Atlantic Bonito, small Spanish and a mixture of blues have been chewing off of Topsail Island this past week! The early morning bite is the strongest but fish have been taken at various times all day long.

Boater are catching all three species on Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow deep divers and Clark spoons when trolling and metal jigs (diamond jigs, maria jigs, sting slivers, etc) when sight casting. The area about 2 to 3 miles out of New River Inlet has been the hottest with some boats catching over 20 fish in just a few hours. If you are catching mostly blues, try speeding up to about 7 or 8 knots, the Bonito and Spanish will still bite but the blues won\\\'t work that hard.

On the Topsail Island piers lots of blues are being caught, at times just about every angler has a fish on. A few small Spanish have been caught as well, mainly on Gotcha plugs.

Still a few nice red drum in the surf and plenty of sea mullet.

Tight lines to all.

Fish Species: Bonita, Spanish, blues
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Method Used: trolling, sight casting
Water Depth: 40
Water Temperature: 64
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Speed:

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Area Reporting: Topsail Area

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