Rockfish Season is Near!! -And we we'll see you in Annapolis MD

Hello Everyone,

Just a note to let everyone know that our fantastic Rockfish Season here in the Chesapeake Bay is getting close to firing off. Fall has always been our favorite time to fish the Bay and the night fishing at the HRBT just does not get any better!!! Best advice I can give if you are going to be fishing the HRBT at night is to go during the week, the weekends get mighty crowded. A couple of dates to mark on your calender, the Get Hood On Hampton Rockfish Tournament is Saturday Nov 17th, a fantastic Rockish tourney now in it's sixth year. Also the fifth annual Jim Baugh Rockfish Holiday is a free tournament held in Hampton this Dec 12th, on a Wed. That is right a great excuse to take day off of work!!!! People, been doing it now for five years, and we will give away once again a Suzuki engine to the first place winner. Last year the Jim Baugh Rockfish Holiday weighed in the largest Rockfish of any tournament held in the Bay during 2006, fish in excess of 50 pounds. For complete tourney info log on to http://www.jimbaughoutdoors.com/Annualtourneyresults.htm

ANNAPOLIS BOAT SHOW

This will be our last promotional appearance for the year. This year we had a heavy trade how schedule kicking it off with the Miami International Boat Show, and we will end up in Annapolis for the Power Boat Show. I will be there Friday Oct 12th and Sat 13th. Come by the Hampton Public piers booth, I will be there promoting Hampton and Suzuki Marine. Will also have our fishing trade show reel playng and all the latest Rockfish Info for the lower Bay. See ya then!!!

Jim B

How NOT to launch a boat

This was sent to m by one of my fishing buddies who thought that this might be the incorrect way to launch a 2.5 million dollar custom 65 motor yacht. Man, I would hate to be the dockmaster on this day, even worse, the crane operator!! Enough to make you wish for a trailerable boat! JB

Swimming in the Congo River could be a real BITE!!

This was sent to me by an old Buddy Jerry A. from Hampton. Turns out the pics have been circling around the net, thought the fish was fascinating and did a little research on Congo species. So far, folks were a little stumped as to what this thing is, and so was I. From the research I have been able to do so far, the fish is called an African Tiger Fish. There are several variety's of these, but believe it or not, in a "small size" they are very expensive aquarium fish.

The Tiger Fish Prefers warm, well-oxygenated water, mostly sizable rivers and lakes. I guess this is a good example of what some aquarium fish can grow into given the proper open environment. Thanks JA for sending on the pic, was very interesting. From the looks of it, I think I will stick to the Hampton Bar, Chesapeake Bay, and the Canyon Offshore!!

Thanks again.

Jim B

Hot Tuna on the Fourth of July!!

It just does not get any better than this. Monster Yellowfins on the fourth.What a way to spend the holiday. Jim Baugh outdoors left offshore with Captain Jeff Sheepers from Hampton who has placed in several of our Get Hooked On Hampton Rockfish Tournaments that we hold during the fall. Jeff has been wanting to show me just how hot the Tuna bite was right now so we jumped on board with cameras in hand and fished until our arms wore out.

Pretty much all of our baits were fairly standard,and we were using 80 pound fishing line. Our spread was large, 10 rods had been carfully placed and rigged in a quite successful spread. Our first fish was a Wahoo! Boy was I excited. The next hook up a at 50 pound plus Yelowfin. Next hookup was two Yellowfins. My buddy Mike Wilburn fought for about 15 min, and lost him behind the boat, this was a big fish. Tuna in the 60-70 pond class. The day was not complete without landing a nice gaffer Dolphin and we did have one Billfish swim into our spread. Just a fantastic day offshore.

We did produce one excellent show that will air during our 2008 season, the program will also feature how to clean and cook Tuna in a variety of ways.

Once back at the dock, we did do a LOT of cooking, fed a small army. The favorite of course was just fresh cut raw tuna with our favorite sauces. We cut up about five filet's of just raw fish. We also did a great recipe with the Hoo, a grilled Hoo topped off with a Bacon Spinach Florentine, this was just fantastic.

We will follow up with complete Recipes in our Virginia Lifestyles Column and report more on the fishing in the Chesapeake Angler and the Nor' Easter magazines.

Tight lines everyone, the Trojan boat projects are almost complete for now, and this weekend we are shooting a show on bottom fishing at the Hampton Bar. The fishing is so good in Hampton right now, we are catching 2 pound Croaker right off our docks!

Jim B

Trophy Spadefish Bite is ON!!!

