We offer Inshore and Offshore Virginia Beach Fishing Charter trips throughout most of the year. Inshore trips can target a variety of species. Options will be discussed with the anglers. These trips are offered from Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach year round.

We are now booking offshore trips from May - mid December. We finish the offshore season out of Oregon Inlet, NC, just 1.5 hours south of Virginia Beach. The offshore action starts up out of Virginia Beach in late May and is red hot by late June. We fish offshore from Rudee Inlet through September. Bluefins over 100 lbs. often give a good showing in June and July while trophy Yellowfins are available all summer beginning in late May. Typically, the Virginia Beach offshore scene slows in October. We usually move the boat to Oregon Inlet, NC in late October and continue fishing for Yellowfin tuna through mid December where limits are very common. If it's Marlin you want, Blues and Whites are around all summer beginning in June. White Marlin action is usually hot in August and September. White Marlin are a light tackle thrill and can offer lots of action. Dolphin and Wahoo can pop up anytime and are usually icing on the cake.

We are also now booking Striper (Rock) trips from October - March. The early season Stripers are on the smaller side (5-15 lbs). Beginning in mid November, the big ocean fish roll in and we are usually targeting trophy Stripers that range from 20-50#s. In April, Flounder, Trout and SeaBass start it all over again. Great Spring trips are available for Stripers, Blues, Trout and Drum.

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A FEW REPORTS

Been too busy to keep up. I'm a one man show. Fishing is as good as it gets. Offshore the Yellowfin Tuna were thick last week. It slowed but the ones we catch are much bigger. We've had days with 2 bites and days with more than 50 bites. There have been a lot of Mako Sharks this year. We released on a day ago. Gaffer Dolphin are spread around. We had 5 yesterday. We also had an 82 pound Bluefin yesterday. They are getting thicker by the day. Amberjacks are already very thick. Inshore the Spades are aggressive. Lots of big fish this year. We have registered citations up to 12 pounds 11 onuces. The Spanish Macherel are incredible. We have been catching as hard as we can go. Plenty of Blacktip Sharks inshore as well.

June 2: Sea Bass fishing with the Buckta crew today. We tried the Spades with very little luck.

May 31: Offshore again with the Stutbum crew. It was a long run again and no where near as fruitful as our previous trip. We ended the day with 6 nice Gaffers. We did have a huge Dolphin on for a few minutes. This guy was stripping my 50W like a big tuna!

May 30: Back on the Croker's with the Kinnan crew. We did catch a Spadefish. :o)

May 24: Our second offshore trip was with the Bindas crew. We ran a long ways, but it turned out to be worth it. We were fighting two Gaffer Dolphin when a huge BLUE MARLIN exploded on a long rigger and preceded to dump a 50W. I turned and chased the fish at 15 kts and narrowly escaped being spooled (we literally saw gold at the bottom of the spool). We continued the fight for more than 1.5 hours and finally got the leader. We were able to get the fish close to the surface before popping the light 130# tuna leader. We estimated the fish between 400 and 500#s. This was the first Billfish for Virginia in 2009. We also had 30 Gaffer Dolphin up to 26#s and three Yellowfin Tuna to 37#s. We missed numerous gaffers and we had at least a dozen tuna bites. Pictures

May 23: Had two half day trips today and spent them both catching Crokers for the kids in the bay. Pictures

May 22: Ran the Keely's out for some Sea Bass action on the wrecks today. Fishing was GOOD! Pictures

May 20: Brenda's crew was onboard today. We were reduced to catching crokers in the bay.

Ma 16: We had the Trotman crew on board for the first offshore trip of the year. Water temps did not look good, but they wanted to go anyway. Needless to say, we ended up Sea Bass fishing :o)

May 2009: More incredible Sea Bass trips in May. Lots of Croakers in the bay. The Stripers are not cooperating very well. We did get in three offshore trips... See reports above.

