| 2013 North Carolina Fishing Reports |
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| Jake Releasing a nice Albie late October 2013 |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
November, 11, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Monday November 11, 2013: I arrived at my dock in the Radio Island yacht club, near Beaufort inlet, on Radio Island NC at 6:30 AM today. The air temperature was close to 45 degrees, water temperature was 63 degrees, and the wind was blowing out of the northeast at 15 knots, sounds like a perfect day to fly fish for Albies, (Little Tunny). At 7:00 PM my old friend Buzz Bryson and his friend Julian Bunn arrived to collect on a fly fishing trip which I donated to CCA last year, Buzz purchased that trip at the CCA Banquet, and we finally agreed upon a date where we could get together to fish.
We headed out the buoy chain for several miles seeing lots of bluefish, bait, and birds, however no Albies. I got a call, turned left, and headed to a spot in 50 foot of water off of the rock pile, where there were several schools of feeding Albies. At nine AM after a wet, choppy, ride, we pulled up to a bait ball where there were Albies busting on the surface. Buzz made a good cast, using my TFO, TICRX, nine weight rod, with a Mako 9500 fly reel, and a RIO outbound short 9 weight floating fly line, and a pink & chartruese surf candy fly, right into the bait ball. Ten minutes later I took a picture ( with my I-Phone, which had a dirty lens), and released Buzz's first and only Albie of the day.
The weather was beautiful, seas were quite fishable , tons of bait, lots of bluefish, and thousands of birds, that said we never had the opportunity to catch another Albie all day. We put another 82 miles on "Fly Reel" and talked with everyone else who was out there hunting, No Albies, very frustrating. Buzz, Julian, and I had a really fun day on the water, I hope to get them out again after this bad blow coming on Tuesday night and Wednesday, hopefully the Albies will be back in full feeding mode. Below id a picture of two 1970's restored Sea Craft boats, just thought about hoe cool these old boats look, they are still good boats for this fishery.
Jake
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| Buzz Bryson releasing Albie November 11 2013 Iphone photo |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
November 4 through 10, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
From November 4 through November 7, the wind was blowing hard from the wrong direction and the fishing was very hard. I did not fish on November 4, 5, 6, then tried on the 7th but it was too rough with 25 knot South West wind, so we quit after trying to get out the inlet.
November 8 was supposed to be the second day of a three day charter with three clients from one of my Sailfish Schools last year. Today Mark Rubin from California, and Steve Greenbaum from Pennsylvania, fished with Captain Joe Shute, aboard his vessel Fish Finder, while Eli Saleeby from Florida, and his cousin Fred from Raleigh NC, fished with me aboard "Fly Reel. We worked very hard in choppy seas, saw a few Albies, some bait balls, however we did not get any Albies all day.
November 9, 2013, Today the same fly anglers fished with the same boat as yesterday, it was choppy in the morning however calmed down in the afternoon. Quite a few single fish eating spearing near the beach in the morning, then later in deeper water, we found plenty of Albies feeding on bay anchovies bait balls. All three of my clients from the Sailfish School wound up releasing Albies, while Fred, fishing on my boat broke off several and the hook came out of several that ate his fly. Late in the afternoon when it calmed the fish moved in good so it looks very good for the rest of Albie season. It was a pleasure for Captain Joe and I to host these fine gentlemen, I look forward to fishing with them all again in the near future.
Sunday November 10, 2013: This morning the weather service (operated by the same government who is going to run your health care) were very wrong about the wind. As my angler, Ben Bowditch, from Oriental NC and I headed out Beaufort inlet, the wind was blowing twice as hard as predicted, that west/southwest wind made the waves pretty rough, so we turned around and put this trip off for a day or two. Ben being a local, allows us to fish only on nice days when the seas are not so violent.