Jim Baugh Outdoors launched it's 2008 shooting season with one of the best Spadefish trips we have ever been on. We hooked up with our fishing buddies Captain Jim Brincfield and Larry Regula on board the Jill Carrie for just one awesome day of Spadefishing. The featured location was the Chesapeake Light Tower at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. The CLT is only about 29 nautical miles from Hampton, on the way out we ran into a litte chop, and then the water layed down beautiful for the rest of the day. Our bait was of course cracked Clams, and they really did the trick! First mate Larry was cracken Them all day, and we never once even used a chum bag. Larry did through some cut clams and shells overboard from time to time but that was about it.
Captain Jim did a wonderful job at trying to get the best boat position around the tower all day, the current was not really workin with us, and it was not easy to get that 50 footer into a good position, however we caught fish all day. Just fantastic crew, and everybody on board limited out!

Now today was extra special, we even had the Coast Guard come out and give us a great show landing thir bird on top of the Chesapeake Light Tower. As many times as I have been out, this is the first time I had seen this, what a sight, and the breeze was nice as well! It is great getting out and fish the tower, it is a little like a family Reunion, you see everybody out there, it is just great. We had charter boats and fisherman from Hampton, the Northern Neck area, Lynhaven, Yorktown, and Rude Inlet, all having a blast out on the water just catching a ton of Spadefish. Now, we did go yesterday, a weekday which is a good thing. On the weekend this area offshore will look like a parking lot, hundreds of boats. Just remember that the Spadefish not only hang around the tower, but all over the 300 sunken structures that are in that artificial reef area. You can log on to our JBO GPS page and get a lot of Numbers if you like, be sure to check out the Redbirds!! Today we landed the largest Spadfish we have ever caught on camera. My cameraman Sean Finnegan landed a whopping 9 pound, 2 ounce monster that took like 15 min. to land in the boat. Sean did a great job bringing that fish in, just look at the pic!! Awesome fish!!

I said earlier about all the folks we see out at the Light Tower. Well, I even ran into my buddy Max King out fishing with the Chesapeake Angler Fishng School. This is a wonderful program and just look at these fish these kids caught! Fantastic stuff! If you would like more info. about the fishing school just contact the Chesapeake Angler Magazine, their web site is listed below.
http://www.chesapeake-angler.com/
Now that we have shot our first program for the 2008 season, it is back to workin on the old Trojan. We just finished glassing the back deck, looks like a new boat. But the cleaning job inside from all that fiberglsas and woodwork will take me and Sean a couple of days, good project. Once the clean up is done, we then can start to redo the interior. This 34 year old girl needs some TLC, and she is getting it!

Yall have a good one, and if you want to get on the best Spadefish action there is, go NOW. Here is the info. for Captain Jim, and you can lalso look on our Hampton charter page on our web site
http://www.captjim.com/ I think Captain Jim will also have pics of yesterdays shoot posted on his site soon, so check back!
The bite is red hot, go getum!!

Jim Baugh

Graduation Day For My Daughter, Casey Baugh

Well, I had a pretty good excuse for not being on the water today. My daughter Casey Graduated from high school today! Now, not just ANY high school, but Midlothian High, one of the top 3% highest ranked High schools in the country! Makes me proud to know, that as an old JR Tucker Grad, we used to kill them in Football, but that was to many years ago that I will put in print here.

It was a great day, Casey was so excited! She now is off to a concert and then leaving tomorrow for the Outer Banks for a week with her soon to be college roommate.

For a graduation gift, (besides Beach Bones) I went to Jerads and got her a really pretty gold Butterfly Necklace that had three small diamonds in the center of the Butterfly.
I told her that if her future boy friend ever gave her diamonds any smaller, DON'T marry him!!

Oh well, exciting day and congrads to my daughter Casey. She is a sweetie for sure.

Jim B

Just to funny!

My Buddy and fellow Chesapeake Angler writer Max King sent me some pics today of the Tuna that we will be catching next week! He had a great idea on how to get a 193 pound Tuna off of the boat, liked the picture so much, I thought I would share it with everyone. Great job Max, awesome day offshore, lookin forward to fishing with you soon!

See everyone at the Hampton Blackbeard & Pirate Festival this weekend!

JB

Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival This Weekend June 2

ARGGGGHHHHH!! It is that time again. Round up the youngsters and head to Hampton for the most awesome Pirate Festival you Will ever see, Jim Baugh Outdoors will be there filming the festivities. This is the only actual in water reenactment of Blackbeards Capture that you can see, and it all happens right on the downtown Hampton waterfront. Make your reservations today.

For more info on the festival log on to their we site at

http://www.blackbeardpiratefestival.com/

Jim Baugh Outdoors is a proud sponsor of the Pyrate Pete Piratical art show being held this Thursday night in Phoebus, Hampton Va. This is one art show you dont want to miss!

For info on Pyrate Pete and his Piratical Art log on to. Also be sure to check out his BLOG

http://www.pyratepete.com/

FISHING REPORT

What can I tell ya, the Drum Bite is hot and heavy, the larger Croakers are also starting to make there way up the Hampton Bar.

I am waitig for the first light of Spadefish, thenthe twin 250 Susuki's will be fired up and heading to the CLT. Usually the Sadefish bite is starting to turn on around the Blackbeard Festival, so we should have some more reports soon.

