of Ocean Isle, or our Perks Club participant Hurricane Fleet out of Calabash. Our kids really enjoyed the trip!

The catch!

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