On another matter, My good friend Nick Smith, called with a Marlin on fly report from his vessel "Old Reliable" which is located near Mag Bay in Mexico. Nick reported that he fished off shore of Mag Bay, in a new area where he and Captain Chip have not fished before, they had a very good five days of fly fishing for Striped Marlin. The first day Nick caught and released one striped marlin on fly, day two he released 23, on day 3 Nick and his team released 24 striped Marlin, on their fourth day Nick caught and released 25, while on their fifth and final day of fly fishing, they caught and released 18 Striped Marlin on fly. Congratulations to Nick, Chip, ant the rest of the great crew aboard "Old Reliable", there is no question that when it comes to fly fishing for Billfish, Nick's team is in my opinion by far the best in the world, I am proud to count them as my friend.
Speaking of Billfish on fly, I have space for one fly angler who wants to join a team to fish in my Jake Jordan Invitational, Sailfish Fly Challenge on January, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2014. If you have any interest in joining in on the most exciting four days of fly fishing for Billfish ever, give me a call and join this team Now. There are very few openings left for 2014 Sailfish Schools, I do have room for only one angler/student during December of this month, book now or get shut out, I will be there fishing. I sure love my job, wish you were here, stay tuned for more fly fishing reports to follow soon!
Regards:
Jake
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| Mark Rubin releasing Albie, November 2013 |
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| Steve Releasing Albie November 9 2013 |
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| Eli releasing Fat Albert CApe Lookout November 9 2013 Vessel Fly Reel |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 31 through November 3, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
October 13, 2013, Today was the last day for my friend Danny Cline and I to fish with Captain Brian Horsley before Danny had to return home to West Virginia. When we left the dock at the Harkers Island Fishing Center at 7:30 AM it was calm with cloudy skies with a 69 degree water temperature. As we headed off shore from bardens Inlet we made it about 2 miles when we found our first bait ball being eaten by fat Little Tunny (Albies). Brian piloted "Flat Out", his 23 Jones Brothers, Cape Fisherman, to within 70 foot of the "feeding frenzy", Danny made a 70 foot perfect cast, right into the meat, I watched his fly get eaten and then dropped my fly into the same bait ball! Thanks to Captain Brian Horsley for taking these Pictures of Danny and I.
That was the first of many dozens of double header hook-ups on these very strong, fat, Albies, which averaged over 10 pounds each. What a day, by 2 PM the wind was blowing from the South East at 20 and it was raining sideways, we managed to catch many dozen Albies on small, Brown, Pink, or Tan Clouser Minnows and Surf Candies. One of my best days ever fly fishing for Albies! Thanks Brian.
For the record, I began fly fishing here as a client of Sarah Gardner in 2001, and started fishing with her husband Brian in 2004. I then moved here full time and began guiding here in 2007 (bought "Fly Reel" my Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman), This place is paradise, I really love it here, especially the fly fishing for Albies in the fall. This year it is official, October was by far the best month of Albie fishing that I have ever seen, more fish, more bait, better weather, if this keeps up, we will be catching these awesome fish until Christmas. Now the Drum and Trout have arrived in full force, what a great fishery, I love my job, I do still have a few available dates for clients to share these great fish before heading south to begin my Billfish season, Book a trip today, you will be happy that you did.
November first, was the date of the Cape Lookout Fly Fishers annual Banquet, it was awesome, great food, comradery, and fellow ship. Robyn Eiler produced a great DVD made up of pictures and video of club members, and their fishing adventures. A good time was had by all.
November second was the Annual Pig Pickin' at Tom Earnhart's place on Harkers Island, Donny Jones and his gang of Albacorian Monks as usual put on a gala affair, best food ever. This back yard party is always a great time for Albie fly anglers and guides to get together to celebrate our awesome fishery and this magical season here in paradise. Cant' wait till next year.
November 3, 2013: Today we had the first good weather in three days, after a strong SW wind for two full days, the wind switched to North at 20 and the seas were clam close to shore. The water was dirty in the morning and began to clear up by noon, Don Butler and Albert Bruno fished with me in this sunny and beautiful windy day. Both anglers caught some Bluefish, and had shots at Albies, we traveled all the way to Bogue Inlet looking for Albies, we saw several caught however we couldn't get a fly to them as they were up and down.
The wind is North at 20 to 25 knots today, my clients canceled this week from Monday to Wednesday, if I don't get booked, I guess that I will go fishing alone! I love my job, wish you were here, stay tuned for more reports to follow. By the way check out this Video by Sarah and Brian, "Sunny with a chance of Bait Balls", it is wonderful! http://youtu.be/eVU_WEcxQC8
Regards
Jake
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| I love my Job Jake Jordan Albie on Fly Brian Horsley Photo |
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| Danny Cline and Fat Albert with Captain Jake Jordan Brian Horsley Photo November 2013 |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 29 and 30, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
October 29, 2013: Today, I fished with my buddy Brian Horsley aboard his famous Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman vessel "Flat Out", the weather was warm and the Albies were feeding on bait balls. We left the Fishing Center dock on Harkers Island and headed out to the cape, found some birds, made my first cast, and was rewarded with a 10 pound Albie. For the next 6 hours we laughed and caught Fat Albies on long accurate casts placed in the boil of bait balls. My buddy Danny Cline from west Virginia was to arrive today so we quit at two PM after releasing around a dozen nice Little Tunny!
October 30, 2013: Danny Cline and I met Captain Brian Horsley at his dock which is located in the Fishing Center on Harkers Island at 7:15. We went to the same area and found some scattered Albies on bait balls, it was calm and the fish were up and down. When we approached the first bait ball, Danny and I made the cast as Brian turned the boat to starboard, we both hooked up and caught our first of three double headers within the first hour. Fishing remained good until 10:30 when it slowed so we took a ride on the east side, saw some sharks, lots of birds, and plenty of Bluefish, no Drum caught for us today. In the afternoon it got hot and flat calm, fish were spooky, Danny picked away at them and we had released over a dozen before we quit for the day. We are fishing again tomorrow with Brian, stay tuned for more fishing reports and pictures. I love my job, wish you were here.
Regards:
Jake
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| Captain Brian Horsley |
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| Danny Cline releasing Albie October 2013 |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 27 and 28, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Sunday, October 26, 2013: Today my good friend Chris Thompson from Virginia, fly fished with me for Albies for half of a day. It was rough and windy in the morning, however we found Albies early and as we began catching fish, the wind died, the sun came out, and the seas calmed down. Chris and I always have a great time when we fish together, he is a very good caster and loves to fly fish, today he caught about half a dozen nice Albies, Life is good my friend!
October 27, 2013: Today I fished a full day with Lynn Turner and Bob Hosea, two fly anglers who live in Kinston NC. The seas were calm, with partly cloudy skies, and 68 degree water temperature. It took us a while to find Albies which were willing to eat my flies, however both Bob and Lynn caught half a dozen nice fat Albacore on fly. We had a great time fishing around many of my good friends and CLFF members sharing great bait balls and aggressive Albies.
Tomorrow my friend Danny Cline is coming in for a couple of days of this awesome fly fishing, stay tuned for more Albie reports to follow soon. I love this job, wish you were here. Don't forget the CLFF Banquet on Friday evening and Tom's BBQ on Harkers on Saturday night. This is turning into a very good Albie season, just a few available dates left! Also I have a couple of NEW Mako Fly Reels in stock for delivery before Christmas.
Regards;
Jake
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| Bob Hosea releasing Albie October 27 2013 Captain Jake Jordan Photo |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 26, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Short report from today, as I am tired, Two of my favorite people fished with me today, Tommy Bennett and Chris Thompson. We had fun, caught over a dozen Albies, and giggled like little kids over the bait balls full of fish. Let the pictures tell the story, we are happy tonight. I really love my job, wish you could be here, it is really good. Stay tuned for more exciting fly fishing Albie reports to follow.
