“The majority of soft–plastic fishing lures are made from plastisol, which is a vinyl plastic,” Mike says, “You can make lures as soft or hard as you like by simply manipulating the ratio of resins and plasticizers to change the plastic’s durometer.” Plastisol is a suspension of PVC or other polymer particles in a liquid… Read more »
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Heavy Metals
1) Johnson weedless spoon 2) Diamond Jig 3) and 4) Stingsilver (3/8 & 1 1/8 oz.) 5) Crippled Herring 6) Tungsten Spoon (3/4 oz) 7) Kastmaster (3/4 oz.) 8) Hopkins 9) Kastmaster (1 1/2 oz.) 10) Thingama Jig 11) Big Nic Spanish Candy
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for October 2019
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for October 2019 October is a month of change…goin’ down! Unusually, there were an unusual number of days where surf and sound temps were the same. Surf was at a high of 81°, low of 69° with an average of 73.3°, just about normal for October is about 72°. Bogue Sound… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for September 2019
Surf had a a very narrow range if temps with a high of 81°, low of 77° with an average of 79.6°, just about normal for is 79.5°. Bogue Sound had a high of 83° and low of 71° with a 12° range from low to high, with an average of 78.5°. The surf range… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for August 2019
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for August 2019 Surf had a high of 84°, low of 80° with an average of 81.8°, just about normal for August which is 82.0°. Bogue Sound had a high of 86° and low of 76° with a 10° range from low to high, with an average of 82.5°, the same… Read more »
Mike Stanley, Bogue Inlet Pier 6/3/19
Coastal Daybreak Radio Show WTKF 107.1, FM 1240 AM, Host Ben Ball, on 6/3/19 Dr. Bogus: Our guest today is Mike Stanley, owner/operator of Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier. We have done stuff on and off together for over 25-years. Mike can you give people a bit of the history of Bogue Pier then we can… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for July 2019
Surf had a Low of 78°, high of 83° with an average of 80.1°, just about normal for July which is 80.9°. Bogue Sound had a Low of 77° and high of 87° with a 10° range from low to high, with an average of 82.6°. A straight line through the noisy temp data shows… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for June 2019
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for June 2019 Surf had a Low of 74°, high of 82° with an average of 77.8°, just about normal for June which is 78°. Sound had a Low of 74° and high of 86° and an average of 79.9°. A straight line through the noisy temp data shows a 0.17°/day… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for May 2019
Surf had a Low of 67°, high of 77° with an average of 72.3° which was abut 10-degrees higher than April. The last four days surf temps were 77°, well above the usual for late May. Sound had a Low of 72° and high of 84° and an average of 76.3° about 12-degrees higher than… Read more »
Emerald Isle Water Temperatures for April 2019
Surf had a Low of 55°, high of 67° with an average of 62.1°. Sound had a Low of 50° and high of 71° and an average of 64.1°. April was at or above normal for the month and the average surf was about 6° above last month. A straight line through the temps shows… Read more »