NC State Record Blue Fin Tuna - 805 Pounds

Good morning. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Monday, March, 14, 2011.

This video was shot at the Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills at 9:00 AM.

It was a very exciting weekend on the Outer Banks. First of all, we are soooo close to spring. It was daylight savings time this weekend, and now that we have sprung forward, night isn’t falling on the OBX until almost 7:30! We have reached the middle of March, and the official first day of spring is less than one week away! Such a great time of year.

And this weekend definitely felt like spring. We had bright sun and temps in the upper 60 – lower 70′s all weekend with a light wind out of the west. The west wind was perfect for cleaning up the head high swell we had in the water all weekend. Clean head high surf with glassy conditions for most of the weekend. Perfect start to the spring surf season.

Unfortunately, the weather has shifted a bit, and we’re off to a chilly, overcast start to the week, but the sun and warm weather will return tomorrow and stick with us for most of the week and into next weekend.

In addition to a great surf weekend, it was also a record setting OBX fishing weekend! The rock fish have headed back north, but OBX fishing is heating up. We got our first report from Ocracoke of a puppy drum catch, so the fish are on the move, and the Osprey are showing up, so that’s a good sign that the Sound fishing will start to take off soon.

But the big (nay, giant) news from the weekend is the record setting blue fin tuna that was hauled into Oregon Inlet on Saturday. The Charter boat Sea Breeze out of Oregon Inlet skippered by Capt. Ned Ashby and angler Corey Schultz hooked and landed a 805 lbs 8 oz. blue fin tuna that could be the new North Carolina State Record. The catch beats the current state record of 744 pounds set in 1995.

A very exciting weekend all around.

Enjoy!

Outer Banks Surf - 3.12.11

Outer Banks Surf - 3.12.11