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August 28, 2026

Cobia have mouths big enough to swallow a whole crab, so make sure your live or cut bait is big enough to really entice a big, hungry fish.

Orange you gonna use this color?

Guide Joe Ward said fishermen can get away with bright, almost unnatural colors on baits destined for a cobia’s jaw because of the gregarious nature of the fish. […]

Chartreuse is a lure color that is particularly effective under different circumstances.

Go chartreuse or go home

Jeff Burleson

For more than a century, lure manufacturers have tried to develop the perfect size, shape and action to get a fish’s attention. […]

Spanish mackerel are being caught in good numbers off Cape Lookout.

Great Spanish mackerel bite kicking off Cape Lookout fishing

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt Noah Lynk of Noah’s Ark Charters in Harkers Island said there is a lot of fishy activity in the waters around Cape Lookout, with Spanish mackerel and bluefish are around the jetty, cobia cruising the waters inside and outside the hook and some flounder are starting to show on the bars and channel edges inside the hook. […]

Lowell Brannan took a 30-minute saltwater sleigh ride before boating and releasing this blacktip shark near Beaufort.

The open ocean beckons

Phillip Gentry

As a student in high school, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea was required reading. Without sounding unappreciative of classic literature, who wouldn’t love to be pulled around in a small boat by a massive blue marlin? […]

This flounder was fooled by the spinning of a weedless spoon designed for inshore casting.

Spoon feed inshore fish

Jerry Dilsaver

I don’t remember exactly when I became such a big fan of using spoons for inshore and nearshore fishing, but it was a good day and a great choice. […]

John Gornto won $100 for catching the first king mackerel off Ocean Crest Pier -- the first of 12 since Friday.

King mack attack begins on Ocean Crest Pier

Jerry Dilsaver

Vance Courson of Ocean Crest Pier on Oak Island said the king mackerel waited until May to make an appearance, but it didn’t take long once the calendar page flipped. […]

Kathie Brown caught this Spanish mackerel on April 30 on the Ocean Crest Pier on Oak Island.

Oak Island fishing picking up; Spanish beginning to arrive

Jerry Dilsaver

Paul Anderson of Island Fishing Center in Oak Island said it appears spring has finally arrived and fishing is improving around the moth of the Cape Fear River. […]

Plenty of big cobia stay around nearshore reefs, never moving into the Port Royal Sound or Broad River during the annual run.

Leave the cobia crowd

Bryan Bowers

Every spring, especially in May, boats and anglers literally line up in the Broad River in hopes of catching a cobia. […]

To prevent discards of red drum caught in large-mesh gill nets next month, the N.C. Division of Marine fisheries has ordered that commercial gear out of all inshore waters on Monday.

Fisheries group wants red drum re-opened, gets only gill-net closure instead

Jerry Dilsaver

Banned from selling red drum until at least September because of overharvest, commercial fishermen in North Carolina requested on Tuesday that the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries reopen the commercial season on a limited basis after taking nets out of the water for the rest of May. […]