Finding clear and fairly still water has been the ticket for redfish, speckled trout and an occasional black drum the past two weeks, according to Capt. Butch Foster of Yeah Right Charters in Southport. […]
Don’t let those surf rods collect dust until spring. Break them out and hit the beach or pier for some awesome fishing for spiny dogfish sharks. […]
Capt. Mike Waller of SaltFisher Charters loves fishing for sheepshead this time of year. He said these fish are active in big numbers in 10 – 20 feet of water. […]
Lee Paramore, a biologist for the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries who specializes in red drum, said said they are a schooling fish for a variety of reasons and will school year-round, but they’re not as noticeable as in the winter. […]
Guide Allen Jernigan said that many times he gets far-enough up creeks looking for winter drum and speckled trout that he fishes water that features many layover trees, limbs and other potential snags. […]
Often, new anglers casting to wintering schools of reds in shallow water will disturb the fish on the first cast by throwing heavily rigs into the middle of the school. […]
Finding the schools of winter redfish can be easy much of the time, since fish typically frequent the same flats each season. However, they will move from tributary to tributary or from one end of a flat to another during the course of a few tide sequences. […]
In mid-November last year, Crappie USA, a major national crappie-fishing tournament circuit based in Benton, Ky., announced that it would add a kayak division to its 2015 tournament events. […]
Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Charters in Harkers Island said it’s hard to ignore the lure of chasing huge bluefin tuna within a few miles of the beach at Cape Lookout, but for fishermen who don’t have the heavy duty equipment or the desire to get pulled around by a 700-pound fish, the inshore fishing around the Cape has been good. […]
“The tide is pretty low, and we may bump the bottom getting across this bar and into this creek, but it will only be a tap or two,” Allen Jernigan said as he left the channel of the New River and headed into a small creek. […]
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