Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 138 of 287

May 8, 2026

Derrick Snow's 50.3-pound king mackerel was decked the day after he hooked it from the end of Johnnie Mercer's Pier.

Two kings make great escapes, but just temporarily

Plenty of fish stories are about the big one that got away, but there aren’t too many about the big one that got away and was still caught. […]

Spanish mackerel, bluefish are crashing baits on Cape Lookout shoals

Jerry Dilsaver

Spanish mackerel and bluefish are thick in Cape Lookout Shoals, and they are biting like mad. […]

Tarpon have shown up in the waters around Georgetown in good numbers over the past week or so after a slow start earlier in the summer.

Tarpon move into Georgetown waters in good numbers

Jeff Burleson

The wait is over for anglers around Georgetown who have been looking for tarpon, the pinnacle of many lifetime fishing achievements. The silver kings have arrived and are chomping away […]

Blue crabs are an underutilized and deadly bait for redfish.

Please, be crabby about reds

Pete Rogers

When it comes to live-bait fishing, most anglers think about mud minnows, shrimp, or mullet minnows. Few resort to using crabs, but they can often be the ‘go-to’ baits for fishermen looking to cash in on a limit of redfish. […]

Go slow and go light when targeting redfish in extremely shallow, clear water.

Stealth is a key

Pete Rogers

Many anglers sight-fishing for redfish tend to make common mistakes because they’re too anxious about their approach. […]

Many great spots to target redfish in marshes around Morehead City are filling with sand or becoming inaccessible on low water.

Favorite red drum haunts are filling with sand

Craig Holt

Outstanding places to find red drum in shallow waters along North Carolina’s coast are disappearing, much to the consternation and puzzlement of guide Joe Shute of Atlantic Beach. […]

Joe Shute’s interest in fly-fishing and fly-tying were piqued when fishermen began to target false albacore off Cape Lookout with fly-fishing equipment in the fall of 2004.

False albacore triggered Shute’s fly-fishing pursuits

Craig Holt

One of the top fly-fishing guides and fly-tiers on the Crystal Coast grew up 379 miles inland in the Union County hamlet of Monroe. […]

Mike Popovich puts the tape on a sand tiger shark that measured almost 8 feet and was caught at night, when serious shark fishermen really like to head to the surf.

Fishermen don’t lure sharks to the shoreline, they catch fish that are already there

Brian Cope

Stan Warren, who founded Requiem Fishing, said his crew does everything it can to avoid fishing around swimmers — including fishing mostly at night — and he emphasized that his anglers are not drawing the sharks into an area, just catching the ones already there. […]

Tiger sharks are common in waters just off South Carolina beaches and are often hooked and landed by surf fishermen.

Fish sharks’ travel corridors

Brian Cope

When fishing for big sharks from the beach, South Carolina anglers have a lot of choices from Little River to Hilton Head Island. […]

Black drum of all sizes are suckers for live shrimp or pieces of fresh-cut shrimp.

Black drum bite remains great in waters around Ocean Isle

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Mark Stacy of Ocean Isle Fishing Charters said much of the fishing in the creeks and marshes of lower Brunswick County has been unpredictable this summer, but the black drum bite has been freakishly consistent. […]