This would of been a release citation, awesome catch

Hi Folks!
Yesterday I had the pleasure of fishing\filming\ and documenting an offshore trip with Captain Max King. Max has put Jim Baugh Productions to work producing a live eeling DVD that Max will be promoting later this year. This was our first trip out to get some footage, and we landed a great 44 inch Rockfish!

This was no easy day. In the morning we were faced with 5-6 foot seas, and yes, we turned around later giving it a good try, but none of us felt like swamping a boat in January, so we headed back to the dock, and found a coffee shop.

After about two hours, the 25 knot wind had laid down enough for us to cross one choppy Bay. The only other boat I saw that day and Spoke to was Herb Gordon, who braved the weather and also landed a nice haul of fish down south.

The fishing is great, along as the weather hangs in there with us. Stay tuned for more info on the live eeling DVD, and we will all be down in Miami at the International Boat show comming up next month.

Tight Lines

Jim Baugh

Morro Bay-US Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard 47-ft Motor Life Boat 12/04/07 Morro Bay
Large storm swells reached Morro Bay, California on December 4, 2007, bringing 15-20 foot swells with some plus sets. A U.S. Coast Guard 47-foot Motor Life Boat was out for practice maneuvers in the large surf, which is not unusual. However, a large wave hit that was probably more than they bargained for...at least it's the hardest I've ever seen them get hit. The air was filled with mist, and they were quite distant, so at times were just a shadow in the mist.

Thanks to Stuart Goodman And Chuck Mayer for sending pics!!!!


Photo Courtesy by
Gary Robertshaw
http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/cg2007

Thanks Gary!! Awesome photo's! Click link above for more info

Congrads to this years Rockfish Shootout first place winners. Max King and the Chesapeake Angler fishing team!!

A big congrads to Max King and the Chesapeake Angler Fishing Team!! They won the 2008 Rockfish Shootout fishing tourney, with nearly 300 boats contending for the over $225,000 pay out, Max conquered once again with his live eeling technique. Check out Max holding his 56.3 pound Rock. What a MONSTER!! This is not the first time Max and the Chesapeake Angler Team has won this huge event. Last year they placed fourth and seventh, and the year before they took first place as well!! For more info on the tourneyresults click this linkhttp://www.midatlanticrockfishshootout.com/The BIG fish are now moving down the coast and are feeding heavy off our Virginia offshore waters. We have been blessed with warm weather and some nice days to get out there. If you want to catch the Rockfish of a lifetime, the time to be here is now. For charter info click these links.

JBO WEB SITE

http://www.jimbaughoutdoors.com/HamBoat%20Charter.htm

Chesapeake Angler Web Site

http://www.chesapeake-angler.com/

Hampton CVB

http://www.hamptoncvb.com/go/visitors

MAX KING

http://www.chesapeake-angler.com/MaxKingCharter.htm

Captain Pete Splashes their 43 Egg

Captain Pete aka "Pirate Pete" of legendary Hampton Blackbeard Festival Fame and member of Blackbeards Crew, has just finished phase one of his renovations on is 1969 Egg Harbour. She is a wooden boat with a 15 foot beam that does require a bit of TLC! Captain Pete sealed every seem on her, and also mat glassed all the seems, resined the bottom, and of course put on a new coat of bottom paint.

The haul out lasted over two months and Pete and his wife Debbie did a fantastic job on this restoration. Debbie is the Varnish Queen and did most of the brightwork herself. The new stern has even been hand carved and painted.

Other refits now thats she is back in he water include new heads, shower, and even air conditioner system. Pete along with diver Chuck rewired most of the electrical, and the engines fired right up with only one crank. The really sounded good.

Congrads to Captain Pete and Debbie on doing such a fine job on this restoration, she is a pretty boat that has been a float for a long time, almost 40 years!!

JB

Diver Chuck dive site info:

http://www.underboats.com/

Pirate Pete Art Site:

http://www.pyratepete.com/

Ben Baugh and Buddy John ocean Rockfising

Well, today was not the most productive for Rockfishing, we live eeled, trolled, did just about everything, but only one fish for the day. BUT!!!! This was the largest Rock fish that John had ever caught, plus we left out of Hampton VA on board Captain Bills' awesome new 40 foot Trojan, one fantastic boat!! Thanks Bill for the trip, the kids loved it!! So did I.

Now, my son Ben Baugh is half way finished his senior year at West Virgina University, and that is a haul from Hampton, so I don't get to see him that much. I was really excited about Ben and his room mate John comin down for some fishing, we did have a ball.

When they got here, I took them to downtown Hampton to the Tap House for dinner, it was fantastic, there was a West Virginia Basketball game on, and they let everyone in the place know it!! Anyway, when you come to the Hampton Waterfront, check out the Taphouse, great place.