Regards:
Jake
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| Chris Thompson releasing Albie on fly October 26 2014 aboard Fly Reel with Captain Jake Jordan |
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| Tommy Bennett Releasing Albie on Fly |
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October 25, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Captain Bob Salerno and Paul Gimpl, from Connecticut, met me at the Marina at 7:30, we boarded "Fly Reel", and headed out through Beaufort inlet in 20 knot north wind with 45 degree air temperature. These guys had to be back at the dock by 11:30 AM so they could catch a plane home at 2 PM. It was rough, cold, and sunny, with the best Albie fly fishing of the year going off. The Albies were on big bait balls of bay anchovies about 2 inches long, hundreds of bait balls, thousands of Albies, my guys caught 8 doubles and released close to three dozen Albies, which were caught on well placed flies. This is shaping up to be an awesome Albie season, I love my Job, wish you were here. Stay Tuned for more Albie fly fishing reports to follow shortly.
Regards
Jake
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 23 and 24, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Captain Bob Salerno and Paul Gimpl, from Connecticut, arrived to fly fish for Albies with me for three days aboard "Fly Reel" on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
October 23, 2013, Paul and Bob met me at the marina at 7:25 AM, we headed out the inlet and found the seas to be not too rough along the western beaches, even though the weather forecast called for south west wind at thirty knots and small craft warning. We found hungry Albies at 8:30 AM in 41 foot of water half way down Shackelford Bank. As each angler hooked and caught their first Albie of the trip, the west wind increased as did the seas. Soon there were bait balls all over the place being eaten by blitzing Albies, as we followed the fish and bait balls to the east, the wind from the west increased steadily. By 11:30 we were just off of the hook entrance, had caught quite a few fish and broke some off or pulled the hook on a few. After a wave broke over the transom, while we were hooked to a double header, we decided to call it half a day and start over the next day, we took the long way home by Harkers Island.
Thursday, October, 24, 2013, Today we found the Albies east of the buoy chain in 35 foot of water, after heading west to look for big Albies. There were plenty of fish on bait balls, we managed five or six before they dried up around noon. Next we headed west down the beach for about 15 miles, very slow until a small pod of "Buffalo" Albies (Fat Albert) showed up eating big silversides. We followed those fish for a couple of hours and finally hooked two of them, Paul caught and released a 17 pound plus Buffalo, while Bob pulled the hook on the one that he hooked.
Later we found lots of fish eating "Brown Bait" in the buoy chain, Bob hooked a nice fish and after a good fight, his nail knot broke and he lost a fly line, leader, and fly, so if you find an Albie with a Rio Fly Line and a Tooty Fruity fly hooked to it, please return my fly! One more day with these guys, better luck tomorrow I am sure, stay tuned for more Albie on fly reports to follow soon. I love my Job, wish you were here. I still have 4 open dates during November, book now or miss this great Albie season.
Regards:
Jake
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| Paul Gimpl Alby on Fly aboard vessel Fly Reel Oct 23 2013 Captain Jake Jordan Photo |
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| Double Header Albies on Fly Oct 25 2013 Jake Jordan Photo |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 21 and 22, 2013
Greetings from Cape Lookout, North Carolina:
Monday, October, 21, 2013, Paul and Rosie Warren from New Jersey, drove down here yesterday to spend a couple of days catching Albies while enjoying our wonderful eastern North Carolina food and friendly atmosphere. Rosie had never caught an Albie and does not fly fish so we used one of my new TFO Spinning rods designed by Gary Loomis, it worked well, with Rosie catching several nice Albies. Meanwhile Paul, fished with his fly rod and hooked quite a few but had a rough time with line management at first, he landed two Albies from 9 hook-ups.
Tuesday, October 22, Paul Warren and I headed out at 7:30 Am while Rosie went to Beaufort to do some shopping. We found Albies feeding in the buoy chain right away but they were up and down and hard to get the fly into. I got a call from a buddy and headed east to the dead tree hole where it was going off, lots of boats around however Paul caught a couple and began casting and fighting the fish better, after a short lesson. I headed away from all of those boats and sure enough found the mother load of feeding Albies on "brown bait", Paul took his time and by 1 PM he had released over a dozen nice Albies on fly. On the way back in to the dock we found red hot fishing for an hour just outside of Beaufort inlet, Great Day!
