Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 157 of 287

July 15, 2026

Johnson Silver Minnows are lures that have caught redfish in all seasons for years.

Find ’em with the gold standard

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. […]

Crappie USA kayak events will reward anglers for a three-fish daily weight and a big-fish pot.

Paddle up a paycheck

Phillip Gentry

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. […]

Fishermen have been catching plenty of slot-sized red drum around the Cape Lookout rock jetties, along with bluefish, black drum and sea mullet.

Forget the bluefins! The drum are biting around the Cape Lookout rock jetty

Jerry Dilsaver

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. […]

Catching multiple reds without moving your boat is common during the winter, as redfish tend to school in larger groups for protection, comfort and availability of food.

School days! Huge gangs of red drum make for some great winter action in the Sneads Ferry area

Jerry Dilsaver

“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. […]

Cape Romain is a hot spot for great cold-weather redfish action.

Romain’s hot/cold reds – When it gets cold, head to the Cape for hot redfish action

Jeff Burleson

In January and February, the expectations of inshore fishermen are usually on the low side, with the major exception of one of South Carolina’s most-favored gamefish. […]

Cover: January 2015 (NC) – Inshore

North Carolina Sportsman

Hit the water this month for great bass fishing on Lake Hyco and schooling redfish action near Sneads Ferry. […]

Guide Rick Patterson said the marshes around Swansboro are full of big schools of redfish.

Redfish are really going to school in Swansboro marshes

Jerry Dilsaver

According to Rick Patterson of Cape Crusader Charters in Cape Carteret, the winter redfish action is about as good it gets right now in the waters around Swansboro. […]

A bill that will force the relaxation of beach-driving and beach-access restrictions on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has passed both houses of Congress by wide margins.

Bill that will ease Cape Hatteras beach restrictions passes both houses of Congress

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s surf fishermen, tourists, residents and businesses along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore received some good news earlier this month regarding a potential rollback of onerous beach-access restrictions. […]

Speckled trout are hitting soft-plastics in the creeks off the New River and the ICW near Sneads Ferry.

Creeks off New River producing plenty of specks, reds for Sneads Ferry anglers

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Allen Jernigan of Breadman Ventures in Sneads Ferry said the speckled trout and red drum have been biting in the creeks off the New River and Intracoastal Waterway, and if you’re in the right spot at the right time, the action can be downright hot. […]