Inshore Fishing Archives - Page 216 of 287

July 11, 2026

This Lefty’s Deceiver is a large, 3/0 fly, with white feathers and both white and chartreuse buck tail deer fibers. It’s an excellent mud minnow imitation and will draw strikes from winter redfish.

Flies that work in winter

Most redfish flies intended to mimic mud minnows, their primary winter forage, are either tied with weighted eyes — Clouser-style flies — or tied un-weighted, Deceiver-style flies. […]

Jeff Saunders caught this nice little puppy drum fishing slowly in a bay off the New River; slower retrieves are warranted when the water is cold and reds are less active.

Redfish move slowly in winter water

Jerry Dilsaver

Capt. Allen Jernigan said one of the keys to catching winter red drum is to fish slower than you do during the rest of the year. […]

MirrOlure Lil John

North Carolina Sportsman

Available in fourteen popular color patterns, the MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait is the latest addition to MirrOlure’s popular soft plastic product line. […]

The sheepshead bite around neashore reefs off the Grand Strand has been excellent.

Top tips for catching winter sheepshead

Jeff Burleson

During the winter months, sheepshead move out of the inshore waters, but not too far away. Anglers can catch enough to load their coolers without leaving sight of land. […]

Guide Clayton Crawford admires a nice over-slot redfish that came from the marshes north of Charleston Harbor along the ICW.

Two-Tide Reds

Terry Madewell

Winter and cold weather does not mean the end of shallow-water fishing for redfish. February can be highly productive using two different techniques, at the high or low end of the tide.

Veteran angler Robbie Cortis of Mount Pleasant fishes traditional hotspots such as points and deep holes and cover such as bridges, piers, wooden pilings and docks on higher tides. […]

Richie Boykins shows off a Wimbee Creek trout.

Blue catfish and speckled trout biting same baits in same areas of Wimbee Creek

Brian Cope

To most South Carolina anglers, the inshore slam consists of redfish, speckled trout and flounder, but Wimbee Creek has been offering up a different kind of slam to anglers lately. […]

Saltwater Series: Swansboro / Emerald Isle

Jerry Dilsaver

Located on different sides of the border between Onslow and Carteret counties, the towns of Swansboro and Emerald Isle are tied together as a destination for many fishermen. […]

Guide Chris Chavis demonstrates in this video why he believes wintertime redfishing in the creeks around Charleston can be some of the best inshore fishing of the year.

Clear water, big schools make for exciting sight-fishing for reds around Charleston

Phillip Gentry

Although the weather may be a bit cooler during the winter, guide Chris Chavis of Fin Stalker Charters makes a good argument about why targeting redfish in the creeks and bays around Charleston is more reliable than other seasons. […]

Sheepshead have been biting all around Fripp Island lately. Find some rubble, jetty rocks and rock walls and you’re in business.

Rock walls, jetties, loose rubble holding hungry sheepshead around Fripp Island

Brian Cope

South Carolina’s inshore fishing has been great all winter, with most of the action focused on redfish and speckled trout, but they aren’t the only fish on angler’s minds. […]

Guide Mark Stacy said redfish and speckled trout have been biting from Shallotte and Ocean Isle to the South Carolina line.

Redfish, specks picking up along SE coast as weather warms

Jerry Dilsaver

The warm weather of the past week-and-a-half has turned on the bite in the salt water marshes of lower Brunswick County. […]