North Carolina Mutton Snapper Record Set For The Second Time This Year

Mark Boles of Dublin, Georgia, and three of his friends and relatives were on their annual fishing trip off Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, with Capt. Austin Aycock.

On June 3, they ran 55 miles offshore, trolled initially for dolphin, then anchored to send live menhaden baits deep for bottomfish.

“It was a great day, seas flat, sun bright and the fish were hungry,” said Aycock, age 26, and an eight-year charter captain veteran. “We caught dolphin to 15 pounds while trolling, then anchored to fish a drop off in 160 feet of water. We caught a lot of everything – triggerfish, gag grouper, scamp, amberjacks, vermilion snapper and some big mutton snapper.”…

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