Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 138 of 287

July 15, 2026

Working out the details for a multiple-day paddle, including camping arrangements, might be a highlight of the trip.

The fun is in the planning

Once upon a time, when information was still found in encyclopedias and directions were still derived from paper maps, there were still places of mystery. […]

Have plenty of lure options tied on when you take on inshore species

Jeff Burleson

In the late summer, inshore anglers need to keep a variety of lures tied on multiple rods to stay ready for whatever redfish, speckled trout, and flounder are biting. […]

Four steps to catch more big late-summer, red drum

Dusty Wilson

Few fisheries get an angler’s blood pumping like spawning red drum in the Pamlico Sound and its tributaries. […]

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission had a vote taken out of its hands on southern flounder management by state legislators and the secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources last week.

Legislators, DENR chief sidetrack Marine Fisheries Commission

Jerry Dilsaver

Donald R. van der Vaart, secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, caved in to the demands of a coalition of 13 legislators and scuttled a scheduled vote on needed reform in North Carolina’s flounder fishery last week when he directed the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission to postpone the vote. […]

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

Jerry Dilsaver

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 […]

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. […]