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Arrived at South Topsail Wed. night and decided to put my King Rig out early Thursday morning at the Jolly Rodger since the water looked good. Fished from sun up till sun down with only one short run of the clicker on a fellow fisherman's rig but none of the hooks connected. Did manage some nice Spanish with one being around 16” and a few blues on the Gotcha plug and Diamond Jig. Spots started running that evening for about an hour. Returned on Friday morning and got my rig out again before sun up, managed a few more Spanish and blues on the plugs and around lunch started seeing schools of Menhaden which one of the guys netted a couple of batches with some being close to 12" long. Didn't have any strikes on the King Rigs but one guy was reeling in a blue that he just hooked on a Gotcha and one exploded on it and cut it almost in half. Saturday decided to go to the surf for maybe some drum action at daylight since the NE front had came through and that turned out to be not such a good idea. Ended up with a couple of short flounder and my partner lost a nice sized red. Fished from 7:30am-4:00pm in the blowing rain with not much to show for, but the worst part was when I got back and found out they that one of the guys had landed a 16lb king and lost another at the pier. Would have loved to seen that but somehow I always make the wrong decisions. Left Sunday morning around 10:00am to head back west but had to stop by the pier to see what was happing. They were still catching Spanish and blues on the plugs and the menhaden was still around in schools around the surf. All in all a pretty good weekend and a whole lot better than working. Tight lines. :fishing: