Summer is here and the action is getting hot!!!

Hello everyone, Summer is here and we are changing seasons with it as it gets here and our fishing scene is shifting. After a successful spring season, we have put the big trolling gear away to collect some dust til the fall and are rigged up ready for the summer. Right now we are bottom fishing for croaker and a few spot, most of the fish we are catching are small to medium croakers with a few large ones mixed in. The action is good and makes for some great family fun or great for a business fishing trip. Bottom fishing should hang on throughout the summer with a mixed bag of spot, coraker, whiting, and grey trout of all sizes. Chumming and trolling for blues should start heating up within the next few weeks and the spanish mackerel will be sure to follow by the first of July. Hopefully once it gets good and hot on a daily basis, we'll have some red drum and cobias hanging around the reefs and target ships for some good live lining action with one of the biggest battles we can offer. We also have begun flats fishing the past couple weeks and so far the results have been fair. There is a decent amount of speckled trout around and a few puppy drum as well. This is a really good sign considering we are still in the early part of this season and should continue to get better as the summer goes along. Don't wait too long to book your summer trip and get your family and friends on board for a great day on the bay!! 

    Tight Lines,

    Cory Rice

    337-251-5821

    captaincory@c4charters.com

Thanks to all who have been a part of this spring!!!

Hello everyone, Hope everyone is well and has gotten their shorts and flipflops out of storage and is enjoying the warm weather. First off, I'd like to thank everyone who has been or will be a part of our spring season for your business. I know most everyone who has been fishing this spring with or without us has seen that this spring has been unusually slow due to the late spawn caused by colder water temperatures. Its been much more of a grind than we've grown accustomed to, but overall it has still been a pretty good spring and we feel the best is yet to come, due to the late spawn a lot of our fish are just beginning to migrate back into the main part of the Bay and getting closer to us all the time. We've added some pictures to facebook and the website for you to see some of the highlights of our spring. There is one last chance for anyone who wants to get on board, saturday May 16th is an open boat trip for up to 8 people, the cost is $125 per person which includes the mate's tip as well. If things continue on the pattern they have been the 16th should be a great date to get your last chance to wrestle some of these big fish before they leave our local waters until the fall, so call today to get your spot confirmed. 

Tight Lines,

Cory Rice

337-251-5821

captaincory@c4charters.com

Trophy Season has begun!!! Walk-on Thursday 4/23

Hello everyone, Hope all is well and everyone is enjoying the consistent spring weather we are finally having. Now that spring is here, that means rockfish season has begun and we have had some real nice fish for opening weekend up to 47". There seems to be lots of bait around and a fair amount of fish that have already spawned and seems that most of the fish are still spawning so fishing should only continue to get better. We only have 3 dates left for our trophy season which are available for full groups or walk-ons. Walk-ons are first come first serve and are $125 per person including tip. Our dates left available are 4/23, 5/16, 5/17. If anybody is interested, feel free to give me a call at 337-251-5821 for more details or to reserve your spot. We need 2-3 more people for this coming thursday to be able to do a walk-on trip, the weather looks great for thursday and so should the fishing. Give us a call and get on board soon!!!


  Tight Lines,
  Cory Rice
  337-251-5821
  captaincory@c4charters.com

Spring is finally here!!!

  Hello all, Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying some of these milder temperatures we are finally starting to get. All the signs of spring are showing up right on schedule, ospreys and gannets are being seen all over the Bay and large schools of menhaden and large schools of trophy rockfish are heading up the Bay to spawn. Things are pointing to a repeat of last spring which was a great season that lasted through the end of May. We are in the beginning stages of getting the boat painted and shined up for opening weekend in April. All our rods are getting fresh line and brand new baits ready to get chewed on. Our calendar is filling up fast and with trophy season just 3.5 weeks away, don't wait to book your date today. We only have 7 dates left available so don't miss out on your chance to get on board and get some of the first trophys of the year. 

    

    Tight Lines,

    Cory Rice

    337-251-5821

    captaincory@c4charters.com

Old Man Winter hurt us again!!!