Another great day of fly fishing here in the Cape Lookout region of North Carolina, I love this job, wish you were here. New Client today, stay tuned for more fishing reports to follow.
Regards
Jake
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| Paul Warren Albie on fly October 21 2013 Captain Jake Jordan Photo |
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| Rosie Warren Albie on fly October 21 2013 aboard Fly Reel with Captain Jake Jordan |
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Albie on Fly Report October 20, 2013
Today I fished with Lynn Turner and his son Todd, last year I donated a free charter to CCA and Lynn bought it to take his son Albie fly fishing for the first time. We left the dock at 7:30 AM and headed out the buoy chain, found fish on the east side of the chain and caught a couple right away, small fish! Later over along Shackleford Bank everyone found bait balls and caught fish steadily until the tide died off at 2:00 PM and the fishing was over there.
At 3 PM we crossed the buoy chain and headed down to the first pier on the western beach, BINGO, we spotted a bird looking at an Albie chasing silversides in very shallow water. Fifteen minutes later it was going off big time, giant bait balls of 5 inch silversides, we hooked our first double header of the afternoon, both fish were over 15 pounds.
We had several hours of big Albies on silverside bait balls, and we left them biting at 5 PM. Tom Temple was there beside me and they sent the report below. Stay tuned for more fly fishing reports to follow, I love my job, wish you were here.
Regards:
Jake
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| Lyn and Todd Turner big Albie on fly aboard Fly Reel October 2013 Captain Jake Jordan Photo |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 17, 2013
Greetings from North Carolina:
Chuck Furimsky (owner) "The Flyfishing Show", along with my friend Albert Bruno, joined me today for some Albie fly fishing. The wind was calm as were the seas when we left Beaufort inlet, we headed straight out along the buoy chain until we found birds on big silversides with a few bluefish. After waiting a few minutes, those bluefish turned into large Albies, soon I spotted a baitball (Large Silver sides) being devoured by large Albacore. I maneuvered the "Fly Reel" into range, (40 foot from the fish), turned to starboard so Chuck could make a forward cast to the baitball, while Albert, (back of boat) made a 60 foot back cast to the same baitball, both anglers were immediately hooked to 15 pound plus Albies! As the morning passed quickly many of the other local boats and friends from CLFF arrived for some awesome fly fishing, Albert and Chuck caught five double headers with 6 of the more than a dozen fish caught today weighing more than fifteen pounds.
The Albie fishing slowed down as the tide stopped falling so we fished until 2:00 PM and headed back to the dock, exhausted from this awesome Albie fishing. Chuck and I are heading back out this morning, this is his last day before heading back to New Jersey (where a 10 inch weakfish is a good fly catch), and I will begin fly fishing with new clients tomorrow. Albie season is in full swing, if you don't get here you will miss out on some really fun fly fishing for big fish which pull very hard. I have a few days still available, I really love my job, wish you were here.
Regards:
Jake
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| Albert Bruno, fat Albie caught on Fly Reel October 17 2013 Captain Jake Jordan Capr Lookout NC |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
October 14, 15, 16, 2013
Greetings from North Carolina:
Chuck Furimsky (owner) "The Flyfishing Show" is here in the Cape Lookout region of North Carolina to spend five days visiting with me while fly fishing for False Albacore. My friend Chuck drove down from New Jersey on Sunday, and we fished our first day on Monday, October 14, it was rough, very windy, and raining all day. After we traveled down the western beaches for 22 miles, seeing plenty of bait and birds and scattered single Albies, we decided to head back to the east to look for better fishing. After braving 4 to 6 foot seas in 30 knot wind we finally found lots of feeding Albies about a mile and a half west of the Cape Lookout point, in 45 foot of water. It was really rough, the fish were feeding into the wind and moving very fast. With 5 to 6 foot close together seas, Chuck and I had a tough time standing up, while he had a tougher time casting and striping the line. Chuck caught an 8 pound Albie but it was too rough to get a good picture.