See everyone at the festival this weekend!!!

Ahoy!

Jm B

JBO Places second in C4 Vette division, Hampton Corvette Club Show\ Award dedicated to my friend, Woody Landers- RIP

Jim Baugh Outdoors Show Corvette placed second today in the Hampton Corvette Club Car show. We had a great turn out and there some awesome muscle cars there as well. This year we had done a lot of modifications to the show car, new interior, exhaust tips, an a new Vortex intake. While this was a great day, it was sad as well.


WOODY LANDERS CLOSE UP MAGIC LEGAND AND CORVETTE FAN PASSES AWAY
I did find out only about an hour ago that my friend and close up magician mentor Woody Landers was killed in a tragic auto accident on Monday. Woody was not only probably one of the best, most talented close up magicians in the country, he was a dedicated Corvette fanatic. Ever since I have known him, since I was about 16 years old, Woody always drove a red Vette convertible, he loved them.
I owe a lot of my early career to Woody, I studied close up magic under him from the time I was16 to about 19 years old. I later would have Woody as a regular guest on my cable entrainment show. Just about anything good that I could do with close up magic, I learned from Woody. This past Sunday for my son Ben's 21'st birthday, sure enough, I preformed the 2 by 4 coin illusion that was one of the routines that Woody invented years ago. I performed that coin illusion in night clubs for over 10 years, it was a fav when I entertained in Atlantic City.
Truthfully, my 10+ year career of close up magic, which paid my way through college, I owe to the teachings of Woody Landers. He simply was the best close up magician I had ever seen, and was known around the world for his incredible talent. When I opened up Jimdini's Magic Room next to the Tabacco Company in Richmond, Woody would regulary appear as one of our entertainers, he was there almost every week. He was the best.

I remember one magic convention I was attending in Washington DC, was foolin round with a new card pass\slight of hand. One magician came up to me and said,"That was incredible, do you by chance know Woody Landers?" Of course I said, Woody was the one who taught it to me years ago!

So Woody, today's JBO Corvette Trophy s dedicated to you, and I know you will enjoy it as much as I. I am sure the Lord has a new C6 Vette waiting for you at the gates. Horrace Bennit will be holding the keys for ya! (For those that may not know, Bennit was Woody's good friend, one of the best slight of hand artist ever to grace a coin and okito box)

My best to Woody's family,

We have just lost one of the greatest close up magicians in the world. He will be truly missed. His talent is something that had to be seen. I am blessed that I saw a lot of it. Will miss him greatly

Jim Baugh

JUST IN TODAY, See it first before it hits the airwaves!!!!

Hello everyone!

Boy have we got a great new offshore Tuna Show that just finished production, it is called Suzuki Offshore Yellowfin Bonanza, and you can see it first, before anyone else. The show wont go into syndication until late next week. Great show with fantastic Yellowfin action, also Suzuki engine Tips and info on how to clean Tuna.Click the links below, (high Band Stream) Ether one will take you there!

JBO Streaming Page http://jimbaughoutdoors.com/streamingdrm.htm

Direct link to the stream, win media file

http://jimbaughoutdoors.com/jbpvidstrm/suzukiyellowfins.wmv

Yall enjoy. We will hook up again with Whalens Marine for another offshore adventure soon!!

Hope to see a bunch of you at the Hampton Corvette Show on Saturday!

Jim B

Hampton Corvette Club 7th Annual Car Show This Saturday May 19th

Big weekend coming up this weekend in Hampton. First up we are entering again this year in the Hampton Corvette Club Car Show held in the Sears parking lot in Hampton Virginia. We are looking forward to another great turn out this year and the Jim Baugh Outdoors C4 Show Vette wil be ready to roll. This year we put in a new interior, Vortex Rammer Intake, and custom Quad Tips!! Don't miss it, for more information on the show just log on to
http://hamptoncorvetteclub.net/
We will try our best and post the results from the awards Saturday afternoon, Last year the JBO Show Vette placed second in the C4 stock division.
The big day continues on the water at Bluewater Yachting Center with a beautiful boat show.I will be there and do my best to fetch up some of those Surfrider Crabcakes, they are the best. The good thing about dieting is I don't eat much, but what I grab is gonna be good!!!! LOL Their food there really is great, and the view on the water is fantastic, they may even have the pool open this weekend.

See ya at the Vette show, then on the waterfront! Gonna be a great time.
JB

For more info on the JBO Show Boat Click the link below

http://www.jimbaughoutdoors.com/boatpgdrm.htm

For more info on the JBO Show Vette Click the link below
http://www.jimbaughoutdoors.com/vette.htm

NOTE: The Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival is now only weeks away! Make your reservations on the waterfront today. ARRRGH

Click Below

http://www.blackbeardpiratefestival.com/

Pirate Pete Art Show Info.

http://pyratepete.blogspot.com/