Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 211 of 287

July 11, 2026

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

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Reds, specks and flounder have been trying to move out of the backwaters around Sneads Ferry for weeks, but the water temperature has remained too low.

Sneads Ferry guide says inshore favorites are biting, but change to spring patterns is late

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Allen Jernigan of Breadman Ventures said the cooler than normal weather has changed the habits of fish on the New River and ICW between Surf City and Swansboro, but there are still some red drum, speckled trout and even a few early flounder that are biting in the waters around Sneads Ferry. […]

Black drum are really on the feed in the Little River area.

Guide says Little River black drum action is top drawer

Jeff Burleson

For most of the winter, the black drum bite has rocked the inshore waters around Little River, and the last few weeks during the changing weather, it has not slowed it down one bit. […]

Shane Flannigan has been catching reds around oysters on a rising tide in Hamlin Sound outside Charleston.

Cold snap has reds in Charleston marshes still in small schools

Brian Cope

A week ago, Lowcountry anglers reported that redfish were beginning to break out of their schools, but with the cold weather hanging on, some are still in small groups, trying to avoid porpoises and trying to keep warm. […]

Speckled trout have been very active in tributary creeks off the Pamlico and Tar rivers.

Speckled trout bite stays good in Pamlico, Tar as March stays cold

Jerry Dilsaver

Strange as it may sound, the consistently cold weather in March has got the fish biting in the Pamlico River as well as they have all winter, and fishermen are taking advantage of it. […]

Sheepshead are ganging up around nearshore reefs and wrecks out of the Beaufort area, but fishermen are finding they're losing too many sheepshead baits to black sea bass.

Inshore species in Beaufort area moving to spring patterns

Brian Cope

Capt. Charlie Beadon of Beaufort Sportfishing Charters said March is typically a transitional month for redfish around the Beaufort area, with the winter’s large schools breaking up. […]

Flounder are arriving back inside Murrells Inlet, and fishermen are catching them around the mouth of small creeks.

Reds, flounder returning to Murrells Inlet backwaters

Jeff Burleson

Fishermen in the Murrells Inlet area are thrilled that spring has arrived, with redfish and flounder starting to show up in the creeks around the area. […]