Day two, October 15, we slept late due to a weather forecast, (which are always wrong) calling for small craft advisories, we decided to take the day off and go to a movie (Captain Phillips) which was good. All of my friends who went out found the big Albies, close to the beach, Many 15 pound plus Albies were caught on Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 16, produced great Albie fly fishing, we left the dock at 7:30 and headed out toward the buoy chain, Captain Sarah Gardner was fishing near by and said it was looking pretty good. When Chuck and I arrived we found small schools of under ten pound Albies feeding on three inch "Brown Bait", didn't take long before Chuck had released his first Albie of the day.
When we finally pulled the plug and headed back to the marina, at 3:00 PM, Chuck had caught and released 21 False Albacore, his best day ever for numbers. The Albie season is in full swing, everyone out there did very well, I really love my job, wish you were here, fishing is just getting really good. Stay tuned for more reports.
Regards:
Jake
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| Chuck Furimsky Albie on fly October 16 2013 Vessel Fly Reel Captain Jake Jordan photo |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
September 6 & 7 2013
Greetings from Sunny North Carolina:
September 6, 2013: Today is my first day fishing from my boat "Fly Reel" in the 2013 Albie season here in the Cape Lookout region of North Carolina. This was a test run as my boat had been on the trailer, in my metal building, since early January of this year after last Albie season. Usually I take this boat to Florida for Tarpon season however this was the first time in decades that I missed my Tarpon season due to my left hip replacement surgery in April of this year.
Today I invited Scott Womble a fly angler who keeps his boat in my marina to check out the Albies while sea testing my boat. We headed off shore at 6:00 AM in search of Albies in an area where Scott had seen them the previous several days while running way off shore to fish for wahoo.
We found the fish, acres of them, on small "snot bait", small 1 1/2 inch sparsely tied white bait fish flies represented the 'match the hatch deal" and we were in the boiling water full of Albies for several hours. We each caught one fish and had several others pull the hook and or break off, they were moving rapidly into the 10 to 15 knot east wind. I was back at the dock by 10:15 AM after a fun successful first day of 2013 Albie season for me. Other CLFF members reported good to great 3 to 4 pound Spanish in near the shoal, along with 3 pound Bluefish eating popper flies aggressively.
September, 7, 2013: This morning, at 6:30 AM, my friend Albert Bruno joined me to look for the Albies again, he and Bill Strakele, fished around the cape and caught lots of Spanish Mackerel along with Bluefish on poppers. We headed to the hook to see if the beach action for Spanish was happening, the wind increased as we approached the cape, seas were a strong 2 to 4 feet with 15 to 20 NE wind. From the cape we headed off shore to the area where i found the Albies the day before, as we got further from land the wind and seas picked up, when we found the Albies in 70 foot of water the wind was blowing steady at 20 knots with a good 3 to 5 foot seas. The fish were chasing larger bait (silver sides) and were feeding into the wind rapidly, it was very hard to get a good cast into the feeding schools of Albacore in those rough seas. Albert and I never caught a fish today, however we did see what we came for with lots of bait everywhere we looked, looks like a good Albie season is just getting ready to explode into world class fly fishing.
I still have some time open during September for Albies, Spanish, and on nice days the Jack fly fishing has been off the charts. Also the following prime October and November dates are still available for this world class fishery: October, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, and November 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, and 16. If you want to fish with me aboard "Fly Reel" please give me a call to confirm some of these prime time dates, they wont last very long. With all of this bait around, get ready for one of those epic seasons with lots of these.