April 2009: We ran several trips in April and the Sea Bass fishing was great. Much better than previous years. Pictures

March 23: Today we had the Camille Bryan (Camille, Chris and Janie) group aboard. Being the off season, there usually isn't much to fish for inshore other than Tog, so we head out with plans to fish a few wrecks. Well, as we come by Cape Henry, we are greeted with several "beehives" of gannets diving all around. We drop a Rockfish spread and it isn't long before rods start bending over with 25-30 lb class Rockfish. We had several fish that were 35+ lbs. We even had to get Janie out of the cabin to help out. We caught our limit in quick order and we released a dozen or so more. Pete and I knew that when we had to reel in a couple, that our crew was about spent :o) Those big 'ole Rocks will do it to ya. It was a great time and I hope we can live up to this when they come back next time! Pictures

January 26-27: On Saturday, I took some guys out for a little Striper fishing. We started near the 4A and worked our way north. Things were slow until we headed back south and found a good concentration of fish. For the last couple of hours, we couldn't keep them off the lines. They were a little smaller (30-35 inches), but we caught'em up nonetheless. On Sunday, we headed way south for a change of pace. Good move too, as we got into big fish right away. It was nonstop all day. The fish averaged 35-41 inches, with the biggest, a 45.5 inch 43#ER, being released. Pictures

January 19: Out again with the Khoury group. Back to the same place as yesterday, we found them biting again. We caught a ton of fish from 28 to 36 inches, but no bubbas today. Glad everyone got to fight plenty of fish.

January 18: Back out with the Walters crew for more Stripers. We ran south and were in fish right away. It was constant chaos in the cockpit with fish averaging 30-34 inches. It stayed like that most of the day. Around lunch time, Bob released a 43 inch fish for a citation. Ed got the next big fish to bite which ended up being a 47 inch fish that he wanted to weigh at the dock. A few fish later, Scott muscles in a 48 inch fish that he also wants to keep. Back at the dock, Scott's fish weighed in at 42 lbs 4 oz which beat the 40 lb citation minimum. The heartbreak was Ed's, which only weighed 38 lbs. Though break on the citation Ed. Awesome trip!

January 17: Fished aboard "Dream Catcher" with Ray and his crew. We fished NE of the 4A buoy and had a great time. We caught fish nonstop for several hours. Most fish were between 36 and 42 inches. Great day!

January 11: Today we had Ed, Bob and Joshua onboard for a fun trip. I was out for my citation, so I knew I'd end up snatching the rod from one of them. We started outside the inlet catching a dozen or so 30 inch class fish. It didn't take long for one of the rods to double over to the water and I hollered, "That one's mine". I fought the fish to the boat and released the 42.5 inch fish for a citation. Back on the bridge, I was satisfied and done for the day. We moved south to find a better class of fish and we found them. We had two and three on at a time and they ranged from 33 to 40 inches. We even jigged some up on light spinning gear. Classic day. I wish it was always like that!

January 9: We originally were supposed to go offshore for some jumbo Black SeaBass, but the weather didn't allow it. Greg Stoner called and wanted to go out, but he was by himself. I wanted to fish, so I invited Ed along with Pete to go after some Rockfish. We fished half the day and fishing was kind of slow. We caught about 10 fish up to 39 inches and kept six. Pictures

January 2: Today's crew, Russell Knapp, his wife Sandra, Mark and Tony wanted to go after some Rockfish (Stripers). We started out around the inlet, but it didn't look good. The crew said, "take us to where the fish are, Captain", so off we went to the southern. I knew what I was looking for, and I ran until I found it. We came upon a group of whales (probably a dozen) and tons of Turns (birds). We put lines in and it was nonstop all day. I thought Sandra was going to die when her first Rock came over the gunwale. It was her biggest fish ever. We trolled for a couple of hours and kept multiple fish on the whole time. We caught a mixture of Chopper Bluefish and big Rockfish. The guys decided they wanted to cast, so I pulled up to the birds and they began catching fish on every cast as we drifted. The birds and whales disappeared, but the fish finder was showing tons of fish under the boat and they were still catching on every cast. This went on for a couple more hours. I'm sure we boated over 100 fish. Pete, the mate, couldn't resist catching a few on the casting gear. Ironically, he caught our largest fish after a few casts, a 46 inch release citation. Great crew and awesome day! Pictures