OK!!! Kids are gone, cleaning up the boats, and lookin for some good fishing reports!! Hitting it again Monday. In Hampton this early January, the weather s calling for 70 degree temps most of the week. Got to love it!!!

Tight Lines.

Jim Baugh

It is Just Getting Better!!

HELLO EVERYONE!

I just back in town today and arrived in Hampton around 1pm. Captain Bill called me and suggested we fire up the twin Suzuki 250's and bust across the Bay, try to get on the massive Rockfish bite that was happening! A 55 and 62 pound had been boated and needles to say, I pulled into the first live bait stand I could find and got to the Hampton\Suzuki show boat as fast as I could.

We FLEW to the fishing grounds, baited up, and within minutes I had LOST my first big Rockfish for the day, but that would be the last of loosing fish. Next up Captain Bill lands a whopping 43.5 inch fat Rockfish, what an awesome Rock, only 1\2 inch away from a release citation!!!

Next up- saw the outrigger line be pulled off the outrigger. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZING!!

This one I landed and was a hungary 34 inch Rockfish. Well it had only been abut 15 minutes of fishing, and we had already limited out, just in time for one fast boat ride back to Hampton. This time of year the sunsets coming down over the Bay coming back from the Eastern Shore is quite a site to see. Tis the season!!

Speaking of, in the picture of Bill and I you can see the Jim Baugh Outdoors 36 Trojan in the background, we decorated her out real nice with Christmas lights this year. The downtown Hampton waterfront during the holiday season is something you have got to see, everything is decorated downtown and just looks fantastic.

Next day on the water is Thursday, it will be an all dayer in search of the new state record!!!

Tight Lines, and yall get down here to Hampton and experience the best Rockfishing in the World!!

Jim B.

PS. Glad you did not run out of gas Mike!

Rockfishing with the Chesapeake Angler

Hello everyone!!! MAX KING is da man! Fantastic day on the water today. Plantation Light was hot, the entire area was hoppin. We started out late today, but ended up with a great catch of a nice batch of Rockfish.

Captain Max has really got the live bait fishing down, and I highly recomended to book a charter today and get on these monster fish.

Look for upcoming columns in the Chesapeake Angler about this fantastic trip!! Jim Baugh Outdoors TV also shot a show today featuring this great charter, look for it during our 2008 broadcast season.Hey, the fish are getting bigger everyday. Don't miss out on this fantastic season.

Tight Lines!!

JB

Jim Baugh Rockfish Holiday -49 pounds of pullage!!

Hello Everyone!!

Things have been a bit busy in Hampton here at Jim Baugh Outdoors Central. We have been filming everyday and the Rockfish bite has just gotten better and better. The time is now to be fishing out of Hampton for Rockfish.

Today the annual Jim Baugh Rockfish Holiday was won by Allen Meetze with a whopping 49 pound monster Rockfish. Allen won a NEW SUZUKI 2.5 HP FOUR STROKE ENGINE- their team also caught a lot of other fish weighing in the 30-40 pound range. Just some awesome catches. Check out this pic of the winning fish, AWESOME!! Yesterday I fished with Mike Wilburn and his buddy Jeff, GREAT CREW!!-and we had one catch and release citation, another one close, and one other 30 pound fish!! Jeff's boat was an awesome rig "TIght Lines" was a great ride and that hull raised fish!! Tomorrow we Will also again be live eeling, but with legendary live bait angler and writer Max King with the Chesapeake Angler Magazine. It has been a full week of filming, camerman Sean Finnegan is about wore out! Captain Earl has also joined me all week to get in on this fantastic Rockfishing. Captain earl hails from the Smith Mountain Lake and Gulf Coast areas and his fav is catching monster Rocks out of Hampton.

BOOK your charters today and don't miss out on what looks like the best year of Rockfishing yet-they are just getting BIGGER!!! The weather is fantastic, fishing in 70 degree weather, light winds, it just does not get any better than this. Yall come join us!!

Tight Lines

JB

Annapolis Boat Show is PACKED!!

Hello Folks,

Reporting live from the Power Boat Show\Hampton Booth on the Annapolis city Wi Fi!! What a day here on our fist day at the Annapolis Boat Show. We have been appearing at the Hampton Public Piers booth and have been very glad to see our fans! We have had a lot of inquiries about the upcoming Get hooked On Hampton Rockfish Tourney, and a lot of folks have been thirsty for the local fishing information in the lower Bay. I think I talked five hours today on the Hampton Bar Alone. It is interesting talking to boaters and anglers from the upper Bay about Rockfishing. Generally speaking, we have the monster ocean fish down here around the CBBT. I have had lot of anglers ask about our rig for the big fish. Check out next months issue of the Chesapeake angler Magazine where I discuss in detail one of our fav. ways to fish for Rockfish-Wire LINE!! "Pullin the tube" I had a chance to run over and check out he Glacier Bay booth, they had one awesome rig rigged with twin Suzuki 300 HP four Strokes. I also ran into Terry Chones with Suzuki, great to see him, Terry will be joining us for the monster Rockfish Season coming up this Dec. January. Cant Wait!!

We are about wrapping up for today, and will be here all day Saturday for the show. Would like to thank everyone again for coming out and seeing us, it has been a great day, with hundreds of fantastic boats. This is a great show and one that we look forward to attending next year!
JB

PS: Many thanks to cameraman Sean Finnegan and Hamptn Public Piers Dockmaster, Gary Gatling

(Photo by Terry Chones)

I really hate to see this-Shocking and Sad!

I just found out today that a friend of mine lost his Ocean Yacht on the Rocks in Grandview in Hampton Virginia. The Captain had to be hellied out, reports that I have gotten is that all the crew was safe. The accident happened around 8:30 at night close to shore, the rocks are the remains of an old lighthouse between Salt Ponds and Grandview.

I had been on this boat many times and the Captain and his lovely mate kept this boat in just fantastic shape, it truly was beautiful boat, and had spent a lot of time on her during Bay Days just last month. Thanks captain for letting us hang out on board, she just was a wonderful vessel.

Very sorry for the loss, and very glad Captain and crew are OK

JB

Here is a link to see the light house when it was in existance.

http://community.tncc.edu/faculty/hyle/A%20GUIDE%20TO%20THE%20FISHES%20IN%20%20THE%20%20SHORE%20ZONE%20WITHIN%20THE%20GRANDVIEW%20NATURE%20PRESERVE.doc

Spot Bite and Battlestar Galactica!!

They're Here!!
We have had a real treat this week. First up the Spot Fishing out of Hampton Virginia has been fantastic.The bite has been red hot now for a couple of weeks. I headed out with cameraman Sean Finnegan and ventured out with the twin 250 Suzuki four strokes towards the MM Bridge Tunnel. There were tons of boats anchored and although we usually like to drift for Spot, we decided to try the anchor like everyone else. We did ok, however after a while we started drifting the channel and did a lot better. The baits we used were fishbites, we never used a blood worm, although reports as of today suggest the Spot are preferring the old tried and true live thing. Spot fishing is always a ton of fun and they taste wonderful If you do not have a boat, you can head out on the Ocean Eagle Charter located right on the downtown Hampton Waterfront. Here is a good JB tip, this week head out to the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and take some Bloodworms, and fisbites and try for the Spot, but also drift Squid strips deep for large Croaker. This is the time of year that the real slabs will migrating out of the Bay. We will head out again in a few days and report back on any big Croaker action. For those of you that have not yet tried the night bite for Rockfish, the season is upon us, and there is no better fishing for Rockfish. We try to plan trips where we will be bottom fishin the late afternoon and then as night falls, get ready with our top water lures for the evening Rockfish bite, all right there at the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel!! Cant beat it. To stream one of our Night Fishing Rockfish shows out of Hampton just click the link below
http://jimbaughoutdoors.com/jbpvidstrm/HamptonNightFishing.wmv

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STAR \Richard Hatch

We filmed many locations in Hampton over the past weekend, one such event was the Fantasci trade show located at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. We hooked up with TV star, Golden Globe nominated actor, and author-Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica Fame. Richard was one fantastic fellow who is looking forward to fishing with us on his return visit. Richard told me he loves "Deep Space Fshing" meaning-Offshore. We got a real kick out of that and hope the offshore fishing Will be good next time Richard comes threw. For more info on Richard just log on to his web site at http://www.richardhatch.com/
There is also a cruise that you can book to go along with Richard on, for more info just go to his site. Thanks again to Richard and everyone at the Fantasci Show, it was a great crowd with some fascinating exhibits. For more Convention Center events just log on to http://www.hamponcvb.com/
Well, after shooting the folks from another world, we headed over to film the Disney Ice show called "Disney School Musical" that was being held at the Hampton Coliseum. We could only shoot for a few minutes, but boy, what an ice show!!! The fans loved it big time. After 6000 screaming kids an 30 ice skaters, it was time to head back to the dock. We are gearing up for the Rockfish season that is about to fire off!!!

For those of you who have not gone after the Spot bite, they are still there!! Go get um!

Tight Lines,

Jim Baugh, Jim Baugh Outdoors TV