By the way, for those of you who always wanted to get your hands on a Mako fly reel, I have several in stock which were ordered by someone more than 6 months ago, that client can no longer afford to purchase one of these fine reels. Also if you are looking to get a Mako fly reel for yourself or fore a Christmas gift for someone, if you order now I will do my best to deliver it to you before the Christmas holiday.
Tomorrow I am heading to Dallas to attend the TFO annual sales meeting, looking forward to spending a few days with the TFO gang and looking forward to another fine time spent with many of my friends. I will be back home on Thursday evening, at which time I will be back in the chase for the elusive Albacore of eastern NC. Stay tuned for more fishing reports, I love my job, wish you were here.
Warmest Regards
Jake
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| Captain Gary Dubiel, Releasing Neuse River Redfish, September 2013, Captain Jake Jordan Photo |
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Fishing Report September 16 through 21, 2013
Greetings from Havelock NC:
Earlier this week on September 16, I had the pleasure to fish with my friend captain Gary Dubiel, who operates "Spec Fever Guide Service" out of Oriental NC. Gary has been working hard on catching a lot of big Drum (Redfish) on light spin as well as fly tackle here in eastern North Carolina this season. We fished for about four hours and I was very impressed on Gary's popping cork technique for catching big drum using TFO Tactical Medium-Heavy series of spinning rods. Below is some information from Gary's website regarding his fly and how he fishes it, it won't be long before fly anglers are heading here to experience this great fishery, Gary sure has it dialed in.
"Dubiel’s Lil’haden:
Captain Gary Dubiel
Oriental, North Carolina
The Lil’hadden is an original fly I designed for fishing the Pamlico Sound Estuary. There are millions of juvenile menhaden that live here and the right fly has made a difference in the numbers of fish I have taken. Initially I tied the fly with bucktail, but the pattern has evolved with synthetics, particularly select craft fur. Menhaden are every where and so are countless numbers of oval baitfish. This fly has that oval profile and it has proven itself in many areas of North America; including fresh water, but does well on the entire East and Gulf Coasts. I have landed a wide variety of fish on it, including red drum, spotted seatrout, flounder, weakfish, striped bass, false albacore, bluefish, Spanish mackerel, snook and tarpon in the Florida Keys.
The lil’haden fishes well on both and intermediate and floating line. Stripping the fly with pauses allows the weighted nose to fall, triggering more strikes. The craft fur also breaths very well and the added motion has proven to be more productive on occasion than even more famous flies. I have had many clients enjoy the benefit of using this fly. It can be tied in a number of color combinations and I have included my favorites.
I live in the village of Oriental, North Carolina; a quaint Hamlet on the banks of the Neuse River. I spend much of my year guiding on the lower Neuse River, its many tributaries and the Pamlico Sound. I also fish the near coastal water along the Outer Banks, particularly near Cape Lookout and the Roanoke River. (For recipe and a list of materials, contact Gary or check his website.)
Captain Gary Dubiel, Spec Fever Guide Service
PO Ox 1029, Oriental, NC 28571
252-249-1520
www.specfever.com
captgary@specfever.com "
The Albie fly fishing season here in the Cape Lookout region of eastern North Carolina has started with lots of bait and plenty of those great False Albacore. I have fished 4 days during the last two weeks with pretty good success. It seems that the Albies have been pretty consistent since late August, they are offshore but can be caught almost every day if you go looking for them.
Yesterday, September 20, my friend Albert Bruno and I fished about 18 miles from my dock on the west side of the Cape Lookout shoal. There were three or four other local CLFF members in their boats fly fishing in the same area, all were catching "Albies" in the 6 to 10 pound class. We fly fished between 7:30 AM and 12:30 PM and released close to a dozen Albies, eleven Spanish mackerel, and half a dozen big hound fish. Albert was using his TFO-BVK 7 weight fly rod, while I fished with a 9 weight TFO TiCr-X fly rod with a #9500 Mako fly reel, with floating line. The Albies were on assorted bait, we caught them on white snot flies, a white 3 inch Clouser, along with tan over white #6 surf candy flies.
Saturday, I worked at home in my office, however the reports from several of my friends had Albies early on the east side of the shoal, as well as plenty of feeding fish where we were fly fishing the day before. Lots of bait around, plenty of Albies, looks to me like one of those great fly fishing seasons here in the Cape Lookout region of eastern North Carolina. We have some world class fly fishing guides in this area, I have a few dates still open during October and November, let me know if you are interested in this awesome Albie fly fishing. Stay tuned for more reports to follow, I love my job, wish you were here.
Regards:
Jake
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| Albert Bruno angler, "Vessel Fly Reel" Albie on Fly, Cape Lookout Region of NC, Captain Jake Jordan Photo, September 20, 2013 |
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Albie Fly Fishing Report
September 6 & 7 2013
Greetings from Sunny North Carolina:
September 6, 2013: Today is my first day fishing from my boat "Fly Reel" in the 2013 Albie season here in the Cape Lookout region of North Carolina. This was a test run as my boat had been on the trailer, in my metal building, since early January of this year after last Albie season. Usually I take this boat to Florida for Tarpon season however this was the first time in decades that I missed my Tarpon season due to my left hip replacement surgery in April of this year.
Today I invited Scott Womble a fly angler who keeps his boat in my marina to check out the Albies while sea testing my boat. We headed off shore at 6:00 AM in search of Albies in an area where Scott had seen them the previous several days while running way off shore to fish for wahoo.
We found the fish, acres of them, on small "snot bait", small 1 1/2 inch sparsely tied white bait fish flies represented the 'match the hatch deal" and we were in the boiling water full of Albies for several hours. We each caught one fish and had several others pull the hook and or break off, they were moving rapidly into the 10 to 15 knot east wind. I was back at the dock by 10:15 AM after a fun successful first day of 2013 Albie season for me. Other CLFF members reported good to great 3 to 4 pound Spanish in near the shoal, along with 3 pound Bluefish eating popper flies aggressively.
September, 7, 2013: This morning, at 6:30 AM, my friend Albert Bruno joined me to look for the Albies again, he and Bill Strakele, fished around the cape and caught lots of Spanish Mackerel along with Bluefish on poppers. We headed to the hook to see if the beach action for Spanish was happening, the wind increased as we approached the cape, seas were a strong 2 to 4 feet with 15 to 20 NE wind. From the cape we headed off shore to the area where i found the Albies the day before, as we got further from land the wind and seas picked up, when we found the Albies in 70 foot of water the wind was blowing steady at 20 knots with a good 3 to 5 foot seas. The fish were chasing larger bait (silver sides) and were feeding into the wind rapidly, it was very hard to get a good cast into the feeding schools of Albacore in those rough seas. Albert and I never caught a fish today, however we did see what we came for with lots of bait everywhere we looked, looks like a good Albie season is just getting ready to explode into world class fly fishing.
I still have some time open during September for Albies, Spanish, and on nice days the Jack fly fishing has been off the charts. Also the following prime October and November dates are still available for this world class fishery: October, 26, 27, 28, and November 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, and 16. If you want to fish with me aboard "Fly Reel" please give me a call to confirm some of these prime time dates, they wont last very long. With all of this bait around, get ready for one of those epic seasons with lots of these.
By the way, for those of you who always wanted to get your hands on a Mako fly reel, I have several in stock which were ordered by someone more than 6 months ago, that client can no longer afford to purchase one of these fine reels. Also if you are looking to get a Mako fly reel for yourself or fore a Christmas gift for someone, if you order now I will do my best to deliver it to you before the Christmas holiday.
Tomorrow I am heading to Dallas to attend the TFO annual sales meeting, looking forward to spending a few days with the TFO gang and looking forward to another fine time spent with many of my friends. I will be back home on Thursday evening, at which time I will be back in the chase for the elusive Albacore of eastern NC. Stay tuned for more fishing reports, I love my job, wish you were here.
Warmest Regards
Jake
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