January 1: Jumbo SeaBass are on everyone's mind after the New Year's celebrations are over. We headed out early for them with a very experienced crew... Carolyn Brown, Rob Holtz, Craig Paige, Cheryl Paige and Ray Sherman. It was a long ride offshore to where these fish spend the winter. We came away with a very impressive catch of about 80 + fish. We had about 5 release citations (22 inches or larger) and two weight citations (5 pounds or more). Our largest fish was 6 lbs 1 oz. We also boated an 8 lb Flounder, a nice Tilefish and some other unidentified critters. Of course, Dogfish (a type of shark) and medium Bluefish were abundent. Pictures

December 23: Today we were off with the Ed Crosby crew. We started out just north of Rudee and the fish were thick. We kept a few here to 40 inches. We then moved to Cape Henry where they were just as thick. We probably landed more than 50 fish. We even got out the light spinning gear and jigged up a few fat ones. See ya soon Ed.

December 22: Two trips, AM and PM: This morning, the Travis' Auto Repair boys were on board to go up against Mr. Rockfish at Cape Henry. I would say the boys came out on top as we landed 40+ fish up to 43 inches. Congrats on the citation Leon. During the afternoon, the Chedalavada crew dealt the Rockfish team another loss as we caught another 40+ fish near the 4A buoy. This time we had them to 44 inches with three being large enough for citations. Congrats Ravi.

December 16: We had four people on board for a morning trip - Bob, Ed, Leon and Ravi. The morning started slow off Cape Henry with some pretty snotty seas. We could see alot of bait, but the fish didn't want to cooperate. As the seas settled, we did pick up a few fish. We couldn't get a Striper, but we managed several Bluefish including two citation releases (36 inches each). Leon and Ravi needed to head in by lunch, so we dropped them off and headed back out. Bob, Ed and myself headed about ten miles south and we found the Rockfish. We slayed them for two hours. It was constant chaos. Fish, bait, and whales were everywhere. Double hookups were consistent. We caught about 20 and pulled off a ton. The fish were between 34 to 40 inches. We were throwing 37" fish back in. I got the 40"ER The fishin' is getting better. Pictures

December 14: Welcome aboard Erbach crew. We went south again. We fished a couple of spots and finally got on some fish around the border. It was pretty steady, but not hot. Got a call from another boat that was doing well, so we decided to check it out. We caught more fish there. We ended with a limit to 40 inches. Great crew!

December 13: Today the Keene crew was back onboard for some more Striper action. Weather was pretty crappy... rain and east wind. We ran south to Duck, stopping once to check things out. We were disappointed to find empty water. We poked around there and caught a couple. We ran north and found some fish. There were lots of birds and bait. We picked away at a few fish there before heading home. We ended with a limit to 37 inches.

December 7: Ran AM and PM trips. Started way south in the morning. We had some friends (Steve, Daryll, Brian, Dayton and Tom) onboard for the trip. Things were slow and I was sweatin'. We slipped back up a few miles and got on the fish. We caught 15 nice fish from 34-39 inches in 45 minutes. Back to the same hole for the afternoon with the Morton crew. The fish were thick. We fished three lines and pretty much kept three fish on the whole time. We released one citation (42 inches) and keep a couple 35# class fish that were easy release citations (crew wanted to keep them). We kept a limit of 38-44 inch fish. We must have caught 30+. Great day on the water! AM pictures PM pictures

December 2: Today we had TJ, Mark and Keith aboard for a Striper trip. The original plan was to head up the bay, but the plan changed when we were greeted at the inlet with 4-5' steep waves from the north. There were some birds working outside the inlet, so we decided to start trollin' there. We trolled for a couple hours with no luck. The decision was made to troll north towards Cape Henry. After reaching Cape Henry, we began to catch fish. We caught 7 Stripers to 37" and a Bluefish that came up one lb. short of citation (15lb). The guys decided to release all but four Stripers. Pictures

December 1: The Nicole Meyers crew was onboard and ready for some Rockfish action. It didn't take long and we were on the fish. We pretty much caught fish the whole day. We kept a limit of fish to 38 inches. Thanks for the great day guys. Pictures