Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 210 of 287

May 10, 2026

Big spring Spanish mackerel aren’t difficult to catch and will put a small on any angler’s face.

Get down, get down and boogie with Spanish

Jerry Dilsaver

While they sometimes feed on the surface, most Spanish mackerel are caught on lures or live baits trolled below it. […]

Know the difference between big Spanish, small kings

Jerry Dilsaver

Whatever you do, don’t make the mistake of confusing small king mackerel with large Spanish mackerel. […]

Zach Townsend landed this doormat from his ‘yak using a white/chartreuse paddletail grub.

Floundering around

Phillip Gentry

Though the association is rarely made, it would seem that fishing boats capable of maneuvering in just inches of water would go hand in hand with fish that can be completely submerged in just inches of water. […]

KayakSC guide Justin Carter said the speckled trout bite in the Wando and Cooper Rivers has picked up this spring right where it left off.

Specks making it happen in Cooper, Wando rivers

Phillip Gentry

After a fall and winter that anglers across the Lowcountry touted as one of the best in years, the spring bite for trout seems to have picked up right where it left off. […]

Stripers and redfish have been packed into the waters of the Cape Fear River around Wilmington.

Cape Fear River around Wilmington packed with stripers, puppy drum

Jerry Dilsaver

Fishermen sticking close to downtown Wilmington have had it pretty good over the past week, according to Capt. Stuart Caulder of Gold Leader Fishing, who expects to catch stripers and puppy drum on every trip, and said productive trout waters are just a short boat-ride away. […]

Capt. Robert Olson (left), said the best sheepshead bite has been around nearshore reefs off Charleston when you can catch a tide change between 8 and 10 a.m.

Nearshore reefs off Charleston loaded with sheepshead

Brian Cope

The time to catch Lowcountry sheepshead is now, according to Capt. Robert Olsen of Knot@Work Charters, and the best place to catch them is on the structure around Charleston’s nearshore reefs, including the Lowcountry Angler’s Reef and the 4Ki Reef. […]

Redfish in the North Inlet area are gorging on molting crabs and almost ignoring any other bait.

Redfish in North Inlet area are acting crabby again

Jeff Burleson

While a little behind schedule, crabs have started molting in the North Inlet area, and Capt. Newman Weaver of Kingfisher Guide Service said the redfish have responded. […]

Nowhere in North Carolina produces more whopper speckled trout than the New River and its tributaries.

Trib Trout: Catch New River’s big spring specks. Here’s how.

Craig Holt

Guide Ricky Kellum of Jacksonville laughs when he recalls certain phone calls he receives each spring. […]

Flounder heading in from their wintering areas off the beach use Hog Inlet to access the Cherry Grove estuary.

Flatfish invasion – April flounder run gets Cherry Grove anglers hopping

Jeff Burleson

Within feet of the state line, the northern end of the Grand Strand harbors a unique estuary with local and worldly significance. On a grand scale, Walter Maxwell’s 1,780-pound tiger shark — caught from a Cherry Grove pier in 1964 — remains untouched after almost 50 years, and is the only all-tackle world record from South Carolina waters. […]

Don’t miss the April run of big Spanish mackerel off the Cape Fear coast.

Spanish on the Rock – Fish Sheepshead Rock off Fort Fisher for great spring Spanish mackerel action

Jerry Dilsaver

One of the regular oddities of the Cape Fear coast is a spring run of large Spanish mackerel along rocks just off the beach a few miles north of Cape Fear and the mouth of the Cape Fear River. […]