Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report – 1.28.11 – Pretty Day. Fun Surf. Great Weekend Ahead.

Outer Banks - 1.28.11 - Pretty Day & Fun Surf in Kitty Hawk

Good morning. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Friday, January 28, 2011.

This video was shot in Kitty Hawk at “Luckie Tides” at 9:30 AM.

Beautiful day. Bright sun, blue skies, and a light west wind at about 10 MPH. The temps will be in the 50′s today, and the sun and warm temps will stay with us for the weekend.

The light west wind is keeping the surf real clean. We’ve had good surf the past couple days. Head high and clean on Wednesday, but the weather was rainy and overcast. Waist to chest yesterday. The swell should be dieing down, but today is bigger than I expected. Still fun waist high waves with some shoulder high sets coming through.

Great fishing still going on. A lot of reports of boats out of Oregon Inlet getting their limit of stripers. The past couple days have been slow because the boats couldn’t get out due to the fog, but they will be back at it today with the great weather. Unfortunately, still no reports of rock catches in the surf…but the year is still young.

I mentioned this on Wednesday, and I’ll probably keep mentioning it until July, but we have some fun fishing news getting attention. A group on FaceBook, Obx Fishing, has taken the initiative to start a movement to set two Guinness World records on the Outer Banks pertaining to fishing. 1. Most people surf fishing at one time and 2. largest fishing tournament. Guinness accepted their application yesterday, and the date is set for Sunday, July 3rd. We hope y’all can get involved…should be a lot of fun. Please keep an eye out for more info to come.

Enjoy!