Outer Banks - 5.31.11 - Lifeguard in Kill Devil Hills

Good afternoon. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

This video was shot at the 5th St. beach access just south of the Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills. I then stopped off at the Lillian St. beach access to grab the surf video.

Last day of May! Time flies! Hope y’all had a great Memorial Day weekend. Let the summer fun begin. The great stretch of perfect OBX weather continues. 80′s, sun, and light winds. I looked at the 10 day forecast this morning, and there was only 1 day with isolated t-storms. Other than that, it’s 80′s and sun for the foreseeable future.

In addition to a great stretch of beautiful weather, we’ve had a great streak of fun OBX surf. There has been waist high swell and offshore winds for about a week, and that streak continues today. Although, it could come to an end today. Surf is fun in the waist to chest range today, but the wind will switch onshore at some point today. We could still have some fun waves for the rest of the week, but without the offshore winds, the surf probably won’t be clean for the rest of the week…hopefully I’m wrong.

OBX fishing gets better everyday. Cobia have moved into the area. An 80 pound cobia catch over the weekend. Offshore is still seeing great dolphin catches, and a few blue and white marlin over the weekend. Near shore, bridges, piers, and the Sound are seeing a wide variety of catches – blue fish, spanish mackerel, croaker, spots, black drum, sea mullets.

Have fun!