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August 31, 2026

Anglers often sight-cast to a particular redfish that was discovered by the tip of its tail protruding through the surface of the water is it nosed around, looking for food.

Practice casting before the tailing redfish tides arrive

Every year, anglers check tide tables to see when they can target redfish tailing on skinny flats, and opportunities are limited, with only a few days per month when the tide rises above the 5.7 threshold when the sun is out. And shots at fish during the flood can be limited, making casting ability ever-so-important. […]

Don’t block reds from moving up on tailing flats by parking on the paths they use to get there.

Don’t clog up redfish on-ramps around tailing flats

Jeff Burleson

The flood tides that affect the coastal region provide easy meals for redfish in the marsh. For anglers who have studied how reads move onto the flats, some of the best places catch a red during the tailing tides is in their staging locations in deeper water. But anglers targeting those areas can ruin their future tailing action. […]

Flounder will stack up around the slightest change in bottom structure or contour.

A tip for finding nearshore flounder

Dusty Wilson

Far too many times, anglers stow just enough tethering rope to hold fast in the deepest water they anticipate to fish, if that. […]

Find deeper pools where redfish stage before entering tailing flats and try them on topwater gurglers.

Get reds on top before they move up on tailing flats

Jeff Burleson

Tailing redfish is one of the most exciting ways to stretch a line in saltwater. It is often more like hunting because anglers are looking for fish across the grassy flats and stalking ever so stealthily. If sight-fishing in shallow water isn’t enough, throwing surface flies to reds will sure get an angler’s blood flowing. […]

Removing a flounder’s head right away makes it easier to produce beautiful, skin-on fillets from any fish.

How to fillet a flounder

John Gribb

Most anglers can adequately fillet a redfish or speckled trout but flounder are a little confusing. Do we cut two or four fillets, and where do we start? […]

Trolling against the current and dragging baits across the bottom is a great way to cover water and run into a flounder in the process.

Trolling is an overlooked and productive way to catch flounder

Craig Holt

Guides Toby Fulford and Kevin Sneed of Rigged & Ready Fishing Charters use similar live-bait trolling tactics for flounder. […]

Beginning this fall, recreational fishermen will not be allowed to keep southern flounder caught in inside waters between Oct. 16 and Jan. 1.

North Carolina finally buckles down to save southern flounder

Craig Holt

With a vote last fall, the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission approved regulations to help rejuvenate southern flounder by amending season lengths and removing gill nets from inside waters. […]

The lower Cape Fear River and Snow’s Cut provide flounder with the of the best habitat available along North Carolina’s coasts.

Cape Fear, Snow’s Cut are great flounder habitat

Jerry Dilsaver

The waters of the lower Cape Fear River and Snow’s Cut have long been known as great places to catch flounder — and large flounder, too. The 20-pound, state-record flounder was caught there in 1980, and though flounder fishing in this area isn’t as good as it once was, it is still the primary location for fishermen trying to catch a flounder 10 pounds or heavier. […]

A long, medium-heavy rod gives anglers the ability to make long casts with popping-cork rigs, as well as getting fish to the net more easily.

Go long, heavy with tackle for popping-cork rigs

David A. Brown

Throw your popping cork rigs on 7- to 7 1/2-foot medium-heavy spinning gear. The longer rod helps you with greater casting distance and you can achieve greater backcast clearance with the cumbersome rig. This helps prevent accidental snaggings, entanglements and any cast-killing drag. […]