Flounder Archives - Page 25 of 26

November 12, 2025

Anglers using the drift method with live baits or jigs with scented soft-plastic trailers are catching flounder in front of the Cape Lookout lighthouse.

Flounder plentiful at Cape Lookout

Flounder fishing is tripping the triggers of anglers near Cape Lookout now, said a veteran Harkers Island guide. […]

Flounder are being caught in the marshes, beaches and bridge pilings as well as artificial reefs and the Morehead City Port wall.

Plenty of flounder now at Crystal Coast

Flounder, flounder and more flounder. That’s the word from Morehead City and Atlantic Beach as a torridly hot pre-July weather pattern has descended upon the Crystal Coast along with the rest of North Carolina. […]

Flat-water Flounder Fiesta

Jeff Burleson

Located at the southern tip of the Grand Strand, North Inlet is a sportsman’s paradise, loaded with crabs, small fish, shrimp, and the inshore angler’s trifecta — flounder, redfish, and trout. […]

Lure designer Patrick Sebile caught this nice flounder in a coastal creek near Swansboro last week on a Sebile Stick Shad Soft.

Swansboro flounder are April surprise for lure designer Sebile

Dan Kibler

Fishermen are finding many places along North Carolina’s coast that spring is coming a little later than usual. […]

Flounder action is hot at inshore waters surrounding Atlantic Beach, Beaufort and Morehead City.

Big flounder available at Morehead City

Craig Holt

Big flounder are being caught around Morehead City-Beaufort and Atlantic Beach right now. In fact, it may be the best time to head to the Crystal Coast if doormats trip your fishing trigger. […]

Flat-Out Hot Flounder

Jeff Burleson

Murrells Inlet, nestled within the heart of the Waccamaw Neck, first became well-known for the successful cultivation of rice within its marshes through the 19th and into the early 20th centuries. […]

The inshore flounder bite at the southern N.C. coast is happening right now. Some free time and a bucket of mullet minnows are a deadly combination.

Inshore Flounder Fishing Also Pretty Hot at S.E. Coast

Jerry Dilsaver

Even when fishing inshore waters, those days the wind is blowing 20 knots are generally not considered good fishing days, but the inshore flounder bite along the lower Cape Fear River has been so good, you find sheltered water and go anyway. […]

Dennis Barbour, former mayor of Carolina Beach, with a 4-pound flounder caught offshore of Pleasure Island.

Offshore Flounder Bite Hot as Weather

Craig Holt

CAROLINA BEACH — The flounder bite at the southeastern N.C. coast was red hot at the close of July, as sizzling as the upper-90s weather. […]

Southeastern N.C. is known for having some large flatfish, probably because prime areas such as the Cape Fear River, Snow’s Cut, and Carolina Beach Inlet have too many snags for gill netters.

Pounding Flounder

Bryan Stange

When the water temperature breaks the mid-60s mark at the N.C. coast, inshore anglers start to get an itch that makes them spend all weekend on a skiff with nothing but a sandwich, a bucket of minnows, a few cold beers, and an outboard engine chugging along at its lowest speed. […]

Even with the new length limits, the flounder on the left won't need to be measured. However, the one on the right may barely be a keeper in some N.C. waters.

Flounder Size Limit Increases

From News Reports

MOREHEAD CITY – The size limit for recreationally caught flounder will increase to 15.5 inches in many coastal waters of the state beginning March 1. […]