    Hello everyone, Hope you all are staying warm aren't getting cabin fever just yet, its a long time until fishing season gets rolling again. As I'm sure you all are well aware Old Man Winter was harsh on our ocean rockfish season again, which seems to be a thing of the past. After 2 busts of a winter season in Virginia Beach and a tough winter in Ocean City, MD, I think we are going to stop heading to the ocean unless the fish show back up again instead of being stood up by them for a 3rd year in a row. For some reason the fish seeme to be trending an offshore route which keeps them outside of the 3 mile line and well out of our reach, groups that went offshore tagging fish encountered giant schools of fish from 12-20 miles offshore. They recorded releases of fish up to 68 lbs and hopefully these fish will be coming into the Bay to spawn this spring as they normally do. I apologize to those who had winter trips scheduled that didn't work out and hope to be able to make it up to all of you in the near future. On a brighter and warmer note, spring trophy season is right around the corner. We are going through the motions right now getting the boat cleaned up and hauled out so she'll be ready to go when the season opens on April 18. Our calendar is starting to fill up for the trophy season, but there are still open dates available to get your group on board for some of these monsters as they head up the Bay. Remember our spring season only lasts about a month of catching the big boys before we start to hit our warm days in MidMay so make sure you get your date in by May 10 to ensure your best chance of wrestling these big fish. Our calendar is always up to date on our website, www.c4charters.com, so get your group together soon and join us this spring for a great day on the Bay!!! 

        Take care and tight lines,

        Cory Rice

        captaincory@c4charters.com        

        337-251-5821

   

Merry Christmas and Happy Fishing to all!!!

Hello everyone, Hope all is well and you are getting ready to enjoy the holidays!!! The holidays are a good time to get together and share some good fun with family and friends, what better way to do that than fishing with us!!! We have one full trip left out of Reedville for the year, Dec. 23 and a few more spots for our makeup trip this coming thursday, Dec. 18. Fishing is still red hot with birds working all over the Bay and fish up to 34" just about everyday and a few big hogs in the mix from time to time. Our trip for this Thursday is $130.00 per person and that includes tip and fish cleaning for the first 8 people interested in getting a few fillets and lots of cranking in one more time before Christmas. We are running a holiday special for the 23rd for $600.00 for 6 or less, if anybody wants to get the family or friends together for a relaxing day of fishing before the holidays. We will be leaving Reedville the day after Christmas and heading to Virginia Beach through the end of January. Things are looking like we will have a better ocean season than the past couple years with a good amount of fish being caught by the eelers down around Cape Charles already, the big ones are moving on down!!! Don't wait too long to get your name on the books for our last walk-on of 2014 or to get your first shot at some ocean rockfish of 2015!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!!!


                 Tight Lines,
                 Cory Rice
                 337-251-5821
                 captaincory@c4charters.com

Red Hot Fall Fishing and Make Up Dates

Hello all, Hope everyone enjoyed a great Thanksgiving and is ready to start preparing for the upcoming holidays. Thanksgiving week has given us a lot to be thankful for including some great rockfishing over the past week and signs that it is only going to get better! We've been catching limits with lots of releases lately and the fish are getting bigger all the time. Saturday, we found white rain with gannets pouring out of the sky and big fish underneath of them, by 10 a.m. we had our limit of overs and unders up to 16 lbs. and had released plenty of 26-32" fish. We have seen a few of the true hogs around up to 36 lbs. so far and there should be more of them coming around in the upcoming days. Great reports of big fish from north migrating down and some ocean fish already coming in the bay from down below looks to make for a banner fall and the majority of the big ocean fish are already to Ocean City, MD which means they should be making an appearance to Virginia Beach this winter!!! This time last year the main charge of fish seemed to still be up off the Northern New Jersey coast. We still have a few open dates out of Reedville between now and Christmas before we head to Virginia Beach and still have plenty of dates open down there so don't miss your chance to get on board and get some of these big bass!!! If you don't have a full group we are attempting to put together a couple makeup trips before we head to Virginia Beach. We will be doing these makeup trips for up to the first 8 people who sign up for $130 per person including tip, these dates will be Thursday Dec. 18 and Monday Dec. 22 out of Reedville. Don't miss out on your chance to get some big slabs of rockfish to share with your family for your holiday meal or they even make a great present. 

        Tight Lines,

        Cory Rice

        captaincory@c4charters.com    

        337-251-5821