While wahoo action dominated the offshore reports from anglers running out of Hatteras Harbor Marina over the past week, trollers working the warm waters off the Outer Banks also connected with a mix of yellowfin and blackfin tuna, albacore, king mackerel, mahi mahi and amberjack. Topping the list of trophy wahoo were the 50-pound citation caught aboard the Tuna Duck by George Henderson and one caught on the Good Times by Jeffery Stokes that hit 49 pounds. Anglers fishing the deepwater wrecks beyond the 30-fathom line are landing good numbers of ling, jumbo sea bass, cod and pollock, according to Captain Howard Bogan of the 125-foot head boat Jamaica. Included in the catch reported for the Jamaica last weekend were a 41-pound pollock for Victor Cabral and a pollock weighing 30 pounds for Corky Woolf. Boaters fishing inshore wrecks and reef structures have been focused on tautog, according to Mike Marsich at the Indian River Inlet Marina. Anglers fishing aboard Captain John Nedelka's Karen Sue returned to the marina after a day of inshore wreck fishing with 41 keeper tog weighing up to 8 pounds. Most of the blackfish reports listed green crabs, white leg crabs and Asian box crabs as the most productive baits. Fishermen targeting black sea bass are having good luck on the deeper wrecks and structure piles located outside the 20-fathom line, according to catch reports passed along by Bill Baker at Bill's Sport Shop. Captain Mike Rivera of On Delivery Charters checked in at the shop to report a day of wreck fishing along the 20-fathom line that produced 180 sea bass to 3.50 pounds, along with a 10-pound cod. Anglers fishing for sea bass are baiting with clams, squid and fresh mullet strips. Boaters fishing inside the three-mile line for rockfish are reporting some action on keeper fish while trolling and live lining with eels and spot. One of the nicest stripers landed by an inshore boater was the 41-pound, 2-ouncer Mark Steimer landed while fishing live spot near the Maryland/Virginia line off Assateague. The trophy fish was reported by Larry Jock at the Coastal Fisherman. Inshore trolling also is reported to be working on bluefish, with reports of choppers up to 32 inches being caught at Hens and Chickens, the area off the Bethany Condos and Fenwick Shoal. Surf fishing reports generally have been on the slow side, with Sue Foster at Oyster Bay Tackle reporting skates and spiny dogfish sharks to be a lot more plentiful than blues and stripers. Surfcasters checking in with Clark Evans at Old Inlet Bait and Tackle reported big bluefish and a sporadic striper bite at 3Rs Road on cob mullet. George Mood was fishing the beach just north of the inlet jetty when he landed a 29-inch rockfish. The keeper linesider was reported by Rick Willman at Rick's Bait and Tackle. Striped bass topped the weekly catch reports from Indian River Inlet, with a mix of shorts and keepers being caught from both boat and jetty. The most popular lures for the inlet stripers included bucktails, plastic shad bodies, Stretch lures and Bombers. With live spot just about impossible to find this late in the season, most bait fishermen are sticking with live eels or black salties. Fishermen trying for tog along the inlet's north and south jetties are connecting with some real nice fish, including a 7.05-pounder checked in at Bill's Sport Shop by Chris Perrin.

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