Inshore Fishing
Use fresh bait
Tarpon with a hearty appetite migrate up the eastern seaboard in the summer in search of large schools of mullet and menhaden. […]
Inshore Fishing
Inshore Fishing
Fishing with ‘popsicles’ is scads of fun
Capt. Jim Sabella’s uses a dead-bait rig for fishing with cigar minnows that have been frozen and thawed. […]
Inshore Fishing
Rolling versus feeding behavior
Tarpon rise to the surface for several reasons, alerting onlookers at great distances. Most of the time, tarpon breach the surface gulping air — otherwise known as “rolling.” […]
Inshore Fishing
Plunder kings like a ‘Pirate’
King mackerel and dolphin are suckers for fast-moving, colorful lures and baits. […]
Inshore Fishing
Using artificial lures
Typically, tarpon tackle in the Carolinas is fairly simple, with some big, strong hooks and a livewell stocked with spunky 8-inch mullet, but Capt. Steve Roff routinely catches tarpon on artificial lures. […]
Inshore Fishing
Rubber band makes a cheap flat-line release
A No. 32 rubber band makes an inexpensive and dependable release for a line running the short distance to the propeller wash from a rod set in a stern holder. […]
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Big Jack Attack
Once practiced only by hosts of TV fishing shows, catch-and-release is now commonplace among anglers and has gained a strong saltwater following. […]
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Herding Morehead City’s sheep
Try these tips when fishing around the Morehead City area, and you’ll catch your share of sheepshead. […]
Inshore Fishing
Catch and release
Hard-fighting fish like jacks expend a lot of energy trying to evade capture, sometimes to the point of critical exhaustion. […]
Inshore Fishing
Sheepshead – the convict fish
Sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus, are often called convict fish due to the vertical black bars on their sides. […]